Posted on 01/30/2011 5:57:38 PM PST by kristinn
Democratic Party front group Media Matters for America this afternoon accused Free Republic of being an instigator of the "Right-Wing Media Smear Machine" because of an article posted at Free Republic this morning about Barack Obama spending Saturday night partying with reporters from the White House press corps rather than burning the midnight oil keeping tabs on the crisis in Egypt. The article was titled, "As Egypt Burns, Obama and News Media Party Hearty Saturday Night." Media Matters calls criticism of Obama's partying while Egypt burns as a "particularly hollow smear."
Media Matters was upset that Jim Hoft picked up the Free Republic article for a piece at Gateway Pundit and that Hoft's piece was subsequently picked up by Fox Nation. In fact, it's the lead, banner story at Fox Nation tonight with over 1200 comments. The Fox Nation article updated its headline to read "As Egypt Burns...Obama Parties", based on Hoft's headline, "As Egypt Burns...Obama Parties, Watches B-ball" that was based on the Free Republic headline.
Making things worse for Media Matters was that the Drudge Report picked up a piece from the site White House Dossier published Sunday afternoon (an hour after the FR article) about Obama's night out partying. That article was headlined "While Cairo Burns, Obama Parties."
The Free Republic article noted that Greta Van Sustern appeared to be the only reporter who reported about the presidential party. Further research showed Politico had a short article published Saturday night that nixed mentioning that reporters were partying with Obama. Media Bistro also posted about Obama partying, even correcting the pool report that Linda Douglass works for Atlantic Media, not the National Journal as the pool reported.
The Media Matters article was titled Watch the Right-Wing Media Smear Machine in Action: Obama/Egypt Edition
You're both just young-uns.
I particularly liked the last 2 paragraphs from the blog at The White House Dossier...
“So we have an official with a journalism outfit – Atlantic Media – HOSTING a party for the president and his consigliere.
Mrs. Obama stayed home. Good for her. Maybe she was monitoring the situation in Egypt.”
Lets stick with the Smeat. I like Spam. One of these days I will get my keyboard trained to where it can spell.
Thanks. Being that I based the story on the pool reports, I think “inspired by my article” is a better way of putting it.
Perhaps we could suggest that Mr. Soros send all those contributions to FR because you get better results than they do?
Yes. That was a good summation.
That must have hurt if they had to get the Flying Monkeys out of bed on a Sunday to try to counter it
That was a beautiful original post. Short, sweet, right to the point and you linked in the source reports by Greta. Bravissimo.
make that signed by Kaplan on GretaWire.
2 hours party + 2 hours basketball = 4 hours evading responsibilities of his office
1 hour Egypt briefing = 1 hour acting as President
However you do the math, there seems to be some kind of deficit.
Free Republic - doing the job the MSM isn’t doing.
If the Libs are angry, you know you’re doing something right. :-)
One has to wonder how dirty we’d have to get to smear Obama with something worse than the truth. Assuming we could think of something worse than the truth.
What a bunch of whiners.
Thanks for the idea of searching this way. I found some of my FR comments on left-wing sites as well, dating all the way back to 2007. Glad to know they recognize greatness when they see it!!
The only thing missing is a dream cloud with him on the golf course or playing basketball or on some other vacation or party.
WooHoo!!!
Way to go, Kristinn!!!
Just thinkin’ here... I’ve still got my Vast Right Wing Conspiracy ID Card from back in the 90’s. Remember those?
Hey Media Matters! Screw you.
Thanks, don-o. I stand corrected in this case.
Kristinn has reported facts in the past, and I had forgotten that he had done so.
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