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Is Media Matters Obama’s Watergate?

By Jeffrey Lord on 2.21.12 @ 6:09AM

Valerie Jarrett, Anita Dunn the new John Ehrlichman? White House, private investigators.

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Liberal Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes, then a Congressman on the House Judiciary Committee considering Articles of Impeachment against Nixon, put it this way to Teddy White:

“But supposing you had one thousand people on Herb Kalmbach’s private payroll, what then? Supposing you got a thousand of them, and none of them are law-enforcement officials, none governed by the rules and regulations of the FBI or the CIA, a whole operation of irregulars. If Ulasewicz didn’t have the Ehrlichman connection, it would only be a private activity; but with the Ehrlichman connection, that activity has the cloak of authority.”

In other words, in the mind of liberal Congressman Sarbanes, if you could connect private investigator Tony Ulasewicz and his payments from Nixon contributors funneled by private attorney Kalmbach to the White House, then, again in Sarbanes’ words, “that activity has the cloak of authority.“ (Note: Sarbanes’ performance connecting the White House to a “cloak of authority” given a private investigator was so well received by his fellow Democrats on the Committee that it was his language that became Article I of the three Articles of Impeachment. In Maryland, Sarbanes’ work on White House misdeeds won him election in 1976 to the Senate, where he became the state’s longest serving U.S. Senator, retiring voluntarily in 2006.)

How does this translate to today?

If in fact Karl Frisch’s memo was acted upon, and the book that is about to come out by Media Matters’ boss David Brock contains information gained from private investigators hired with money from Obama supporters with the knowledge and or direction of the Obama White House — to borrow from Sarbanes, Media Matters would be “a whole operation of irregulars” whose decided and repeated connection to the White House well opens the possibility, again in Sarbanes words, that: “…that activity has the cloak of authority.”

And in the case of Tony Ulasewicz, what he did and where he got his money to do what he did eventually led to the resignation of a president.

How did that resignation come about? What was it the Nixon White House did exactly that got it into so much trouble? That brought jail for its staffers, impeachment articles and resignation for the President?

The Nixon White House, in the vernacular of the day, “stonewalled.” Once they did all these things they made false statements to investigators, withheld evidence, counseled witnesses to lie, interfered with a Justice Department investigation… and that’s only a partial list of Article I of the three Articles of Impeachment drawn up by the House Judiciary Committee that, along with the release of Nixon’s tapes, forced his resignation.

WHAT’S DOMINATING the headlines today? Just as in early 1973, Something Else. Then it was the death of Lyndon Johnson, the peace accords in Vietnam and so on. Today, among other things, we are in the midst of a presidential campaign that generates hourly headlines about polls, Santorum this, Romney that, Gingrich over there.

But this time there’s a difference. A big one.

As The Daily Caller has exposed here and here, there have been direct ties between Media Matters and various mainstream media outlets. The Caller lists, among others, MSNBC, the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post.

All of which turns these news outlets from journalists to potential partners in collusion, deliberately seeing to it that the Daily Caller series never sees the light of their TV cameras or printed copy. Unlike the daily, feverish coverage of scandal in the Nixon administration, which even then was late in coming save the Washington Post’s Woodward and Bernstein, the allies of Media Matters have every reason — beginning with protecting their own hides — for not reporting this story.

Last but not least, there is one considerable irony. Let’s call it the tale of the tapes and the book.

The Nixon tapes ended the Nixon presidency with a bang and helped send John Ehrlichman to jail along with a slew of other White House aides.

Watergate became such a mammoth scandal for one reason, at bottom. The conspirators, from President Nixon on down, were incredibly inept at what they were doing. Most famously of all were those infamous tapes. What was seen as a great idea for providing an exact historical record of the Nixon presidency became, to Nixon’s horror, a blueprint for prosecutors and Congressional antagonists determined to impeach him.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

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Moe Blotz| 2.21.12 @ 6:47AM

Magi you are not, Balthazar, more like a crossroads demon you are. You can not articulate an argument opposing Mr. Lord's facts, so you cut & paste someone else's fabrications trying to demonise your ideological opponents. (_!_)

Alan Brooks| 2.21.12 @ 7:31AM

Balthazar,
they only care about their white families, their ever-precious white pedigrees..
everyone else can just drop dead.

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.21.12 @ 7:42AM

Not "Everyone".

Clint| 2.21.12 @ 7:44AM

Uh Oh !

Brooks Plays His Wigger Homeboy Card.

jothepro| 2.21.12 @ 8:17AM

Alan, pull your pants up and wash your hands..

