Brent Baker
VP of Research and Publications
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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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Brent Baker | March 25, 2024
A condescending Jon Karl on Sunday mocked Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for saying it would “be an honor” to serve on Donald Trump’s ticket. “You said it would ‘be an honor’ to be offered a spot” on Trump’s ticket, Karl noted when hosting ABC’s This Week. “Really?” Rubio answered: “I think anyone who is offered the opportunity to serve this country as vice president should be honored by the…
Brent Baker | March 18, 2024
The news media are not aggressive enough calling out Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “un-American” rants, New Yorker magazine’s Susan Glasser complained on Sunday’s This Week. On the ABC News show’s roundtable, the veteran of the Washington Post expressed frustration that “eight years into this, we still struggle with how to cover him as journalists” as Trump’s “unhinged,…
Brent Baker | March 11, 2024
Actor Robert De Niro pleased Bill Maher’s audience on Friday by going on a rant denigrating Donald Trump. “Vote for Trump and you’ll get the nightmare, vote for Biden and it will be back to normalcy,” he began.  To laughter and applause from Maher’s Los Angeles studio audience, De Niro proceeded to marvel at how anyone could support Trump given he’s “a total monster” who will install a “…
Brent Baker | March 4, 2024
On Christiane Amanpour’s CNN show on Saturday, long-time newspaper editor and columnist Margaret Sullivan outlined her contention that since “this is an extremely consequential election” given the threat Donald Trump poses as an “authoritarian,” journalists must put more emphasis of substantive issues that benefit President Biden than on distractions like Biden’s age. She cited how “people think…
Brent Baker | February 26, 2024
MSNBC brought two authors aboard Monday’s Morning Joe who charged rural voters support Donald Trump over Joe Biden because they are a bunch of racist rubes who don’t understand their own interests. After co-host Mika Brzezinski outlined how Joe Biden’s upbringing gave him greater affinity to rural people than Trump, Tom Schaller, co-author of ‘White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy…
Brent Baker | February 12, 2024
President Joe Biden is the victim of a hostile media focusing more of his foibles than on those by Donald Trump, MSNBC host Jen Psaki seriously contended on Sunday’s Meet the Press in reacting to the prominence given the Hur report’s findings that Biden has a poor memory. “If you’re sitting in the White House and on the campaign right now you’re absolutely banging your head against the wall at…
Brent Baker | February 5, 2024
Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday repeatedly pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson to support the Senate-Biden border bill. At one point, she passed along the ludicrous Democratic talking point that, after three years of aggressively enacting open border policies, “Joe Biden said he would shut down the border.” Earlier, she lectured: “You are now the Speaker of the House. Do you not…
Brent Baker | January 22, 2024
It’s “important” to attend a Donald Trump rally so you can see how the attendees “are part of a fascist cult,” Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin contended on MSNBC on Saturday morning. She proceeded to warn that “we’ve seen in other fascist regimes that millions of people, sometimes even a majority of the country, becomes intoxicated with an authoritarian figure, and these people are…
Brent Baker | January 15, 2024
First Lady Jill Biden made a good choice in selecting MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski for a sit-down interview as the co-host of Morning Joe cued up a series of softball “questions” which treated her and her husband as victims of unfair attacks. In a portion run on Thursday’s program, Brzezinski wondered: “The division in this country, the cruelty of MAGA Republicans against your family. Does any part of…
Brent Baker | January 8, 2024
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday asserted himself into a contentious political debate, declaring Donald Trump is not qualified, per the 14th amendment, to run for public office. “If you say he engaged in insurrection,” the former Democratic political operative maintained, “I don’t see how you can escape the plain meaning of the 14th amendment and say he’s qualified to run for office.” >…