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).

Follow Baker via Twitter. (Full bioWashington Examiner's weekly "Mainstream Media Scream," with Baker's scream rating, are on NewsBusters as of January 2015. Read them here

Brent Baker | May 10, 2021
CBS on Sunday morning promoted the presidential ambitions of Stacey Abrams, as Erin Moriarty championed how Abrams “has always dreamed big and accomplished much,” describing her as “a woman of many talents and identities.”  In a segment tied to plugging a new novel by Abrams, Moriarty cued her up: “Your main character is always a woman of color who’s smart and gutsy and cool under pressure. In…
Brent Baker | May 3, 2021
In a hate-filled rant on her Saturday morning MSNBC show, host Tiffany Cross denigrated Republican U.S.Senator Tim Scott for having the gall to not follow the liberal line on how America is a racist nation. Cross called him “a stone fool,” “slow-witted,” “a token” and called his points “asinine,” all before the very low blow of asserting that “a lesson I’ve learned, don’t argue with people…
Brent Baker | April 26, 2021
On MSNBC late last week, anchor Joy Reid went on a rant trying to discredit Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a George Wallace-inspired racist for signing an anti-riot bill to hold rioters accountable for damages and harm to others. “It feels so George Wallace that I’m shocked that George Wallace didn’t actually think of it back when he was governor of Alabama,” she opined. After a guest from…
Brent Baker | April 12, 2021
CBS ended Sunday’s 60 Minutes by having Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent responsible for the previous week’s widely discredited hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, mock concerns about it. Instead of acknowledging any journalistic failures or how the piece put unfounded left-wing claims ahead of facts, Alfonsi read excerpts from three letters, starting with how “some viewers, including a…
Brent Baker | April 5, 2021
“The Chauvin trial and that murder trial in the death of George Floyd, is connected to voting rights because, at the end of the day, it’s about...whether African-Americans are allowed to survive and thrive in America,” PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor declared on Sunday’s Meet the Press.  Referring to the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Alcindor…
Brent Baker | March 29, 2021
Railing against Georgia’s new voting integrity law, Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson, picking up on a widely distorted portion of the law regarding political activists providing things to people waiting in lines to vote, charged Republicans “would pass a law to keep Jesus from getting a cup of water.”   On Friday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC, before making his snide comment…
Brent Baker | March 22, 2021
Seth Meyers, host of NBC’s Late Night, went of a lengthy rant claiming Republicans want to suppress the vote and the Democrats’ HR-1 is the solution, along with abolishing the filibuster.  He began by maintaining the current electoral system is “heavily tilted toward a minority of voters that are predominately white and rural, thanks in large part to anti-majoritarian institutions like the…
Brent Baker | March 15, 2021
John Heilemann, on Sunday’s Meet the Press, blamed former President Trump for why New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has refused to resign: “He’s following what is seen now as the Trump precedent. You know, if you are determined enough, you are shameless enough, you can hold on.” Host Chuck Todd soon read from a post on an anti-Trump site which contended that expecting Cuomo to step down “requires…
Brent Baker | March 8, 2021
By not voting for the huge “COVID relief” bill, Republicans “didn’t get on board with helping people” because “they don’t feel much of the pain that other Americans are feeling during this pandemic,” CNN overnight anchor Rosemary Church charged early Monday morning. Republicans, she insisted “can’t begin to understand what people are going through.” Interviewing Ron Brownstein of The Atlantic,…
Brent Baker | March 1, 2021
Opposition to ObamaCare and other government programs is based on the racism of whites who want to deny help to blacks even though it is whites who would most benefit, MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi and his guest contended on his Saturday morning show. “Racism is something that has defined the United States since its very founding,” Velshi declared, asserting that “white people... often make decisions…