Scarborough: Media Matters Used 'Phony Story' to Go After Rush

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Pleasant surprise: Scarborough sets record straight on Media Matters smear of Rush Limbaugh. Ping to Today show list.

[poobear]

Too bad only several hundred viewers saw it.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

True, but hopefully it will reverberate beyond the show. Rush is likely to pick it up, for example, and let’s hope my original NewsBusters article is widely disseminated.

[Darkwolf377]

I just heard about this whole thing in the last 8 hours and I gotta say, if the story is accurate as Scarborough reports it, the Democrats have sunk to a new low even for them. Obvious payback for the “Betrayus” thing, and a sign that they’re easily rattled. It’s sadly hilarious hearing Harry Reid talking about patriotism and the brave troops, isn’t it?

[xcamel]

Let us not forget that Hillary claims ownership of Media Matters - and repeated that claim at the "yearly kooks" conference

[poobear]

No doubt. I will be looking forward to the first hour of his broadcast today. The military gets to hear this hour as well. Should be a doosy!

[johnny7]

Reid’s grandstanding in the Senate means these idiots are committed... no turning back now.

[FryingPan101]

Great! Harry Reid is a disgrace. The soldiers should know that Rush is supportive of them.
http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/americasupportsyou/Message.aspx?SectionID=5

[backhoe]

Let us not forget that Hillary claims ownership of Media Matters - and repeated that claim at the "yearly kooks" conference...

Hillary Clinton Told YearlyKos Convention She Helped Start Media Matters--As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the leftwing organization responsible for the recent smear campaigns against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters, has direct ties to the Clintons.

[Nateman]

Trying to smear a guy who has 20 million listeners who know better is worse than desperate, its stupid. They not only can't run the country right they can't even figure out simple politics.

[Miss Didi]

Thanks for the report...Fox & Friends has barely touched the story this morning. Two lightweight women debated (or screamed) about Media Matters and the Great One’s remarks about their tax status. Waiting in the green room is Annie Coulter...and it’s back to the breathless reporting on Britney.

[kevinm13]

Glad to see Joe Scarborough being the voice of reason. I thought it was too late and he had gone over to the dark side. We need more of this from Joe and others in the media.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The MSM seem circumspect (all of a sudden).

Folks, imagine a world with a "Fairness Doctrine," the way it was long ago when I was younger. A time when the MSM would be reporting the Dems' attacks on Rush. A time when the MSM were the gatekeepers of "news" and issues.

Thanks to the new media the truth is racing around the world ahead of the Dem lies.

Our free speech is worth defending with blood. Our free speech, their blood.

[Proverbs 3-5]

Pleasant surprise: Scarborough sets record straight on Media Matters smear of Rush Limbaugh.

Yeah but will it be played over and over all day like the phoney Rush story was when I sat in the doctors office for 2 hours forced to watch MSNBC?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Headline: "MorOn.org is a conservative dirty trick on Dems, daily conferences lead to 'stupid Democrat tricks.'

'They were easy,' laughed an annonymous conservative spokesman."

[dmw]

“Yeah but will it be played over and over all day like the phoney Rush story was when I sat in the doctors office for 2 hours forced to watch MSNBC?”

Do like I do when I go to the doctor. I change the channel to Fox News or ask the receptionist to do it if I can’t change it myself. It works for me. ;^)

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Bonus Coverage -- Joe Suggests He Might Have Been Too Tough on O'Reilly: It was something of a day for setting the record straight at "Morning Joe." Before turning to the Media Matters smear, Scarborough harkened back to his harsh criticism [documented here and here] of Bill O'Reilly for the "Factor" host's comments about "Sylvia's" Harlem restaurant.

SCARBOROUGH: Media Matters went after Bill O'Reilly, and I just have to put a little asterisk here, I went after Bill pretty hard too, because I thought what he said was ridiculous. But I heard a lot of people this weekend, like liberals, on the Upper West Side, as I was walking up and down Broadway, you know, people smoking dope, saying "hey Scarborough, I think you're being a little tough on O'Reilly."

GEIST: Really?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, I did, I did, I seriously -- and some people around here saying it may have been blown out of proportion. I don't know.

Mika could be heard in the background uttering a skeptical "ehhh." She's clearly sticking with the bash-Bill brigade.

View video here.

[W-Girl]

Yes, good old boy, Joe saw the light this morning and Mika kept her mouth shut ....there is hope after all !!

It’s going to be a good day !!