“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…
Tag: Tom Blumer
NewsBusters Loves Trump’s Wash. Post Crackdown Too
As one would expect, the apparent mandate from the top that the Media Research Center cheer Donald Trump petulantly revoking the Washington Post’s press credentials has trickled down to the MRC rank-and-file….
No, Tom Blumer, Brussels Bombing Suspect Is Not A ‘Journalist’
Tom Blumer, the spectacularly clueless NewsBusters blogger, is weirdly obsessed with the Associated Press — to the point that he’s actually mad when the AP reports the truth. Blumer goes off on…
NewsBusters Blogger Pushes Misinformation About Climate Change (And Journalists)
Tom Blumer rants in a Dec. 12 NewsBusters post: Apparently a generation of “journalists” has been raised to believe that the matter of human-caused global warming is “settled science,” and that anyone…
MRC Is Mad Media Won’t Take Obama Quote Out of Context
The Media Research Center loves to complain about the media taking people out of context — at least when it’s not taking people out of context itself. Now, the MRC is complaining…
MRC’s Double Standard on Mass Murderers’ Motivation
When Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed several people in Chattanooga, the Media Research Center was upset that the media wouldn’t jump to conclusions that Abdulazeez was a jihadi doing the direct…
NewsBusters Runs Hoax Picture of Smoking Obama
Tom Blumer uses an April 12 NewsBusters post to promote a USA Today columnist’s claim that President Obama’s daughter faces more of an asthma risk from his smoking than from global warming….
NewsBusters’ Blumer Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts, Context
NewsBusters blogger Tom Blumer has had a very bad past couple of days. First, in a March 20 post, he threw a fit over PolitiFact rating Ted Cruz’s assertion (echoing right-wing climate…
NewsBusters Whines: Evolution Question To Walker Was Off-Topic!
Tom Blumer uses a Feb. 15 NewsBusters post to posit that Scott Walker was right to “punt” on a question about evolution he was asked because it should never have been asked…
MRC Defends The Honor of France’s Far-Right National Front
It’s nice to know that the Media Research Center is running to the defense of the National Front, the far-right French political group. In a Jan. 7 item, Scott Whitlock took offense…