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.21.12 @ 8:27AM

Unfortunately, I don't think it's his "HANDS" that are gonna need washing.

I'm just saying.

O.F. A.N. A.S.S.| 2.21.12 @ 7:44PM

The sodomizer of sheep, having been ridiculed for an udder lack of credibility and integrity posting as fckewe, and as Diogenes, and as Orr, Gasm and Associates, and as jharp, among others, attempts yet again to please his employers at mediamudders, before they resort back to the tried and true Purplegay.

Even sheep terrorized by sodomizers who are self-proclaimed intellectually 'elite' liberal democrat Markist scab snot bubbles know this.

Ovines For
A Nation
Absent Species Sodomization

jothepro| 2.21.12 @ 8:17AM

Alan, pull your pants up and wash your hands..

jothepro| 2.21.12 @ 8:17AM

Alan, pull your pants up and wash your hands..

jothepro| 2.21.12 @ 8:18AM

Alan, pull your pants up and wash your hands..

jothepro| 2.21.12 @ 8:19AM

Alan, your mouth needs to be washed out with soap..

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.21.12 @ 8:28AM

You're getting warmer.

lucitee| 2.23.12 @ 1:28PM

Jo! Liquid Plummer works better!

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.21.12 @ 7:41AM

Wow. That was something. Methinks that Ms. Balthazar got up on the wrong side of Alan Brooks, this morning. He's got Media Matters written all over him. Lets see. Where do ya start?

#1: I think that his 1st "point" is Stupid, being as His Marxist Masters are the ones Holding the bag, so to speak. THEY owned both Houses of Congress for the 1st 2 Years of President Vacation. They had VETO PROOF Majorities in both Houses of Congress. THEY continue to hold the Senate and the White House. THEY continue to thwart any meaningful Job Creation, unless those "Jobs" are at an Organization run by Big Obama Contributors, that are on the Brink of Bankruptcy, and in need of a Taxpayer Money INFUSION, so as to main their viability as a BIG DONOUR to President Golf. (It's called Money Laundering) ObamaCare. More Regulations. More Red Tape. EPA. NLRB. Even, the State Department. Yeah. Why are jobs going Overseas? I guess we'll never know.

#2: Please refer to #1.

#3: Nobody's stopping you from being a Girl. You wanna "Tuck" yourself, and go to the Prom? Go ahead. Who's stopping ya? It's just not normal. Do you understand? It's not normal. When you get all dolled up in your finest Hosiery, and apply your Makeup, and your best Madonna Wig, and then look in to the Mirror? What do ya see? A pretty Girl? No. You see a GUY, dressed like a GIRL. It's not NORMAL, and NOBODY is trying to stop you from making a Fool of yourself. So, what's your problem?

#4: What is it about you, and things that you don't have? How much of other people's things do you want, besides their Breasts and Vaginae? How much money that you didn't earn, do you want. If the MUSLIM took ALL of their Money, it would have NO EFFECT. He called George Bush "Unpatriotic" for running the Debt up to $6 Trillion. It's now over $15 TRILLION, and his new Laundry List "Budget" just keeps piling it up as far as the eye can see. But, that's all right. He's a Democrat, and he lets you Teach 8 year olds how to Masturbate, and the Joys of Anal Sex with guys like you, in Elementary Schools.

#5: You're right. Why give these Companies Tax Breaks? Let's HAMMER them with MORE Taxes, and MORE Regulation, and MORE intervention by the Muslim's EPA and NLRB. I mean...It's not like they can pick up and GO TO CHINA, or anything.

#6: I don't see George Soros' name. I don't see the names of any of the Muslim's Donors, on your little List. The guys who owned SOLYNDRA. Where are their names? Where is the BILLIONAIRE Buddy of the Muslim, who owns GLOBAL CROSSING? "Courting Big Money"? That's all that HAMAS' Deliverer does, these days. That's all he's done for the last year. The Muslim has a Super Pac. The Muslim is Fund Raising every day. The Muslim wants $1 BILLION.

#7: "Why do you hate kids?" If you would stop touching yourself for a minute, you would know that the Schools have LOTS of Money. I'm told that New York spends $3,000 per kid. You, being what you are, would like to see it be $30,000, cause, after all, it's not YOUR Money. Perhaps if the Teachers Union taught more Math and Science, and less Condom, and Sex with Strangers, these kids might not be losing jobs to our Asian friends.

