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Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters.
Joy Behar defended Woody Allen on The View on Thursday on charges he abused his daughter Dylan Farrow, insisting he's been "exonerated by the experts," and complained again that Sen. Al Franken didn't get due process before resigning under a cloud of sexual harassment.
In 2019, a CNN Inside Politics panel slammed President Trump for hypocrisy and a lack of empathy for golfing while Hurricane Dorian was over the Bahamas. But five years ago, a CNN Inside Politics panel noted that President Obama suffered from bad optics for going golfing almost immediately after a statement about journalist James Foley's beheading by ISIS forces. But they felt his pain of just…
In 2018 NBC's Savannah Guthrie ever so briefly mentioned the liberal politics of Christine Blasey Ford, and Ford's lawyer Debra Katz denied she had a political motivation. (Now she admits she did.)
At a panel discussion, NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith denied having an ideological bias.
"I don't want to be the opposition party. I don't see myself as that. I see myself as a journalist doing journalism, shining light, asking questions, exposing truth. And I don't like being put in a position of being somehow oppositional."
Former Trump press aide Raj Shah cited studies by the Media Research Center (and others) showing a "90-plus" percent negative coverage for Trump on evening news, calling it "alarming." Former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry cracks "That's because 90 percent of what he's doing is crazy!"
MSNBC host Chris Hayes came in for a Twitter beating over the weekend for his attack on the Electoral College, especially his point that "the weirdest thing about the Electoral College is the fact that if it wasn't specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional."
On Sunday's AM Joy, the host brought on retired Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes, who diagnosed President Trump from afar with "malignant narcissism" and causing the "soul murder" of illegal-immigrant children put in "cages."
On MSNBC's Up with David Gura, MSNBC legal analyst Maya Wiley insisted President Trump's mental competence must be called into question. "As we saw with Ronald Reagan, who actually did have Alzheimer’s and it was kept under wraps...I just don’t understand why we not actually ask and have a confrontational conversation about whether or not there’s something more going on here with his health."
The full segment of MRC's director of media analysis Tim Graham on Trish Regan Primetime on Fox Business, beginning with the Twitter battle between Bill Maher and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. No one in the media holds "The Squad" accountable.
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson appeared on the Fox News program America's Newsroom on Wednesday morning to defend the Times after angry staffers leaked a transcript to Slate of an internal "town hall" meeting that executive editor Dean Baquet had with employees. Abramson was effusive over how Baquet's position was perfect, that he spoke out for "independent" journalism that…