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...times was in violation of its ban on carrying a concealed weapon. "He had more security than a Third World dictator," one Media Matters employee told The Daily Caller. Brock's guards rarely left Brock's side and even accompanied him to his home in a tony Washington...
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FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/16/brock-and-glock-armed-men-guarded-media-matters-boss-as-took-400000-gun-control/
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...to ask whether Fox News was in cahoots with The Daily Caller in an effort to destroy Media Matters. The headline generated from posing the question was: “Fox News: There Is ‘Absolutely No Coordination’ With Daily Caller On Takedown Of Media Matters."...
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Hollywood Reporter
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Transcript by www.newsy.com BY ZACH TOOMBS Conservative blog The Daily Caller is calling out Media Matters. Tucker Carlson — the blog's editor and a Fox News contributor — reports the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America considered launching an all-out campaign against Fox News. He spoke to Fox's Steve Doucey on Tuesday about e-mails obtained by The Daily Caller. "This is a plan to discredit Fox in the eyes of its viewers. And one of the ideas in this memo is to send private investigators to look into the personal lives of Fox News anchors, reporters, staff." The Daily Caller's report relies on anonymous sources — current and former Media Matters employees, Carlson says. And it centers on an email sent from Media Matters contributor Karl Frisch to the organization's head — David Brock. The Daily Caller reports, in that email, Frisch lays out a series of ideas to humiliate Fox News, including "... 'detailed opposition research' on the network's staff and executives, attacks against Fox News employees on Facebook and other social media, mailing anti-Fox News literature to their homes and placing 'yard signs and outdoor advertising in their neighborhoods.'" On its own website, Media Matters has plenty of firepower aimed at Fox News but no response to The Daily Caller report as of Tuesday evening. But Mediaite.com quotes another unnamed source from Media Matters, who argues The Daily Caller report is suspiciously timed near the release of Media Matters new book ...
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...aired dozens of broadcast segments on the organization and its tax-exempt status. The stories often cite comments made by Media Matters CEO David Brock, who described his organization’s efforts against the news channel as “guerilla warfare and sabotage” in...
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The New Media Journal
http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/4575
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...not return TheDC’s request for comment. Unique visitor traffic for the Media Research Center, a conservative counterpart to Media Matters, declined only 1.08 percent during the same timeframe, despite having smaller unique traffic numbers. MRC also did not...
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Kaus Files
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/15/media-matters-matters-even-less-on-the-internet/
Daily Caller: Media Matters Intended To Look Into Private Lives Of Fox News' Staffers
"The Daily Caller" exposed the White House / Media Matters connection. Reportedly, the anti-Fox News website has been having regular discussions with the White House. Are we taking the relationship between the White House and mainstream media for granted? Find out. See more at www.pjtv.com
Obama Administration = Criminal Enterprise George Soros = Global Criminal MUST be Defeated in 2012 Tucker Carlson reveals the connection between Soros funded Media Matters/Democrats/Politico
Media Matters a White House Propaganda Machine Part I Obama Files Supports Newt Gingrich 2012 www.newt.org web.me.com
February 13th 2012 Progressive' government mouthpiece routinely attacks Alex Jones, Ron Paul. An investigation by the Daily Caller has confirmed that the leftist organization Media Matters, which routinely attacks Alex Jones and Infowars, is an Obama administration front that strategizes with the White House on a weekly basis on how to influence and direct the media. Media Matters has habitually attempted to denigrate and smear Alex Jones and his message of liberty, by dismissing Jones as a crazed "conspiracy theorist" and then connecting him to other targets of their attacks, people like Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Lou Dobbs and the Fox News network. Media Matters also recently defended Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security by impugning an Infowars story about the DHS targeting white middle class Americans as terrorists, and then deriding other media networks for also covering the issue. The organization has also routinely carried smear attacks implying that questioning the official story behind 9/11 is some kind of thought crime, despite the fact that six of the ten 9/11 commissioners have disputed the government's account. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowars.net www.prisonplanet.com www.infowarsshop.com
