Brent Baker
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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 | August 12, 2012
Tonight’s (Sunday) 60 Minutes will feature an interview with the new Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan conducted by CBS’s Bob Schieffer. Last year, when Schieffer interviewed Ryan on Face the Nation, he chided Ryan over his budget plan and refusal to raise taxes.“Why do these rich people need another tax cut?” Schieffer demanded of Ryan on the April 17, 2011 program.…
Brent Baker | August 6, 2012
From Tuesday, July 31 in Warsaw, as Mitt Romney walked to his car after visiting Poland’s  Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, as shown by CNN’s Reliable Sources on August 5. “Governor Romney are you concerned about some of the mishaps of your trip?”“Governor Romney do you have a statement for the Palestinians?”“What about your gaffes?”“Governor Romney do you feel that your gaffes have…
Brent Baker | August 4, 2012
“I’m in over my head” and “The economy’s bad, it’s all my fault and I can’t fix it.” Those are two pretty accurate campaign slogans for the Obama-Biden campaign as formuated, via some creative editing done by TBS’s Conan, from Obama’s speeches. In playing the video at the end of his program on Thursday night, FNC’s Bret Baier explained: “With just a few weeks left until the Democratic…
Brent Baker | August 3, 2012
“Harry Reid is disgrace. But you expect this from Harry Reid,” The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes zinged on FNC’s Special Report Friday night before turning his ire on a certain Washington, DC-based anchor for CNN for advancing Reid’s baseless allegation that Mitt Romney didn’t pay any income tax for ten years.“The disappointing cohort in this, to me, is journalists,” Hayes contended as he…
Brent Baker | August 2, 2012
“A conservative Republican was beaten by an even more conservative Tea Party candidate,” CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley announced Wednesday night in reporting Ted Cruz’s victory in the Texas Republican primary. Sharyl Attkisson relayed how the candidate Cruz defeated, David Dewhurst, “is considered a very conservative Republican,” yet “Cruz spent months tacking even further to the…
Brent Baker | July 29, 2012
CBS and NBC on Friday night aired full stories on the very weak 1.5 percent second quarter GDP rate, down from an anemic two percent in the first quarter, yet – incredibly – ABC’s World News, which had time to champion how First Lady Michelle Obama brought her “Let’s Move” campaign to London where she “indulged in some Olympic daydreaming,” didn’t consider newsworthy the bad news for…
Brent Baker | July 29, 2012
Imagined and created by TBS’s Conan, a parody of an Obama campaign ad if narrated by Barack Obama supporter Morgan Freeman. FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier, anchored by Shannon Bream, played it at the end of this past Monday’s show.
Brent Baker | July 28, 2012
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman, now at the Huffington Post, appeared on the July 23 Hardball where he smeared the Republican Party as “xenophobic” and “nativist” while decrying Mitt Romney for not standing up to that:“He is playing to -- and has from the beginning of the campaign -- played to the kind of nativist base of the Tea Party. And by nativist, I mean people who are, in essence,…
Brent Baker | July 23, 2012
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on the Tuesday, July 17 Hardball:“This guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right. He’s fought his way all the way to the top of the Harvard Law Review, in a blind test becomes head of the Review, the top editor there. Everything he’s done is clean as a whistle. He’s never not only broken any law, he’s never done anything wrong. He’s the perfect father, the…