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Two weeks ago, CNN rejected an advertisement from Media Matters and America's Voice, an immigration reform group, to "drop" host Lou Dobbs because of his immigration views. Today, America's Voice announced that the "Drop Dobbs" ad will get some play in major markets beginning tonight on one of CNN's rivals: It will air during MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."

In an October 28, 2009 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Congressman Steve King questions NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on comments he made regarding Rush Limbaugh. Notice how Goodell never answers the question

As damning video after video is released showing ACORN’s willingness to counsel lawbreakers, no one has been more willing to assassinate the character of ACORN’s opponents than the hired guns at the left-wing group Media Matters for America.

An official at a Democratic-leaning organization sends on a memo the group Media Matters is circulating today to progressive groups, calling Fox "a lethal 24/7 partisan political operation" and rallying a coalition of groups to join the White House assault on the network.

Thanks to the left, Rush Limbaugh's attempt to become a minority owner of a NFL franchise went down in flames. They branded Limbaugh as a racist and used outrageous, unconfirmed racist quotes to support their argument. Now they confirm the gasoline they used to burn down his dream was, wait for it, a lie. Karl Frisch, a Senior Fellow at Media Matters, was a guest on the Stephanie Miller Show yesterday and had the following to say: "You know, in fairness to Rush, those two out of literally dozens of racist things were not necessarily accurate. We were never able...

Leftist Democratic Party front group Media Matters put a hit out on Rush Limbaugh this afternoon. Politico and Paul Krugman at the New York Times pimped the Media Matters character assassination of Rush to the political world. They take his comments out of the context of illustrating liberal hypocrisy to paint him as a violent person.This is a perfect example of how the Democratic party and the media work hand in glove to attack conservatives and try delegitimize them in the public arena.First Politico, then Krugman, then Rush and at the end a response from Revkin.Glenn Thrush Pimping for Media...

Media Matters and America’s Voice have just launched a campaign to have CNN drop Lou Dobbs over his stance on illegal aliens. You may want to share your thoughts on their YouTube video page. Video: Media Matters Launches Attack on Lou Dobbs

Miss America officials have decided to kill off their beauty pageant. That's not what they're saying, but you tell me what it means when a beauty pageant that professes to champion America's young women issues a news release with "Rush" and "thrilled" in the same sentence: "We are thrilled to have Rush join us for our pageant this year," said the Miss America Organization's president and CEO, Art McMaster. "We know that the 2010 Miss America Pageant will be filled with new twists and exciting opportunities with him as one of our national judges." No, he's not talking about the...

Media Matters employee and Con Web Watch proprietor Terry Krepel is almost masochistic in his inability to disengage from a debate. I thought I was being charitable in giving Krepel the last word and quietly ending the debate over whether Media Matters and the Left were "smearing" talk radio host Glenn Beck in accusing him of lying about his mother's death. Then Krepel just had to rip the scab off before the wound had even started to heal: 2009 October 15 Terry K. permalink I’ve explained why I do not consider this to be a smear. Swindle has decided not...

When I'm engaging NewsReal's leftist commenters in the threads to our blog posts, some of our conservative regulars often caution me that I'm wasting my time. I'm not. I know exactly what I'm doing. There is indeed method to my madness. And this is the secret: give a leftist enough rope through continual engagement and they will eventually hang themselves. Continue to poke and prod them and soon the "liberal" mask will slip and the destructive, radical monster will reveal itself. That happened with Terry "Con Web Watch" Krepel in his most recent response to my calling out him and...

"Let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is."

Terry Krepel of Media Matters and ConWebWatch took issue with my claim that "reporting" on the allegedly questionable circumstances of the death of Glenn Beck's mother would constitute a smear. Terry decided to engage me in the comments to try and make me explain why it was inappropriate for his organization to make Beck's deceased mother a ball in the political football game:

"In fact, I have been unable to find information about any NAMBLA conference which Harry Hay didn’t attend." --From ZombieTime, Memo to Kevin Jennings: Your reputation is on the line The Media Matters "Smear" Poor Media Matters, the Left's "watch dog" that acts like an attack dog. The Left political group has labeled information that emerged about Jennings and his praise of NAMBLA promoter Harry Hay (whom Jennings said "inspired me") as a "smear". From Smear: Kevin Jennings Praised A Member Of NAMBLA: The conservative smear machine, still attempting to damage progressives by drawing shady guilt-by-association connections, is trying to...

