Media Matters for America linked with anti-American, anti-Israel Al-Jazeera network

[NYcarbineer]

Read every story? Nope. I haven't read every story on any site on the internet or publication or in our local newspaper that arrives in our front yard every morning nor do I listen to every report given on the radio or presented on television. But as a media person, I believe I can use samples to evaluate the particular slant and M.O. of any media source.

Ok so you have no basis to claim that every story mediamatters does is a lie.

I didn't say it was. I said it is presented in a way to make people believe a lie. And I have a lot of basis for that.

No, actually you did say that.

"Half truths or facts presented in such a way to make them into something they are not is no different than a lie."


There, I made it what I hope is big enough to jog your memory.

 

[daveman]

Ok so you have no basis to claim that every story mediamatters does is a lie.

I didn't say it was. I said it is presented in a way to make people believe a lie. And I have a lot of basis for that.

No, actually you did say that.

"Half truths or facts presented in such a way to make them into something they are not is no different than a lie."


There, I made it what I hope is big enough to jog your memory.

She didn't say "every", as you so strawmannishly claimed.

But I bet you're all proud of yourself.

Gaea knows why.

 

[Jroc]

Then your own logic you would have to conclude that Foxnews, and all of rightwing radio, have no legitimacy.

Two totally unrelated things. Neither talk radio nor Fox News were founded specifically to expose or discredit anything as MediaMatters freely admits that it was founded to do. Both talk radio and Fox News filled a huge void of almost no conservative point of view that was the case when both came into being. And because most Americans do tilt right of center on most things, they were hungry to have their views expressed, confirmed, validated. Nobody else was doing that at the time.

MediaMatters was not created to validate or express any particular point of view, It was created to scuttle, diminish, and if possible discredit anybody conservative or Republican. And it has stayed true to its roots. Of course it is a bit more charitable in how it describes itself at its website which is:

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

You're an idiot. Rightwing talk radio does not have an agenda? Foxnews does not have an agenda?

Please.

They are not working behind the scenes to slander and destroy people. Sorry there is no comparison. They are also not anti-Semitic most conservatives are not bigoted like the libs; they wouldn’t last long if they were. Only libs can get away with that kind of crap

 

[tinydancer]

Two totally unrelated things. Neither talk radio nor Fox News were founded specifically to expose or discredit anything as MediaMatters freely admits that it was founded to do. Both talk radio and Fox News filled a huge void of almost no conservative point of view that was the case when both came into being. And because most Americans do tilt right of center on most things, they were hungry to have their views expressed, confirmed, validated. Nobody else was doing that at the time.

MediaMatters was not created to validate or express any particular point of view, It was created to scuttle, diminish, and if possible discredit anybody conservative or Republican. And it has stayed true to its roots. Of course it is a bit more charitable in how it describes itself at its website which is:

You're an idiot. Rightwing talk radio does not have an agenda? Foxnews does not have an agenda?

Please.

They are not working behind the scenes to slander and destroy people. Sorry there is no comparison. They are also not anti-Semitic most conservatives are not bigoted like the libs; they wouldn’t last long if they were. Only libs can get away with that kind of crap

MJ Rosenberg feels he's nothing short of a "Media Vice President" to the White House. And although I find him an arrogant twit, sadly this man wields power and influence along with the other left wing anti Israel hacks at Media Matters.

This quote says it all.

"Until I got there [Media Matters] had nothing on foreign policy. They hired me specifically to be involved with this issue, with the Palestinian issue, with [the issue of] stopping the war with Iran."

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2893/media-matters-hurts-obama

 

[Jroc]

If you don't side with them, you must be silenced...

Astro-Turf War: Media Matters After Limbaugh

Stoking the fires of controversy, Media Matters for America has upped the ante in its war with Rush Limbaugh and will spend $100,000 to buy radio ads in 8 cities calling on citizens to force the talk radio star off the air. The ad buy is part of a carefully coordinated war that the left is carrying out against Limbaugh as they seek to silence one of the major conservative voices in the nation.

Limbaugh has responded by accusing the liberal front group for the Democratic party of seeking to censor his — and any other views — with which it disagrees. And there has been a spillover effect into government as the Los Angeles City Council has adopted a symbolic resolution that calls on radio stations to police their on-air talent’s “hate speech” while arguing that stations need to hire more minorities so that there is a “diversity” of viewpoints.

The ad campaign by Media Matters is just the latest broadside in its long standing effort to purge the radio host from the airwaves.

Astro-Turf War: Media Matters After Limbaugh | FrontPage Magazine

 

[Foxfyre]

Then your own logic you would have to conclude that Foxnews, and all of rightwing radio, have no legitimacy.

Two totally unrelated things. Neither talk radio nor Fox News were founded specifically to expose or discredit anything as MediaMatters freely admits that it was founded to do. Both talk radio and Fox News filled a huge void of almost no conservative point of view that was the case when both came into being. And because most Americans do tilt right of center on most things, they were hungry to have their views expressed, confirmed, validated. Nobody else was doing that at the time.

MediaMatters was not created to validate or express any particular point of view, It was created to scuttle, diminish, and if possible discredit anybody conservative or Republican. And it has stayed true to its roots. Of course it is a bit more charitable in how it describes itself at its website which is:

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

You're an idiot. Rightwing talk radio does not have an agenda? Foxnews does not have an agenda?

Please.

Yes, I can say without reservation that neither conservative talk radio nor Fox News have an agenda. And after listening to talk radio for more than two decades now and watching a lot of Fox News almost from its inception, I am 100% convinced that both exist to provide a conservative perspective along with all other perspectives on the news and events of the day, not to promote an agenda. Don't confuse a slant or emphasis with an agenda or even bias. They are two different things.

Media Matters has an agenda and a strong ideologically based bias. It exists solely to expose and discredit anything conservative; not to promote or defend anything progressive/liberal.

Conservative talk radio and Fox News have a slant as ALL media does. Theirs just happens to be slanted right of center while almost all other media sources are slanted left of center.

 

[Jroc]

The Plot to Get Rush

Who is Angelo Carusone? Today he is now the "Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters for America."

But a few years back? He was just your basic left-wing law student with a standard left-wing passion. That passion? Totalitarian-style censorship.

Let's stop here for a moment for a brief bit of historical background -- not a detour but a very necessary context.

It is a big mistake -- a really big mistake -- to dismiss what's being done to Rush Limbaugh as just some crazy guys at Media Matters.

When we work our way through what Angelo Carusone and his Media Matters comrades and others are doing when they target Rush, or went after Glenn Beck, or plan to do in targeting Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin and who knows who after that (Levin? Laura?) remember: this is the way the Left -- the global left throughout history, not simply the American Left today -- has always behaved. A fanatical intolerance is part of the leftist DNA.
The late Austrian free-market economist Ludwig von Mises described the leftist method of operation as "fanatical and intolerant." It works, he said, this way:

Socialism… works on the emotions…to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

The American Spectator : The Plot to Get Rush

 

[Jroc]

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