#8: Ah, yes. PROPER IDENTIFICATION. Why would anyone want that? I have an I.D. You have an I.D. and a Pretend IUD. You need one to Get on an Airplane. To Cash your Welfare Check. To get your Sex Change Medications. To Purchase a Firearm. To get a Driver's License. To do LOTS of things. Doesn't it make sense to your stupid head, that we would want to PROTECT the Sanctity of our Votes? Do you want someone who doesn't live in your State, voting in your State? Do you want Illegals and Felons, Voting in the Elections? Do you want people voting Lots of times, using Dead People's names, and moving from Voting Place to Voting Place?
Of course you do. You're a Democrat. Vote Early and Often.

"But it's too Expensive!" The Government can provide a Photo I.D. Free of Charge. They can pay for FREE ABORTIONS. They can Pay for Photo I.D.s.

#9: It's Class Warfare DUMB*SS. Take your Orwellian New Speak somewhere else.

#10: When are YOU gonna learn that the Soviet Union, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and Castro's Cuba, doesn't work?

We are as Strong as we are, NOT because of Karl Marx, but because of ADAM SMITH. Perhaps if you put down the Jack Mag, for a little while, and picked up de Tocqueville, you'd understand? Marxist Central Government Planners, are not the way to go. A Top Down Command Economy, only works in Paul Krugman's dreams, and in Robert Reich's wet dreams. Like Alan Brooks and your Wet Dreams.

Pathetic.

Alan Brooks| 2.21.12 @ 11:32PM

Agreed the skoolz are bad, but you can't blame it on Teechur's Yoonyuns.
If every teechur's yoonyun disappeared, little would change.

coal carrier| 2.21.12 @ 8:04AM

Ok, first of all, Pelosi and Reid took over Congress two years before Obama stepped into the Oval Office. Gasoline was $1.82 per gallon. Unemployment was 5%.

1. Wall Street. Are the names Jon Corzine or Tim Geitner familiar? They were from Wall Street and they don’t have an R after their name.

2. Good-paying American jobs. Jobs have been leaving the US for 30 years. One factor is the cost of labor. Labor is cheaper in Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, China and some Eastern European countries. I worked for 13 different companies in 46 years. When the company I worked for closed and went off shore, I went to work for someone else. Another major factor is government regulations and taxes have forced manufacturing companies to move off shore. Why do you suppose companies have been leaving California in droves? It isn’t because the R’s control the government.

3, Gay bashing. Who is demonizing gays? Rush, Hannity, Levin? The fact is that conservatives don’t care how an individual reaches an orgasm. We are not interested.

4, Tax the rich. The top 10% pays 70% of the income tax. The bottom 50% pays 0%. 50% of the bottom 50% get a refund check to the tune of $100 billion. 70% of the population take more out of the tax system then they put into it. 66% of Americans believe that everyone should pay something. It’s called paying their fare share.

5 MASSIVE TAX BREAKS TO CORPORATIONS. US corporations have a tax liability of over 40%.

6. Money in politics. This not a one sided issue. Obama will generate close to $1 billion for reelection. The unions have been contributing millions. Why are you not concerned about the closed-door meetings with George Soros?

7. If you don’t have identification, how do we know who is voting and how many times?

8. Class Warfare. Reread 4. By the way, Obama wrote the book on class warfare.

9. Crony Capitalism. Do you mean Obama’s Solyndra and Fisker?

10. You forgot Mark Levin. Do you work at MSNBC?

johnadamsxii| 2.21.12 @ 8:26AM

You don't seem to be very objective.

Controse| 2.21.12 @ 11:15AM

A Liberal/Progressive/Communist (L/P/C) adolescent strikes again. When you have no case change the subject. I have found that L/P/Cers always raise their voices higher and higher when challenged face to face with the hollowness of their arguments. Unfortunately for Balthazar there is only one size of upper case for him/her to use to raise their voice. Here is a hint for Balthazar. Use more exclamation points. That will carry the day.

George S| 2.21.12 @ 11:41AM

Ooh, big questions.

First: people (not government) create jobs when there is a need for one. You too can create a job -- hire people to dig holes in your yard and hire others to refill them. Why don't you do it? Because you do not have a need for it. Think about it.

Second: See the Bush years for a record of job growth and compare that to the last three years.

Third: no Republican has ever threatened gays by busing in where they live mobs bearing pitchforks. No Republican has ever attacked a disabled man at a Tea Party rally or bitten one of the fingers off a black man.

