Posted on 10/04/2007 10:43:36 AM PDT by khnyny
Editors note: The controversy over Rush Limbaughs phony soldiers remark has brought new prominence to Media Matters for America, the left-wing media watchdog founded by former right-wing media star David Brock. Media Matters is an avowedly political institution, part of a group of institutions the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org, and others that have become increasingly important in Democratic politics. In 2004, Byron York revealed the origins of Media Matters and the big Democratic party donors who helped Brock bring it to life.
Susie Tompkins Buell was very, very impressed with David Brock. A California businesswoman who co-founded the fashion giant Esprit and went on to become a major donor to Democratic causes, Buell was in Washington last fall attending a meeting of friends and supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when she met Brock, the self-described former right-wing hit man. Buell listened as Brock, now a defector to progressive causes, presented plans for Media Matters for America, his new Internet-based project to monitor and criticize conservative media. In a short time, she was sold.
It just made so much sense to me, Buell recalls. All this garbage thats coming out of the Right is like the worst contamination of this country. . . . He brought so much understanding of what goes on over there. Hes very articulate, and very, very bright.
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Since the Moveon people had to know in advance that the Republicans would react strongly to the ad, they must have intended the consequence. That would then give them the potential to retort against the Republicans when the time arose.
It does not matter to them that the reputation of Moveon is trashed, for it is the intended sacrificial lamb.
Wait until Hillary unleashes the IRS on her enemies, and once again, the MSM will chuckle and turn a blind eye because she will be targeting conservative causes so they won’t care.
The irony of all this is the MSM, in the form of the New York Times, had no problem with 1000 FBI files of primary Republican government employees being gone through by the Wicked Witch of the West Wing, but is aghast and appalled that we are trying to intercept calls from terrorists to cells in this country.
I will make this prediction: If Hillary Clinton is (*shudder*) elected President, she will need to reinstitute the Draft in order to keep miliary enlistment levels adequate. Officers will resign their commissions in droves and other military will NOT re-enlist. The flood of ex-military personnel into the job market will negatively impact the economy.
My only hope is for a Republican Congress that will refuse to pass her proposed legislation and give-aways at the expense of my paycheck.
Ironic you should mention this as I was thinking the exact thing earlier in the day.
That is the problem, and for 90% +- of the population that is all they want OR have time for. It is the sound bites that are the most salacious that are winning and these are from the guy with the loudest voice "THE MSM"
Ok, well, thats breaking it down even more. Regardless, they believe what they are fed. They DO NOT RESEARCH it, and when someone who is informed tries to inform them, they argue “Well, he said it” etc. Come on folks, the problem is that most people DO NOT CARE. (ANother thread has a link to Wes Clarks site... I used it to Freep them
Thus spake the vile little rump riding Stalinist. "Somehow eradicated" leaves a lot of scope for means, up to and including gulags. Hence, protecting the Second Amendment becomes all the more important.
ThinkProgress.org is another Soros publications.
Why is that tax exempt?
It’s not really educational but political.
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