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 | June 15, 2011
The night after CNN’s debate in New Hampshire with seven Republican presidential candidates, Anderson Cooper brought aboard left-wing “comedian” Bill Maher to ridicule them. Asked on the June 14, 2011 Anderson Cooper 360 if he “had to vote” for one of them, he named Ron Paul since “he's a cut from a different cloth than the rest of those people who are of course selling their souls to the…
Brent Baker | May 30, 2011
A couple of weeks ago (May 16, 2011), actor/comedian Martin Short celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden by singing, on the Late Show with David Letterman, “Bastard in the Sand,” a parody set to the tune of Elton John's “Candle in the Wind.” As he played the piano and sang, he was accompanied by five people dressed as Navy SEALs whom the Late Show blog, the Wahoo Gazette, called “the Singing…
Brent Baker | May 26, 2011
In full retreat, a humiliated and somber Ed Schultz opened his MSNBC show on Wednesday night (May 25, 2011) by apologizing to Laura Ingraham for using, on his radio show, “vile and inappropriate language” to describe her, language he did not repeat.On Tuesday, the left-wing host had slimed the conservative talk radio host as a “right-wing slut” and a “radio slut.”Much more about this incident,…
Brent Baker | May 20, 2011
Ending her final night (May 19, 2011) as anchor of the CBS Evening News with a “five years in five minutes” video retrospective, Katie Couric went out in sync with how she conducted herself since 2006 – challenging and discrediting conservatives while providing a platform to liberals to disparage conservatives....Getting to the 2008 campaign, CBS played a friendly clip of Couric empathizing with…
Brent Baker | May 15, 2011
With “Cal’s High Honor” as the on-screen tag, the Fox News Channel on Saturday (May 14, 2011) highlighted video of Fox Newswatch panelist Cal Thomas receiving the Media Research Center’s “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” at the MRC’s May 7 annual Gala featuring the “DisHonors Awards.”
Brent Baker | May 7, 2011
At the MRC’s May 7, 2011 “DisHonors Awards of 2011: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporting,” Neal Boortz presents The Tea Party from Hell Award, won by Tavis Smiley, and accepted in jest by Jenny Beth Martin with Mark Meckler.
Brent Baker | May 5, 2011
Scott Pelley, the incoming anchor for the CBS Evening News, dropped by Washington, DC’s CBS affiliate on Wednesday where he mimicked left-wing MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” slogan as he promised: “We're going to be leaning forward.”
Brent Baker | April 25, 2011
Regurgitating the same derogatory comments he spews on his HBO show, Bill Maher showed up Monday night on the Late Show where CBS, unlike HBO, excised his vile terminology for Tea Party activists. Maher denounced Tea Party followers as “sad, unfortunate people” because they are “corporate America's useful idiots.” Then he employed his usual “tea-baggers” phrase, but CBS silenced the “baggers.”
Brent Baker | April 22, 2011
On Friday night (April 22), the Fox News Channel debuted a Hannity special, ‘Behind the Bias: The History of Liberal Media.’ The hour began with what Sean Hannity described as “how and why this bias began,” illustrated with several classic examples of left-wing journalistic advocacy and/or denigration of conservatives.
Brent Baker | March 20, 2011
David Gregory is best-known as the calm, if liberal, host of NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday mornings. But he’s also a fan of the Washington Capitals who volunteered to help cheer on the team with its “Unleash the Fury!” in-game presentation. Here, so you can see a different side of Gregory this Sunday morning, is a three-second clip of Gregory screaming “Unleash the Fury!”