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 | February 19, 2010
Former President Ronald Reagan would have prosecuted Dick Cheney for war crimes, Seth MacFarlane (IMDb page), creator, writer and executive producer of the Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show animated sit-coms aired Sunday night on Fox, declared Friday night on the season premiere of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. But President Barack Obama, he rued, is too “chicken s**t” do to it.
Brent Baker | February 13, 2010
On the eve of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy, Bryant Gumbel couldn’t resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his February 7, 2006 Real Sports magazine show on HBO as he condescendingly suggested viewers “try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a…
Brent Baker | February 13, 2010
On the eve of the 2006 Winter Olympics, Bryant Gumbel couldn't resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his Real Sports magazine show on HBO as he condescendingly suggested viewers “try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.”
Brent Baker | February 6, 2010
Democratic operative Bob Shrum, just after Sarah Palin finished her address to the Tea Party convention, during the live MSNBC coverage Saturday night: "What we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise – masterful – in paranoid politics. I mean, she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile."
Brent Baker | January 31, 2010
On ABC's This Week, Barbara Walters informed Scott Brown that “you replaced a beloved figure,” as she ruminated: “How do you think that Senator Ted Kennedy would feel about your election? Do you think he'd be disappointed?”
Brent Baker | January 27, 2010
Nightline anchor Terry Moran started laughing Wednesday night just as George Will finished his critique of President Obama’s State of the Union address as Donna Brazile was also not impressed by Will’s assessment.
Brent Baker | January 14, 2010
The devastating earthquake in Haiti, which may have killed tens of thousands or more, “reminded” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann of why ObamaCare is needed in the United States as he saw “what health care reform really means” in Haiti’s “awful message of nightmarish reality.” Later, he seriously contended the Haiti disaster makes “a good frame of reference in terms of the health care issue,” as he…
Brent Baker | January 3, 2010
On Sunday’s This Week, fill-in host Terry Moran, along with Ron Brownstein and Cynthia Tucker, took swipes as Rush Limbaugh for his contention that his good experience at a Honolulu hospital demonstrated the U.S. health system doesn’t need repair.
Brent Baker | December 26, 2009
Fox Newswatch highlighted two “winners” in the MRC's “Best NQs of 2009: 22nd Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.” Viewers heard Katie Couric pining to Barack Obama: “You're so confident...and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, damn, this is hard?” Jon Scott: that "garnered the MRC's 'Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews.'”
Brent Baker | December 17, 2009
In his swan song interview with President Barack Obama, which consumed more than ten minutes of World News, ABC's Charles Gibson couldn't have provided a friendlier or more empathetic platform to Obama on the “weight” of sending troops to war and how “devilishly difficult” it's become to pass a health care plan because of a few rogue Senators.