FLASHBACK: Reporters Awed By Flyswatter-in-Chief

Scott Whitlock | June 17, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The relentlessly negative coverage of Donald Trump has been repeatedly documented by the Media Research Center. Everything that Trump does is wrong. So it’s always helpful to remember that, according to most journalists, nearly everything Barack Obama did was wonderful and “amazing,” to quote MSNBC.  It was 11 years ago this week that the network’s hosts absolutely gushed over the Democrat’s ability to... kill a fly. Following his interview with Obama, Harwood on June 16, 2009 swooned over the then-President’s fly-killing skills, comparing it to Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Here’s some of his excited conversation with then-MSNBC host David Shuster: 

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