Fourth: Pay attention (are you paying attention?). Obama's spending is 10 billion per day. The wealthiest members of our society reported 700 billion in income in 2009 (those earning a million or more). Even if you taxed them an extra 10 percent, that would be 70 billion extra taxes to the treasury. Enough for one week of Obama spending. Even if you took 100%, it would only be 70 days of Obama spending. Where do we get the rest from, genius? From the Fortune 500? They made 600 billion total profits -- only two months of Obama spending. We would have to tax everyone making over 30 thousand a year 50% to balance the budget. Is that fair?

Fifth: we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. What more do you want?

Sixth: Koch is a Republican billionaire. Name one other. Democrat billionaires: Soros, Buffet, Gates, Winfrey, Ellison, Bloomberg, Brin, Page, Perelman, Kaiser, Icahn, Bezos...

Seventh: what's wrong with voter ID? Just use the same one you must show when cashing your unemployment "compensation" check.

Eight: class warfare? I didn't know Republicans practiced Marxism or Black Theology; or Occupied Things...

Ninth: you are using products of the free market -- the computer and the internet -- to broadcast to thousands of people that it's a fairy tale?

Tenth: WHY DO YOU CONTINUALLY TRY TO DEMONIZE SEGMENTS OF OUR SOCIETY, SUCH AS [republicans], AND TRY TO INSTILL FEAR IN THE REST OF THE POPULATION ABOUT THEM?

Putz.

Stammon| 2.21.12 @ 6:42AM

Boy you get up real early to just sound like an idiot.

Lee Ghume| 2.21.12 @ 6:50AM

One of our eloquent liegemen will answer each point of Baldy's inquiries in due course.

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.21.12 @ 7:43AM

Already taken care of.

Teaghan| 2.21.12 @ 8:02AM

Indeed!

Lee Ghume| 2.21.12 @ 8:07AM

Right, but the two previous posts to yours at 07.43 went up before 07.00. Thank you for taking care of the response to the ten points of the Communist Party USA platform.

Teaghan| 2.21.12 @ 7:06AM

Who in the House will have the audactiy to start and investigation into this abuse of power? And it's not like this is the only one.

Timothy L. Pennell| 2.21.12 @ 8:17AM

Indeed. Eric Holder is still walking around Free, and he committed an International ACT OF WAR. The Muslim ORDERED Eric Holder to commit an International ACT OF WAR. They have the Blood of over 1,000 Mexican Men, Women, and CHILDREN, and you (Jeffery Lord) think that THIS is gonna bring them down?

How? NOBODY is covering the ACT OF WAR. You think they're gonna DIG in to the Nuts and Bolts of a "Democrat Watergate"? That would be like the Church printing evidence that JESUS wasn't the Messiah, but a guy who worked at the Local Brothel, and that's how he met Mary Magdalene. It's not gonna happen. Nixon's Watergate was THE SEMINOL MOMENT for the Left. To water it down in any way would be BLASPHEMY.

Remember what we're talking about, here. Bill Clinton was IMPEACHED because he LIED to a Federal Grand Jury, in a Case involving him of INDECENT EXPOSURE.

He took ILLEGAL MONEY from the Red Chinese, and, in return, gave a Waiver to the Democrat's #1 Donor - Bernard Schwartz - and his Company - Loral Space - against the warnings of EVERYBODY who goes by Initials ie FBI, CIA, NSA. You name it. The #1 Donor's Company, got a Waiver to sell the Navigational Technology that allows the Chinese Nuclear Missiles to hit their targets in the U.S.
He took Money from Buddhist Monks and Nuns.

He was accused of RAPE, and Molestation, on National Television. He dragged this Country through the MUD, with his Illicit Affair with a Young Female Intern, whom he liked to have Phone Sex and Oral Sex with, while his Cigars were Moistening.

They didn't turn on him. Hell. He's bigger than ever. He is the Democrat's ELDER STATESMAN. And he ain't even Black.

Barack Hussein Obama could knock over Fort Knox, and it wouldn't make the Papers. He could Burn down St. Patrick's Cathedral, after Raping a Nun, and you'd have a hard time catching it, on the Evening News.

Why do you think that he does the things that he does? All of these Multi-Million Dollar Vacations, while the rest of us are Eating from a North Korean Cook Book. Getting in the face of the CATHOLIC CHURCH, and making DEMANDS! Throwing Taxpayer Million$ to all of his Biggest Donors!

Why do Dogs lick themselves?
Because they can.

