Show hosts and analysts alike were in a panic over at CNN Thursday evening, as all present struggled to spin a new development in the ongoing Trump/Russia saga that dealt a death blow to one of their pet narratives. According to CNN’s own reporting citing multiple Senate investigators as sources, neither of the two phone calls to blocked numbers that Donald Trump Jr. made back in June of 2016 were to his father. For those who haven’t obsessively kept track of every new development in the Russia collusion saga, here’s some context explaining why that revelation was significant… https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2019/02/01/watch-disappointed-cnn-hosts-grapple-latest-russia-disappointment ‘Collusion’ Setback: Trump Jr. Did Not Call Donald Trump About Tower Meeting Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump Follow Follow @realDonaldTrump More Just out: The big deal, very mysterious Don jr telephone calls, after the innocent Trump Tower meeting, that the media & Dems said were made to his father (me), were just conclusively found NOT to be made to me. They were made to friends & business associates of Don. Really sad!
The Media Research Center (MRC) is a politically conservative content analysis organization based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III. Its stated mission is to “expose and neutralize the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media.”
The MRC has received financial support from several sources, including the Bradley, Scaife, Olin, Castle Rock, Carthage and JM foundations, as well as ExxonMobil. It has been described as “one of the most active and best-funded, and yet least known”, arms of the modern conservative movement.
Extra!, the magazine of the progressive media watch group FAIR, criticized the MRC in 1998 for selective use of evidence. MRC had said that there was more coverage of government death squads in right-wing El Salvador than in left-wing Nicaragua in the 1980s, when Amnesty International stated El Salvador was worse than Nicaragua when it came to extrajudicial killings. Extra! also likened a defunct MRC newsletter, TV etc., which tracked the off-screen political comments of actors, to “Red Channels, the McCarthy Era blacklisting journal.”
Journalist Brian Montopoli of Columbia Journalism Review in 2005 labeled MRC “just one part of a wider movement by the far right to demonize corporate media”, rather than “make the media better.”
On December 22, 2011, Media Research Center president Bozell appeared on Fox News and suggested U.S. President Barack Obama looks like a “skinny ghetto crackhead”, reacting to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ assertions that Newt Gingrich “looks like a car bomber” with “no media backlash.”
The Media Research Center has also faced scrutiny over the group’s $350,000 purchase in 2012 of a Pennsylvania house that a top executive had been trying to sell for several years.
On June 31, 2013, Media Research Center president Bozell appeared on Fox News to defend a Fox interview in which Fox journalists conducted almost no research into the background of Reza Aslan to prepare for its interview with him, and its putative biases.
Progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America has repeatedly criticized the MRC, charging they view the media “through a funhouse mirror that renders everything–even the facts themselves–as manifestations of insidious bias”.
When the Media Research Center bestowed an award named for William F. Buckley to Sean Hannity, Bret Stephens wrote a column in The New York Times in which he lamented, “And so we reach the Idiot stage of the conservative cycle, in which a Buckley Award for Sean Hannity suggests nothing ironic, much less Orwellian, to those bestowing it, applauding it, or even shrugging it off. The award itself is trivial, but it’s a fresh reminder of who now holds the commanding heights of conservative life, and what it is that they think.
You don’t bother at all to find credibility in the shit you post, you just post the shit and hope it rolls downhill. This is part of what makes you so much of a fucking fool.
". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast
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