Comedy Gold: Media Matters Throws Party to Celebrate Beck Leaving Fox News

I honestly never paid much attention to Glenn Beck's show on Fox News, but the clowns at Media Matters sure were obsessed with it. So he must have been doing something right. Now that he's about to the leave the network, they're taking all the credit as if his leaving has anything at all to do with them.

Now, these goofballs will have more time to focus on all the other "right-wing nuts" out there - if only they could name any of them. Check out the guy at the 0:32 mark. Dude can't even come up with "Rush Limbaugh" or "Sarah Palin" off the top of his head? Pathetic! No doubt he'll be demoted to Geraldo duty by the end of the week.



Via the Blaze.

Australian Greens Building an Army of Know-Nothing Zombies

This sounds like a desperate campaign by far-left cranks to silence opposition to a hugely unpopular carbon pricing scam facing Australians come 2012. Those is power cannot handle the fact that people dare to have an opinion and make fun of them at every turn.

Now they're fighting back. Well, sort of.

THE Greens have launched another strike against the media, calling for volunteers for a rapid-response team to target "shock jock" and "hate campaigns" through talkback and letters to editors.

The call to action echoes Bob Brown's attack on the "hate press" last week and Twitter jibes at individual journalists from his director of media, Marion Rae.

"The Australian Greens are looking to build a national network of individuals who want to take up the challenge of responding to the misinformation and hate campaigns being waged by radio shock jocks and other sections of the community and media," says the party in an email.

So pointing out the failures of these meddling bureaucrats and doomsayers is a hate campaign?

The Democrats here have been doing this stuff for years. You can always identify them, as Rush Limbaugh is wont to do, as seminar callers. They have no idea what they;re talking about, but so sure of themselves. This part perfectly emphasizes you don't actually have to have a functioning brain to enlist in this zombie army.

It says there will be no need for the volunteers to actually hear or read the opinions and reporting to which they are responding.

So in effect they can be lamestream media types who regurgitate edited soundbites spoonfed them by party apparatchiks. Hmm. It all sounds so familiar. I wonder is Soros is financing this scheme?

Speaking of apparatchiks, it's worth noting what a colossal financial fiasco they've become.

First he points out that “What began in 2004 as a ten- persohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn shop with a $3 million annual budget now has around 90 employees and plans to spend $15 million this year.” That is striking and demonstrates the enormous fundraising operation that they have created. But that is not translating into readers. With that budget and staff, they should be about the size of a site like Politico, but the numbers tell a far different story. According to web traffic evaluator, Quantcast, Politico averages 5.6 million monthly unique visitors, Media Matters a mere 646,200. Even if you give Media Matters the benefit of the doubt and double that number, they are still doing a fraction of the traffic of sites its size (at 1.3 million, it would still be far smaller than little Mediaite, with ten times the staff). That’s something that clearly should have been pointed out in the story.

Not exactly much of a return for a staff of 90 and a budget in the millions. It's worth noting that Quantcast number and the sites listed that Media Matters readers also like, including the far-left Democrat outfit Think Progress and even further left The Nation. Even Al Jazeera makes the list, which makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

Also worth noting is the Media Matters audience is predominately male and overwhelmingly white. They appear far less diverse than any Tea Party audience I've seen.

Progressive Goon Squad Displaying New Civility

Ben Smith over at Politico must think this is some sort of revelation, the fact that Media Matters is targeting Fox News but really it is just an affirmation of what we already knew. I guess if there is some new news in the article it is the level of venom and hatred that resides in the hearts and minds of the Media Matters myrmidons. Really this level of obsession is unhealthy and borders on the Andrew Sullivan's degree of craziness associated with all things related to the reproduction abilities of the Palin's.

The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.

I guess that civility memo just flew right across their desk and into file 13 faster then their writers could generate it.

