Topic: Media Research Center
A March 30 NewsBusters post excerpts Rush Limbagh's speech accepting the William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence at the Media Research Center's 20th Anniversary Gala the night before:
Media Research Center was at the beginning, and set a standard, and had the guts to go after the left. And now, Brent and his organization are being copied. For once, it's the left that's bringing up the rear. Except they do it far differently than the way Brent's organization does. They lie. They take things out of context. And one of the problems with this is that the mainstream media, which again, I call the Drive By Media does not listen to my show, or anybody else's show.
This is presumably a potshot at Media Matters (disclosure: our employer), though he offers no evidence that Media Matters has, in fact, taken Limbaugh out of context. Judge for yourself.
Meanwhile, it's false to suggest that the MRC has never taken anyone's comments out of context:
It has taken Howell Raines out of context.
It has taken Chris Matthews out of context.
It has taken Katie Couric out of context.
It has taken Joe Klein out of context.
It has taken John Chancellor out of context.
And those are just the low-hanging fruit. There are plenty more out-of-context examples and misrepresentations to be found for anyone will to dig a little deeper.
It would seem that the "standard" the MRC has set is taking people out of context.