Those irony-deficient "senior fellows" at Media Matters are at it again. Today they're pretending to be outraged by the Washington Time's "fabricated" accusations of "racism" -- which is a little like Vice President Joe Biden accusing someone of plagiarism. "Did the WashTimes fabricate its latest ACORN attack?," they ask readers this morning, helpfully answering: "Yep". Media Matters then does what leftist apologists do when they can't mount a substantial argument: they turn into literal-minded Rain Man types, and try to nit-pick their target to death:

You can almost smell the flop sweat at Media Matters. They're dancing as fast as they can, to keep new victim-hero, "safe schools czar" Kevin Jennings, from getting the hook. Here's Media Matters' latest desperate attempt to steer attention away from Jennings, by playing "shoot the messenger": "Wash. Times continues to smear Jennings with false claim that he failed to report 'sexual abuse' of student."Having redeemed itself somewhat by denouncing Roman Polanski and his supporters in no uncertain terms, Media Matters is now minimizing the well-documented fact that after one of his high-school students told him he'd had sex with...

Band asks Fox News talking head to retract endorsement. British prog rockers Muse have made no secret of their desire to conquer America with their bombastic fifth album, The Resistance. From their over-the-top VMA performance to multiple magazine covers and countless interviews, the band has put the full-court press on to woo U.S. fans. But that doesn't mean they're willing to accept all comers. Take, for example, frequently weepy, left-wing-conspiracy-touting Fox News talking head Glenn Beck. It seems the man who earlier this year referred to President Obama as a "racist" is a huge Muse fan. Beck tweeted his love...

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters is the worst kind of American. In fact, it's hard to count him as an American at all except by accident of birth. It is plain that this Boehlert fellow is against many aspects of the American tradition chief of which is freedom of political speech. Well, perhaps, he's not entirely against that freedom. Instead he's against that freedom for anyone that isn't in wholesale agreement with him and his left-wing cronies. One of his September postings on the extremist, anti-American website AlterNet.org stands as exhibit "A" in the proof of his anti-Americanism, his utter...

The Man Behind the Curtain and his Drones. ...."In a November 2008 in and interview with Spiegel, Soros made some comments that accurately outlined precisely the course that President Obama's administration would eventually pursue in 2009: "I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets -- because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost...

BREITBART: Podesta spends Soros' money stupidly Every journalism inquiry from the mainstream media continues to focus on the successful operation that exposed ACORN, not on ACORN itself, as if there is no evidence to sift through or common traits to be found in the videos. Why is the story about journalistic process rather than institutional corruption? The Washington Post and the Associated Press have had to issue embarrassing retractions for falsely implying Mr. O'Keefe's motives were racist. The New York Times, too, had to issue a retraction on an issue raised to impugn his tactics. It was so predictable that...

One of the left’s favorite (and lamest) rhetorical tricks is to simply reprint one of their opponent’s statements, verbatim, and without comment. You see, the statement’s idiocy and offensiveness is self-evident, and will surely shock the conscience of any “right thinking” reader. No rebuttal required. It’s a lazy, sophomoric ploy. I suppose the left has been our self-appointed cultural hall monitor for so long they’ve lost the ability, or the need, to offer up sound counterarguments. There’s a classic example of this dopey tactic up at Media Matters today. The Media Matters post is nothing more than a video clip...

.......Last night I stumbled upon a post at Media Matters — or, as I like to call it, the George Soros Steno Pool. Media Matters is a leftwing “media watchdog” that monitors conservative talk radio and FOX News, then refutes their daily “lies.” So Media Matters is supposed to be all about facts and truth and “telling the whole story.” Got it. Apparently, though, telling the whole story about, say, the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 means leaving out one itty bitty detail that doesn’t fit the doctrinaire Media Matters narrative: the name and political affiliation...