Media Matters are acting like some sort of Borg collective, running around demanding that everyone assimilate, but in that regard they act no different then any liberal who when confronted with a conservative African American don't immediately start hurling the Uncle Tom references at them. Progressives and liberals despise anybody or anything that will not reside in the designated group that they have assigned them to. Their interpretation of free speech means you are free to have free speech as long as you use our talking points.

There is a reason Fox News is #1 but as an employee of Fox News, regardless of capacity from the secretaries to Rupert Murdoch, knowing that you have a group of unhinged people monitoring your every move and poring over your personal information has got to be a little unnerving and knowing that for this group nothing is beneath them I would be looking to take measures to protect myself.

Don't ever think Media Matters is just an innocent bunch of obsessed bloggers. If they put you in their crosshairs they will stop at nothing to destroy you. They will make the stuff up knowing full well that many traditional media outlets not only have their back but will work with them to promote the storyline regardless of if there is one bit of factual information in it or not.

The on air Fox personalities are one thing, but Media Matters is making it clear they don't care if you are janitor or the night watchman, if you work for Fox News they are coming after you.

“We made a list of every single person who works for Fox and tried to figure out who might be disgruntled and why, and we went out to try to meet them,” he said. “Clearly, somebody in that organization is giving us primary source documents.”

Media Matters, he said, is also conducting “opposition research” on a dozen or so “mid- and senior-level execs and producers,” a campaign style move that he and Brock said would simply involve recording their public appearances and digging into public records associated with them.

My sympathies are with the Fox News employees who are going to have to endure this self declared war and I would think somewhere out there are some lawyers who would be willing to help these folks with the invasion of their privacy and with what will no doubt manifest itself in some physical confrontations with the minions of this progressive organization because that is exactly how they operate. Intimidation, fear, and threats.

Being a big dog lover I might also suggest that Fox employees look into some sort of canine companionship so that when the Media Matters employee who forgets to take his meds that day and shows up on your front lawn can also be given a chance to evaluate their cardio vascular conditioning level.

Red Eye Skewers Media Matters Bedwetters

Now that they've completed Media Matters Boot Camp, liberal babbleheads can enjoy this parody of their idiocy. Appropriately enough, the lovely Brooke Alvarez from The Onion adds commentary.

Hammer and Sickle Flag at Half Staff Outside Media Matters HQ Following Olbermann Departure

The way the George Soros lackeys are carrying on in the wake of Keith Olbermann's abrupt departure from MSNBC you'd think a head of state has passed away. They're so puffed up with self-importance they're issuing formal statements.

For nearly eight years, Countdown with Keith Olbermann led the charge against conservative misinformation in prime time. He was one of the few voices in the media willing to hold the Bush administration accountable and fight the right-wing smears against progressives and their policies.

Coming from a character assassin whose sole role in life is to manufacture smears against conservatives that is some major projection. These people splice together audio clips to slander Rush Limbaugh on a regular basis, yet it's somehow the right that engages in misinformation.

Laughably, the other "big news" on their site involves trashing Andrew Breitbart for allegedly being "anti-gay" or something and casually smearing Fox for using Nazi imagery or something. But remember, it's the conservatives who are into misinformation. Speaking of Nazi reference, a mere three comments into another Olbermann story and there are snide "Nazi" comments used against a conservative.

Don't think so. Who else is going to hire him? CNN? Any outfit that will hire Herr Erick Erickson will certainly have no truck with Keith...

Such hateful and incendiary rhetoric.

Tail Wagging The Dog Story

This is a tail wagging the dog story if ever I saw one. Who do on air news teleprompter readers go to when they have an ax to grind? Why Media Matters of course.

Ex-CNN anchor Leon Harris, who’s working these days as an anchor at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., says a reporter fired from his station and just-hired by Fox News may have intended to lose his local gig so he could land at Fox.

Harris tells Media Matters reporter Doug McKelway seemed to shed his professionalism in favor of seeking out a “YouTube moment” that might hasten a high-profile firing.

