Posted on 02/13/2012 3:17:09 PM PST by Qbert
An internal Media Matters For America memo obtained by The Daily Caller reveals that the left-wing media watchdog group employs an “opposition research team” to target its political enemies. Included in the list of targets are right-leaning websites, conservative think tanks, prominent financiers and donors, and more than a dozen specific Fox News Channel and News Corporation employees.
“We will conduct extensive public records searches and compile opposition books on individuals,” declares the memo, likely written in late 2009. Investigations, it says, “will focus on the backgrounds, connections, operations and political and financial activities of the individuals.”
One of those singled out for scrutiny in the memo is PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a self-described libertarian. Thiel “directly funded, through a small government group, prior racist attack videos by James O’Keefe, the right-wing operative who staged the recent ACORN video sting,” states the memo. “Thiel’s role in funding such attacks has gone completely unremarked and largely uninvestigated.”
“An opposition research team will serve to hold Thiel and others like him accountable.”
In addition to Thiel, the memo contains this list of “preliminary targets”:
News CorpFox News Channel
Fox Business Network
Fox News’ websites
Conservative news sites
WorldNetDaily
BigHollywood.com
NewsMax
BigGovernment.com
Conservative think thanks
The Heritage Foundation
American Enterprise Institute
Cato Institute
News Corp executives
Rupert Murdoch
Chase Carey
David DeVoe
Lawrence Jacobs
James Murdoch
Conservative donors
Peter Thiel
Richard Mellon Scaife
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation
Koch Family Foundations
Fox News executives
CEO Roger Ailes
Senior vice president Michael Clemente
Vice president of news Sean Smith
Vice president of new editorial product Jay Wallace
Fox Business Network executive vice president Kevin Magee
Fox personalities
Glenn Beck
Sean Hannity
Bill O’Reilly
Fox senior production and corporation staff
Hannity executive producer John Finley
On the Record executive producer Meade Cooper
O’Reilly Factor senior executive producer David Tabacoff
Fox & Friends executive producer Lauren Petterson
Political figures
Carly Fiorina
David Vitter
Eric Cantor
John Boehner
Mitch McConnell
Michele Bachmann
Steve King
“In all likelihood,” the memo concludes, “we will produce volumes of useful data week after week.”
The man is seriously psychotic. He actually believes there are right wing assassins hunting him 24 hours a day.
DITTO!
"The man is seriously psychotic. He actually believes there are right wing assassins hunting him 24 hours a day."
If Soros and the leftists want to throw their money down a hole paying for Mr. Paranoid-Personality-Disorder's bodyguards- fine with me...
What about Free Republic? What about JimRob?
BigGovernment and NewsMax are pipsqueaks compared to us!
FUBO & FUDB
An enemies list? That makes David Brock like Dick Nixon. Emphasis on Dick.
He sounds as paranoid as Hitler and the Nazis.
A raging homosexual with mental issues?.....I’m shocked, absolutely shocked!
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