Posted on 03/04/2005 1:49:41 PM PST by Alexander Nevsky
Newsroom shills for the left tend to fare badly in confrontations with bloggers, as former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather and former CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan learned the hard way. Now another leftwing journalist hangs on the ropes, bruised and bloodied from an ill-advised brawl with yet another indignant and fatally well-informed weblogger.
This time the recipient of the beating is David Brock – founder and CEO of MediaMatters.org, a self-styled media "watchdog" group more accurately described as a smear site targeting conservative journalists. The blogger is author, journalist and conservative activist David Horowitz.
"Nobody can utter a word about [George] Soros without [Brock] pounding on him," Horowitz told Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) this week. He charged that Brock's MediaMatters.org is "a hit site that is set up to attack all the enemies of the Soros network. There is a shadow party that has taken control of the Democratic Party and David Brock is their rapid response team."
Horowitz first fingered Brock as a Soros plant in a blog entry of December 1, 2004, published on Horowitz’s news and commentary site FrontPageMagazine.com. Brock’s organization responded with a blanket denial the same day, stating, "To date, neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated."
The Shadow Party
Brock was using weasel words. It is quite likely that he never cashed a check bearing Soros’s signature. Yet, without Soros funding, Media Matters would not exist.
In a three-part series posted to FrontPage in October 2004, David Horowitz and I exposed the inner workings of Soros’ political machine, which we called "the Shadow Party." We followed the money trail and demonstrated that the network of supposedly "independent" 527 committees and other non-profit groups which played such a key role in funding John Kerry’s campaign were not "independent" at all. On the contrary, Soros had created and organized the network from the top down, controlling it through a highly centralized, corporate-style command structure.
In our series, "The Shadow Party," we identified seven non-profit groups – dubbing them the "Seven Sisters" – through which Soros administered his Shadow Party’s far-flung operations. In alphabetical order, the Seven Sisters are: America Coming Together; America Votes; Center for American Progress; Joint Victory Campaign 2004; The Media Fund; MoveOn.org and the Thunder Road Group.
As Horowitz explained in a blog entry of December 2, 2004, Brock’s "watchdog" organization Media Matters depends for its lifeblood on the Shadow Party. Horowitz wrote:"Peter Lewis, a billionaire who is a Soros crony and has funded one of Soros' 527 operations to the tune of $7 million, is a funder of Brock and Media Matters. … the Brock operation is viewed by its funders as part of the leftist Shadow Party that Soros has constructed and that includes such organizations as Harold Ickes' Media Fund and John Podesta's Center for American Progress. Podesta, who was Bill Clinton's chief of staff and whose Center is a Soros-funded operation, seems to have been Brock's patron in finding funders, according to the NY Times. The same source indicates that Brock also consulted Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle and Al Gore. … In addition to Hindery and [Peter] Bing, Brock is funded by MoveOn.org, which is a Soros beneficiary and a key player in the Shadow Party cabal…"
Horowitz went on to cite a National Review article of June 14, 2004, in which Byron York identified Leo Hindery Jr. as a major funder of Media Matters. In addition to being former CEO of the scandal-plagued Global Crossing, Hindery is a Democrat strategist and moneyman who recently made an unsuccessful bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
York’s article quotes Hindery explaining Brock’s role in the Shadow Party machine. "There are people like Mike Lux [a Democratic consultant who runs an important ad agency], who are into the strategy point of view, there’s Podesta, who’s into the think tank/intellectual side, and I think the third part of the triangle is David [Brock]’s initiative."
To this, Horowitz deadpanned, "If so, the IRS should take another look at Brock's operation which has filed as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity, which is barred by law from being the third part of a political operation."
Raines, Rather, Jordan… Brock?
Despite the damning evidence Horowitz brought to bear on his blog, his charges of a hidden alliance between Brock and Soros went unnoticed for three months. Then came vindication.
