Brent H. Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center (MRC), has been a central figure at the MRC since its 1987 founding. In 2001, Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes dubbed Baker “the scourge of liberal bias.” In 2005, Baker spearheaded the launch of the MRC’s NewsBusters blog (his blog postings).
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5/25/2012 2:39 AM ET
In February of 2008, NewsBusters first highlighted MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews oozing “I felt this thrill going up my leg” while listening to a
speech by Barack Obama. Conservatives reminding ...
5/24/2012 8:05 AM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday night ridiculed Mitt Romney’s
quest to reduce the unemployment rate to six percent by 2016, a level
enjoyed fewer than four years ago. "Back when Newt ...
5/20/2012 11:12 PM ET
The Sunday interview show hosts all reacted with disbelief toward
House Speaker John Boehner’s pledge to demand spending cuts equal to the
debt ceiling increase, with CBS’s Bob Schieffer ...
5/18/2012 9:01 AM ET
Reacting to Mitt Romney’s discomfort toward proposed independent
expenditure ads reminding Americans of President Obama’s connections to
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, on FNC Thursday night Charles ...
5/16/2012 11:26 AM ET
In a particularly sleazy allegation, David Letterman on Tuesday night
alleged former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick
Cheney “went soft” on finding Osama bin Laden ...
5/15/2012 3:20 AM ET
What is a ludicrous answer for $800? The response from Chris Matthews when a naive Alex Trebek asked him on Jeopardy!:
“Do you approach it from the point of view of I have an opinion about
the ...
5/11/2012 9:32 AM ET
The Washington press corps always love it when establishment
Republicans scold conservatives for trying to “purify” the party, and Time magazine’s
Michael Scherer did not disappoint. “Indiana ...
5/7/2012 1:12 AM ET
CBS’s Bob Schieffer, who in February
asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie whether the Republican
presidential candidates “are pushing your party too far to the right to
make the ...
4/30/2012 9:14 AM ET
Catching up with Bryant Gumbel from a couple of weeks ago, on the April edition of his Real Sports
show on HBO, the NBC News and CBS News veteran came to the defense of
Miami Marlins ...
4/25/2012 9:46 AM ET
“It's hard to make fun of Obama in general because he’s a cool character,” ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, the “headliner” for this Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, told ...
4/23/2012 7:39 PM ET
Keith Olbermann, ousted from MSNBC and even Al Gore’s Current TV, was
nevertheless invited to join the roundtable on Sunday’s ABC This Week,
where he spouted about how rising gas prices are ...
4/16/2012 11:37 AM ET
On Sunday’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos stumbled into the
truth when he told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Mitt
Romney’s statistic, about how 92.3 percent of all job losses ...
4/15/2012 3:57 PM ET
Joe Muto, the self-described “weasel,” “traitor” and “sell-out” who for a few days last week was the “Fox News Mole” for Gawker.com until FNC identified him, disclosed on CNN’s Reliable ...
4/12/2012 8:24 AM ET
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley was barely able to
contain his laughter Wednesday night after playing a clip of President
Obama invoking Ronald Reagan on behalf of his “Buffett Rule” tax ...
4/11/2012 10:23 PM ET
Pathetic. That best describes David Muir’s shoddy reporting on Wednesday’s ABC World News
in which he gleefully relayed an obviously ridiculous income tax rate for an
office manager for a ...
4/10/2012 9:37 PM ET
“It’ll probably work politically,” The Weekly Standard’s
Stephen Hayes observed of President Obama’s “fairness”-based “Buffett
Rule” tax hike quest, “but don’t reporters have a job to do ...
4/9/2012 2:05 PM ET
ABC’s Sunday night tribute to Mike Wallace, who passed away Saturday
night, highlighted several swipes at Ronald Reagan, thus, inadvertently
or not, painting the “legendary” 60 Minutes ...
4/9/2012 8:59 AM ET
When ABC’s Jake Tapper held up Andrew’s Sullivan’s “Forget the Church, Follow Jesus” Newsweek
cover story on how, as Tapper described Sullivan’s premise, “American
Christianity is in a ...
4/2/2012 11:59 PM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Monday night used Republican troubles with
women to trumpet how “a former candidate, who now happens to be
Secretary of State, is speaking out.” Andrea Mitchell ...
4/2/2012 4:14 AM ET
An embarrassing performance Sunday for CBS’s Bob Schieffer in the debut of the new hour-long format for Face the Nation.
At least he should be embarrassed by the contrast in how he played ...
