Tom Blumer just hates it when there is good economic news under a Democratic president. An Associated Press article noting the decline in new unemployment applications since the depth of the recessions…
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Home of Tepid Response to Limbaugh’s Misogyny Mocks Tepid Response to Okla. Death
Tom Blumer uses an Aug. 22 NewsBusters post to mock Jesse Jackson’s response to the killing of Christopher Lane in Oklahoma that “senseless violence is frowned upon.” Under the headline “Jesse Jackson’s…
NewsBusters Pretends ‘Stand Your Ground’ Had Nothing To Do With Zimmerman Trial
NewsBusters appears to want to squelch discussion of “stand your ground” laws in numerous states by insisting that such laws had nothing to do with the trial of George Zimmerman in the…
NewsBusters Doesn’t Think Fox News Is Biased
In a June 22 NewsBusters post, Tom Blumer takes offense at the idea, forwarded by Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald in the wake of the channel hiring Howard Kurtz as a media critic, that…
NewsBusters: Ex-Heritage Researcher Was ‘Objectively Observing’ That Hispanics Are Dumb
Tom Blumer wrote in a May 27 NewsBusters post that Jason Richwine “recently resigned from the Heritage Foundation over objectively observing, in the words of a Fox News report, ‘that Hispanics had…
NewsBusters Double Standard on Political Motives
NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer is shocked — shocked! — that anyone would impute a political motive on the part of Republicans who want to get rid of Attorney General Eric Holder. Responding in…
NewsBusters: Limbaugh Merely Said A ‘Questionably Appropriate Word’ About Sandra Fluke
The Media Research Center’s tin ear for misogyny rears its ugly head again in a Jan. 7 NewsBusters post by Tom Blumer, in which he touted a columnist who “made several quite…
NewsBusters Obsesses Over David Gregory’s Gun Magazine, Ignores Dick Armey’s Gunman
NewsBusters has been a bit obsessed over NBC’s David Gregory displaying a high-capacity magazine for an assault rifle during a recent edition of “Meet the Press,” in apparent violation of law in…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Likening People to Terrorists
The hypocrisy at the Media Research Center truly knows no bounds. In a Dec. 23 NewsBusters post, Tim Graham complains that a gun-control advocate likened “gun-rights advocates” to terrorists and that NPR…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Rooting Against Films
In a Sept. 6 NewsBusters post, Tom Blumer claims that “far-left Hollywood” is “so upset” with Clint Eastwood’s bizarre, rambling lecturing to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention that they’re…