David Brock Is Buzzing Again And the gadfly’s main target is Rush (and Bush, of course).

National Review ^ | May 28, 2004 (June 14, 2004 cover date) | Byron York

[wcdukenfield]

Maybe we conservatives should start boycotting that underwrite this nut.

[holdonnow]

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200405281333.asp

[Cicero]

Whatever its political orientation, Media Matters is what is known as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization

How is this possible? It is plainly written that political organizations don't qualify as charities.

[Howlin]

Why is it these ditzy liberal broads always go for the flamer guys?

BTW, I like your new glasses! They look great on TV.

[You Dirty Rats]

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

ENCOURAGE the Lefties to fund this nut to the max!! Better they pour their political money down this rathole than spend it elsewhere.

[Arkinsaw]

The right wing is so dominant, Brock writes, that even if Democrats win the presidency this year "they still face the prospect of being brutally slammed and systematically slandered in such a way that will make governing exceedingly difficult."

Well, one can hope.

[been_lurking]

Brock also commissioned Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin to conduct a survey on a variety of media issues, including perceptions of Limbaugh. Among other things, Garin found that a majority of those surveyed believe Limbaugh often presents views that are biased, "rather than impartial and balanced." Garin also found that a large part of Limbaugh's audience is politically conservative.

Brock pays Garin to do a survey that determines Rush is "biased" and his audience is "conservative".

I don't know who is the bigger fool, Brock or the people who donate to him! LOL!

[Phantom Lord]

ON CSPAN yesterday, Brock commented that Time Magazine is a conservative magazine controled by the right.

[Semper Paratus]

Is there enough lithium around to keep the left sedated when W is re-elected?

[Bluntpoint]

If Brock crows, does he make a sound, if he only appears on Hardball?

[Yo-Yo]

The right wing is so dominant, Brock writes, that even if Democrats win the presidency this year "they still face the prospect of being brutally slammed and systematically slandered in such a way that will make governing exceedingly difficult."

As Rush says, it's called shining the light of truth.

[sully777]

If memory serves me, David Brock was hailed in the early 1990's, in the pages of American Spectator as:

"...a former liberal journalist turned conservative..."

As I recall, Brock pronounced his rehab of liberalism when he was peddling his book on Anita Hill. The book garnered the attention of Rush Limbaugh and sold well. Brock wrote for the AS for a spell, then suddenly changed affiliations again in the mid-1990's.

IMO, David Brock is a crock.

[holdonnow]

Thanks. They're actually not new, I just don't do TV much anymore, so they must look new or different.

[You Dirty Rats]

Seriesly, I was thinking about this earlier this week. The 2000 election unhinged them and the 2002 election sent them into full mouth-foaming mode. The current hysterical rhetoric from people like Kerry, Gore and Kennedy (to say nothing of other nuts like Moore and the Hollywood crowd) is so over the top that I really wonder what will be the reaction when they wake up the morning after the election and realize they are still locked out of power.

The 'Rats should have nominated Howard Dean. They are nominating all of his ideas, approach, attitude anyway -- they just couldn't stomach him after his bizarre comments and the infamous scream. Instead, they have Kerry and the others reading Dean's lines. Their current doctrine is like the doctrine of France in 1914 -- attack, attack, attack --- at all times and under any circumstances. They got clobbered by the Germans -- and Kerry-Dean will get clobbered as well.

[ijcr]

Brock's appearance on CSPAN this week, evoked the wrath of one caller who proved that CSPAN do not use a tape delay on their callers.
If I can recall the statement it was "You are a d*ck sucking,c*ck......"
The CSPAN moderator"I am so sorry about that,David"

[Dems_R_Losers]

Brock is repulsive and so is his book. I got a free copy of it at a conference last week and have been reading it. While some information in it is new to me, much of it involves smearing every conservative philanthropist, intellectual and activist he can name with vague associations with the KKK, the John Birch Society, Nixon's plumbers, etc. Same crap he accuses the right of doing.

Brock is a part of what is being built as a vast left-wing conspiracy. They have studied what conservatives have done over the last 25 years and are trying to mimic it. I actually heard someone say at this conference that it doesn't even matter what ideas Democrats have and want to promote, all that matters is that they build a "noise machine" and an "echo chamber" comparable to what conservatives have built. It was hilarious. I had to work hard to keep my mouth shut.

[jojodamofo]

The "lefties" I know spend more on malt liquor than they do on political causes. But then again I am a LONG way from Hollywood.

[jojodamofo]

I wish I could say it was me.

[atomicpossum]

How much of Brock's 'reportage' on this website was responsible for the numerous media pieces lambasting Limbaugh for his 'skull & bones' comment, which, simply WAS taken out of context (or, rather, reported WITHOUT the proper context)? It looked at that point like many of the media shills were only too happy to drop by, get some trash, and use it against Limbaugh...