Why does the MUSLIM do Sh*t on the Constitution?
Because he has a PRAVDA like MEDIA, that we haven't seen since the Days of the Soviet Union.

He wants to ELLIMINATE our Defence Capabilities.

Anybody hear anything about that?

Anyone?

dan kimble| 2.21.12 @ 8:59AM

Brilliantly written!

Amazing what a bunch of little turds the lefties are.

It is hard to imagine that people can morph into something so amazingly stupid. They remind me of the Hary Krishnas....remember them?...the little mindless robots controlled by their puppet masters.

SUBVET| 2.21.12 @ 9:03AM

TLP your better than a cup of coffee in the morning..........

As I peer through my periscope I see the MK48 running "hot straight and normal".

trustee| 2.21.12 @ 11:13PM

Subvet, is the MK48 a torpedo type? I guess, so. So this phrase means "the torpedo is off, away, and on target in its course?" Is that what it means? If so, how so? Please elaborate. Thanks.

Drunken Sailor| 2.22.12 @ 8:43AM

Your reading him right. He was referring to Tim Penell's reply as sinking a pathetic post from a troll named Bathazar. That post has been deleted.

Garfield| 2.21.12 @ 1:30PM

If Newt Gingrich is our nominee, I think he will probably make the media have to cover this because his ads will probably center around F&F, mediamatters, etc.

spike59| 2.22.12 @ 6:40AM

if Newtie is the nominee, the media will be busy covering 'just HOW BADLY' will he lose, and how much will his candidacy cost the GOP in terms of losing the House outright and falling further behind in the Senate

Garfield| 2.21.12 @ 1:30PM

If Newt Gingrich is our nominee, I think he will probably make the media have to cover this because his ads will probably center around F&F, mediamatters, etc.

rhcrest| 2.21.12 @ 2:09PM

That was fantastic!

Stan Redmond| 2.21.12 @ 3:13PM

Herman Cain puts the moves on an adult woman and gets rejected and he's pilloried. Bill CLinton rapes women and preys on naive interns... Just some harmless fun reporting it and the press DESTROYED Monica Lewinsky.

JmsA| 2.22.12 @ 9:00PM

Forceful eloquence and tragic realities. Well done, Mr. Pennell.

beebop2| 2.22.12 @ 5:59AM

Who in the field of "journalism" would launch a serious investigation. Please. Don't hold your breath. By way of example, only ABC has run one little piece about vaca #16 to the slopes. Google "michelle obama ski trip" if you want to see how desultory the media is if there is a "D" after a name and there is some "criticising" to be done. Please. Chrissy Matthews is blaming the intern for (pardon) opening her mouth to JFK ....

JP| 2.21.12 @ 7:13AM

There is no one one in the House with that kind of death wish. The Dems operate one of the largest political intelligence operations in the world. Opposition Research is its politically correct name. And we know from past expirience that few Republicans live "pure" lives. Think of the fury that would befall any intreped House member began investigating abuse of power allegations. It would make the Ken Starr witch hunt look puny in comparison.

Brian Mc| 2.21.12 @ 7:18AM

Could it be that the alien himself, through his arrogance, indirectly causes the salvation of our Republic? Chicago tactics might just end up being of use after all. But, just not quite the way the alien had intended...how sweet is that?

Clint| 2.21.12 @ 7:18AM

Obama's January 2012 U-6 Unemployment Rate.

Ask The Peter Principle Poster Boy, Barky Obama.

Clint| 2.21.12 @ 7:21AM

Answer: A 15.1 U-6 Unemployment Rate.

That Doggie Won't Hunt.

obadiah| 2.21.12 @ 7:35AM

something is smokin' but it ain't a smokin' gun. the smoke rings are linking up and making a chain of logical deductions that persuade Mr. Lord and his fans. do you think obama has a taping system in the oval office?

Mike Hawk| 2.21.12 @ 1:04PM

No, Obama doesn't have a taping system. Probably uses a video cam and recorder for everything. Probably also has a a mic imbedded in the nick-knacks on the desk he likes to use as a footstool.

lucitee| 2.23.12 @ 1:39PM

Obadiah, HE uses his Blackberry to take/send messages and then replaces it with a fresh empty one! OH NO! I used a racist WORD! Whiteberry?
Never mind!

Andrew P| 2.21.12 @ 7:51AM

There is nothing illegal about opposition research. There is nothing illegal about having a WH operation to manipulate the media. Nixon got in trouble because of coverups and lying to Congress about break-ins.

Garfield| 2.21.12 @ 1:31PM

It is illegal to use the justice department to try to intimidate political opponents.