Really? Their outlet of choice for gossip is Media Matters? We all know, or at least should know what a straight arrow that George Soros funded group over there is. The normal flow is leak it to Media Matters, or rely on them to fabricate a story out of fairy dust, disseminate it further through the Huffington Post which gets it into the Yahoo news feed and then into the New York Times and finally onto MSNBC's breathless story of the day. Trace any of your favorite anti Fox, Palin bashing or Republican supposed dirty tricks stories and you will discover this is the normal trail. Sometimes it works in the reverse direction, but they have all of their online, print and mass market media covered and all singing the same tune so that the public are constantly hearing about so many non story stories, but they must be true cause I saw, read, or heard it here.

Anyway the story sounds like a lot of sour grapes from the folks no doubt facing their own uncertain future over at WJLA and more then a little bit strange that all their stories have the same key points.

Last week, several WJLA staffers offered criticisms of McKelway to Media Matters.

Only Harris is quoted but the piece is written to give the impression that the other employees said the same things.

BTW Mr Harris, why did you leave CNN?

As heady as the stories were, Harris began to grow restless as another American war loomed in the Middle East in 2002. Now an established anchor, Harris had been getting job feelers from stations around the country, including WJLA. He demurred, hoping that CNN would give him a choice reporting assignment during the coming conflict in Iraq. "It was a classic all-hands-on-deck situation, and I wanted to be one of the hands," Harris said. "I needed to know I wouldn't be doing cut-ins."

Except that's exactly what CNN had in mind. As the war started, Harris became the cut-in king, popping up for hours on end with one-minute progress reports. He began to keep count: At one point, he did cut-ins for 34 consecutive days.

Harris called his agent.

"It was clear to me that they didn't think I was as good as I thought I could be," he says. "I got frustrated. I just wanted to feel like a grown-up. The way I came up, maybe they didn't think I could be a real journalist. I think they thought I was a good guy, a team player, but I wasn't a real news grown-up. ... If I didn't leave, I knew I wouldn't feel like a grown-up."

Oh, you wanted to be treated like a grown up as opposed to Mr McKelway who is going the other way on the news business food chain. You had your chance. You felt that CNN was screwing you over and you moved on but you want to criticize somebody else who may feel the same way?

Hey Leon, grow up!

Media Matters Obsession With Fox News and Sarah Palin Backfires Badly

The schmucks actually ran this clip thinking it was a Fox News presentation, while they showed the clip that was originally run on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. They really are that stupid.

*CORRECTION: This clip's original headline stated that "Fox's Special Report creates special video of Sarah Palin punching Nicolle Wallace." The video Special Report ran was originally from NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Media Matters regrets the error.

Is this the level of stupidity George Soros gets for all his money? I realize these people are obsesses with all things Fox News, but really, are they that dumb?

H/T Tim Blair.

'If Beck Isn't Stopped, I Think We'll Have Another Oklahoma City [bombing] in This Country'

The Washington Post plants a sloppy wet kiss on the goons at Media Matters, who apparently have decided it's time to "stop" Glenn Beck. How they plan to "stop" Beck isn't made clear. Seems maybe they hope someone offs him.

In recent weeks, Media Matters has gone from simply publicizing what it deems to be Fox's misinformation to actively campaigning against the network. The organization has posted a Web page with an online petition that asks Fox's advertisers to "Drop Fox," that is, stop sponsoring the network.

Brock says the campaign, which predates Soros's contribution to Media Matters, is justified by Fox's refusal to rein in Beck. Brock and Media Matters blame Beck for inciting violent threats against the Tides Foundation, as well as a shootout in July between California police and a gunman who authorities said intended to attack Tides' headquarters. Tides chief executive and founder, Drummond Pike, has endorsed Media Matters' campaign.

"Every sponsor of every Fox show should be put on notice that this insanity is being underwritten by [advertisers]," Brock says. He adds: "If Beck isn't stopped, I think we'll have another Oklahoma City [bombing] in this country."

So advertisers are being "put on notice" and Glenn Beck must be "stopped." If I didn't know better I would say these thugs are making threats.

