David Brock: Media Liar

We need to update Dante's INFERNO and add another circle in Hell to consign them all to.......Dante devised appropriate punishments for each circle. What punishment would you suggest for these depraved one?

(I suggest stitching their eyelids open and condemning them to watching for all eternity the pictures of President Bush landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier w/cheering troops around him.)

Brock followed up his Esquire article with a public letter of apology to Bill Clinton, which appeared in March of 1998 and in which he repudiated his reporting on Clinton’s private life. (Clinton accepted the apology.) Brock also denounced the Arkansas state troopers who had befriended him, by providing the sources for his 1994 “Troopergate” story on Clinton. Unrestrained by any sense of decency, Brock defamed them along the way claiming that they had “greedy and had slimy motives.”

Don't know how it stands now, but at the time Brock was apologizing for his reporting, and denouncing his sources, he only denounced their motives. He had never retracted the basic facts.

(I suggest stitching their eyelids open and condemning them to watching for all eternity the pictures of President Bush landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier w/cheering troops around him.)

I'm okay with that...as long as they have all their other orifices sutured closed.

The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy, an invective-fueled broadside against "biased right-wing media," "biased right-wing commentators," and a "mainstream media susceptible to right-wing scripting."

I have a confession to make. I saw this book at a Barnes and Noble remainder table and couldn't resist--I bought the thing.

It will go in the comedy section of my book collection. :-)

Perhaps, though, it belongs in the tragedy section. Brock's story--a young man with great potential unable to resist perversion and conversion to the forces of evil--would be the stuff of a very tragic novel.

I'm just pulling for this all being a show and hope that he's taking the left down from the inside.:) It could happen, I mean, look at the Media Matters Website. It's crappy BS. Or is it a half hearted attempt at providing cover for himself while he gathers the real dirt on Shrillery, to be published prior to the 2008 elections?

While your thought is unlikely there are a couple of reasons to believe it is possible.

--At about the time Brock started researching The Wicked Witch his employer (The American Spectator) started treating the Clintons with kid gloves. I remember it well because there were doing some of the best reporting anywhere on the Clintons (particularly focusing on the Slick One's cocaine and bimbo habits and pattern of subverting investigations) and stopped doing them almost on a dime. I was very upset at the time and dropped my subscription in protest. There is a mystery here.

--As many Freepers know Brock was "sleeping with the enemy" (a Hillary male staffer, I believe) so he was in a unique position to become a "double agent".

--His current shtick is so extreme that it is almost how we might caricature the left.

--R. Emmett Tyrrell is the master of dark humor and trickery. I wouldn't put it past him to send Brock into the witches coven.

(RET, if you did this, you are a f**king genius and hero. :-) )

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