Posted on 10/03/2007 6:37:02 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Hillary Clinton Behind Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus Attacks?
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
By: Newsmax Staff
Rush Limbaugh, under fire from a liberal group known as Media Matters for America, has unearthed surprising evidence tying Hillary Clinton closely to the group.
Media Matters was behind the controversy that Limbaugh called Iraqi war veterans “phony soldiers.”
Limbaugh has called that claim a “smear.” Media Matters and several leading Democrats have taken the comment out of context, the talk show host said.
Limbaugh was referring to Americans who falsely claim to have served in the military – specifically Jesse Macbeth, who said in a widely seen video that he had served in Iraq and Afghanistan and claimed that he and other U.S. soldiers had killed innocent civilians there.
In fact, Macbeth was discharged from the Army after several weeks of basic training, and never served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Noting that the “origin” of the smear was Media Matters, Limbaugh on his show and website Tuesday played a sound bite from a speech given by Hillary Clinton this past August. Hillary said:
“We are certainly better prepared and more focused on, you know, taking our arguments and making them effective and disseminating them widely and really putting together a network in the blogosphere, and a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support, like Media Matters and Center for American Progress.”
Rush told his listeners: “There you have it – Media Matters for America has now been officially claimed as a Hillary Clinton startup . . . So, to that extent, anybody in media, on any side of the aisle, ought to now understand that anything coming out of Media Matters for America is designed to take issue, destroy, harm, whatever, anyone who gets in Mrs. Clinton’s way in her quest for the White House . . .
“The bottom line is, it’s Mrs. Clinton’s organization . . . Hence this smear of me.”
Limbaugh is not the first radio host Media Matters has taken aim at. Earlier this year Media Matters was also instrumental in the firing of talk show host Don Imus over his disparaging comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
Media Matters posted a video clip showing Imus making the comments and sent a mass e-mail to journalists around the country.
At the time of the Imus flap, some pundits noted that Imus was a target of Hillary Clinton and pointed out the Media Matters connection. Imus had been sharply critical of Hillary, referring to her as “satan” and the “devil.”
On his Tuesday show, Limbaugh also discussed left-wing financier George Soros’ connection to Media Matters, which has sparked a war of words between Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and the group.
Back in April, O’Reilly told viewers of “The O’Reilly Factor” that Soros and several other wealthy radicals were helping to fund Media Matters by donating money to the Tides Foundation, and using it to funnel money to Media Matters.
Media Matters countered that while Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) did contribute to the Tides Foundation (Tides gave Media Matters more than $1 million in 2005), the OSI funds were specifically earmarked for two other beneficiaries.
“Soros has never given money to Media Matters, either directly or through another organization,” the Web site stated.
O’Reilly responded: “The vile Media Matters outfit is denying receiving funding from any of George Soros’ outfits. Well, that is a total lie. As we laid out for you, the smear Web site received more than a million dollars from the Tides Foundation alone in 2005, and just by coincidence, Soros’ Open Society Institute donated more than a million dollars to Tides in 2005. Figure it out.”
Imus was influential among the NY/DC elite. Rush speaks to the rest of us. Imus’s supporters folded in a week. Rush’s supporters never will.
If Hillary (or Obama) wins, will the Dem censor any media source that disagrees with them? Because that’s what Media Matters attempts to do.
Will it be like the socialist/communist countries?
A couple days ago, Dick Morris called Hillary a socialist.
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Media Matters countered that while Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) did contribute to the Tides Foundation (Tides gave Media Matters more than $1 million in 2005), the OSI funds were specifically earmarked for two other beneficiaries.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of 2004 Democrat Presidential Candidate John F. Kerry, funnels Millions of Dollars to the Tides Foundation through the Heinz Endowment every year.
If anyone needed any more proof as to just how dangerous and vile this creature is, here it is. Of course millions of people across the country will either blow this revelation off, ignore it, or not have a problem with, which to me is even more scary. This country is in some serious dog doo doo.
I knew there was a good reason to be boycotting Heinz products.
Slick Willie’s wife knows she’ll never be elected President if we have Americans like Limbaugh out there informing the voters of her crimes. She needs to get rid of anyone not prepared to kiss her @$$. Her techniques are similar to that of the old Soviet Union, Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chavez.
Money is fungible. You can donate $1 million "earmarked for two other beneficiaries," but that just frees up $1 million from elsewhere that can now go to Media Matters.
-PJ
One of those two was ELF from what I hear. Earth Liberation Front, a radical enviro-terror group.
Another big donor to the Tides Foundation is the Heinz Family Philanthropies. Terayyyyza took over the foundation after the death of Sen. John Heinz (R) PA. Now she and her poodle John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) give wantonly to leftist extremist groups. How Sen. Heinz must be spinning in his grave.
FReeper Richard Poe predicted all of this earlier this decade. Next, Hillary and her goons are going to go after the Internet, specifically sites such as Townhall.com, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax, and of course, FR.
The Democrats’ attack is based on a lie, but that’s of no consequence to them. So perhaps they won’t care when I tell them to kiss my ass.
Hillary is a totalitarian. She will suppress dissent on talk radio and the internet. Who is going to stop her? Who would impeach her? If she makes it back to the White House, we will see a presidency that our founding fathers feared.
She'll have to pry the mouse from my cold, dead fingers.
Hillary stepped in it big time. This smear job on Rush is going to bite her on her big fat a$$. Rush has just started exposing the lies of Media Matters and Hillary.
I don’t think it’ll get that far. People deep down know what our country has been through and appreciate the history. Gun sales will spike through the roof if she wins the Presidency.
Well, duh! They're very name is Media Matters for Mrs. Bill Clinton. Really, it should be called Media Matters for, of, and by Mrs. Bill Clinton. Because that's what it is.
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