Imagine writing hundreds of words about the death of Abraham Lincoln, without mentioning the name of his assassin. Or writing about 9/11 but putting the word "hijackers" in scare quotes... (Oh wait: if you endorse that kind of writing, you might actually earn yourself a short lived White House czarship. So scratch that...) Last night I stumbled upon a post at Media Matters -- or, as I like to call it, the George Soros Steno Pool. Media Matters is a leftwing "media watchdog" that monitors conservative talk radio and FOX News, then refutes their daily "lies."

Media Matters: Police Report Filed From ACORN Office Apparently Media Matters, a George Soros arm, have a police report filed by a ACORN employee in Pennsylvania after the pimp and the prostitute visited their office in July of this year. The employee apparently turned them in to the police. One thing wrong with this picture is the pimp, was named as James O'Keefe. Didn't James and Hannah go into the ACORN offices with fake names? Color me skeptical about this police report... BTW, O'Keefe and Giles have more videos per Andrew Breitbart. Ahh, these conservatives are using Alinsky's Rules for...

Well, well, well look here what just popped up in my email. It's a memo from Media Matters President, Eric Burns. Yes, of course, I subscribe to Media Matters. One must always keep one's enemies close. Our boy Eric has decided that the one lone TV voice crying in the wilderness in often dissenting fashion to our Dear Leader is one lone voice too many and has decided to launch a "Fight Fox" campaign. "Dear Friend," Eric's letter begins, "Since President Obama's inauguration, Fox News has officially abandoned its already dubious standing as a news organization and is now engaging...

More than half a century ago, the great media critic AJ Liebling memorably described the first amendment's outer boundaries. "Freedom of the press," he wrote, "is guaranteed only to those who own one." It's an elemental truth you can be sure Glenn Beck is pondering these days. Beck's highly rated programme on Fox News, and indeed his career, hang in the balance because of his recent comments that Barack Obama is a racist with "a deep-seated hatred for white people". (snip) Beck's grotesque description of Obama is hardly out of character. We've all seen the YouTube video of Beck talking...

On August 11 I blogged about how material from progressive media "watchdog" group Media Matters was ending up in leftist demagogue Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World segment. At 1:32 this afternoon Media Matters posted an item highlighting a clip from The Rush Limbaugh Show. "Boss" Limbaugh played a popular clip from a recent town hall meeting held by Congressman Barney Frank. In the exchange Frank mocked the questioner for her hyperbolic and totally unacceptable use of Nazi rhetoric to describe President Obama's healthcare "reform" efforts. (And on this point he's exactly right. Nazi references shouldn't be tolerated unless...

Whenever it comes time to check in with the antics over at “progressive” media “watchdog” group Media Matters I inevitably find myself recalling one of the rants of one of my comedic heroes, the late Bill Hicks. Blasting the pornography-criminalization position, Hicks said in one of his routines: Supreme Court says pornography is any act that has no merit and causes sexual thoughts. Hmm… Yeah… And… So…. What? Hicks would go on to elaborate that by that definition virtually every commercial on television would be considered pornography — a dead-on observation. (Hicks’ politics were all over the map — sometimes...

So I have a theory. Mind you I’m in no position to prove this, but tell me if this sounds too far fetched. On Tuesday morning at9:30 EST progressive media “watch dog” Media Matters blogged against the Harvard professor and Financial Times columnist Niall Ferguson for writing a column which compared Barack Obama to Felix the Cat. Media Matters took issue with Ferguson’s lead: President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat. One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s, Felix was not only black. He was also very, very lucky. And that pretty much sums up the...

You see it repeated all over the web, but nobody on the left ever bothered to check its validity. Where in her quote did Gov. Palin say: "could kill my Down Syndrome baby?" Media Treatment Of Sarah Palin: Where In Her Quote Did She Say “Could Kill My Down Syndrome Baby?”84rules August 12, 2009

Members of Congress are having to face angry crowds who are protesting government spending, bailouts and health care reform, and who don't like the direction the country is heading in. Some lawmakers say the protests that are popping up around the country are "fake." But a new national poll said the sentiments expressed in the protests are real:... (*snip*) ...I recommend that journalists cover these protests and not write them off as the actions of a select few. Protests are an important part of democracies. It was not long ago when those who protested the Iraq War were being written...

