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).

Follow Baker via Twitter. (Full bioWashington Examiner's weekly "Mainstream Media Scream," with Baker's scream rating, are on NewsBusters as of January 2015. Read them here

Brent Baker | October 6, 2008
The supposedly "undecided voters" chosen by CBS to react to the latest presidential debate condemned John McCain's reference to Barack Obama as "that one" in answering a question.
Brent Baker | October 2, 2008
Two themes in post-VP debate coverage Thursday night: First, “surprise” that Sarah Palin wasn't a “car wreck” and “did not embarrass herself.”...
Brent Baker | October 2, 2008
David Letterman on Friday (10/3/08) asked guest Brian Williams if the nation can risk “a beginner in the passenger seat” and, in a sexist shot, imitated Palin adjusting her hair during a 9/11 crisis: "How's my hair?”
Brent Baker | October 1, 2008
Barry Sonnenfeld, movie director (Men in Black) and Emmy-winning director of Pushing Daisies, said on (10/1) Late Show he's “worried” Bush will do before leaving is “go out by pushing the button and destroying all life on Earth.”
Brent Baker | September 24, 2008
Interviewing John McCain, Katie Couric told him Sarah Palin warned of a "Great Depression" if a financial bailout isn't passed. Couric scolded Palin. Chutzpah: It was Couric who raised the ominous phrase.
Brent Baker | September 20, 2008
At a 9/16/08 fundraiser for Barack Obama, donors heard Barbra Streisand sing, but the press was not allowed. Back in 2002 FNC played a clip from her appearance at a DCCC fundraiser, video played at the MRC's 2003 DisHonors Awards.
Brent Baker | September 19, 2008
[LANGUAGE WARNING] The suggestion that talking about Sarah Palin is not important sent Real Time panelist Andrew Sullivan into such an angry rant that even liberal host Bill Maher tried to calm him down.
Brent Baker | September 9, 2008
Joy Behar, a host of ABC's The View, took to CNN's Larry King Live Tuesday night (9/9/08) and delivered a new line of attack on Sarah Palin: She's “very mean” because she hunts and is opposed to polar bears on endangered list.
Brent Baker | September 5, 2008
Declaring "I'm not that convinced that that's her baby," HBO's Bill Maher forwarded left-wing blog rumors about Trig Palin being the son of Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, who is now pregnant.
Brent Baker | September 4, 2008
Dr. Phil chastised Letterman's misunderstanding of parental influence after he complained: "Don't you want your President to have had the presence of mind to have chatted to her teenaged kids for 5 minutes about birth control?"