W's Revenge: 'Bush Donor Takeover' of MSNBC Leads to Olbermann Suspension

Friday's suspension of MSNBC anger management counselor Keith Olbermann has sent the left reeling, flailing and thrashing about wildly looking to claim other scalps while comically badgering Phil Griffin with emails and phone calls. But finally the super-sleuths at the George Soros "think tank" Think Progress have uncovered the dark forces behind the scenes--Bush donors!

Late last year, Comcast — the nation’s largest cable provider and second largest Internet service provider — inked a deal taking over NBC Universal, the parent company of MSNBC. Comcast moved swiftly to reshuffle MSNBC’s top staff. On September 26th of this year, Comcast announced perhaps the most dramatic shift, replacing longtime MSNBC chief Jeff Zucker with Comcast executive Steve Burke. Burke has given generous amounts to both parties — providing cash to outgoing Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) as well as to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and other top Republicans. But as Public Citizen has noted, Burke has deep ties to the Republican Party. Public Citizen’s report reveals that Burke served as a key fundraiser to President George Bush, and even served on Bush’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology

So he's given to both parties, but somehow his connection to the evil Bush make for great copy.

Just one little teensy-weensy problem here. Comcast doesn't formally own MSNBC yet.

The dope who authored this nonsense revised that last paragraph to add this does of reality:

[Updated: The shift from Zucker to Burke has not taken place yet -- Burke will preside over MSNBC once the Comcast merger is complete. We have been informed that no Comcast officials are currently involved in the decisions of NBC or MSNBC.].

Oopsy! Oh well, it made a a great conspiracy while it lasted. Yes, it gets sillier.

Olbermann has been a strong voice in favor of a free and open Internet. Republicans, on the other hand, have supported the telecommunication industry’s push to radically change the Internet so corporate content producers have the upper hand over start-ups like blogs, independent media, small businesses, etc. As Reuters has reported, the incoming Republican Congress has signaled that it will vigorously side with companies like Comcast against an open Internet.

Got all that? To summarize: Republicans want to silence dissent, Olbermann is all for free speech. Well, except if it's Andrew Breitbart appearing on ABC News' election night coverage. Can't have that. Yes, these folks are all for free speech, as long as it's theirs. Think Progress and the goons from Media Matters will go to the ends of the earth to stifle dissent, yet we're supposed to believe it's Republicans and not these stormtroopers who want to silence people.

Wait, it gets even better. Who does the author next cite as a source? Why, Media Matters! You can't make this up.

Media Matters Not Handling Crushing Defeat Too Well

To no surprise, Fox News had record-breaking viewership Tuesday night as their fair and balanced lineup is now the most trusted name in news. Contrast that with the running joke that MSNBC has become, where their absurd coverage laced with snide commentary left them at the bottom of the cable heap, trailing even CNN.

Naturally, the children at Media Matters aren't taking defeat well.

During the 2010 election cycle, Fox News, its employees, and its parent company engaged in an unprecedented campaign in support of the Republican Party. The network served as the communications and fundraising wing of the GOP while fervently promoting -- and sometimes creating -- the party's candidates.

I guess the RNC, RSCC, RCCC, state parties and individual candidates did nothing. They simply waited for funding and marching orders from a television network.

Is this what George Soros expects for all his money? These clowns even see something sinister brewing as they look ahead to 2012.

Fox News candidates "speak through Fox News" at least 269 times in 2010. Media Matters for America searched the Nexis database through September 18 for network and cable television appearances in 2010 by five potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates who currently have relationships with Fox News. The five potential candidates -- John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Rick Santorum -- have appeared 269 times on Fox News and a total of six times on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS combined.

Let's put it this way: Why not go where you reach the largest potential audience? They just don't get it.

Ironically, Media Matters sees no such nefarious collaboration when a lone Democrat appears 62 times on MSNBC.

