When North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue quipped that “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever…
Tag: Tom Blumer
What Passes For ‘Media Criticism’ At The MRC
Tom Blumer offers this bon mot of “media criticism” in a Sept. 7 NewsBusters post on a poll the Associated Press conducted with the polling firm GfK: I determined that the joint…
NewsBusters Finds A Tax It Wants To Raise
NewsBusters, normally advocates of tax cuts, has found a tax it wants to raise. In an Aug. 22 post, Tom Blumer rants at an Associated Press article that he claims is “a…
At NewsBusters, Bashing Obama Is Media Criticism
We’re still wondering what this has to do with NewsBusters’ stated mission of media criticism: If anyone at the Media Research Center is bothered by the idea that such overt partisan political…
NewsBusters: Believe Anonymous Person, Not The Victim
NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer has been quick to run to the defense of Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge David Prosser, who has been accused of attempting to choke another Supreme Court justice, Ann Walsh…
For NewsBusters, Random Blog Commenter = ‘The Left’
Tom Blumer spends a June 5 NewsBusters post defending Mitt Romney from an Associated Press fact-check (one of two posts Blumer devoted to the subject). Blumer got a little more desperate to…
NewsBusters Complains That Media Ignored Discredited Study
Must the media promote a discredited study? NewsBusters thinks so. A May 20 post by Tim Graham touts a study by economists Timothy Conley of the University of Western Ontario and Bill…
NewsBusters Unhappy People Are Saying Nice Things About Obama
At the Media Research Center, saying something nice about President Obama is the same thing as being liberally biased — even when it involves the death of Osama bin Laden. So the…
ConWeb Hypocrisy: Bashing Helen Thomas, Silence on Buchanan
When Helen Thomas made a very stupid statement regarding Jews and Israel, the ConWeb was quick to pounce. The Media Research Center slapped together a compilation of “liberal eruptions” from Thomas, as…
NewsBusters, WND Promote Anonymous, Unverified Attack on Obama
Getting much play in the right-wing blogosphere in recent days is a post at the blog MacsMind citing a message from an anonymous “sergeant that was there” when President Obama visited troops…