Eric Boehlert is an American writer at Media Matters for America. Prior to this he was a senior writer for Salon for five years, and before that a contributing editor to Rolling Stone
We need to finally, formally, do the same to the communists. We need
1.) an easily accessable database ...of communist individuals in Media.
2.)Communist organizations
3.) Their funders
4.) Plans of lawfare instruction for conservatives to fight fire with fire
5.) a database of communist events and strategies
I get a kick out of the left’s hysteria about Fox News. It is a wimpy news station. If they had any idea how real conservatives think . . . and how moderate Fox is by way of comparison.
Fox should sue under RICO.
That's going to be one BIG database.
MMFA’s little red choo-choo has gone chugging round the bend. FOX News Derangement Syndrome, baby!
PING!
David Brock is a totalitarian pig.
This 'war on Fox' is a clear abuse of its 501(c)(3) status. Someone should file a complaint with the IRS, and use the liberals own harassment tactics on them.
David Brock worked for Hillary in Clinton’s White House. Sounds like he’s getting ready to work for her again, doesn’t it?
I wish we had a database function here on FR so that we could build and maintain such a database. I know I could put in a bunch of time combing the interwebs for data and formatting for entry. Most of the people we would want info on have an internet presence.
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/
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.
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
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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
It sounds like Nixon’s enemies list
Aw: Soros donates $1 million to Media Matters
“Wait,” you say, “hasn’t Soros been funding them for years?” Not exactly: He’s been donating to other lefty groups for years — Tides, Democracy Alliance, etc — and they’ve in turn been donating to Media Matters. The big news today is that he’s decided to cut out the middleman.
In an accompanying statement, Mr. Soros, a billionaire who has a history of supporting liberal politicians and causes, accused Fox News hosts of “incendiary rhetoric” and said he hoped that his money would be used “in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/20/aw-soros-donates-1-million-to-media-matters/
Media Matters has not always been forthcoming about its high-profile backers. In particular, the group 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.
Among these are Media Matters’ chief communications strategist Dennis Yedwab, who is also the Director of Strategic Resources at Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Brock’s personal assistant, Mandy Vlasz, is a Democratic pollster and a veteran consultant to Democratic campaigns, including the 2000 Gore/Lieberman campaign. Katie Barge, the Director of Research at Media Matters, formerly presided over opposition research for Senator John Edwards’ unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign.
A notable figure at Media Matters is senior fellow Eric Boehlert, who was among the most passionate defenders of University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian after the latter was accused of having been the North American leader of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In an article titled “The Prime-time Smearing of Sami Al-Arian,” Boehlert charged that: “In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, all four media giants, eagerly tapping into the country’s mood of vengeance and fear, latched onto the Al-Arian story, fudging the facts and ignoring the most rudimentary tenets of journalism in their haste to better tell a sinister story about lurking Middle Eastern dangers here at home.”
Media Matters’ Senior Advisor Jamison Foser wrote on May 26, 2006: “The defining issue of our time is the media. ... The dominant political force of our time is the media. Time after time, the news media have covered progressives and conservatives in wildly different ways — and, time after time, they do so to the benefit of conservatives.”
Media Matters’ Editorial Director is Marcia B. Kuntz, who formerly headed the Judicial Selection Project of Alliance for Justice.
Media Matters receives financial support from the Tides Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the Peninsula Community Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7150
Eric Boehlert is an American writer at Media Matters for America. Prior to this he was a senior writer for Salon for five years, and before that a contributing editor to Rolling Stone
Jamison Foser is Executive Vice President at Media Matters for America.
Foser "has extensive experience in progressive research, communications, and strategy, having worked for nearly a decade in national politics. Most recently he served as Research Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for the 2002 cycle."
He said they were moving beyond the containment strategy to something like war.