Monday, July 11, 2011
"Big Journalism" Goes After Media Matters, Who is Going After Fox, Rush, Etc
0 comments Posted by org at 7:25 AMMeredith Dake at Big Journalism reports that Media Matters, a leftwing website, has vowed to "make war on Fox [News]."
Media Matters is a leftist political organization with ruthless schemes to smear conservative journalists and news outlets. The problem with this is that they do it under the cover of a tax-free status, as a 501(c)(3) organization. A 501(c)(3) organization is a charitable organization, and donations to it are tax deductible. Big Journalism wants to go after Media Matters for its political activities, which may disqualify the organization from its tax exempt status.
The prohibited political activities under the Internal Revenue Code focus on partisan activities such as the support of one party or one candidate over another. It is unclear to me that Media Matters war on the First Amendment would qualify as a prohibited political activity. What is clear, however, is that Media Matters is very political and very partisan, and may step over the line sometime, if they have not done so already. Big Journalism tells what to look for and how to make a complaint to the IRS.
Read the Big Journalism article here.
Monday, March 28, 2011
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| Political Prostitute David Brock |
Who is David Brock? I googled his name and found a 2005 article from Frontpagemag.com that describes Brock's history. It is a sordid one. The information below was extracted from this article.
Brock started out as a highly-paid investigative reporter for the conservative magazine, The American Spectator. Brock did good work in exposing the sexual escapades of Bill Clinton and discrediting the liberal Anita Hill, who had defamed Clarence Thomas in his confirmation hearings to be a Supreme Court justice. Brock achieved widespread fame and acclaim as a conservative reporter and writer.
Brock then received a million dollar advance from Adam Bellow and the Free Press to write an investigative book about Hillary Clinton. However, the task proved too much for Brock, as his earlier exposé on Bill shut down potential sources within the Hillary camp. Instead, he wrote a superficial book exonerating Hillary from the Whitewater scandal and defending her against a number of other charges.
His book "The Seduction of Hillary Clinton" was released in 1996 and was a miserable failure. The book received widespread criticism, even from the left, for Brock's whitewash of Hillary's role in Whitewater. The Free Press lost millions and Adam Bellow was fired. Meanwhile, Brock had invested his million dollar advance in expensive properties he could no longer afford. He was desperate for some kind of bail-out, but few would now hire a failed author whose miserable performance had lost millions for his publisher. Brock's reputation as an author was shot and he knew it.
Brock's economic survival needed a shrewd strategy and he came up with one: he reinvented himself as an innocent who was deceived by conservatives, but who now saw the light of liberalism, and switched sides. He wrote a book "Blinded by the Right: the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative," and became a hero to the left who could now point to Brock as an example of the duplicity and mendaciousness of the right. Brock was living proof of Hillary's charge of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
Brock apologized to Bill Clinton for Brock's American Spectator articles on "Troopergate." Brock then slimed the Arkansas troopers he had befriended and who had supplied him with information on Clinton's use of troopers as pimps for Clinton's enormous sexual appetite.
My conclusions: David Brock is an unprincipled actor whose only loyalty is to himself. Like Arianna Huffington and Charles Johnson, he was willing to betray allies and friends, to sell out for fame and money. His latest gambit to conduct "guerrilla warfare" against Fox News is only further evidence that Brock is a political prostitute whose main client is George Soros. He is deserving only of profound contempt.
Read the entire Frontpage article here.
Politico has an interesting post today on the "progressive" organization, the George Soros funded tool called Media Matters. ("Progressive" meaning far-left and completely nutty.) Media Matters is a non-profit organization set up to "monitor" and refute conservative news broadcasts. The organization has a severe bias against Fox News, but has now moved beyond its pretense of "monitoring" and has declared open warfare on Fox News.
Per Politico:
The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.According to Politico, Media Matters plans to undermine Fox News with the following tactics:
1. Distribution of "embarrassing" clips and rebuttals of Fox News items.
2. Ridicule of Fox guests and commentators to destroy their credibility with the public.
3. Campaigns to persuade Fox advertisers to quit Fox News.
4. Providing a legal team and funding to persuade liberals rebutted by Fox to file defamation lawsuits.
5. Assembling a team in the U.K. to attack Fox's interests there.
In short, the "Progressives" have all but admitted that they cannot fight Fox in ethical ways, or by refuting the tsunami of news and facts that it provides. Media Matters must instead resort to a form of censorship: by defunding Fox by chasing away its advertising revenues (good luck with that) and by forcing it to spend millions to defend against frivolous lawsuits. If the tactics prove effective, Fox would then be forced to dilute their news and opinion so it is less lethal to progressive fantasies.
In a fair fight, the political left cannot win. We know that and it is obvious that they know it too. Given the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the left, dirty tricks is all they have to fight with.
See Politico's article here.
