Is that what Media Matters will become? Let’s hope. Except this time, it needs to be made an actual campaign issue, instead of wimping out on it as McCain did.
[Update mid afternoon]
David Brock’s Nixonian paranoia:
It’s no wonder Media Matters’ head David Brock comes off as an unhinged paranoid in the story. When you stake your career on dirty tricks and smear tactics, you start expecting everyone else is out to do the same to you. As the Caller reports, Media Matters was apparently so obsessed with digging up dirt on Fox News it considered hiring detectives to track its employees. To Brock, the declaration that his organization was at “war with Fox News” wasn’t hyperbole – his personal assistant reportedly carried a Glock to prove it.
It will be interesting to see how successful the White House is in putting daylight between themselves and this nut job.
The thing that shocked me is that anybody regarded it as mainstream
The problem with America today in a nutshell.
The left has been in a war with mainstream America for generations and has won the battle in many areas. It will never be righted if we continue to allow it. The most encouraging thing I’ve heard is the tea party going below the radar to take on local politics. Only the infantry can win this battle.
“The Obama administration cannot have Media Matters and me or people who look to me for advice,” Dershowitz told TheDC. “We cannot be in the same tent. The tent is not big enough to include us.”
You’re joking right Alan? You’re talking about a tent that contains organized labor, the Sierra Club, and La Raza. I’ve never been inside the thing, but I suspect it’s got the required reinforced concrete walls. And the necessary pharmaceuticals are administered at the entrance to prevent fratricide.
Media Matters needs to be identified first, foremost, last, and everything in between, as a pro-censorship organization.
The linked article didn’t have any examples. I seem to have missed this story.
Can someone show me some examples?
You can start here. 🙂
George, thank you. I skimmed the article, looking for anything that had anything to do with anti-semitism, Judaism, Israel, and similar topics, but didn’t see any, so I’m still not sure what Alan Dershowitz was referring to (and I assumed that Dershowitz’s complaints were the substance of the comparison to Rev. Wright). My fault — I wasn’t specific about what “examples” I was looking for. I’m looking for evidence that Media Matters has views objectionable to, as the linked article put it, the “pro-Israel” community.
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On a different, off-topic, personal note: George, I apologize to you for bailing on the conversation about “exploration” last week. I left a note saying that I would reply in full to your comment, but then got busy with other matters. I don’t want to restart the conversation here, but I’ll leave you with a nugget: you criticized NASA money going for “exploration” actually going to mapping New Jersey from LEO. My response was going to point out how unexplored New Jersey really is. The most interesting example isn’t space-related: the recent discovery of a new bacteria that lives only in certain ponds in the NJ Pine Barrens has now led to the development of a new type of very-much-needed antibiotic. (An argument for preserving biodiversity and an argument for supporting basic science exploration because it may lead to useful applications – my favorite kind of argument.) I wanted to argue that exploring with a microscope is akin to exploring with a telescope or a high resolution observation camera, and it is all certainly “exploration” just as much as traipsing through jungles and canyons is exploration. I’m sure the topic will come up again here, and I look forward to arguing with you then!
Oh, don’t worry about the update, as the thread had fallen to page 2.
The antibiotic is interesting. Usually the only microbial discoveries in New Jersey are new strains of VD. 😀
How about this ad? Show a picture of David Brock in full meltdown, with all his creepiness on display. “Would you trust your child with this man? Obama trusts your country with this man.”
Since Reverend Wright wasn’t even “the Reverend Wright of 2008,” I don’t see much danger for Obama…nothing he says or does seems to matter to anyone, anyway. Why should the nature of his brown shirts?
They sure do seem to be able to say anything and do anything and completely get away with it.
You can’t expect the media to hold the Obama accountable for collusion with the media to push his agenda and silence his enemies. The media wont even hold themselves accountable.
What is this journOlist 3.0?
Brock completely fell off my radar after he first defected to the Left in a tantrum, and didn’t reappear until last year., when I ran across some article that casually mentioned that Brock had something to do with Media Matters. So I guess I’m less media savvy than diehard political junkies and (for having even heard of MMA) more so than flyover country.
It’s got to be pretty smooth sailing being his bodyguard–the fact of having a nutty boss aside. Who’s actuallygoing to try to kill him?