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 | December 18, 2023
Three weeks after he charged a re-elected Donald Trump “will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country,” on Monday morning, Joe Scarborough warned that if Trump wins “American democracy could be over” and thus “the American experiment at an end one year from now.” On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, he proceeded to rue the lack of panic in the Biden campaign at the prospect…
Brent Baker | December 11, 2023
The PBS NewsHour on Friday covered the indictment, on tax charges, of President Biden’s son, Hunter, but seemingly very reluctantly as the program was eager to make sure viewers knew there’s no connection to Joe Biden and it’s all a political stunt to help Donald Trump. Anchor Geoff Bennett started with the “context” that Hunter “does not work in the White House for his father in the way that…
Brent Baker | December 4, 2023
CBS on Sunday cued up former Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s to affirm that voters cannot simultaneously support the U.S. Constitution and Donald Trump’s presidential bid. In a segment promoting her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, John Dickerson inquired: “If a person is a Member of Congress and they have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution, can they defend the Constitution and…
Brent Baker | November 27, 2023
Citing what “my sources are saying,” the Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell on Sunday continued the pattern of journalists lamenting how President Biden is not getting enough credit for all of his presumed successes. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Caldwell relayed, “obviously, it will be great if Americans are released with these hostages, but my sources are saying President Biden doesn’t get a lot…
Brent Baker | November 20, 2023
Jonathan Karl, ABC’s Chief Washington Correspondent, acknowledged on Thursday’s Late Show that he wrote his new book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, to try to undermine Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Asked why Trump leads the Republican nomination contest, Karl cited how “superficially” there’s “a sense” that things were better during the Trump…
Brent Baker | November 13, 2023
In the wake of Senator Tim Scott’s (R-SC) surprise withdrawal on Sunday night from the Republican presidential race, CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday morning reported her “sources” told her “there’s just no appetite in the Republican base right now for someone who’s happy and sunny.” She insisted “the base is angry” and “that’s a big part of why Donald Trump has had such a durable lead” while Scott “…
Brent Baker | November 6, 2023
President Biden’s “actually not doing a bad job” on the border, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asserted on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher in the face of a record number of illegal crossings. He claimed “they have deported more people under the Biden administration than Trump did. They’ve been harder line.” The host of the Sunday CNN show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, who is also a Washington Post columnist,…
Brent Baker | October 30, 2023
Bill Maher and one of his guests on Friday impugned new House Speaker Mike Johnson with particularly low blows equating him to a KKK leader and a mass murderer. Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who had a show on the short-lived CNN+, charged “the reason this guy is Speaker is none of us have the time to read his resume and realize he’s David Duke-lite…
Brent Baker | October 23, 2023
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Monday morning speculated over what Donald Trump will do if he wins election next year to return to the presidency. Scarborough generously conceded that Trump won’t commit mass murder, advising “don’t think about him lining up people against the wall and having them shot.” Instead, Scarborough pointed to what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has done in Hungary…
Brent Baker | October 16, 2023
“Indictment”? A seemingly astonished Margaret Brennan, moderator of CBS’s Face the Nation, interjected when her guest, Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH), maintained that in the special counsel investigations of the mishandling of classified documents, “President Biden needs the same consequence that they pursue with President Trump.”  (On October 8 and 9, President Biden was interviewed by special…