Hahaha. Obama is soooo screwed.
Media Matters has less credibility than Code Pink.
It is fun to see all the left-wing wackos in full gear trying to cover up the truth.
Fine by me. Let the libs keep fighting the last war. Makes it easier for us to win this one.
Don’t tell me Waldman was in Vietnam, and is now going to proclaim the TRUTH?
The Obama camp cannot fight on more than one front at a time. They’re making a big deal out of this book while getting pounded on taxes, energy, and Georgia elsewhere. I’d say Corsi hit a nerve.
Let’s see......1 man, Kerry, against the word of some 250 men......hmmmmm, who to believe. That’s a toughie. lol
If they keep this up long enough, JFKerry might just win the 2004 presidental election.
Media Matters is upset McCain is getting credit for viet nam.
(unlike Kerry the splinter faker, or weasly almost started WWIII clark)
OH, Media Matters, that unbiased, objective, and non-partisan watchdog group.
CORSI IS GOING TO PRODUCE A DOCUMENTARY ON THIS BOOK!!!!!!!
Media Matters meltdown!
The are going balistic about conservatives. Just all big lie theory answers. Callers are just nuts!
I called in on the “Support Others” line, which rang and rang and CSPAN never picked up. Interesting how the majority of the calls were for Obama.
Why doesn’t c-span have a counter view on?
I’m plowing through the Corsi book now so I can’t judge it yet, but the Obama campaign is making a classic blunder here. The lesson they learned from Kerry is to respond early and hard.
Problem is, they are OVERreacting like a junior high cheerleader in a bitchslapping contest.
Forty-one pages of rebuttal? Shrill, glass-shattering squeals of protest?
Methinks they doth protest too much.
Makes me glad I donated money to the Swift Boat Vets last election.
... and any "substantive" argument about the message goes like this:
"The book is full of smears."
What Smears?
"You know, the lies!""
What lies?
"All that Internet stuff."
What stuff?
"The smears."
What Smears?
"You know, the lies!""
What lies?
"All that Internet stuff."
. . . .
Waldman’s spouting nonsense that he knows nothing about. Bleah!
Paul Waldman
And he is working with an ADMITTED LIAR, David Brock!
A declaration of war
This week, the conservatives declared war.
Not on The New York Times. Not even on the media in general. No, this week the entire conservative movement -- from the White House to Republicans in Congress to Fox News to right-wing talk radio to conservative magazines -- declared war on the very idea of an independent press.
They declared war on the idea that journalists have not just the right but the obligation to hold those in power accountable for their actions. They declared war on the idea that journalists, not the government and not a political party, get to decide what appears in the press. They declared war on the idea that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name.
This is a profound threat to our democracy, and we underestimate it at our peril.
Here at Media Matters for America, we spend a great deal of time pointing out the news media's faults and missteps. But we do so because we believe in journalism, because we want journalism to fulfill its sacred obligations to the public, because we know that even in the world's oldest democracy, a free press is what stands between us and tyranny. The right wing, to put it plainly, does not share this belief.
There is a reason the Founders singled out the press for special protection when they wrote the Bill of Rights. It was because they understood that without an independent, free, aggressive, courageous press, democracy itself is impossible. When the government decides who gets to report the news and what they get to say, we no longer live in a free society. When journalists live under threat of prosecution and even violence, we cease to be citizens and become only subjects.
The right has kept the media under constant assault for decades, and the response from the media has been to bend over backward to prove they aren't biased -- by being harder on Democrats. They should have learned long ago that the "liberal bias" charge has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the news. It is a political strategy, a way of "working the ref" and providing easy excuses for public rejection of the right's goals. But what we have seen this week is something qualitatively different.
Given the constant drumbeat of criticism directed at the media from conservatives, it might be easy to dismiss this latest expulsion of bile as just more of the same. But it's worth stepping back to take a look at exactly what has occurred over the past week. Members of Congress have suggested revoking the Capitol Hill credentials of journalists, so that only news organizations that do not displease the ruling party may be permitted to report from Congress. Other members have accused members of the media of "treason" and advocated their prosecution. A conservative television and radio personality suggested that the government establish an Office of Censorship to screen the news. Another said, "I would have no problem with [New York Times editor Bill Keller] being sent to the gas chamber." The House of Representatives passed a resolution saying it "expects the cooperation of all news media organizations."
In short, the right assembled a posse this week -- vigilantes stalking television studios, radio airwaves, print, and the Internet, their apparent goal to revoke the First Amendment.
Yes, Paul Waldman, is a LIAR!!!
Big surprise! /s