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David Brock: Conservatives 'Willing to Lie' to Influence Media
CNSNews ^ | February 15, 2005 | Marc Morano

Posted on 02/15/2005 9:21:13 AM PST by MisterRepublican

Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - David Brock, a former investigative reporter for conservative publications before flipping his political ideology and writing a book titled, "Blinded by the Right," said Monday that the best way for liberals to expose the current conservative influence in the media is to show how conservatives are "simply willing to lie."

Brock is currently the president and CEO of Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog that takes on some of the biggest names in conservative media. In authoring the 2002 book, "Blinded by the Right, The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative," Brock not only distanced himself from the conservative movement, he disclosed his homosexuality.

Monday, he noted examples of how the "professional" or "mainstream media" are influenced by conservative talk radio, the Internet and think tanks. That influence, Brock said, will diminish as the conservative "lies" are exposed.

"The conservatives seem to be particularly vulnerable because the quality of their research is particularly low. There is typically self-interested money behind it and of course they are simply willing to lie," Brock told a group of interns at a luncheon at the Center for American Progress headquarters in Washington D.C.

Brock urged the young media activists to challenge what he views as the conservative media bias.

"I think that all of that has to be confronted in a systemic way. If you shine light on propaganda over time, it does cease to have an effect," Brock said. "Their words can be used against them. The fact that the claims that they make are often dubious can also be brought up in a very effective way," he added.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blankley; brock; conservatives; davidbrock; easonjordan; gannon; geneva; influence; jeffgannon; liberalagenda; liberalmedia; lies; mediamatters
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1 posted on 02/15/2005 9:21:14 AM PST by MisterRepublican
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To: MisterRepublican

Brock is rapidly turning into this year's Michael Moore, making unsubstantiated charges of lying against every one to the right of himself.

It may be time to start paying attention and exposing to his own lies, half truths, distortions, etc.


2 posted on 02/15/2005 9:23:23 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: MisterRepublican

In other news, Dan Rather resigns.


3 posted on 02/15/2005 9:23:46 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: MisterRepublican

Gee, Mr. Brock, like Dan Rather and CBS and their "fake but accurate" TANG memo?


4 posted on 02/15/2005 9:24:08 AM PST by MisterRepublican (Liberalism kills.)
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To: Alia; cyncooper; dirtboy; Mo1

*ping*

Shall we note the Media Matters coordinated attack on conservative voices? Witness: Gannon, Lowry, Blankley.


5 posted on 02/15/2005 9:24:18 AM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: MisterRepublican

I hope this guy wears a tie, so someone can help him get his head out of where the sun doesn't shine.


6 posted on 02/15/2005 9:25:06 AM PST by snowman1
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To: MisterRepublican

David Brock=discredited, irrelevant, shill


7 posted on 02/15/2005 9:25:55 AM PST by flushed with pride
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To: MisterRepublican

"...he disclosed his homosexuality."

I thought he was outed by the Washington Post.


8 posted on 02/15/2005 9:26:02 AM PST by Jeff Blogworthy
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To: MisterRepublican
Brock urged the young media activists to challenge what he views as the conservative media bias.
What Brock means by conservative media bias is the bias of conservative media: his legerdemain reduces to charging that the views of conservative commentators are, indeed, conservative.
9 posted on 02/15/2005 9:26:06 AM PST by Asclepius (protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
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To: MisterRepublican

It seems Brock likes to tout his former conservative connections in an effort to appear bipartisan, but anyone with even a little bit of common sense would know that Brock is himself a filthy liar and hate monger. The fact that he "flipped" is good for conservatives. We don't need people like him to soil the gene pool. No doubt he was burned by someone on the right and now he is just trying to get some payback for it. What a tool. Media Matters is beyond contempt.


11 posted on 02/15/2005 9:26:38 AM PST by Trippin
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That influence, Brock said, will diminish as the conservative "lies" are exposed.

There's that projection thing again.

12 posted on 02/15/2005 9:27:37 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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There is typically self-interested money behind it and of course they are simply willing to lie...

Of course, according to this morally confused author, there is nothing wrong with PETA, NOW, NARAL and other left-wing liars and nut-cases. Their views make up a substantial portion of left-wing thinking.

So when the left pumps "self-interestd" money into their ideas that turn out to be lies, its okay. But when the right puts their money behind ideas that are called lies, but turn out to be true, its not okay.

You have gone through the looking glass, Alice.

13 posted on 02/15/2005 9:28:04 AM PST by Nice50BMG (AB 50 outlaws the use of this tagline in California.)
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To: MisterRepublican
Brock identified what he considered the dominant conservative media outlets. "It includes newspapers like the Washington Times and the New York Post, it includes the Fox News Channel, it includes talk radio and several highly trafficked Internet sites," Brock said.

Well, well. Free Republic is now part of the 'dominant' main stream media. This is hilarious that those outlets are seen by the left as dominant. What they really hate is that we have any public voice at all.

14 posted on 02/15/2005 9:28:21 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: MisterRepublican
Brock behaves as if once, long ago, some dastardly captain of the football team Republican left him in the back of his father's Studebaker, his prom dress up over his head, bra half-off, feeling used and cheap, but sadly wiser...
15 posted on 02/15/2005 9:28:44 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: MisterRepublican

Well if anyone knows about lying, it's David Brock.


16 posted on 02/15/2005 9:29:22 AM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: MisterRepublican

Brock's financiers include George Soros.


17 posted on 02/15/2005 9:29:48 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: MisterRepublican
I read the article looking for a good example of a lie that came from the Right. Here is the best I could come up with:

Brock cited the Vietnam War record of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and the opposition to his campaign mounted by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as an example of how conservatives seek to confuse Americans.

If that's the best that Brock can do he is in trouble with his thesis. The case made by the SwiftBoat Vets was never refuted in any way that I could see by Kerry or anyone else on the Dem side. The truth is a tough nut to crack and this past election proves it. It isn't lies that the Dems are afraid of, it's the truth.

18 posted on 02/15/2005 9:29:50 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: MisterRepublican

This coming from a man who wrote two books filled with lies and then had a nervous breakdown and ended up in the hospital?


19 posted on 02/15/2005 9:29:55 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: MisterRepublican
"The conservatives seem to be particularly vulnerable because the quality of their research is particularly low. There is typically self-interested money behind it and of course they are simply willing to lie," Brock told a group of interns at a luncheon at the Center for American Progress headquarters in Washington D.C.

"Of course they are simply willing to lie." Where is Brock's proof of this? Where is the research? How can he say all this with a straight face?

Brock, like so many liberals, believes that since the left does all that, well, then, the right must be doing it too. But seldom do we see the two ends of this contradiction in such close proximity as Brock has placed them here.

20 posted on 02/15/2005 9:29:58 AM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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