Posted on 04/29/2014 12:31:24 PM PDT by TexasCajun
David Brock never retired from the hitman game
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org
David Brock is an incorrigible liar.
He is possibly the least honest man ever to succeed in American journalism.
The misdemeanors of fabulists such as Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass had little significance beyond embarrassing some editors, but Brock helped wreck a presidency with his Troopergate reporting.
Brock has apologized for that and for trashing Anita Hill and threatening to smear the source of a particularly damning anecdote about Clarence Thomas.
Yet this admitted liar has somehow resuscitated his career, as an arbiter of honest journalism no less.
The thing is: Brock never changed. He’s still a hit man, just for the other team. He was on MSNBC just the other night calling Fox News chairman Roger Ailes a racist, based on a 45-year-old quote he had ripped from context (which we’ll revisit).
Ailes had used “the N-word prepping Richard Nixon for a public appearance,” Brock charged inaccurately, before rushing on to list more random and spurious evidence against him.
The vicious and unsupported personal attack was striking coming from Brock. Here is a man whose acceptance in the mainstream media is due entirely to his story of repentance and conversion, yet his sins are so odious that one has to think not that he’s a backslider, but that he never saw the light at all.
From 1997 to 2002, Brock wrote several drafts of his conversion story. From “Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man,” published in Esquire, to the final, book-length version, “Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative,” Brock developed a narrative aimed at ingratiating himself with the left.
It worked. In The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg vouched for the conversion from hit man to respectable Democrat.
“What drove Brock was the wrongness of what he did, not of what he thought,” Hertzberg wrote. It’s “the story of a change of heart, not of mind.”
Hertzberg, like many, didn’t look too closely at the details of the story. In “Confessions,” Brock was still insisting he’d told the truth. In “Blinded,” he elides lie after lie, lies the reader wouldn’t recognize without close knowledge of the Thomas confirmation affair.
http://watchdog.org/98922/david-brock-never-retired-from-the-hitman-game/
BREAKING: Media Matters Chief David Brock Admits to Working with Media Outlets on Stories (Video)
The Gateway Pundit | 4/27/14 | Kristinn Taylor and Jim Hoft
Last Sunday former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson told CNN’s Reliable Sources that far left Media Matters helped produce news reports for CBS News.
They used to work with me on stories and tried to help me produce my stories, and at some point –“
Attkisson also said CBS blocked several of her reports.
David Brock, chairman of the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt group Media Matters for America and self-described “Democratic political activist”, did not deny the allegations today. Instead, Brock admitted on Reliable Sources that Media Matters works with liberal media outlets to develop news stories.
“We do work with reporters. We’re a media watchdog group. I have no reason to doubt that.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3149291/posts?page=1
” to produce content espousing pro-labor values”
Can a non-profit do that?
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Earlier today, FoxNews showed some graphics that listed about six different unions that have donated over $400 million to MM since 2010.
SEIU wants to unionize Media Matters; possibly indicates a party purge going on. A plague on both your houses ping. Thanks TexasCajun.
I’m confused.
Doesn’t everyone ‘get along’ in communist Utopias?
Only if your goal is to have the worst record on organizing in the history of labor unions.
LOL - it’s like Al Gore selling ‘Current’ to a bunch of rich Arab oil guys...
Have fun all you gullible liberal dupes.
We keep telling them that they'll be the first to die at the hands of whomever
they support if they gather enough power to achieve full tyranny. The MSM lackeys, that is.
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