I hadn’t watched any of progressive “watchdog” group Media Matters‘ “Two Minutes Hate” series of videos before tonight. At NewsReal we primarily keep an eye on the cable news shows rather than an ear on talk radio. Out of morbid curiosity, I decided to take a look and see what nuggets of “hate” Media Matters had supposedly unearthed. The clip above features excerpts from such conservative talkers as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Lou Dobbs. I’m never really been a regular listener to talk radio — it’s just not my style — but it was honestly quite shocking. Is that...

A Mission Viejo-based lawyer claims to be in possession of a copy of what she says is President Barack Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. Orly Taitz said the document could bring along a speedy resolution to a lawsuit she's handling, challenging Obama's eligibility to serve as the president. That is, even she admits, if it's genuine. The Hawaiian state health director reiterated last week that he'd examined the pertinent documents and that Obama was indeed born there. Over the weekend, Orly Taitz filed a motion in federal court for expedited discovery. Among the pleas, Taitz asks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

It seems like Glenn Beck and the other Fox News guys can’t catch a break from “progressive” advocacy group Media Matters. Even when Beck says something that they’ve all but told him he needs to say, they can’t bring themselves to acknowledge he’s done something right. On Media Matters’ MMTV they featured a clip from today’s episode of the Glenn Beck show in which the host passionately exhorted his viewers not to pick up arms against a government they no longer trust. This has been the drum that everyone from MSNBC host Keith Olbermann to film critic Roger Ebert have...

Here is video of a Media Matters ad attacking CNN's Lou Dobbs for his coverage of the Obama Birth Certificate Controversy. The ad ends with urging viewers to tell "the most trusted name in news" (CNN) there is nothing "legitimate about racially charged paranoia." As far as I know, neither Lou Dobbs nor anyone else that has investigated the President's birth certificate have ever said anything about race. It's Media Matters that is overtly trying to make this about race, which is the usual M.O. of the far Left and the Liberal Media. They also leave out the fact that...

This just in my email box from those leftist guerrilla warriors over at Media Matters. They are launching an ad campaign to attack Lou Dobbs for mentioning the birth certificate controversy. From the announcement email, really a shakedown for funds (Is George Soros starting to lose money now too?): "As countless other media figures criticize Dobbs, CNN is making a mockery of its claim of being "the most trusted name in news." Jon Klein, the network's president, continues to downplay Dobbs' promotion of the birther theories, saying he is merely covering "the phenomenon of the doubters" -- even though Dobbs...

The folks over at Media Matters are going negative ... against CNN. Specifically, they've bought airtime on MSNBC, Fox News and, ahem, CNN to run an ad criticizing the venerable cable network for Lou Dobbs' habit of treating the Birther conspiracy movement as legitimate. Here's the fun part: They've bought time during Dobbs' show. As Greg Sargent points out, that puts CNN in the position of airing an anti-Dobbs during his show, or killing it and creating a bigger story. My first question was: Are they running the ad in the south? The answer according to Sargent is they're running...

What's a left-winger to do when Barack Obama gets caught showing his character? Deny, discredit and denigrate, of course! As a purely voluntary, patriotic watcher of the tattletale brigade over at Media Matters, I'm subscribed to their daily Rush Limbaugh Wire. So, every single weekday, I get 3 separate, detailed emails in my inbox giving me the leftist lowdown on Rush. I nearly ruined my keyboard with spit-out coffee Friday, when the hour 2 Limbaugh Wire arrived in my box. As many readers may recall, Media Matters was the brainchild of Hillary Clinton and receives heavy funding from George Soros....

