Posted by Brian
Lucy! You got some 'splaining to do! Conservative turned left-wing hatchet man David Brock (sounds like Ed Schultz) is exposed in this investigative report by The Daily caller as a man who built a propaganda machine called Media Matters into an empire connected to the highest political office in the land. Described as an iron-fisted tyrant to his employees, with a healthy dose of clinical paranoia thrown in, it may be all about to crumble.
This first in a series of pieces by Tucker Carlson, Vince Coglianese, Alex Pappas and Will Rahn show how Media Matters for America (MMfA) not only twist innocuous things into blockbuster news items, but how other members of the media, and even the White House, take MMfA's lead to coordinate their stories. For years I have heard talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh play audio montages of news anchors, pundits and politicians use the
exact same verbiage in their "reporting". Now, it all makes sense. MMfA puts it out, and everyone from reporters at the Washington Post to MSNBC to The Daily Kos are reporting the exact same thing, sometimes with little to no change. I have spoken about "media malpractice" in the past, when a story is so over-the-top that even cursory investigation will prove a piece to be not only inaccurate, but an outright lie. Yet, even when they are caught red-handed, the media poo-poo the notion that they are biased and chalk it up to an "honest mistake". No retraction. No apology. Just move on to the next hit piece.
Media Matters is a threat to the country and needs to be shut down. A little harsh you say? What about the First Amendment? Freedom of the press is one of our most basic rights. But when the press is willfully lying to the American people, it is no longer news. It is propaganda. David Brock is someone that
Josef Goebbels would be proud of. Those members of the press who have blindly "reported" what has come out of MMfA should have their press credentials revoked. They no longer have any credibility. As for the White House coordinating, and having weekly strategy meetings with this propaganda group - this should scare the hell out of you!
This is not only a great piece by The Daily caller, it is one of the most important investigative reports since the Watergate days. It exposes an institutional fraud foisted upon the American people by a press that we used to trust to present us with accurate news. I used to say that much of what was reported was opinion wrapped up as news. It's clear now that it is even more insidious than I imagined.
Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations
By
Tucker Carlson, Vince Coglianese, Alex Pappas and Will Rahn -
The Daily Caller Published: 10:02 PM 02/12/2012
This is the first in a Daily Caller investigative series on Media Matters For America. Daily Caller reporters Alex Pappas and Will Rahn contributed to this report.
David Brock was smoking a cigarette on the roof of his Washington, D.C. office one day in the late fall of 2010 when his assistant and two bodyguards suddenly appeared and whisked him and his colleague Eric Burns down the stairs.
Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit
Media Matters for America, had told friends and co-workers that he feared he was in imminent danger from right-wing assassins and needed a security team to keep him safe.
The threat he faced while smoking on his roof? “Snipers,” a former co-worker recalled.
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