Progressive' government mouthpiece routinely attacks Alex Jones, Ron Paul Paul Joseph Watson www.infowars.com Monday, February 13, 2012 An investigation by the Daily Caller has confirmed that the leftist organization Media Matters, which routinely attacks Alex Jones and Infowars, is an Obama administration front that strategizes with the White House on a weekly basis on how to influence and direct the media. Media Matters has habitually attempted to denigrate and smear Alex Jones and his message of liberty, by dismissing Jones as a crazed "conspiracy theorist" and then connecting him to other targets of their attacks, people like Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Lou Dobbs and the Fox News network. Media Matters also recently defended Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security by impugning an Infowars story about the DHS targeting white middle class Americans as terrorists, and then deriding other media networks for also covering the issue. The organization has also routinely carried smear attacks implying that questioning the official story behind 9/11 is some kind of thought crime, despite the fact that six of the ten 9/11 commissioners have disputed the government's account. www.infowars.com
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Extensive interviews with a number of Brock’s current and former colleagues at Media Matters, as well as with leaders from across the spectrum of Democratic politics, reveal an organization roiled by its leader’s volatile and erratic behavior and struggl
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Sister Toldjah
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2012/02/13/journolist-part-deux-the-media-matters-wh-msm-connection/
During a segment about new rules regarding women in the military, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta attacked the Department of Defense for increasing spending on support programs for victims of sexual assault.
In her 2012 Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for Grassroots Journalism, BigJournalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch takes on Planned Parenthood, George Soros, MSNBC and a "fascistic, witch-hunting, black-listing, book burning den of thieves" known as Media Matters for America. www.aim.org
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Looks like Tucker Carlson at the Daily Caller has hit paydirt again. The DC has exposed several juicy stories, including the email group of liberals Journolist and the night on the town spent by RNC staffers at a bawdy house. Now, an expose of the Soros-
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American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/02/media_matters_for_america_exposed.html
The new book from David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt, and Media Matters for America. www.thefoxeffect.com From tracing the career of Fox News founder Roger Ailes as he learned to manipulate racial politics while working on the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon and George HW Bush, to visiting a cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean where a senior Fox News executive admitted to telling Fox News viewers that Barack Obama was a socialist even though he did not believe the charge to be true, The Fox Effect dismantles once and for all the notion that there's any genuine meaning behind the network's "fair & balanced" slogan. Using leaked internal emails and Roger Ailes' own writings, including a never-before-seen private letter, there has never been a more compelling summation of Fox's dangerous and destructive role in our democracy. This is not your standard media criticism book -- it's the definitive answer to every cousin, brother-in-law or neighbor who ever told you that Fox was their go-to place for news. You can pre-order your copy of The Fox Effect at Amazon: amzn.to Barnes and Noble: mm4a.org Indie Bound: www.indiebound.org
For over a year, conservative media outlets have told consumers that in January 2012, they would no longer be able to purchase incandescent light bulbs due to federal efficiency standards. A trip to CVS shows that in fact, incandescent light bulbs are available, only now they're more efficient.
How much are CNN, MSNBC and Fox covering the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down a Media Matters study showing that the British Royal Family, Tim Tebow and Kim Kardashian got more coverage. mediamatters.org Show support for the Tech blackout in protest of SOPA here: act.ly Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Download the politics or entertainment hour of this TYT episode: goo.gl Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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This week on The Big Picture Melody Johnson breaks down how Fox News ignores Christianity in its attacks on the poor, how President Obama has apparently declared war on ALL of the holidays, and why Fox needs an overhaul of its graphics department.
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UPDATED: Corrected Dan Lashof's affiliation Featuring interviews with Bob Perkowitz from EcoAmerica and Dan Lashof from Natural Resources Defense Council. Voice over by DC Douglas.
