Posted on 01/02/2010 3:41:40 PM PST by jazusamo
You’ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to get one over on liberals. They’re smart. They know big words, too. Words like, waaaah, waaaah-waaaah, and waaah-waaaah-waaaah.
Media Matters’ founder and CEO is David Brock
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Media Matters received over $2 million in seed donations from a roster of affluent donors including Leo Hindery Jr., a former cable magnate; Susie Tompkins Buell, a co-founder of the fashion company Esprit and a close ally of Senator Hillary Clinton; James Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist who nearly served as ambassador to Luxembourg during the Clinton administration; Bren Simon, a Democratic activist and the wife of shopping-mall developer Mel Simon; and New York psychologist and philanthropist Gail Furman. Media Matters, which can accept tax-deductible contributions under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, has also benefited from the patronage of Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corporation and a longtime consort of leftist financier George Soros.
Media Matters has not always been forthcoming about its high-profile backers. In particular, the group has long labored to obscure any financial ties to George Soros. But in March 2003, the Cybercast News Service (CNS) detailed the copious links between Media Matters and several Soros “affiliates”—among them MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, and Peter Lewis. Confronted with this story, a spokesman for the organization explained that “Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros” (emphasis added), a transparent evasion.
Nor were groups cited by CNS the only connection between Media Matters and Soros. As investigative journalist Byron York has noted, another Soros affiliate that bankrolled Media Matters was the New Democratic Network. In addition, Soros is reported to be involved in the newly formed Democracy Alliance, a partnership of some 80 affluent financiers who each have vowed to contribute $1 million or more in order to build up an ideological infrastructure of leftist thinks tanks and advocacy groups. News reports list Media Matters as a main beneficiary of the Alliance’s funding. By August of 2004, Media Matters’ operating budget had already doubled to $4 million.
To summarize, Soros and his Open Society Institute pour millions of dollars into the coffers of MoveOn, the Center for American Progress, and Democracy Alliance. In turn, these organizations funnel some of that money to Media Matters.
Media Matters receives financial support from the Tides Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the Peninsula Community Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
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David Brock, Liar
A lifelong habit proves hard to break.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 12:11 PM ET
The hopeful liberal narrative about David Brock, peddled by Hertzberg, Rich, Tomasky, and Brock himself, is that the conservative movement made Brock a distorter and a liar, and that the distortions and lies were all in the service of that movement. But Blinded by the Right offers plenty of evidence that for Brock, lying has been a lifelong habit. During his freshman year at Berkeley, when Brock was still a Naderite liberal, he lied to a man named Andrew, who would become his lover, about the fact that he was adopted. Andrew didn’t learn the truth until after he and Brock had lived together many years. While campaigning to be editor in chief of the Daily Cal at Berkeley, Brock was “caught in an embarrassing lie” about an editor he didn’t like. He told the Daily Cal’s outgoing editor in chief that the university’s vice chancellor had phoned to complain about a story that the enemy editor had presumably mangled. It wasn’t true, and Brock got caught. By this time Brock had drifted right, but he offers no evidence that this particular conflict had any ideological content. Years later, Brock leaked his American Spectator piece about Troopergate to CNN, contrary to orders from his editors, who were enforcing an embargo on it. “When confronted, I came up with a clearly implausible lie,” Brock confesses. Surely lying to one’s comrades wasn’t part of the conservative movement’s playbook. The further one gets into Brock’s book, the more one starts to suspect that Brock wasn’t a liar for any larger cause, but simply … a liar.
It’s the secondary effect that matters in these assaults - stir up enough hostility to “teach Rasmussen a lesson”.
Rasmussen polls tries to elicit the most accurate figures, not make Leftists feel good, and that’s better than what Gallup and the other polls that compromise their polling procedures to placate partisans do. End of story.
Quite a nest of vipers. Thanks for posting.
Brock is a “Little Mary”.
“Quite a nest of vipers.”
Thats what snake guns are for. Boom and the head is blown off in numerous pieces.
Oh goodie, something else the RATs can tax into oblivion to save the polar bears & penguins.
The Rats are begining to smell the inevitable rejection of Socialism by true American Patriots and it scares them senseless.
Hahaaa... Poor widdle Dims. They are get’n sceeerred.
The Dims want to live a delusion... in la la land.
Rasmussen polling has been the most accurate for the last decade.
Kill the messenger!!!
Gay bait!
It will soon be a federal offense not to poll dead voters.
There must be no discrimination on a basis of gender, race, class, or degree of vitality. Any violation is a hate crime.
The dead have rights, too!
You know that the internals are looking just like Rasmussen right now to get this kind of reaction.
I am sure ABC or CBS will throw some push poll out there pretty soon that will refute Rasmussen’s.
As long as results are advertised honestly, what they bellyachin about?
The Rats probably privately like it because it tells them just how much they need to ACORNize the voters to change who is likely to vote.
I like it because it shows that the GOP give-a-damn ratio is skyrocketing.
LOL! After all, the dead have done their “duty”...they died. The Cheater Party probably figures they deserve to vote at least twice.
Dang! There’s a lot of dead voters in Dem areas, they might as well be polled. LOL
The presidential tracking poll is not and can not be biased — it’s just “pick your approval level.” It’s no different in this regard than the others, except that it focuses on likely voters.
Moreover, even if one thinks this is biased, that bias does not change over time because the question remains unchanged. The fact that Obama’s numbers have gone completely into the tank ought to be alarming to the Dems. Truly, this President of ours is in an utter crisis of popularity, and the trend is getting worse.
Brown looks to me to be a winner in Massachusetts, for example. If a Republican could win in blue NJ in November, when the Dems’ numbers were much better than they are now, then a Republican can win even in MA two months later, when the Rasmussen numbers appear far, far worse for the Dems.
“But critics note that the practice of screening for only those voters regarded as most likely to head to the polls potentially weeds out younger and minority voters — who would be more likely to favor Democrats than Republicans.”
Bangs head against the WALL! Why poll people who are not going to vote? So I guess if you say you are going to vote in the next election you are an old white person?
I sure hope you’re right. It’ll blow these whining Rats away if Brown wins in MA.
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