Media Matters' Birthday Suit: Exposing the Distortion

After three years of tax-exempt operation, Media Matters’ credibility as a media watchdog is questionable. Its leader, Brock, is a self-proclaimed liar who strong-armed sources that didn’t agree with him. While writing his mea culpa, “Blinded by the Right,” Brock was hospitalized in a mental facility where he spent time in a “quiet room” and “had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him,” according to the Drudge Report.

Media Matters stars, including Brock, Eric Alterman and Ryan Chiachiere, are hypocrites who have used the very sexist, bigoted and racist language for which they crucify others, including Imus. They appear to care more about taking out the kneecaps of conservatives than pursuing truth or accuracy in the media. After all, Media Matters certainly allows bigoted posts on their web site -- as long as they are directed toward conservatives.

Brock’s group magnified his language in an attack that would help kill Imus’s radio and TV gigs.

During the night I heard a playing of Sen. Biden's outrageous statement which had been caught on a cell phone recording. The words were clear as a bell. The next morning, a local talk show played it and it was so full of side talk and static that I couldn't even understand it. Is this what is meant by "magnified" his language?

Since Biden is a 'rat, I have heard no further discussion of his disgusting statement. Dozens of times on the WaPo front page for macaca, a word which to this day has no meaning. Joe Biden using disgusting language...waiting....

>>Brock was hospitalized in a mental facility where he spent time in a “quiet room” and “had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him,” according to the Drudge Report.<<

I don’t remember drudge writing this, but just for the record, I said several years ago, right about the time of his “conversion,” that Brock was mentally ill.

Hanging around Sidney Bluementhal will do that to a person!

What is funny about the Media Matters outfit is the breathlessness with which they report the most mundane things. They act as if it major news that Rush Limbaugh said something provocative and offensive to leftist/feminist sensibilities. They are the crybabies of the media watchdog business, not unlike the crybabies we all remember from the playground. Always running to the teacher, not because Johnny did anything wrong, but because Johnny popular and cool. They want the teacher to prohibit the girls from liking Johnny more than them (fairness doctrine).

DAVID BROCK WAS COMMITTED TO MENTAL WARD; BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUFFERED BREAKDOWN WHILE WRITING TELL-ALL, SAY SOURCES

Tuesday May 21, 2002

Controversial author David Brock suffered a breakdown last summer and was committed to the psychiatric ward of Sibley Hospital in Northwest Washington, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

The breakdown came just months before Brock finalized production of his bestselling book BLINDED BY THE RIGHT — a book that has been widely challenged on points of accuracy!

“He had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him,” reveals a source who befriended Brock last July at the hospital.

Brock told fellow patients that he did not feel safe — even inside of the hospital’s secure medical setting!

“He spent time in the ”The Quiet Room’, there was just a mattress on the floor, and he had some books. He was so tired and stressed.”

Reached by phone in Washington late Tuesday Brock strongly denied the hospitalization and breakdown in any way affected his ability to recall events depicted in BLINDED BY THE RIGHT. Brock strongly denied that any portion of the book was written at the hospital while he was under medical treatments, as is claimed by one source.

Publisher CROWN could not be reached late Tuesday.

Brock’s book of personal observations and first-hand accounts involving various Clinton scandals and scandal players generated divided opinion.

Former President Clinton chatted up Brock’s effort in Los Angeles last weekend.

“Clinton, who seems to have practically committed passages to memory, told his former aides that whenever they feel down, they should read Brock’s book to illuminate anew what they were all fighting against for eight years, and as a reminder of what ‘unhappy’ people their counterparts on the right truly are,” the LOS ANGELES TIMES reported.

But one source familiar with Brock’s breakdown questioned: “With all of this, how can he be considered credible?”

Brock said by phone, “I am not going to comment on private medical matters.”

He got tired of his gay friends harassing him about his views and his work, so he went delusional. I knew as soon as he started pulling this crap, something was seriously wrong with him. There’s no way the American Spectator would have published his stuff had it not been checked for accuracy. If anything, they held stuff back.

Thus, the real question is not whether what Brock wrote in the 90s was true, but what he didn’t write that was also true.

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