Dan Rather?
Is he still working?
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
Well, of course it is anti-Zero, what is their point???
Absolutely!
There Obama stunned guests* by lingering for nearly two hours and mingling easily. With a glass of champagne, he toasted his adviser for taking a chance on him back in '04.
SNIP
* You want names? Arne Duncan; Steve Chu; Tim Geithner; Julianna Smoot; Bill Burton; Jay Carney; Carol Browner; Axelrod's assistant Eric Lesser, who presented his boss with an autographed picture of Arnold Palmer (because apparently Axelrod drank Arnold Palmers all day instead of coffee); Jon Favreau; Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein; Stephanie Cutter; Reggie Love; Dan Pfeiffer; David Plouffe; Maureen Dowd; E.J. Dionne; Ed Henry; Gwen Ifill; Judy Woodruff; many, many others...
Nice job kristinn! Keep up the good work.
The depraved craven lickspittles are panicking, gasping for air and choking on their own puke.
I smell their fear.....
We must be doing something right!
Two-Thousand-onezie-onezie party over,
out of time...
So tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999!!!!
Yes...We are, We are telling the truth.
...and the Marxists can't bear it.
I’m surprised the folks at Media Matters could tear themselves away from monitoring FoxNews long enough to look at anything else.
Wow, you ARE optimistic. It's good to hear sometimes.
On behalf of the right wing smear machine I would like to state that Obama sucks.
Try to keep it straight for the sake of Oceania. Big Wookie is watching you.
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It’s only a forum, Media Matters. Chill out.
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery
Democrats are Patriots
Hey Media Matters. Take this: pppffffftt.
I have heard of FreeRepublic, but what is this “Media Matters” blog, a blog about oxymorons? Is that like the leftists used to say, “Military Intelligence, ha, ha!”
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