150+ Fox News Bias videos at www.youtube.com A spate of recent Fox News attacks on Media Matters tax-exempt status for partisanship included one last week with Steve Doocy interviewing Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice that not only relied on an argument that assumes Fox News is an arm of the Republican Party (which could have legal consequences for Fox), but also came from a guest whose own 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization has problems with partisanship as I show in this video. The clips I use of Steve Doocy's interview with the ACLJ's Jordan Sekulow come from a longer segment of Fox News' June 27, 2011, broadcast of "Fox and Friends" that's currently available online at bit.ly The clips I use of Jordan Sekulow's appearance at the 2011 Faith and Freedom Coalition summit come from the video edited and uploaded by Right Wing Watch on the RWWBlog channel on YouTube at bit.ly The clip I us of Brian Kilmeade and Michele Bachmann come from an earlier segment on the June 27, 2011, broadcast of "Fox and Friends" that I haven't found available online. The image I use of the federal law defining 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt status comes from the webpage at bit.ly The image I use of the federal law defining the media exception to federal election expenditure regulations comes from the webpage at bit.ly The image I use of Media Matters' January 2011 study of the value of Fox News' in-kind media expenditures on behalf of potential Republican presidential ...
A Sampling of What Media Matters Will Miss Most from Glenn Beck's Fox News Show
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History repeats this week on The Big Picture as Julie Millican discusses a resurrection of conservative fears of indoctrinating children, Beck and Limbaugh exploiting disaster, and yet another doctored video from James O'Keefe.
This week, Chrissy Schwen discusses Fox News' shifting standards on town halls, Mike Huckabee lashing out at Media Matters, and Beck's possible final days with Fox News.
Fox figures and guests have aggressively promoted Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) upcoming hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims.
Bill O'Reilly: Who Is Alex Jones? Kurt Nimmo www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv March 5, 2011 During a discussion on Charlie Sheen, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly mentioned Alex Jones' appearance on The View. He didn't bother to mention Jones by name. O'Reilly said Jones is merely "some guy on the radio, we really don't know who he is," and his co-host during the segment, Arthel Neville, chuckled. O'Reilly knows who Jones is. Fox News pays close attention to the Alex Jones Show. Fox darling Glenn Beck takes most of his licks from Alex Jones, a fact recently pointed out by Rolling Stone. Fox is a dinosaur in decline. Just a couple years ago, O'Reilly had an audience of three million. It has since dwindled to a million. People are tired of arrogant and preening hot air bags like O'Reilly. Millions are flocking to the web and alternative media to get their information and news. The success of the Alex Jones Show bugs Media Matters, the establishment Democrat funded and controlled research and propaganda center that takes money from globalists like George Soros. Media Matter is the "liberal" voice of Wall Street and the banksters, the very force that is destroying America. It is the left side of the false right-left paradigm. It is headed up by the warmonger John Podesta, a former Clintonite. His Center for American Progress enthusiastically advocates mass murder in Afghanistan, a fact once again demonstrating that establishment Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when ...
Bill O'Reilly: Who Is Alex Jones? Kurt Nimmo www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv March 5, 2011 During a discussion on Charlie Sheen, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly mentioned Alex Jones' appearance on The View. He didn't bother to mention Jones by name. O'Reilly said Jones is merely "some guy on the radio, we really don't know who he is," and his co-host during the segment, Arthel Neville, chuckled. O'Reilly knows who Jones is. Fox News pays close attention to the Alex Jones Show. Fox darling Glenn Beck takes most of his licks from Alex Jones, a fact recently pointed out by Rolling Stone. Fox is a dinosaur in decline. Just a couple years ago, O'Reilly had an audience of three million. It has since dwindled to a million. People are tired of arrogant and preening hot air bags like O'Reilly. Millions are flocking to the web and alternative media to get their information and news. The success of the Alex Jones Show bugs Media Matters, the establishment Democrat funded and controlled research and propaganda center that takes money from globalists like George Soros. Media Matter is the "liberal" voice of Wall Street and the banksters, the very force that is destroying America. It is the left side of the false right-left paradigm. It is headed up by the warmonger John Podesta, a former Clintonite. His Center for American Progress enthusiastically advocates mass murder in Afghanistan, a fact once again demonstrating that establishment Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when ...
On this Sunday Edition of the Alex Jones Show, Prison Planet.com editor, webmaster and journalist Paul Joseph Watson sits in while Alex is away. Paul discusses the latest breaking news and takes your calls. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
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...see straight. But now and then, if only for comic relief, I can’t resist the temptation to respond. Such is the case with Media Matters’ latest defense of D.C. Circuit nominee Caitlin Halligan. I can’t help but start by noting that Media Matters wrongly...