Methodology: Media Matters uses Lexis transcripts and TV Eyes searches. We don’t have access to these premium services, so we had to make do with the interwebs. We searched the msnbc website for transcripts and, with the help of Google, searched the web for videos of Grayson appearances on MSNBC. Appearances on CNBC were not counted.

So what did we find? MSNBC has treated Alan Grayson very well, with considerably more appearances than Kasich and Paul on Fox combined. More than 30. More than 40. In fact, a total of 62 appearances! To be fair, as a sitting Congressman prone to attention grabbing, it is likely that he would be called on more often than a non-incumbent. But over 60 appearances, even multiple appearances on the same day? (In what must be an oversight, Media Matters has yet to report on this spectacular example of what it calls ‘promotion’.)

Meanwhile, a delusional Media Matters drone tells us America rejected the GOP Tuesday (H/T).

Breaking: Secret Media Matters Sources Disclose Bombshell Revelation That Conservatives Work at Fox or Something

The folks over at The Land of Make Believe are at it again. In an earth-shattering discovery, Bill Salmon has been identified as a conservative and anonymous sources supposedly talk to morons at Media Matters.

If anyone can figure out the point, let me know.

Asked about the first source's allegation, a second source with knowledge of the situation said, "I wouldn't disagree with it from this standpoint: Brit was the 800-pound gorilla who could pick up the phone and say he will not do that. Bill Sammon is no 800-pound gorilla within the organization. He doesn't have that much sway."

The second source also said of Sammon, "He is not going to buck the bosses in New York. The D.C. bureau chief [Brian Boughton] and managing editor in D.C. [Sammon] are not as powerful as they once were. They are not going to raise objections and fight hard. They will just pass on the message."

Fox News did not respond to requests for comment on Sammon.

Gee, I wonder why? This pathetic obsession with Fox is eating away at their brains, not to mention their readers.

I believe this 100%. However, I will agree that this is fairly thin on evidence. We can't be like t-baggers and believe everything we read that fits our beliefs. That being said MMfA is reputable and no doubt will follow up this story with more evidence when it surfaces. For now, it seems like Fox News has some turmoil but we'll have to wait and see to what depth.

Speaking of pathetic obsessions, they're soiling themselves on word that Andrew Breitbart will be appearing on ABC News on election night.

Heh: Soros Cashes In On News Corp Investment

Wait until the kiddies at Media Matters find out their sugar daddy is paying them with profits made from News Corp, owner of the evil Fox News. It might be enough to make Oliver Willis cough up his Twinkies. Soros and his stormtroopers spend their miserable lives attacking and smearing Fox News, so we wonder if this little tidbit will give them pause.

It was the opening salvo in a Soros-funded “stop-advertising” war to destroy Fox News for its threat to America’s “democracy” – an odd worry for Soros, who wrote a book titled “The Bubble of American Supremacy,” calling down doom on just about everything American.

And an odd war for Soros Fund Management LLC, which was heavily invested in News Corp, parent company of Fox News. SEC filings show Soros managed News Corp shares worth $4 million in 2004 and $2.3 million when sold last year. Cash trumps hypocrisy.

Do the lefties at Media Matters know that Soros gets his foundation money from his hedge fund investments in politically incorrect stocks: tobacco, fossil fuels, genetically modified foods, and burger joints? Do they care?

Not likely. Today’s American left is only about money and power.

That and ruining people's lives through smears and deception.

Comedy Gold: Blithering Nutcase Joy Behar Calls Media Matters 'Objective'

As if anyone needed further confirmation this woman is one of the dumbest, most ignorant people on the planet.

Joy Behar: I don’t need the money. but the thing of it is that npr has been vetted by objective media matter type people and they have found that –

Elizabeth Hasselback: Media Matters?

Behar: I don’t know if it’s media matters. maybe someone could find this out for me. they have found npr is very balanced, unlike fox, which is not balanced. fox has now become the arm of the republican party.

Hasselback: That’s such a talking point, joy. it’s not true.

