[AZ_Cowboy]

Adding to the stack of information piling up against Media Matters.

[new yorker 77]

In the 2004 interview with Mother Jones magazine, Brock sneeringly derided “this phony notion of balance—that we need to hear all sides of a story, and that everyone’s entitled to express their opinion.” This is the same opinion of Viacom puppets like Jon Stewart of the Daily Show who despises the idea of balance. Stewart, who is paid by the company that also owns CBS News, thinks it is unreasonable to put a common sense position up against an unreasonable right wing nutjob. The Fairness Doctrine is disgusting. Only anti-Americans want it put in place again.

[Graybeard58]

When The Seduction of Hillary Rodham was released in October 1996, there was nothing new to be found in it, let alone the salacious material Brock had promised.

Sounds a lot like Ed Klien's book, "The Truth About Hillary"

I think I was ripped off in buying that book. I was expecting something new, not the same old stuff that's been known forever about the beast plus a lot of rumor and gossip about Hillary and her lesbian friends.

If anybody wants my copy just FReepmail me a mailing address. I'll pay the postage. First person to do so can have it.

[Rocko]

Bumpitttt.

[Enchante]

Interesting.... I already knew what a worthless smear of excrement David Brock proved himself to be, but I didn't know of his close connection with "Sid Vicious" Blumenthal, another worthless fraud of the loony left. How a 'movement' which includes Sid Vicious, David Brock, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, columnists like Frank Rich--Paul Krugman--Maureen Dowd--Bob Herbert, etc. can ever dare to criticize anyone else's character or honesty is a question for psychiatrists. For the paranoid loonies of the left it's all about 'projection' of their own worst inner fears and failings....

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The way Media Matters works is actually very simple. Whenever there is a point that is ambiguous or open to interpretation, Brock accuses anyone whose interpetation differs from his own as "lying".

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I've taken the time to read it all, and like his book on Hillary, there's nothing new! He's a back-stabber and sits below whale sh*t on the bottom of the ocean!

[msnimje]

I am going to start a "Gay Angry Ex-Republican Hit- Man Lefty Liar" Ping List.

Anybody want on it?
(insert sarcasm tag here)

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

I've always said, someone who will do what poofters do is bereft of normal human boundaries, and is therefore capable of absolutely anything. David Brock is living proof of this.

[mumps]

Please empty your heart and soul of all ethics and principles before reading this comment:

A job's a job. A gig's a gig. Brock's "defection" was brilliantly timed -- you have to give him credit for that. And it is not unreasonable to assume that some pundits and talkingheads from across the political spectrum do not practice what they preach or even truly believe what they say.

In America, being a pundit/talkinghead can get you money, celebrity, and your choice of sexual activity -- if you're willing to game the system right.

Okay, it's save to upload your ethics and principles now.

[popdonnelly]

“Hillary had the ill-fortune to take power at a moment in history when much of the public had turned against the panacea of big government,”

I love stuff like this. It was her HUSBAND who was elected President, dammit, Hillary wasn't elected to anything.

[popdonnelly]

Why does anyone take Brock seriously. A guy who overnight does a political flip-flop of epic proportions? The guy is a journalistic David Gergen.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Me? 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?

There. That ought to be good for a few weeks of tinfoil on DU.

[bkepley]

The Real Anita Hill was excellent I thought. It really came up with the likely scenario for what happened there.

[satchmodog9]

I don't believe this turd burglar was ever really a conservative. Media matters is just a blog used by hysterical screaming little girls.

[lepton]

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.

[nopardons]

bttt

[cgbg]

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.