You shall all bow down.
Posted on 07/16/2007 10:18:38 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
When Don Imus was fired in the wake of his April 4th “nappy-headed ho’s” remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, a great deal of attention was focused, appropriately, on the influence of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton...The real guiding hand over Imus’ downfall, however, belonged neither to Sharpton nor Jackson, but to Hillary Rodham Clinton. This is not widely understood, because Mrs. Clinton’s pristine fingerprints were kept off her victim by the intercession of a velvet glove called Media Matters for America, the organization responsible for setting in motion the chain of events that eventually brought down Imus. The toppling of Imus was only a prelude to bigger things for Media Matters, which, because of its strong ties to Mrs. Clinton, is now aiming—just in time for the 2008 presidential election—to derail the careers of a select group of influential broadcasters who, like Imus, have been publicly critical of New York’s junior Senator...
Established in May 2004, Media Matters identifies itself as “a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media”—particularly information “that forwards the conservative agenda.” ...
Obviously, Media Matters makes no secret of its animus for political conservatives and its desire to publicly discredit them. That being said, it is difficult, at first blush, to see why such an organization should have wished to drive Don Imus, of all people, from the airwaves. After all, no one could possibly have mistaken Imus for a conservative.... What, then, made the “nappy-headed ho’s” case different?
To answer this, we must understand that the Rutgers basketball players were merely incidental to a larger, orchestrated campaign by Media Matters to destroy Imus. The athletes just happened to be, from Media Matters’ perspective, “in the right place at the right time...”
To truly understand Media Matters’ motives, we must look at the organization’s special relationship with Hillary Clinton, who has deeply despised Don Imus for more than a decade. Hillary’s contempt for the broadcaster dates back to March 21, 1996, when Imus made a number of insulting, disparaging remarks about Mrs. Clinton and her husband, who was then U.S. President, at the Radio and TV Correspondents Association dinner in Washington, DC.
More recently, Imus had been particularly critical of Mrs. Clinton and her presidential candidacy... So far, then, we know for certain that Hillary Clinton loathes Don Imus, and that Media Matters was actively engaged in trying to topple the broadcaster’s career, as evidenced by the assignment of Mr. Chiachiere to monitor every minute of Imus’ program....
We know because Media Matters’ links to Hillary are at once intimate and multitudinous, and the organization’s devotion to her is nothing short of profound...Brock’s affinity for Mrs. Clinton grew over time, and vice versa. According to Glenn Thrush of Newsday, Hillary “advised Brock on creating” Media Matters in 2004, “encouraging the creation of a liberal equivalent of the Media Research Center, a conservative group that has aggravated Democrats for decades.” ...For her part,” Thrush adds, “Clinton’s extended family of contributors, consultants and friends has played a pivotal role in helping Media Matters grow from a $3.5 million start-up in 2004 to its current $8.5 million budget.”...Media Matters, Hillary, and the Center for American Progress:...
Media Matters and Hillary Clinton are further linked by their respective relationships with three of the most influential leftist operatives in the world—George Soros, Morton Halperin, and John Podesta.... Media Matters’ desire to eliminate voices critical of Hillary dovetails perfectly with its support of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a policy (repealed by Congress in 1987) whose re-establishment Hillary Clinton likewise advocates, just as she did during her years as First Lady....
That is one huge lap, incidentally!
Imus DESPISES Hillary. Hence the hit job. The article is 100% dead on.
Could have been worse for Imus. He might have taken a little trip to Ft. Marcy Park.
You shall all bow down.
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The first two words of the thread title gave me a massive pisschill.
Imus is another notch on Hillary expansive belt.
There, there now. Breathe deeply. You will be OK. At least the third word wasn’t “dance.”
Michael Savage sometimes reads Media Matters articles that try to smear him by directly quoting him, and then ends up complimenting the liberal vermin on their good transcription skills. Puts the little nazis right in their place.
I’m willing to take this article completely at face value and, at least for now, accept its argument completely.
Even doing that, however, I’m still left thinking that Imus destroyed himself. If he hadn’t made such an unbelievably stupid remark (a remark I wouldn’t make while drinking beer with my white-guy friends, just because I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it, even if those words ever did occur to me, which they wouldn’t), then there’s nothing that all of Hillary’s horses and all of Hillary’s men could have done to him.
We’re nearly finished with the first decade of the 21st century, for yikes sakes, and here’s a PROFESSIONAL BROADCASTER ON NATIONAL TV making comments that the average beer drinker in the average bar watching that game on TV would never have made.
He was indescribably stupid and he deserved what he got.
And, by the way, he supported JFnK for president.
So without taking anything away from this story — about how evil and dangerous The Beast is — I still don’t give a rat’s ass about Imus and what “happened to him”.
Media Matters, Hillary, the Center for American Progress and Air America, etc. Kind of funny how explicitly and obviously linked they all are in their attempt to manipulate the media (and lie to the US public, a charge they make against Bush hourly). Meanwhile, Media Research Center, Heritage, Rush Limbaugh and FreeRepublic are all seperate ventures w/out any crossfunding.
IOW: Socialism vs Free Market
All I know is I never want to see Hillary, Lap and Dogs in one sentence ever again right after lunch....
Why don’t the MSM watchdogs, who take every opportunity exposing the least social or personal error and insignificant political infraction of ANY conservative, focus a flood light on Evita and her various and not altogether wholesome connections with organizations chartered to stifle open communication and freedom of speech in America?
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) released a report estimating that it takes 192 days of work each year by each taxpayer to pay his or her prorated share for government spending and the higher consumer prices caused by government regulations. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett derided ATR’s complaints as “mean spirited.“ “American taxpayers aren’t paying nearly enough to suit my tastes,” Buffett declared. “That’s why I think it is essential that Senator Clinton (D-N.Y.) be elected our next president.”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Ryan Chiachiere has been working in online media since graduating from the University of Virginia in 2002. In addition to several years as an editor for LexisNexis, he spent a year as a research fellow for TPM Media, a Web-based organization that includes the weblogs TalkingPointsMemo.com, TPMCafe.com, and TPMMuckraker.com.
Chiachiere was a reporter for the Jackson Hole News in Wyoming and has also written freelance politics articles for various online and print publications. Most recently he served in a communications and research position at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He is a member of the Research Department at Media Matters for America.
Ryan Chiachiere made sure the Rutgers team would hear what Imus said. The truth is, the Rutgers team was delivered a copy of the show tape for the sole purpose of ruining their day and creating an uproar....
Ryan was best known for his 2005-6 blog, “The Side of the Slant,” but is now better known for his work at Talking Points Memo and, clearly, Media Matters.
Imus was an easy take down for anyone on the Left, they only had to choose to do so.
It won’t work with other radio talkers. Imus was a shock jock, without him there wouldn’t be a Howard Stern for example.
The ones Media Matters would like to take down are not vulnerable to this sort of thing. If they were, Rush would have been fired years ago for the Sharpton or Obama parodies.
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