Behar: It is true.

Hasselback: It is not true.

Behar: People who are running for office are commentators on Fox.

Of course, that's factually incorrect since anyone running for office isn't allowed to be a commentator. A guest, sure, but not a paid employee of a media outlet. But why would an ignoramus like Behar even have the slightest clue as to anything factual. The woman is painfully dumb.

Who Said Media Matters Was Predictable?

Oh, right, I did.

Rush's new name for Obama: Obamadinejad. Dorks at @mmfa must be wetting themselves

Sure enough:

RT @mmfa: Limbaugh refers to president as "Imam Obamadinejad" http://bit.ly/doIEuI #p2/ @JammieWF: You were right!

Geez, they're suckers.


I love this comment:

I admit it's humorous but it's not really a good nickname for Obama since Ahmadinejad is a far right conservative.

Sure, why everybody associates Ahmadinejad with conservatives.

Good grief.

Thanks to Instapundit for the link.

Foreign Money in Politics: Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters

I wonder if the Little Hitlers at Media Matters will attack me for noting this?

Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros.

In a statement obtained by The Caucus, the organization says it plans to use the money to intensify its efforts to hold the Fox host Glenn Beck and others on the cable news channel accountable for their reporting.

“Fox has transformed itself into a 24-7 G.O.P. attack machine, dividing Americans through fear-mongering and falsehoods and undermining the legitimacy of our government for partisan political ends,” the group will say in the statement, to be released Wednesday afternoon.

So we have a group that makes up stories about Beck and Rush Limbaugh by splicing together audio and Fox is the attack machine? What planet are these people living on?

In an accompanying statement, Mr. Soros, a billionaire who has a history of supporting liberal politicians and causes, accused Fox News hosts of “incendiary rhetoric” and said he hoped that his money would be used “in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”

Civil actions. Like making up stories. Typical leftists. Accuse others of actions which you are guilty of.

Officials at Media Matters regularly deny that they have ever taken money from Mr. Soros, who repeats that denial in Wednesday’s statement, saying, “I have not to date been a funder” of the liberal organization. Now, he will officially be a donor, and likely a fresh target for criticism from the right.

Media Matters has a long, documented history with Soros. Now it's undeniable.

Meanwhile, the thugs spend their days begging advertisers to boycott Fox News. How pathetic.

More here on the Soros connections.

Politico, however, reported today that “Media Matters has received funding from or formed partnerships with several groups that Soros funds or has funded. These include the Tides Foundation, Democracy Alliance, Moveon.org and the Center for American Progress.” It later corrected its post to absolve Moveon.org because it “has not received a donation from Soros since 2004.”

JWF Mentioned on FNC's Special Report, Media Matters Flips Out

I didn't catch this last night, but thanks to Sissy Willis for alerting me on Twitter. Seems my comment regarding Dingy Harry Reid's absurd statement about Obama being like a Chilean miner struck a chord. Watch the video.

The humor-deprived character assassins at the Soros-funded Media Matters take umbrage with Fox using me as a source of humor.

Apart from the questionable cleverness of JammieWearingFool's response, Baier should have been more selective for a solid journalistic reason: JammieWearingFool is a bad source of information. He has a history of picking up hoaxes and presenting them as genuine. He treated a blog post about Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) spending time in a "mental hospital" as potentially real -- but the post was marked "satire." Likewise, he fell for another bit of satire about a global warming activist freezing to death in Antarctica. He also promoted the easily debunked line of attack that it was "[a]nother slap in the face to our veterans" for Obama to honor the troops on Memorial Day somewhere other than Arlington National Cemetery. (The past three Republican presidents have done the same.)

And then there was the time that he compared Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's looks to those of a male former CNN reporter.

In a way, Baier's decision to quote JammieWearingFool makes sense, given Fox News' long history of harvesting phony stories and bankrupt lines of attack from right-wing bloggers -- the utterly discredited Jim Hoft quickly jumps to mind.

