Posted on 03/21/2012 7:48:39 AM PDT by pabianice
After facing down more than a month of tough reporting, David Brock’s Media Matters for America still has nothing to say for itself. The progressive messaging group has all but clammed up about its internal turmoil under a constant barrage of scrutiny from conservatives and liberals alike.
It’s been a little over a month since The Daily Caller published the beginning of an investigative series examining the inner workings of Media Matters. The reporting, bolstered by first-hand knowledge from sources familiar with day-to-day activities in the group’s Washington, D.C. offices, revealed close coordination with the Obama White House, a slew of favored — and receptive — mainstream journalists, intense erratic behavior by Brock, a Glock pistol illegally carried by Brock’s assistant and consequence-free sex in the office’s media war room.
TheDC also revealed an extensive list of left-wing foundations that bankroll the group’s operations. Those findings showed the organization’s use of Bernie Madoff-exposed assets, the receipt of a donation specifically earmarked for targeting religious media, and a laundry list of big-name progressive foundations, including the Tides Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and MoveOn.org, among many others.
In that same time frame, Fox News reported that Brock had to sell his Rehoboth Beach, Del. home to pay his former domestic partner $850,000 in what Brock called “blackmail” to keep him silent about details purportedly devastating to Media Matters.
Additionally, Media Matters’ foreign policy department has risen to become the group’s greatest public liability, with senior fellow MJ Rosenberg under fire across the political spectrum — and in the pages of The New York Times — for being “virulently anti-Israel,” according to liberal Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.
A report published Monday by TheDC showed that Media Matters’ foreign policy associations include a tangled relationship with Al-Jazeera, a Qatar government-operated television network with an anti-Israel — and arguably anti-American — editorial posture. (RELATED: Full coverage of Media Matters)
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/21/media-matters-wants-a-fight-but-cant-take-a-punch/#ixzz1plLK0Rt7
Media smatters? What’s that?
I think it would behoove “The Right” to make sure Media Matters is thoroughly exposed and defanged. This bunch is meeting with the WH regularly & taking marching orders from Jarrett, etc., they are literally writing news scripts for the LSM .... if they can be marginalized (I’d like to see them gone) before the election, it won’t give The Right an advantage so much as they just won’t be so disadvantaged.
Well and good but I seriously doubt the insiders of the GOP would allow it. I think they basically agree w/ the left. So, probably no hard ball here.
Stalin would be so proud.
“Media Matters wants a fight, but can’t take a punch.”
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Same as the ENTIRE cowardly Left.
They have been at war with America, destroying our insitutions for decades, and the ight has barely returned fire.
An energized and motivated conservative population would sweep these weak, neurotic punks into historical irrelevance and infamy very quickly.
Why do you think the conniving Commies soil themselves at the mere mention of Sarah Palin’s name?
Agree re: GOP. The non-GOP (and the numbers are growing) need to take ‘Matters’ into their own hands (no pun intended).
In other words, Monday.
-PJ
they are too busy patting themselves on the back for the Sandra Fluke scam
David Brock has taken more balls on the chin than a big league catcher.
Big name donors....MoveOn.org....Carbonite....Limbaugh advertiser...
‘Course I heard Beck pushing Carbonite just yesterday...
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