Posted on 12/16/2005 9:38:55 AM PST by frankenbuster
On November 8 of this year, David Brock of Media Matters attacked me following my appearance on MSNBC's The Situation With Tucker Carlson by providing faulty and incomplete evidence to call me a liar.
For those of you who don't know, Media Matters is a group which is notorious for monitoring conservatives then posting distortions of their comments on their website.In fact, Brock is a weekly guest on Franken's radio show.
Brock posted my personal email address and within 24 hrs, I received over 150 pieces of hate email.
This past Sunday evening, I met radio talk show host Michael Medved who agreed to have me on his program to discuss my new book, Pants on Fire: How Al Franken Lies, Smears, and Deceives, provided that there is someone to defend Franken's position. Since Franken is unavailable, David Brock seemed to be the perfect person. After all, Brock feeds Franken information on a regular basis, and since Brock felt enough of an authority to smear me based on my criticism of Franken, I figured we should invite him to debate me and discuss his attacks against me.
This past week, 3 calls went into Media Matters HQ and messages were left for Brock to accept our invitation for a debate. Our calls were not returned.
This makes Brock not just a smear merchant, but a feckless coward as well. He calls people liars, posts their phone numbers and email addresses for others to harrass them, then when offered the opportunity to back his claims, he hides under his desk.
Well, I figure if Brock can post my contact information, I can post his. I urge people to contact his office and demand that he be a man and face me to not only defend Franken who claims, "I hold myself to impossibly high standards" but to defend his attacks against me.
202-756-4100 mm-tips@mediamatters.org
This is known as a sissy hissy fit. Buy Brock tickets to Brokeback Mountain to placate him.
BrockBack
Franken who? :)
Let me be the first to start the rumor that he was a stunt double for the sex scenes. He played one of the sheep.
Being attacked by Brock is like having your leg humped by a toy poodle.
Well, given all the hate-filled phone calls and emails, it was probably more like being attacked by several hundred toy poodles. Ganging up.
Someone posts my personal information on the web without my approval and they will have a personal meeting with me, if you get my drift.
I know Brock. It was a personal observation.
Or to a stall in a public restroom?
I'll be more than glad to spread that rumor if we can add Chris Lehane as his partner.
How about Lehane as the film's fluffer*?
* "Fluffer" defined here. Caution: PG-13 language is part of the definition.
Perfect job for him!
He's been a "fluffer" all his life!
Clark campaign's hiring of the deplorable Chris Lehane's wife
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004 1:06 p.m. EST
Lehane Doesn't Deny He's Clark's Dirty Trickster
Former Clinton White House attack dog and one-time Gore campaign communications director Chris Lehane didn't deny last Sunday's allegations that he's Gen. Wesley Clark's presidential campaign dirty trickster.
Asked if he was "the guy behind the dirty tricks," Lehane brushed aside the question, telling Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby: "Well, you know, there has not been a single thing that's been covered on Howard Dean or any of these other candidates that was not accurate and true. Reporters report the information based on the facts."
Cosby pressed Lehane to confirm or deny his role as the Clark campaign's primo attack man.
"So, Chris, do you take credit ... some reporters have said yes, Chris is the one that gave me the paperwork. Do you take credit for those things you've been quoted for and more?"
Lehane explained: "People write stories based on whether they're accurate or not, reporters write good stories. We all know that. ..."
Another non-denial.
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It wouldn't be the first time. In fact, some believe to this day, Lehane pretty much single-handedly delivered the presidential popular vote to Al Gore four years ago, by allegedly digging up President Bush's 1976 DUI arrest and leaking it to the press five days before the 2000 election.
To be sure, Lehane denied at the time that the Gore campaign had anything to with the Bush DUI hit. But when it came to questions of his personal involvement in the story, Lehane's denial was somewhat less than explicit.
Days before the 2000 election Lehane was pressed by the New York Daily News on whether he was involved in the 11th-hour hit. The Gore operative laughed off the "rumors," saying he'd heard "he was related to the reporter who broke the story, or had attended her wedding. He also said he had heard a rumor that his sister was married to the lawyer who gave the reporter the documents."
"Next, they'll be saying that my sister was [Bush's] arresting officer," Lehane joked.
But others weren't laughing. The day after the story broke, Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron explained why Lehane was a prime suspect as the conduit for the Bush DUI file, which was handed to a Portland, Maine, Fox News reporter by a local lawyer who was reportedly also a delegate to that year's the Democratic Convention.
"There are two lawyers in the Southern Maine area who, in fact, were delegates to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles earlier this year," Cameron explained. "One of those gentlemen was Michael McCloud Ball, and we have spoken to him this morning, and he adamantly denies anything to with this story.
"But a second was a gentleman by the name of Kenneth Curtis, and Kenneth Curtis is the former chair of the Democratic National Committee, in other words, the chairman of the DNC, some time ago."
Cameron noted that a junior partner in the Curtis' law firm just happened to be Lehane's sister, Erin.
In fact, both Erin and her brother had grown up in Kennebunk - right next door to the scene of the Bush DUI - where news reports say the Lehanes moved when Chris was a child.
Later, when another Democratic operative emerged claiming credit for the DUI leak, his story didn't exactly sound convincing. Tom Connolly told the New York Daily News that he had tried to fax the Bush DUI files to the Gore campaign - just once.
The line was busy, insisted Connolly, so he gave up. Instead he handed the DUI files to Fox News reporter Erin Fehlau at the network's Portland affiliate.
One reason Connolly couldn't manage to get his fax through might have been because the fax machines at Gore campaign headquarters - or at least fax machines operating on Gore's behalf - were already working overtime.
"There is something of a mystery that has unfolded since we broke the story," Fox's Cameron said the night the Bush files hit the fan. "And that is that part of the arrest record and the state of Maine's documentation of George Bush's driving record and arrest record in Maine was faxed to news agencies all over the country after we were on the air with it at 6 o'clock Eastern time."
If Chris Lehane knew anything about the Bush DUI blast faxes, he wasn't saying.
Yes. I hear he's partial to glory holes in the mens' rooms of Interstate rest areas. This guy I know claims it's true.
No surprise here. Media Matters is a left-winged media disinformation organization. They have a penchant for misrepresenting anything and everything the Conservative media outlets and hosts say.
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