The story of a political donation to the wife of an FBI agent who, months later, headed the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation isn’t the only bogus WikiLeaks-based story the Media Research…
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MRC’s War on Fact-Checking Continues
The Media Research Center remains as anti-fact as ever. Witness Curtis Houck’s whining about fact-checking after the Oct. 9 presidential debate: NewsBusters has documented extensively over the past year Politifact’s blatant bias…
NewsBusters’ Blumer Still Trying to Blame Birtherism on Clinton, Not Trump
NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer just can’t stop spinning the birther stuff in Donald Trump’s favor. We’ve already noted that Blumer is obsessed with insisting that Hillary Clinton and her campaign started birtherism, which…
NewsBusters Argues Clinton Didn’t Really Deny Alleged Rape Because Spokesman Issued His Statement
NewsBusters blogger Tom Blumer has been living on the rhetorical edge. Last week, Blumer was trying to justify the racism of Trump supporters by arguing that it’s really not racist to believe…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on The Meaning of ‘Many’
In a Sept. 10 NewsBusters post, Tom Blumer — he of the racism whitewashing — had a conniption when the Associated Press, writing about Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark, stated in…
NewsBusters Tries to Justify Racism of Trump Supporters By Insisting It’s Not Racist
NewsBusters blogger Tom Blumer wants you to think that because Donald Trump’s supporters believe racist things, it doesn’t mean they’re racist. No, really. Blumer complains in a Sept. 19 post that Juan…
MRC Spins Hard To Falsely Blame Hillary For Birtherism
The Media Research Center couldn’t be a better public-relations agent for the Trump campaign if it was being paid for it (and it may be, as far as we know). Just look…
NewsBusters Blogger Has Never Watched Colbert’s Show, Criticizes Him Anyway
As we’ve learned, it’s not a requirement that Media Research Center “researchers” actually watch or read the things they criticize. We see this again in a July 20 NewsBusters post by Tom…
NewsBusters Blogger Has Selective Memory on Klan, Double Standard on Rhetoric Leading to Shootings
Tom Blumer devotes a July 4 NewsBusters post whining that the Associated Press did an article on the 150th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan. What he’s really mad about, though, is…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Political Statements By Sports People
“Bruce Bookter” — the cowardly NewsBusters blogger hiding behind a fake name — rants in a June 18 post: Actually, Schilling wasn’t “merely illustrating the finer points of male/female bathroom construction.” He…