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It's easy to see through left-leaning Politico and the themes they want to propagate.  The latest is that of the "do-nothing" congress.  Harry Truman used this slogan to defeat Republicans in 1948 and Politico is dusting it off and hoping for a repeat of that success.

Politico whines:

Just 18 bills have become law through the first half of 2011, and 15 of those named a building after someone, temporarily extended expiring laws or appointed an official to the board of the Smithsonian Institution. Congress can’t decide what to do on critical issues like Libya, spending or the nation’s debt limit, and no compromise is in sight on a host of other issues.

Then Politico spits out:

Not that it matters substantively. When Congress is in, all it does is bash Obama.

This is really an objective article, isn't it?

Yes, Congress is unable to accomplish much in this highly partisan atmosphere, but will be able to accomplish a lot more with a Republican president and senate in January of 2013.  Let's all work for that.

Meanwhile, read Politico's Democrat advertisement 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.