This from a group that selectively edits quotes from Rush Limbaugh on a regular basis in order to smear him.

I consider it an honor to have this crew of paid liars attack me. It's one thing to put up satirical blog posts. Quite distinguishable from a paid group of smear merchants whose sole purpose is to destroy people's lives and reputations through slanderous accusations using edited quotes out of context. What would really be funny is to have some video of these pinheads wetting themselves when they saw this site mentioned on FNC.

Update: Thanks to Doug Powers for pointing out another case of these hatchetmen caught context-editing video. But don't forget, this little old blog site and Fox News can't be trusted.

Aw, How Cute: Media Matters Obsessing Over Us Again

More idiocy from Obama's stenographers at the Soros-funded hack shop know as Media Matters. Must be great having a sugar daddy like Uncle George.

Anyway, some humorless dope named Eric Boehlert takes umbrage with us for pointing out we don't find any liberal women politicians attractive. Poor thing.

It would help if Boehlert could actually mention a couple of Democrat women he might consider attractive so as to somehow persuade us. But since he doesn't name any we'll stand by our original statement.

Boehlert also makes the specious claim that I called the liberal media sexist. Nowhere do I make that claim. I understand Boehlert isn't that bright, but maybe someone could point this out to him.

There may come a day when the idiots throwing away millions of dollars on these clowns realize they're not getting any value for their money. Then Boehlert and these other schmucks might have to get a real job.

We're Now Official Right-Wing Media

Just a Grunt emailed me earlier about this and I noticed it through a few scant hits on the Sitemeter, but the obsessive juiceboxers at Media Matters are monitoring our behavior again. The humorless Soros drones apparently took offense at my noticing an eerie resemblance between Obama clone Elena Kagan and former CNN reporter John Holliman. Of course others found her looking more like Chaz Bono, but I digress.

Others in this right-wing media cabal apparently include Jason Mattera, Michael Savage and Neal Boortz, so we consider it an honor to now officially be part of the dreaded right-wing media. At last we've found our lot in life, thanks in no small part to some sad clowns at Media Matters. If only their pathetic website actually had some traffic we'd have gotten more than the dozen or so visits we've received today from them.

You have to imagine some day the blithering idiots financing these clowns might realize they're not quite getting any return on their investment considering my own little website that costs nothing gets more traffic than their operation that costs millions.

NYT Ombudsman Blows Up ACORN Conspiracy Theory, Media Matters Hardest Hit

An exhaustive piece today from New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt demolishes the absurd claims made by far left outfits such as the Democrat operatives at Media Matters and FAIR, a discredited neo-Communist outfit perhaps with less credibility that ACORN.

Acorn’s supporters appear to hope that the whole story will fall apart over the issue of what O’Keefe wore: if that was wrong, everything else must be wrong. The record does not support them. If O’Keefe did not dress as a pimp, he clearly presented himself as one: a fellow trying to set up a woman — sometimes along with under-age girls — in a house where they would work as prostitutes. In Washington, he said the prostitution was to finance his future in politics. A worker for Acorn Housing, an allied group, warned him to stay away from the brothel lest someone “get wind that you got a house and that your girlfriend is over there running a house of women of the night. You will not have a career.”

FAIR said that in Brooklyn, O’Keefe and Giles seemed to be telling Acorn staffers that “they are attempting to buy a house to protect child prostitutes from an abusive pimp.” That’s right, but FAIR left out the part about their clear intention to operate a brothel, which the Acorn workers seemed to take in stride, with one warning: “Don’t get caught, ’cause it is against the law.”

The videos were heavily edited. The sequence of some conversations was changed. Some workers seemed concerned for Giles, one advising her to get legal help. In two cities, Acorn workers called the police. But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context. Harshbarger’s report to Acorn found no “pattern of illegal conduct” by its employees. But, he told me: “They said what they said. There’s no way to make this look good.”

He also said the news media should have been far more skeptical, demanding the raw video from which the edited versions were produced. “It’s outrageous that this could have had this effect without being questioned more,” he said.