Okay, this is an intriguing new frontier in political media criticism. Media Matters, which has been attacking CNN for not reining in Lou Dobbs’ birther obsession, has now purchased air time to run a TV ad attacking “CNN’s Lou Dobbs problem” — during Dobbs’ show! A Media Matters spokesman tells me the group has bought a week of ad time on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News in D.C., New York, and Atlanta, beginning Tuesday. The catch: Media Matters has specifically purchased time to air the ad during Dobbs’ show — putting CNN in the position of either running the spot...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2009 Media Matters for America After CNN President Jon Klein reportedly called Lou Dobbs' coverage of conspiracy theories about President Obama's birth certificate "legitimate" on Friday, July 24, Media Matters for America President Eric Burns sent an email to its thousands of online activists today asking for their help to publicly pressure CNN to credibly address its Lou Dobbs problem. In the email, Burns writes: "Klein's caving to Dobbs raises a serious, troubling question: Who is really calling the shots at CNN?" read more

Earlier, we wrote about Lou Dobbs and his radio coverage of the so-called "birther" movement which was kicked in to high gear this week due in part to this video from a town hall meeting held by Rep. Mike Castle, R-Delaware, on June 30. Well, we wanted to find out how the cable news networks have been covering the issue, so we did some more digging. Media Matters has been covering the coverage of the birthers for more than a month and found Dobbs discussing the issue again last night on his CNN show with fellow radio talk show hosts....

Can't post David Brock/George Soros Media Matters, but this headline was too much to pass up. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907200028

Our side has clearly gotten under their skin, especially foxnews and now thefoxnation.

Media Matters for America, a liberal news media watchdog, is castigating MSNBC for interviewing former Congressman Tom Campbell about California's budget crisis without identifying him as a Republican. "During a discussion about the California budget crisis on the July 8 edition of MSNBC's Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan interviewed former Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA), but at no point disclosed that Campbell is a Republican," Media Matters said in a report. "Ratigan introduced Campbell as "a former California state budget director" and 'currently an economics and law professor at Chapman University,' and also stated that Campbell has 'the best budget familiarity.'

Media Matters Panel: Guns Don't Kill People, Fox News Kills People Yesterday, Media Matters hosted a panel at the National Press Club where five liberal activists discussed the use of “extremist” language by the conservative media and its allegedly violent effects. “We all need to set a tone for civil national discourse,” declared Nancy M. Zirkin of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. It was a noble sentiment, though a bit ironic at an event where liberals tarred conservatives as bigots who inspire other bigots to commit acts of violence. “FOX News is really mainstreaming this sort of vigilante almost...

Anchor Rick Sanchez used another crazed gunman’s rampage to blast conservative media during CNN’s Newsroom program on Thursday, and brought on Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert as his aide to bash talk radio and Fox News. He hinted that the white supremacist who killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, might have been “motivated to move by right-wing pronouncements...on some TV and radio outlets.” Sanchez began his panel discussion with Boehlert and Accuracy in Media’s Roger Aronoff at the end of the 3 pm Eastern hour of the CNN program with his indicting line of questioning against conservative radio and...

Sympathetic media commentators are rushing to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's defense against Republican men, accusing them of sexism toward Washington's most powerful woman. The liberal-leaning Media Matters compiled a video of male conservative pundits making fun of the speaker's rumored use of Botox. Rush Limbaugh took it a step further, saying the best way to limit unwanted pregnancy would be to post Mrs. Pelosi's image in cheap motel rooms. "How do these people handle a strong-willed woman like Pelosi?" MSNBC's Ed Schultz lectured in his Monday show. "Well, they revert to calling her offensive names like 'hag'; they make demeaning...

CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid @ 5:16 pm by Michael O'Brien CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance. "From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid,...

Left-wing fabulist Eric Boehlert of the character-assassination factory, Media Matters for America, has outdone himself this time. At the George Soros-sponsored smear site Boehlert falsely accuses Michelle Malkin of defending racist skinheads because she criticized the Department of Homeland Security's report that labels all conservatives, libertarians, and returning veterans as potential terrorists. Quoting left-wing fanatic David Neiwart (who considers all right-of-center political speech to be hate speech by definition) Boehlert disingenuously notes that The [DHS] report -- which in fact is perfectly accurate in every jot and tittle -- couldn't be more clear. It carefully delineates that the subject of...