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Brent Bozell Tries to Enlist Congress in His Vendetta Against NBC

Terry Krepel | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, George Zimmerman, Msnbc, Trayvon Martin, Rush Limbaugh, Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Sandra Fluke, Comcast, Nbc, Nbc George Zimmerman, George Zimmerman 911 Call, Media News

Bozell is playing partisan politics here. He wants his right-wing friends in Congress to help him harass and destroy a business, something he has been spectacularly unsuccessful at doing on his own. He's pursuing a vendetta, not justice.

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Brent Bozell's Profile in Cowardice on Rush Limbaugh

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh, Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Media News

Why has Bozell refused to speak out in any meaningful way on Limbaugh? Does he think it's weakness for conservatives to apologize when they've clearly done wrong?

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How the GOP Lost Its Mind: Rule and Ruin

Chris Ladd | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Rat Finks, Fundamentalism, Young Republicans, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Rule and Ruin, Brent Bozell, Richard Nixon, Republican Moderate, Media Research Center, Ronald Reagan, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Neo-Confederate, Parent Television Council, Barry Goldwater, William Buckley, Southern Strategy, Politics News

An organization that always turns right can only move in circles, or more accurately, in an ever tightening spiral. Rule and Ruin aims to explain how the GOP came to be drawn into its accelerating tornado of extremism.

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Gingrich Assailed by Conservative Press; Conservatives Blame "Liberal Media"

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Brent Bozell, Media Matters for America, Media Research Center, Media News

Featuring mobile billboards and "Tell The Truth!" placards, a new campaign is drawing inspiration from Newt Gingrich's candidacy, and specifically Gingrich's calculated pushback against the press.

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Conservative Group Makes Major Move Against Media

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Mrc Campaign, Media Research Center Campaign, Video, Tell the Truth 2012 Campaign, Media Research Center Tell the Truth, Media Research Center, Mrc Tell the Truth, Media News

A conservative media watchdog group is launching a $5 million campaign against the mainstream media, which it accused of "covering up the failures of ...

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When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Al Jazeera English, Muppets, Media Research Center, Teletubbies, Cliff Schecter, James Dobson, Spongebob Squarepants, Dan Gainor, Tinky Winky, Cars 2, Culture, Culture Warriors, Culture News

Too-big-to-fail corporations and their hand maidens in Congress (and the conservative echo chamber) most certainly pose a far greater danger to our children than a green frog-like puppet.

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Tim Groseclose's Theory of Liberal Media Bias Remains Shaky

Terry Krepel | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Tim Groseclose, Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Liberal Media Bias, Media Bias, Partial Birth Abortion, Right Wing Media, Conservative Media Bias, Media News

Neither AIM nor anyone else in the right-wing media are going to call Groseclose on the flaws in his work -- the end result is all that matters.

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Right-Wing Media Shrugs at Idea of Reporting That Jared Loughner Read Ayn Rand

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arizona Shooting, Worldnetdaily, Newsmax, Jared Loughner, Media Research Center, Media News

For all the media reports that the alleged Tucson shooter was "a fan" of Marx and Hitler's writing, you would never know that there are 19 other books on Loughner's reading list.

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Brent Bozell Is Afraid Of Ants

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Arts News

How come it took so long for the right-wing warrior to protect unsuspecting art patrons from seeing a mature-themed exhibit about gay artists that was filled with... gay art?

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Manufactured Outrage Over Smithsonian Art Exhibit

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CNSNews.Com, Gay, Smithsonian, Penny Starr, Brent Bozell, Art Exhibitions, Media Research Center, David Wojnarowicz, Media News

The controversy over a recent art exhibit at the Smithsonian seems calibrated more for immortality through Drudge and Breitbart and Fox News than presenting actual issues in a reasoned manner.

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Right-Wing Media Cling to Discredited Number for Obama's Asia Trip Cost

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Farah, Worldnetdaily, Fact Check, Cybercast News Service, Barack Obama, Media Research Center, Newsbusters, CNSNews.Com, Obama Trip, Obama Fact Check, Rush Limbaugh, Media News

WorldNetDaily has demonstrated over and over again that facts are irrelevant when it comes to reporting on President Obama and his administration -- t...

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Tell the Truth! (But Not When It Hurts Brent Bozell's Agenda)

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newsbusters, CNSNews.Com, Christine O'donnell, Brent Bozell, Liberal Media Bias, Media Research Center, Media News

The "Tell the Truth" campaign is less about truth-telling and more about bullying the media into promoting right-wing talking points. The MRC doesn't really want a balanced media. It wants a slavishly right-wing media.

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The Republican Plan: Punch Me in the Face

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dan Gainor, Alan Grayson, Alan Grayson Assault, Fl-08, Brent Bozell, Media Research Center, Politics News

This is how the right wing does it. They pay people to clean for them, to cook for them, to drive for them, and now: To punch for them. Or, more specifically, to punch me for them.

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The Right-Wing Media's Election Analysis Just Ain't That Good

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MIchael Barone, ny23, Dick Morris, Newsbusters, Bob Mcdonnell, Roger Ailes, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business Network, Creigh Deeds, biggovernment.com, Mike Huckabee, Morton Kondracke, Laura Ingraham, Rupert Murdoch, John Fund, Hannity & Colmes, Voter Fraud, News Corp, Andrew Breitbart, Chris Christie, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, 2009 Elections, Brit Hume, Barack Obama, New Jersey Governor Race, Republican Governors Association, Jon Corzine, Virginia Governors Race, Sean Hannity, Media Research Center, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Fox & Friends, HBO Documentaries, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.

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Media Research Center Takes Ted Kennedy-Related Quote Out of Context

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newsbusters, Charles Pierce, Boston Globe, Howell Raines, Ted Kennedy, Media Research Center, Media News

Pierce's statement, misrepresented by the MRC, came in the context of a larger statement about how the Chappaquiddick incident effectively kept Kennedy from having the "moral credibility" to be president.

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"Horny" Joe The Plumber's Next Career Move

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humor, Joe the Plumber Interview, Porn Industry, Stormy Daniels, Larry Craig, Porn, Pornography, Media Research Center, Satire, Parody, Joe-Plumber-Horny, Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber Horny, Political Satire, Joe the Plumber Book, David Vitter, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Senator David Vitter, Comedy News

Don't get me wrong. It was a stupid joke and Joe definitely is a stupid man, but one thing that Mr. The Plumber does know how to do quite well... is market himself.

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Joe The Plumber Tells Conservatives: "I'm Horny"

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media-Research-Center, Joe the Plumber, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber Horny, Joe Plumber Horny, Politics News

Joe the Plumber -- real name Samuel Wurzelbacher -- told a crowd of conservatives Thursday night that their love was getting him all hot and bothered....

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Media Research Center Lies Exposed about Obama and the Press

John K. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Howard Kurtz, John McCain, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Media Research Center, Media Bias, Home News

When seriously evaluated, the data arguing that Obama gets "awfully good media coverage" is just wrong -- wrong for one month by at least a factor of ten. So why do analysts keep citing this data?

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