Posted on 03/26/2011 10:34:10 PM PDT by Nachum
Politico published an eye-opening report on Saturday by Ben Smith about “Media Matter’s war against Fox.” Smith wrote that the organization continues to transform itself into an exclusively Fox News-battling group.Media Matters founder David Brock told Politico that his organization’s activism has developed into a “strategy of containment.” This strategy includes extensive work to compile intelligence on the employees of the cable news channel. (Snip)“Somebody in that organization is giving us primary source documents.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Hypocrisy is fine so long as we understand we are hypocrites, and that we will always fall short of the ideal. But the bad kind of hypocrite deals with his own shortcomings by unconsciously projecting them into others, and then attacking them. ...." ~ Robert W. Godwin, PH.D Clinical Psychologist (Blogs as "Gagdad Bob")
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David Brock is messing with the wrong person. Roger Ailes will destroy that little lying homo! Besides, most liberals hate his guts as much as conservatives because they know he is a paid whore for Soros. The little snack should crawl back under his rock before he get his guts smashed.
1) Brock is a definite.
2) I'm going with Shep as a definite or an astounding facsimile
David Horowitz’s “Discover the Networks” site, or the linking software therein, could be the basis for such a thing. It is already pretty good on some of what you are asking for.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/
It is. Thanks.
Oh, they know. They're just trying to present the hard-left as if it were moderate, moderate as if it were right wing, and conservative as the lunatic fringe.
501(c)3
The organization must not be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests, and no part of a section 501(c)(3) organization’s net earnings may inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. If the organization engages in an excess benefit transaction with a person having substantial influence over the organization, an excise tax may be imposed on the person and any organization managers agreeing to the transaction.
I get the 501(c)3 limitations. We can be sure they would be tested.
So Media Matters has compiled a Nixon Enemies List. I thought liberals were against “politics of personal destruction” and wanted “civility”.
Seems they are acting just like the Communists they really are.
“Hmm I wonder who would be providing inside info???”
“I vote for Alan Colmbs.”
Considering he is a member and spokesman for Media Matters, I’d say you’re right.
Media Matters for America (MMFA), a “Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” was founded by David Brock in mid-April 2004.
Along with former MoveOn consultant Tom Matzzie and John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, it is behind Progressive Media, a liberal messaging campaign launched in 2008 and expanded in 2009 to become a ‘war room’ for promoting the foreign and domestic policies of Barack Obama.
The site “was devised as part of a larger media apparatus being built by liberals to combat what they say is the overwhelming influence of conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly.” The “project was developed with help from the newly formed Center for American Progress, the policy group headed by John D. Podesta,” Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff. “Brock said he hoped it could help provide fodder for fledgling liberal radio talk shows being started across the country, including those of the comedians Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo.”
Mr. Brock, who has also spoken with Senator Clinton, Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota and former Vice President Al Gore about his project
Funded with “more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals.” “Among Mr. Brock’s donors is Leo Hindery, Jr., the former cable magnate; Susie Tompkins Buell, who is co-founder of the fashion company Esprit and is close to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and Ms. Buell’s husband Mark; and James C. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist whose appointment as ambassador to Luxembourg was delayed for a year and a half in the late 1990’s by conservative lawmakers protesting what they called his promotion of a ‘gay lifestyle.’
Media Matters for America is funded in part by the Democracy Alliance.
The Media Matters Action Network is a 501(c)4 organization that is a partner organization to MMFA. In December 2008, the Media Matters Action Network acquired the Media Transparency website from Cursor Inc
Key personnel:
David Brock - CEO
Eric Burns - President
Marcia Kuntz - Editor-in-Chief
Jeremy Schulman - Research Director
Jamison Foser - Senior Fellow
Eric Boehlert - Senior Fellow
Duncan Black - Senior Fellow
Karl Frisch - Senior Fellow
Jessica Levin - Press Secretary
Media Matters for America
455 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Suite 600
Washington DC 20001
Telephone: 202-756-4100
Fax: 202-318-0836
Website: http://mediamatters.org/
RSS Feed: http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/latest.rss
Democracy Alliance
Niki Jagpal
Media Matters for America’s partner organization, Media Matters Action Network launched Conservative Transparency in November, 2009.
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APRIL 13, 2007
Behind the Fall of Imus, A Digital Brush Fire
In a Blur, Watchdogs, Blogs, Email, Spur Radio Host’s Firing
Ryan Chiachiere was. A 26-year-old researcher in Washington, D.C., for liberal watchdog organization Media Matters for America, he was assigned to monitor Mr. Imus’s program. Mr. Chiachiere clipped the video, alerted his bosses and started working on a blog post for the organization’s Web site.
Media Matters posted the video and transcript on its Web site and sent an email blast to several hundred reporters, as it does nearly every day.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117641076468168180-TfMzyqKQiK1gcJfwRly5ONRZTEo_20080411.html
Thanks. Thusfar there’s three of us interested in doing something. What’s the link to your website? We all three need to talk together to plot and scheme. :)
Terrific info. Are you interested in helping us set-up a counter-challenge of some sort?
Are you skilled in that arena? It doesn’t matter as we’ll fumble through it but are you interested in setting something up to counter the avalanche which will get much worse as it nears the election? See posts above.
Moreover, Democracy Alliance reports that one of its officials, Jonathan Adler, served as Regional Campaign Coordinator for Senator Clinton’s successful 2006 Senate re-election campaign.
The current Managing Director of Democracy Alliance, Kelly Craighead, is, according to Newsday’s Glenn Thrush, ”one of the Clintons’ closest friends.” In the 1990s Craighead worked as an assistant to President Clinton and as director of the advance team for Hillary, who was then the First Lady.
The depth of the friendship between Craighead and Mrs. Clinton is evidenced by the fact that Hillary, acting as a justice of the peace, performed Craighead’s 2001 marriage ceremony to political consultant Erick Mullen, a former aide to Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York and a former informal advisor to Mrs. Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign.
Recipients of Democracy Alliance grants are sworn to secrecy about the funds they receive from this organization, thus only a small percentage of its grantees are known to the public. Among them are Media Matters, EMILY’s List, ACORN, and the Center for American Progress.
According to Glenn Thrush of Newsday, Democracy Alliance members report that their organization ”advises Democratic donors on where to spend their political contributions” and, in so doing, “steered more than $6 million to [David] Brock‘s group” — Media Matters — between 2004 and 2006.
www.absolutelynobama.com
I was going to tear the whole thing down this week because it has become too much of a hassle. I can certainly change it into anti-Media Matters website.
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