Organizing Groupthink: The Left applies lessons learned from gay-marriage victories to the next war.

National Review ^ | August 15, 2014 | Maggie Gallagher

[EveningStar]

Politico treated it the way we treat news stories nowadays, in our celebrity-driven culture in which a beloved actor’s suicide can drive front-page news for a whole week: “Media Matters’ David Brock expands empire,” it reported.

David Brock may not be exactly an A-lister, but he is one of a contemporary cluster of insiders who have changed the way the “mainstream media” game is played. Bias, once the offshoot of genteel groupthink, has become progressively, aggressively organized.

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Under the old model, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which played a key role in bringing down Jack Abramoff and the once powerful GOP congressmen Tom DeLay and Bob Ney, felt the old-school need to burnish its credibility by targeting some Democrats alongside a majority-Republican target list. (CREW’s widely covered “Most Corrupt Members of Congress” lists included 25 Democrats among its 88 featured members since 2005.)

No more. Brock was elected chairman of the board after laying out a new aggressively partisan plan to transform CREW into what the Washington Examiner called a Democratic “lapdog.”

[EveningStar]

Media Matters’ David Brock expands empire

[rhinohunter]

Is this the guy who was ogling ubarqqa’s pants crease?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I am of the opinion that in our current culture it is possible to “normalize” absolutely anything...and I mean anything.

[EveningStar]

I’m sure he’s one of many.

[taildragger]

"Bias, once the offshoot of genteel groupthink, has become progressively, aggressively organized."

Forget about Bias, the Organized are Organized and we don't a flippin' clue how to respond...

http://neworganizing.com/

[lavaroise]

Not only normalize but have gays protest for more free looting like in Fergusson.

[Iron Munro]

Liberals are the humanoid equivalent of termites.

They are constantly eating away at civilization, culture and freedom.

You can beat them back and put them in remission for a while but they always return and start chewing away at the foundations of liberty.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[Steve_Seattle]

David Brock is a very dark, evil man. He poses a serious threat to all of the things that liberals claim they are for: democracy, individual liberty, diversity, freedom of thought, freedom of expression. When the expression of any thought or opinion is subject to instant economic retaliation, free thought evaporates and totalitarianism settles down over the land.

[Tax-chick]

No, that’s David Brook.

[Tax-chick]

courageous and essentially kindly intelligent voices for gay rights from Andrew Sullivan to Jonathan Rauch

She's joking, right? Andrew Sullivan, one of the last couple of people outside an asylum to insist that Trig Palin isn't Sarah's son.

[Pelham]

She’s just one more fool writing for the formerly conservative National Review.

[aquila48]

David Brock and his love Alefantis - aren't they sweet!

Believe it or not these are some of the most powerful "couple" in Washington.

http://www.washingtonlife.com/2010/05/14/power-list-2010-dc-power-couples/

But alas they're no more...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/27/media-matters-boss-paid-former-partner-850g-blackmail-settlement/

[windsorknot]

The queers have sodomized the institution of marriage and proudly move on to the next target of opportunity.