On Thursday, March 3, Cybercast News Service ran a story that not only corroborated Horowitz’s charges, but forced Media Matters to back down from its previous blanket denial of a Soros connection. In a piece headlined, "David Brock Group Backpedals on Soros Funding," CNS correspondent Marc Morano writes:"After initially claiming on Dec. 1, 2004 that `neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated,' the group is no longer disavowing any connection with groups `affiliated' with Soros. … Media Matters for America (MMA) spokeswoman Sally Aman responded to Cybercast News Service's questions with an e-mail. `In response to your query regarding donor funding Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros,' Aman stated, no longer denying any relationship with organizations affiliated with Soros.’"
And so it begins. Howell Raines, Dan Rather, Eason Jordan… will David Brock fall next?
Isn't David Brock the "conservative" node to Shields (the democrat) node on Jim Lehrers pBS news... if so it is a set-up and Lehrer is pushing a ringer.. on purpose..
Since moveon.org has Howard Dean in charge of the party and Soros funds moveon.org as well as all these other organizations it's pretty clear that Soros has bought his very own political party lock stock and barrel.
Adastus, Adastus....you just dont get it, do you?
Leftists dont *conspire* as conspiring is a *bad* thing done behind the public's back.
And sense we know that the left is only doing this *networking* behind the public's back for its *own* good, it cannot be validly phrased as *conspiring*.
Its just a vast leftwing covert network.
Thats all; OK, better?
Thanks- I've been offlineline nearly all day... the lovely Mrs. B ( occassionaly referred to as Queeny, or Witchums, depending on the mood I'm in... ) somehow managed to sprain her wrist in her sleep and we spent the day shuffling around the ironically named Immediate Care PC ( because our family Doc has a 2-3 week waiting period nowadays ) getting X-rays and mummy-like wrappings, before I had to drive her to work a couple of hours ago. Time to go again, in a moment.
Is there a college course titled "Liars 101"? Liberals are constantly being caught lying and their answer always seems to be "It's in the context", or "It's a matter of interpretation" or " It depends on the definition".
You want links? I've GOT links!
I hope she heals fast!
David Brock, Armstrong Williams.............. SSDD.
All news & punditry is biased and in my opinion paid for, one way or another.
zero credibility with me.
I'll draw my own conclusions.
If, by that, you mean the book The Real Anita Hill, then you're WAY off the mark. He may claim that it was a "hit piece" now and deny it, but virtually all of the major facts in that book have checked out. Anita Hill perjured herself in a conspiracy to bring down Clarence Thomas that involved the highest level of the Demonrat party, including sitting members of the Judiciary Committee and, especially, their staff.
A chimpanzee could have written that book. The proof is that David Brock did write it.
Brock is a totaly unpleasent piece of work, but he was never a "conservative character assassin." To suggest so assumes that folks like Anita Hill and Uncle Joe Biden ever had any character to begin with.
"And so it begins. Howell Raines, Dan Rather, Eason Jordan… will David Brock fall next?"
David Brock fell long ago. No one, not even the lapdog media, takes this fool seriously. He wrote "Blinded by the Right" while committed to a mental hospital for gosh sakes. No wonder his tune suddenly changed in the 90s. I thought it was just because he was an embittered gay man who decided to hate the GOP because they don't agree with the gay lifestyle. Not it seems the Ubertroll Soros was paying him to change sides. Soros and his scummy organizations are nothing more than a secret combination, a political mafia. And David Brock is a whore.
Good stuff Alex!
bump
While Soros' political empire can be labeled as a shadow party, it is very far from a shadow government...it has never had, and likely never will have, any pull on the strings of government. To the extent that the D party is Soros puppet...is the extent that they will be out of power.
That's a great new web site and service that Horowitz is providing.
NGO's are becoming the shadow governments though they operate in the open. Follow the money.
bttt
Horowitz Exposes David Brock as Paid Hatchet Man for Soros
Richard Poe
Newsroom shills for the left tend to fare badly in confrontations with bloggers, as former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather and former CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan learned the hard way. Now another leftwing journalist hangs on the ropes, bruised and bloodied from an ill-advised brawl with yet another indignant and fatally well-informed weblogger.
This time the recipient of the beating is David Brock – founder and CEO of MediaMatters.org, a self-styled media "watchdog" group more accurately described as a smear site targeting conservative journalists. The blogger is author, journalist and conservative activist David Horowitz.
