The Media Research Center has been peddling Watergate revisionism for some time in order to portray Richard Nixon as a victim. Mark Finkelstein served up a mocking version of this in a…
Tag: Scott Whitlock
Distraction: MRC Censors Hawley Fleeing, Obsesses Over ‘Squad’
Criticism of Republican members of Congress is forbidden at the MRC — unless, of course, they’re being criticized for not being right-wing enough. Thus, when footage of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley running…
MRC Would Rather Keep Griner In Russian Prison Than Trade Her For Arms Dealer
The Media Research Center has been looking for excuses to keep WNBA star Brittney Griner rotting away in a Russian prison on trumped-up drug charges. The latest: It doesn’t like the person…
MRC Mad White House Won’t Adhere To Its Definition Of A Recession
As far as the Media Research Center is concerned, there is only one possible definition of a recession — when GDP does not increase in two consecutive quarters — and anyone who…
MRC Can’t Stop Pushing Lie That Networks Accused Border Patrol Of ‘Whipping’ Migrants
The saga of Border Patrol agents being accused of whipping migrants may be over — but the Media Research Center’s misinformation campaign about it isn’t. An April 25 post by Scott Whitlock…
MRC’s Jean-Pierre-Bashing, Doocy-Fluffing Watch
The Media Research Center’s hateful narrative on new White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is that she’s an incompetent diversity hire, and Curtis Houck made sure to push it again in his…
MRC Hyped Colbert Staffers’ Arrest — But Censored Charges Being Dropped
When several staffers for CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” were arrested in June inside a congressional office building, the Media Research Center cranked up the hype machine. In the first…
MRC Also Defended Guns, Conservatives, Fox News After Buffalo Shooting
The Media Research Center wasn’t just defending replacement theory in the wake of the Buffalo massacre — it was also defending guns, as right-wingers are mandated to do, as well as their…
MRC Fearmongers About ‘Pro-Abort’ Violence, Censors Decades Of Anti-Abortion Violence
After the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade and, thus, the right to an abortion across America, the Media Reserarch Center was eager to hype…
MRC Hypocritical Whoredom Watch
The Media Research Center — specifically, writer Scott Whitlock — loves to denigrate other media outlets as being “whores” for its owners by promoting projects by corporate siblings, despite the MRC’s own…