Posted on 08/20/2004 10:31:43 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Media Matters for America Asks Top Booksellers to Review Policies on Selling 'Unfit for Command'; David Brock Calls AntiKerry Veterans Book 'the Hitler Diaries of this political season'
To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: Naomi Seligman of Media Matters for America, 202-756-4108
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On the heels of the August 19, 2004 Washington Post article shining the light that a key allegation in "Unfit for Command" is false, Media Matters for America (MMFA) called on three of the nation's leading booksellers to, at the very least, inform customers about the book's false allegations and lies. David Brock, president and CEO of MMFA, today wrote a letter to Wal-Mart, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble calling on each to reassess "the responsibility of book sellers when it becomes established that prominent non-fiction books are based on false information."
"There is something fundamentally wrong when a book that is rampant with falsehoods and misinformation is published and sold as non-fiction," said David Brock. "Consumers are being misled by John O'Neill, Jerome Corsi and Regnery Publishing as they are extensions of the right-wing machine."
Salon.com's Eric Boehlert reported today that the Kerry campaign has said that Regnery, the right-wing publisher of "Unfit for Command," should consider pulling the book from bookstores, citing the widespread falsehoods throughout the book.
Brock specifically asked Wal-Mart, Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble to consider taking action -- if not simply pulling it from the shelves -- then prominently calling attention to one of the many refutations of the book, including items on posted http://www.mediamatters.org. "Customers should be made aware that Unfit for Command is a paid political hatchet job, full of false allegations and lies," Brock said.
MMFA has researched and monitored coverage of Unfit for Command and as recently as Aug. 6 revealed that co-author Jerome Corsi had a history of making bigoted and inflammatory comments. Corsi posted offensive anti-Islam and anti-Catholic comments as an active participant in discussions on FreeRepublic.com, a far-right website. Subsequently, MMFA noted O'Neill appeared to distance himself from Corsi and Corsi later publicly apologized for his offensive rhetoric.
The Washington Post article shows Thurlow's current account is false when compared with contemporaneous records of Swift boat veteran Larry Thurlow. Thurlow, who commanded a Navy Swift boat alongside Kerry in Vietnam has been vocal in questioning Kerry's Bronze Star award, claiming that the boat never came under fire on March 13, 1969. The Post reported today that according to the Thurlow's military files recording the events of March 13, 1969, "enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire" were directed at "all units" of the five-boat flotilla, including Kerry's.
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Media Matters for America is the first organization to systematically monitor the media for conservative misinformation -- every day, in real time -- in 2004 and beyond. For more information, log on to http://www.mediamatters.org.
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This ... from the people that brought you F911
Typical Dems scrambling to throw as much feces in the air so they can confuse the issue as much as possible.
Well that explains why Barnes and Nobles has it on hold! I can't believe Barnes and Nobles is being stopped from selling a book by Media Matters!!! BWAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA What idiots they are. Amazon is selling it and so are alot of other places!
I just ordered from buybooks.com - they're saying 1-2 weeks at the moment.
Was there a disclaimer at the beginning of F911? Was the a warning when purchasing The Clinton's books? I think not.
Translation: Left Wing PAC
Is it me or is the media and the left completely ignoring the fact that Thurlow is disputing the REPORT THAT LEAD TO THE MEDALS?
This is amazing! Since when have retailers given a rat's hind end about the "truthfulness" of books? If there is an issue here, it will be decided in the courts, not the checkout counters.
Scared? Man, I guess so.
David Brock... conservative until Hillary seduced him to join the Dark Side Of The Force.
Do you think this policy ought to apply to such works of fiction as Against All Enemies (by Richard Clarke), The Politics of Truth (by Joe Wilson), and My Life (by Bill Clinton).
The left shows its dirty face, and its real agenda of censorship, intolerance, and eventually destruction of all those who dare oppose them.
Let me tell you something about Barnes & Nobles. When some hackers defaced the "UNFIT FOR COMMAND" book and replaced the title with "FIT FOR COMMAND", I contacted Barnes & Nobles to complain. They sent me an e-mail saying that they weren't hacked and that it was a glitch in their system. Barnes & Nobles are the biggest dam liars on the face of the earth!
Does anyone know who funds these people? or how to find out who funds them?
Maybe Mel Gibson can get a film version of Unfit For Command out to the indie theatres before election day. That would frost Hollywood over worse than the "Day After".
Yeah, that name caught my attention, too.
What a smarmy little creep. Ecch!
David Brock, the sodomite.
Exactly -which- allegation is false?
Liar liar - Brock's on Fire. The former brat prince of the right wing tells us, once again, that he lied, once again. And 10 years later, the whole sad cadaver of the Clarence Thomas - Anita Hill story is resurrected.
David Brock, in his earnest mea culpa, now says that while he piled all that dirt on Anita Hill, he didn't even try to dig for the real story. He did it, he says, in the name of conservatism. He did it, he admits, in the name of his career.
LIBERAL ORGANIZATION ALERT!
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