"Nobody can utter a word about [George] Soros without [Brock] pounding on him," Horowitz told Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) this week. He charged that Brock's MediaMatters.org is "a hit site that is set up to attack all the enemies of the Soros network. There is a shadow party that has taken control of the Democratic Party and David Brock is their rapid response team."
Horowitz first fingered Brock as a Soros plant in a blog entry of December 1, 2004, published on Horowitz’s news and commentary site FrontPageMagazine.com. Brock’s organization responded with a blanket denial the same day, stating, "To date, neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated."
The Shadow Party
Brock was using weasel words. It is quite likely that he never cashed a check bearing Soros’s signature. Yet, without Soros funding, Media Matters would not exist.
In a three-part series posted to FrontPage in October 2004, David Horowitz and I exposed the inner workings of Soros’ political machine, which we called "the Shadow Party." We followed the money trail and demonstrated that the network of supposedly "independent" 527 committees and other non-profit groups which played such a key role in funding John Kerry’s campaign were not "independent" at all. On the contrary, Soros had created and organized the network from the top down, controlling it through a highly centralized, corporate-style command structure.
In our series, "The Shadow Party," we identified seven non-profit groups – dubbing them the "Seven Sisters" – through which Soros administered his Shadow Party’s far-flung operations. In alphabetical order, the Seven Sisters are: America Coming Together; America Votes; Center for American Progress; Joint Victory Campaign 2004; The Media Fund; MoveOn.org and the Thunder Road Group.
As Horowitz explained in a blog entry of December 2, 2004, Brock’s "watchdog" organization Media Matters depends for its lifeblood on the Shadow Party. Horowitz wrote:
"Peter Lewis, a billionaire who is a Soros crony and has funded one of Soros' 527 operations to the tune of $7 million, is a funder of Brock and Media Matters. … the Brock operation is viewed by its funders as part of the leftist Shadow Party that Soros has constructed and that includes such organizations as Harold Ickes' Media Fund and John Podesta's Center for American Progress. Podesta, who was Bill Clinton's chief of staff and whose Center is a Soros-funded operation, seems to have been Brock's patron in finding funders, according to the NY Times. The same source indicates that Brock also consulted Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle and Al Gore. … In addition to Hindery and [Peter] Bing, Brock is funded by MoveOn.org, which is a Soros beneficiary and a key player in the Shadow Party cabal … "
Horowitz went on to cite a National Review article of June 14, 2004, in which Byron York identified Leo Hindery Jr. as a major funder of Media Matters. In addition to being former CEO of the scandal-plagued Global Crossing, Hindery is a Democrat strategist and moneyman who recently made an unsuccessful bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
York’s article quotes Hindery explaining Brock’s role in the Shadow Party machine. "There are people like Mike Lux [a Democratic consultant who runs an important ad agency], who are into the strategy point of view, there’s Podesta, who’s into the think tank/intellectual side, and I think the third part of the triangle is David [Brock]’s initiative."
To this, Horowitz deadpanned, "If so, the IRS should take another look at Brock's operation which has filed as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity, which is barred by law from being the third part of a political operation."
Raines, Rather, Jordan… Brock?
Despite the damning evidence Horowitz brought to bear on his blog, his charges of a hidden alliance between Brock and Soros went unnoticed for three months. Then came vindication.
On Thursday, March 3, Cybercast News Service ran a story that not only corroborated Horowitz’s charges, but forced Media Matters to back down from its previous blanket denial of a Soros connection. In a piece headlined, "David Brock Group Backpedals on Soros Funding," CNS correspondent Marc Morano writes:
"After initially claiming on Dec. 1, 2004 that `neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated,' the group is no longer disavowing any connection with groups `affiliated' with Soros. … Media Matters for America (MMA) spokeswoman Sally Aman responded to Cybercast News Service's questions with an e-mail. `In response to your query regarding donor funding Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros,' Aman stated, no longer denying any relationship with organizations affiliated with Soros.’"
And so it begins.
Howell Raines, Dan Rather, Eason Jordan.
Will David Brock fall next?
I think you need to watch this guy.
He is a very dangerous man and should not be taken lightly.IMO.
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