Ham Ass Meets Hamas

One of the best things about the Media Research Center's "CyberAlert" is Brent Baker's desparate attempts to justify its existence. You can picture Brent in a darkened room with multiple television sets, dilated pupils darting from screen to screen. As his deadline approaches and his notebook remains empty, Brent will label just about anything as liberal bias so he can make it to another payday.

He's even forced to recycle his old drivel on particularly slow days. Last week, he "wrote":

From the December 5, 2001 CyberAlert: Hamas is a "terrorist" group to everyone but Peter Jennings. In reporting on President Bush�s decision Tuesday to freeze the assets of a Texas group, charging that it funnels money to Hamas, CBS, CNN, FNC and NBC directly or indirectly described Hamas as a terrorist operation. But not ABC�s Peter Jennings.

Jennings announced on the December 4 World News Tonight: "Today the Bush administration froze the financial assets and closed the offices of a major Muslim charity. The Texas-based Holy Land Foundation is accused of financing the militant Islamic group Hamas which claimed responsibility for last week�s suicide attacks against Israelis. Federal agents raided several Holy Land offices around the country today."

For Brent, it's not sufficient for the former Canuck to state that Hamas is a militant Islamic group which "claimed responsibility for last week's suicide attacks against Israelis." Viewers less sophisticated than our Brent might confuse Hamas with group of anti-war nuns or a Quaker sewing circle.

And Brent says that the other news networks (and Faux) all "directly or indirectly" described Hamas as a terrorist organization, which suggests they didn't all use the word "terrorist" either. So it's hard to see why Brent thinks Jennings alone is giving Hamas a pass.

Brent is so delusional that he manufactures liberal bias out of thin air. He wouldn't know balance if you shoved a Segway up his ass.