The report by Harshbarger and Crafts was not covered by The Times. It should have been, but the Acorn/O’Keefe story became something of an orphan at the paper. At least 14 reporters, reporting to different sets of editors, have touched it since last fall. Nobody owns it. Bill Keller, the executive editor, said that, “sensing the story would not go away and would be part of a larger narrative,” the paper should have assigned one reporter to be responsible for it.

It remains a fascinating story. To conservatives, Acorn is virtually a criminal organization that was guilty of extensive voter registration fraud in 2008. To its supporters, Acorn is a community service organization that has helped millions of disadvantaged Americans by organizing to confront powerful institutions like banks and developers.

Harshbarger’s report focused heavily on Acorn’s “longstanding management weaknesses, including lack of training, a lack of procedures and a lack of on-site supervision” that he said provided fertile ground for O’Keefe’s sting. Lewis, who took over less than two years ago, said she has been working aggressively to reform the organization.

The story now is whether she has run out of time.

This kook from Media Matters has been in an on-going feud with Andrew Breitbart, and is still stuck deeply in denial. His reaction to Clark Hoyt cutting the legs out from his narrative?

New York Times finally comes clean about ACORN pimp hoax; http://tinyurl.com/yg6jens

The Times comes clean? No, they just blew you out of the water.

Lamest Limbaugh Hit Piece Ever?

The New York Daily News may as well just put the obsessive Rush transcribers from Media Matters on the payroll. Why bother employing this hack when all she does is copy and paste their material?

There was an eyebrow-raising exchange Tuesday between radio host Rush Limbaugh and a caller in which Limbaugh makes a racist comment about Gov. Paterson.

And what is the alleged racist comment? She "conveniently" has a transcription of a conversation betwen Limbaugh and a caller.

CALLER: Yeah. Hey, listen. Interesting sidebar to that Eric Massa mess for Democrats. You know, our besieged governor, David Paterson, will be charged with naming a replacement for Massa. And I'm wondering if there's any chance, do you think that Paterson...

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Wait a minute.

CALLER: ...will exact some revenge on Obama, Emanuel, Cuomo, the whole Democratic gulag, by appointing a Republican or, at the very least, a DINO - a Democrat in name only?

LIMBAUGH: Are you sure that Paterson appoints or is there a special election?

CALLER: I am reasonably sure that Paterson will be appointing the replacement, assuming that he, you know, doesn't resign in the next 60 or 90 days.

LIMBAUGH: Let's assume you're right. So, David Paterson will become the massa...

CALLER: Yes.

LIMBAUGH: ...who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place. So, for the first time in his life, Paterson's gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting.

Seems like a pretty innocuous take on the name Massa. Now lets see if you can spot the similarities between her "reporting" and this item from the tools at Media Matters.

CALLER: Yeah. Hey, listen. Interesting sidebar to that Eric Massa mess for Democrats. You know, our besieged governor, David Paterson, will be charged with naming a replacement for Massa. And I'm wondering if there's any chance -- do you think that Paterson --

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Wait a minute.

CALLER: -- will exact some revenge on Obama, Emanuel, Cuomo, the whole Democratic gulag, by appointing a Republican or, at the very least, a DINO -- a Democrat in name only?

LIMBAUGH: Are you sure that Paterson appoints or is there a special election?

CALLER: I am reasonably sure that Paterson will be appointing the replacement, assuming that he, you know, doesn't resign in the next 60 or 90 days.

LIMBAUGH: Let's assume you're right. So, David Paterson will become the massa --

CALLER: Yes.

LIMBAUGH: -- who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place. So, for the first time in his life, Paterson's gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting.

Hmm. Completely identical.

This may be the laziest piece of "reporting" I've ever seen. Is this what the Daily News is paying her for?

Funny, but I thought the purpose of the punks at Media Matters was ostensibly to report on the media, not spoonfeed them their material.