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I kept looking where Scrappleface was noted ...
I am sure Blitzer will oblige and do exactly as he is told.
It's Karl Rove.
That would be awesome.
Try not to genuflect when Her Thighness takes the stage - you’re supposed to act like a neutral moderator. Shouldn’t be too difficult for you, given that you spend the rest of your time on the air pretending to be an objective journalist...
Not that we didn't already know.
Audio: Hillary Clinton brags about starting Media Matters Update: Video added
“…putting together a network in the blogosphere and a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped start and support like Media Matters and the Center for American Progress…”
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/02/audio-hillary-clinton-brags-about-starting-media-matters/
Presumably Media Matters gives them (im)plausible deniability ?
Wonder if MM was also the source of the notebook with the questions to plant in the audience?
"Wolfie, oh wolfie boy"
1)Don’t contradict your own reporting and suggest that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) “cash[ed] in” on a stock deal in which he lost $13,000.
2)Don’t say that Obama’s position on Pakistan is “very much in line with what” President Bush says regarding Pakistan.
3)Don’t contradict your own reporting — again — and say that Obama, in following legal requirements to count purchasers of his campaign merchandise as campaign contributors, is “apparently using some creative math” and “overselling his grassroots support.”
4)Don’t misleadingly crop quotes when challenging a candidate’s consistency on a particular issue, as NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert did on the November 11 broadcast of Meet the Press, when he suggested that Obama has “not been a leader against the [Iraq] war.”
5)Don’t tell Obama that “[i]t’s difficult to say that you’re against the war and at the same time not say that you’re against the troops.”
6)Don’t suggest that former Sen. John Edwards’ (D-NC) work “for financial markets” might “contradict his anti-poverty message.”
7)Don’t adopt GOP framing and ask Edwards about his “flip-flop” on Iraq “to win the vote.”
8)Don’t ask about former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) “pretty interesting” quip that “[w]e’ve had a Congress that’s spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.”
9)Don’t compare the “liberal woman” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) to French Socialist Party presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, or suggest that the election of “conservative male” Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France will in any way benefit former New York City Mayor Rudy Giualini’s (R) bid for the U.S. presidency.
10)Don’t misrepresent exchanges from past debates, as Russert did during the October 30 Democratic debate when he asked Clinton, regarding Social Security: “Why do you have one public position and one private position?”
11)Don’t ask whether Clinton — but not former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) — is “going too far” and “politicizing 9-11” in her campaign ads.
12)Don’t purport to cite written documentation while misrepresenting it, as Russert did during the October 30 debate, when he falsely claimed that a letter written in 2002 by President Clinton “specifically ask[ed] that any communication between” him and the first lady “not be made available to the public until 2012.”
13)Don’t base questions on premises that contradict available polling data, such as whether the Clinton campaign — while leading all other candidates in head-to-head matchups — is “feeling desperate.”
14)Don’t hold Democratic and Republican candidates to differing standards regarding the Iraq war and the budget — for example, by repeating Republican attacks on Obama and Clinton for voting against an Iraq supplemental funding bill without noting that Republican candidates have also voted against Iraq supplementals.
15)Don’t attribute the “weird” 1994 chart created by Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-PA) office to then-first lady Clinton’s proposed health-care program.
16)Don’t fail to disclose that your husband is an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
17)Don’t promise “the kind of political insight and analysis that you simply can’t get anyplace else,” or “serious,” “specific,” and “precise” questions, then ask the candidates to respond to a series of questions by raising their hands.
This is terrible strategy by Clinton Matters.
If Blitzer, in the wake of this threat/memo, does NOT give Clinton the appropriately tough challenges that someone like her — the candidate who is way out in front — properly should get from a debate moderator, then Blitzer will be seen by all, including his colleagues, as Hillary’s lap-dog, as having obeyed orders to wimp out.
So I disagree with the predictions of most commenters here thus far: I believe Blizter now will be TOUGHER on Hillary than he otherwise would have been.
While I have no doubt Blitzer is liberal and vote for the Democratic nominee in ‘08, he does have his professional reputation to think about. (One asterisk: If he does “lay down for” Hillary as ordered, then look for him to quit CNN within a year or so and join Hillary’s would-be, or actual, administration as its Tony Snow.)
So what.
The media has always taken its marching orders from the Dems.
Nothing new here.
It's so way past time to reform the nonprofic corp. laws in this country. These people should pay taxes like every other business.
Blitzer can ask whatever he wants, and Media Matters can’t do a famous thing about it.
I think I’ll take a pass on the debate this evening.
Media Matters, proving beyond reasonable doubt, that they are a partisan political organisation, and not only be stripped of it’s non profit status, but it’s executives should be prosecutrd for all their violations of the Law.