[Flux Capacitor]

Monkey See, Monkey Do.

-Dan

[Little Pig]

Once again, the liberal media completely misses the target. Rush et al are successful BECAUSE of their listeners. It isn't the broadcasters who have the influence over the audience, it's the audience who have the influence needed to make the broadcasters successful.

[dirtboy]

The influence earned by the MRC is the model for a new liberal group which will monitor the so-called conservative media. A New York Times story on Monday by Jim Rutenberg, on how David Brock “will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time,”

I guess it never occurred to them that the reason the MRC is so successful is that liberal media lies far, far more than the conservative media, thereby keeping the MRC well-armed with material.

[GraceCoolidge]

Mr. Brock said he hoped it could help provide fodder for fledgling liberal radio talk shows being started across the country, including those of the comedians Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo.

If he wants to "provide fodder" for Air America, I'm thinking he'd better hurry up. The news I'm reading about Air America suggests the clock is running out. Isn't it amazing, too, how all the "dumb" conservatives have managed to take over the media outlets? And those media people are all so smart, too!

[Always Right]

Brock is an idiot. Of course Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Miller, etc. are biased. They are commentators not news reporters. Reporters operate under the guise of being neutral source reporting facts, while everyone knows the biases of commentators. I would like Brock to honestly look at news reporting at NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and even Fox and try to find evidence of 'conservative' bias which far left-wing wackos insist is there. What Brock is doing is the equivalent of proving Al Frankin is bias. Do you automatically lose your intellect when you become a liberal?

[kidd]

The MRC (almost entirely) provides reports of bias from self-proclaimed-unbiased sources, and the outrageous activities of other sources.

Rush Limbaugh et al, do not claim to be unbiased. Nor is anything they say particularily outrageous.

So, this outfit claims to be a counter to the MRC, but it is not. It is simply more of the same BIADBIAL ("Bush is a dope, Bush is a liar"), which anyone can get from any other biased source.

I predict failure due to lack of interest.

[an amused spectator]

Media Shenanigans ping - Brock And Podesta Plan To Monitor FOXNews

With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media... (all FOX of it)

Mr. Brock argued that such monitoring groups have helped build the conservative media's influence, in part by making mainstream journalists toe a more conservative line by convincing them that they are liberally biased.

On, Off, or grab it for a Media Shenanigans/Schadenfreude/PNMCH ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~anamusedspectator/

[Bob]

David Brock, the former right-wing journalist turned liberal...

Gee, there certainly isn't any bias in that description, now, is there? How about conservative journalist turned left-wing?

[RKV]

Competition is a good thing. Only problem for these windbags is that they will lose the race. Check the polls on how the American public distrust big media. You can't fool all the people all the time. ABCCBSCNNNBCNYT etc. have had their day.

[freekitty]

Why even do it. The problem with the media is they don't tell the truth.

[Badeye]

Better the leftwingnuts spend this money on something that nobody will ever see, rather than a series of commercials that might actually influence somebody.

[Mogollon]

So Brock is going to accuse Rush of being conservative? That will really, really, really, come as a surprise to us listeners.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"David Brock, the former right-wing journalist turned liberal, describes himself as once having been a rather large cog in the machinery of the conservative media..."

Sure. Right.

I read his book on Hillary and you'd be hard pressed to find a more sympathetic slurpping of the communist hag anywhere. Like Stephanopolous, Brock is a shape-shifter whose sole mission is to confuse and divide.

[GOPJ]

Two million to watch FOX News?

Liberals must have money to burn. It's hard to believe anyone with money is stupid enough to pay someone to watch FOX. Maybe it's inherited money or money someone married to get. No one who's earned it would throw it away in such an undignified fashion.

Liberals are idiots.

With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.