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National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/260906/more-media-matters-follies-dc-circuit-nominee-halligan-ed-whelan
Surrounded by their own kind, CPAC attendees let loose; enter Steve Moore -- Wall Street Journal editor and Fox News contributor. Despite knowing he was on film, Moore kissed the cheek of a Media Matters employee who had just introduced herself. The Media Matters employee and her coworker asked Moore about recent controversies regarding GOProud, Lila Rose, and Glenn Beck, while disguised as conservative fans. Then Moore asked one of the Media Matters employees where she went to college, and she responded that she went to UCLA. Moore expressed surprise that she went to a "hard school to get into," and, unprompted, said, "and you're not even Asian."
Here is a rendition of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a documentary that caught a post-modern coup of the NWO against the democratic President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, on camera. With remarkable candidity, this popular hero allows the Irish film-crew to follow his every move, and with some lucky shamrocks in their bags to record one of the most important pieces of footage for opponents of the Luciferian global elites to watch and understand. Like the story of the Indians of Canada in the Jesuit (Illuminati) residential schools and the conjunctory international pedophile crime-rings, in Manipulation of Their Generation, NWO Rule By The Media - A Venezuelan Story, poses yet more evidences as to the reach of the NWO traitors to God on this Earth. Importantly, note the proximity of these events to 11/09/2001, and the clear implication of the USA in the coup against popular Liberty & Justice !! U may draw conclusive comparisons with the exact same methods of control we see across every nation in the 21st Century, and the best ways we may adopt to combat them. In the book A Trance Formation of America, the emphasis of NASA and the CIA is shown to be firmly held on mind control & of course lies, lies, more lies, trechery, and some more trechery thrown in at every opportunity with another piece of half truth or blantant falsification if they are feeling tired. With the implementation of Education 2000 this book reports as being on the table since the 80s leaders like ...
This week on The Big Picture Chrissy Schwen walks us through Beck's week-long meltdown, Live Action doctoring videos in their anti-choice crusade, and yet another memo detailing how Fox manipulates their news coverage.
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Media Matters founder and CEO David Brock speaks openly to Sarah Palin about her accusations of a "blood libel" and condemns her history of promoting anti-government extremism.
This year, conservative media misinformation rose to new heights - and Media Matters for America rose to the challenge.
Congratulations to the Fox commentator, political activist and reality TV star who has boldly created new frontiers in spreading falsehoods and distorting the national conversation. Palin has truly earned the 2010 Glenn Beck Honorary Award for Excellence in Misinformation.
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Right-wing media latched on to, and relentlessly promoted, a false report about the cost of President Obama's trip to India. Check out Media Matters' in depth debunking of these conservative media talking points at mediamatters.org
This week Tyrone Gayle details Media Matters' call to restore sanity and drop Fox, Palin responding to David Brock's offer to refudiate Glenn Beck's violent rhetoric, and more of Fox News electioneering.
Read the official Media Matters response - mediamatters.org Called by Media Matters to "refudiate" Glenn Beck's increasingly paranoid and violent rhetoric, Sarah Palin spoke with Beck and unequivocally stated her support for the unhinged and dangerous host. Here is some of what she stands with.
This week, Lisa Reed breaks down shocking new audio connecting the Tides Foundation gunman directly to Glenn Beck, Karl Rove's shadowy campaign outfit working through Fox News, and disturbing hilarity on the set of Fox & Friends.
In exclusive jailhouse audio obtained by Media Matters, Byron Williams, the man who allegedly intended to violently assault the progressive Tides Foundation, lays out his thoughts on Glenn Beck. He recounts how he considered Beck to be like a "schoolteacher" for him, and he echoes many of Beck's most misinformed conspiracy theories.
Tyrone Gayle discusses the top Media Matters stories of the week including Glenn Beck's revisionist history, Fox News' love affair with another Republican candidate for office, and James O'Keefe's humiliating and hilarious collapse.
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