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 | 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…
Brent Baker | February 22, 2021
Former New York Times media reporter Bill Carter on Sunday denounced, as “shocking” and “questionable,” the order by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to lower flags to half-mast in the state when the funeral occurs for the late Rush Limbaugh, a resident of the state. Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Carter, now a “media analyst” for CNN, contended Limbaugh’s “views were pretty ugly and they…
Brent Baker | February 15, 2021
It all began with the “horrible” Reagan. On Thursday’s CNN Tonight, anchor Don Lemon noted how Republicans hold up former President Ronald Reagan as the “gold standard.” But, Lemon asserted, you can trace the current GOP to Reagan since “when you look at what he actually accomplished, he didn’t! He was horrible when it came to racial issues” and “horrible when it came to uniting the country. He…
Brent Baker | February 8, 2021
Sunday on CNN, Brittany Shepherd, Yahoo News’ White House correspondent, compared days of briefings from the Trump administration’s Kayleigh McEnany to “having a really bad ex-boyfriend. We were getting essentially abused by Kayleigh for so long,” she charged before showing her admiration for Jen Psaki, President Biden’s press secretary: “Now we have Jen and the entire Biden team. It’s very…
Brent Baker | February 1, 2021
On CNN’s Sunday night special, ‘The Divided States of America: What Is Tearing Us Apart?,’ Fareed Zakaria devoted the whole hour to an anti-conservative screed as he blamed Tea Party, which he characterized as motivated by racism, Fox News creator Roger Ailes, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich for leading to the Trump presidency and, thus, all the nation’s current ills.  Zakaria asserted that “when…
Brent Baker | January 25, 2021
The behavior of former President Donald Trump and his supporters was so abhorrent, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd contended on Sunday, that it demands “accountability” akin to truth commissions in post-Hitler Germany, post-WWII Japan, after the ouster of South Africa’s white supremacist party and dealing with the Confederacy after the U.S. Civil War. Outlining the value of an…
Brent Baker | January 18, 2021
CNN over the weekend a featured a former Facebook official who advocated going beyond cracking down on those promoting violence to a wider suppression of the “problem” of conservative views. Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook, charged that after a “focus on the violent extremists,” we “have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge…
Brent Baker | January 11, 2021
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, Oliver Darcy, CNN’s senior media reporter, demanded conservative news sources be “held accountable,” clearly suggested they must be shut down and/or removed from cable systems. He cited Fox News and “TV providers that beam OAN and Newsmax into homes, or Rush Limbaugh. There are a lot of people profiting off of lies and conspiracy theories” and, he insisted, “this…
Brent Baker | January 4, 2021
An arrogant and angry Chuck Todd tried to shut down and shame Senator Ron Johnson, on Sunday’s Meet the Press, when the Wisconsin Republican stood his ground on exploring election fraud and accused Todd of undermining media credibility: “You have destroyed the credibility of the news media by your bias.” When Johnson pointed out, “this fire was started when you completely ignored, for example,…
Brent Baker | December 28, 2020
Just before Christmas, on his YouTube channel, Keith Olbermann went on a raging rant, yelling: “Donald Trump should spend the rest of his life in prison! His grifting sons and and daughters should spend the rest of their lives in prison! His disgusting henchmen, from William Barr to Stephen Miller to Steve Bannon, should spend the rest of their lives in prison!” The MSNBC and ESPN veteran called…