Media Matters

There may be some strategic advantage to informing your opponent that you are about to launch an all-out blitzkrieg against the principal conservative media outlets and personalities. Off hand, I can’t think of what it is. No one I know is quaking before the threat.

Mind you, this is not just the usual general harassment. It’s not the usual opposition research, or the usual cacophony of liberal complaint. No indeed. David Brock, MM’s founder, said that he would wage guerrilla warfare and sabotage against Fox News, while claiming that Fox was the sotto voce of the Republican Party and not a legitimate news outlet. That’s really funny. But it does go to illustrate just how far from the mainstream of American thought these elitist Marxists really are.

According to information leaked and picked up by conservative outlets, Media Matters is hiring every commie shyster they can find and they intend to do far more than harass network sponsors. They fully intend to use the politics of personal destruction to disrupt and, if possible, destroy the lives, careers and families of conservative media figures. Rupert Murdoch and his business interests will be attacked ruthlessly.

It came to me that Fox, and other conservative media and artists, don’t have to fight this battle alone… and shouldn’t have to. Fox has carried the remarkable story of the rise of the American Patriot Movement from the very beginning… and even then I sensed that this movement could be huge. That turned out to be something of an understatement.

There’s an awful lot of really clever and well-educated conservatives out there… millions of us in fact. If Fox and Rupert Murdoch can’t take on Media Matters… we can.

If I’m not mistaken, Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation has been keeping several eyes on the antics of Media Matters, along with other assorted reptiles. What we can do is tear into Media Matters the way they intend to tear into Fox. Forward whatever you can find to people like Mark, or to the various Patriot sites. Trust me, they’ll pick it up, check it out and run with it.

I can’t help but think, all things being equal, that conservatives will withstand close scrutiny far better than their leftist counterparts. Let’s expose these snakes.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011

Media Matters is providing cover for Obama against David Freddoso's new book, The Case Against Barack Obama.   I'll leave it to Freddoso to defend against the charges, but I would like to note what Media Matters said about Barack Obama having all of his opponents removed from the ballot in 1996.

In fact, Obama's opponents in the 1996 Democratic primary for the 13th district Illinois state Senate seat were removed from the ballot for failing to adhere to election laws -- the Obama campaign challenged the signatures his opponents had collected to get their names on the ballot, and the signatures were deemed ineligible for a variety of reasons. On page 2, Freddoso undermines his own claim by quoting a 1996 Chicago Weekend article explaining that some of incumbent Sen. Alice Palmer's signatures were disqualified because the voters who signed lived outside the 13th district -- something more than a mere "technicality":

I, for one, welcome Media Matters' sudden concern about election integrity and voter fraud.  It's a nice change of pace from their usual argument that election fraud isn't such a big deal. 

In case they're as interested in defending ballots as they are in defending Obama, I'm sure our friends at Election Journal would be willing to help them out with a bit of evidence.