Adventures In Winger Mendacity, Part 9,463: Media Research Center Responds!
November 14, 2007 -- 10:52 AM EST // //
Here's some more fun stuff for you on Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, the hapless leaders of the Media Research Center, which is a conservative "media watchdog" group that traffics in some of the seamiest anti-Hillary smut and hucksterism that you can find anywhere.
Bozell and Graham are on a tear right now to prove that a fifth column conspiracy of liberal media elites is trying to destroy the country from within by elevating Hillary to the White House. As I noted here yesterday, the duo have a new piece in National Review that tries to prove this by pointing to an old Margaret Carlson article in Time magazine in which she allegedly described Hillary gushingly as "an amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa, and Oliver Wendell Holmes."
As I wrote here yesterday, however, a look back at Carlson's article shows that she actually didn't describe Hillary this way at all. Rather, she mocked Hillary backers for presenting her this way. This didn't stop these alleged media critics from chopping Carlson's quote in this laughably dishonest way, however.
Now Graham has responded to our post from yesterday. And his reply, quite literally, is that it was okay for the duo to lie audaciously about Carlson's original quote, because she praises Hillary elsewhere in that article and in her other writings. I'm really not making this up -- look for yourself.
But the whole thing gets even more ridiculous than this.
It turns out that Bozell and Graham have a whole new book out that documents the entire years-long pro-Hillary liberal media conspiracy in all its dastardly glory. And as ConWebBlog notes,the two are basically using this phony quote as one of the centerpieces of the book's entire promotional effort. Check this out from the book's promo page:
In Whitewash, L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, America’s largest and most respected media watchdog organization, expose the unprecedented media favoritism that is the real key to Hillary’s political career. Marshalling stunning evidence compiled exclusively by the Media Research Center, the authors show how the media have relentlessly promoted Hillary from the moment in 1992 when Time magazine introduced her to the country as an “amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.”Now Bozell is claiming that this wasn't just Carlson who said this; he says that Time magazine as an institution "introduced her to the country" this way.
Of course, this didn't happen at all. What Carlson actually wrote was this: "Friends of Hillary Clinton would have you believe she is an amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes..." etc, etc.
We've seen no shortage of two-bit confidence men hawking all manner of anti-Hillary paraphernalia over the years, of course, but rarely does anti-Hillary hucksterism descend to quite this level of buffoonery.
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