JmsA| 2.22.12 @ 9:02PM

Didn't keep the folks from Arkansas from doing it, did it?

tangental| 2.21.12 @ 11:18PM

It is probably illegal in a boat load of laws to use taxpayer money to fund propoganda, brainwashing inforamation, opposition research, spying.

Just like we don't permit the U.S. military to take up actions against our own citizens on U.S. soil, so too we are supposed to have laws that do not permit America's formal spy agencies spying on American citizens. Now, what is actually enforced is a different thing.

But we are not supposed to permit spying, taping, shadowing, background checking -- doing all these things just against a potential political or media opponent -- all funded by the U.S. taxpayers and executed by U.S. government employees in official U.S. government jobs.

Or?

spike59| 2.24.12 @ 6:24AM

it IS a violation of campaign laws for a political campaign to coordinate media coverage in order to boost the campaign's chances of success

martin j smith| 2.21.12 @ 8:00AM

From my vantage point the material here about Media Matters has been known for years. The real problem is in the Republican establishment Leadershit's inability or unwillingness ( this one is my real view ) to do anything about this and many other matters ) The refusal oif the Republican Party to challenge the premises of the Socialist ( aka Democrat(ic ? ) Party's media monopoly and the assumptions underlying their propaganda ha cost this nation dearly. This has been going on for many decades . This one particular issue of course should used in the campaign --but will it ? Still it is only the very tip of the iceberg. That is why I do not support ANY Establishment candidate BUsh ( i & II ) McCain, and not Romney means failure. Enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beppo| 2.21.12 @ 8:05AM

What is this guy rambling on about. If this is what we're going to fight the election with Obama may as well order the new drapes right now.

Jim Farley| 2.21.12 @ 8:07AM

Wow, I really kind of want to read this, but I'm afaid that the author will never come to the point. Worse than that, I'm afraid he will continue to write in this 8th grade mystery-style of writing throughout the article. What a shame. There might be a fact worth knowing in there somewhere.

Moe Blotz| 2.21.12 @ 3:42PM

If the article is above your comprehension level, maybe your mother will read it to you and explain.

RCV| 2.21.12 @ 9:52PM

It's no mystery. The article is devoid of any significance, and Lord's attempt to make it into a Watergate is utterly laughable.

Reality Clearly Verbalized| 2.22.12 @ 5:47PM

"I supported Obama from the beginning"

bflat879| 2.21.12 @ 8:08AM

This won't be Obama's Watergate because the missing element is a press corps that's interested. In fact, it appears that many in the press corps are also implicated, so where are we going to get the Woodward and Bernstein?

oldfart| 2.21.12 @ 8:17AM

The big and significant difference between Watergate and Media Matters is the political party of the sitting President. One has to resign, the other is hailed as the second coming.

Al Adab| 2.21.12 @ 2:41PM

Site has been acting strange today

OF:
You are on point. Nothing will become this administrations Watergate since the Senate will not convene an inquisition and even were they to do so, the media would not carry it live, gavel to gavel, day after day until the damage was done.

Instead of seeking to crucify this president, the media works overtime to protect and defend him. It criticizes his critics and lambasts his opposition seeking to enshrine rather than hound from office the man of their creation and choosing.

Since we cannot rely on the American press and media to outline the issues and dangers of this administration, we must rely on ourselves. Vast amounts of money are necessary and much work needs be done. Our candidates are tooo busy cutting each others throat to define the "clear and present" danger this administration represents to the Constitution and the Liberties of our citizens. UInless they put their egos aside and focus on the enemy, all they accomplish is the empowerment of the current occupant of the White House and raise the certainty of his re-election.

W| 2.21.12 @ 6:23PM

Al Adab
During the Watergate hearings there were Republicans who participated in the investigations, like Howard Baker. Baker's attorney, the minority counsel,was Fred Thompson.
There are no honest Democrats today who would participate in any investigation, just as they did not in the Clinton investigations.

Any news will come from the new media, such as the internet ,blogs, Fox, and a few magazines.

This is a good opportunity for one of our candidates to attack Obama instead of attacking each other.

Al Adab| 2.21.12 @ 6:46PM

W:
I wish they would sieze the opportunity and focus their energy against the tyrant and not each other.

WRTolkas| 2.21.12 @ 8:28AM

obama will survive this in stride: nobody in the press cares as they are willing conspirators.

Gary B| 2.21.12 @ 9:33AM

WRTolkas, you are correct.

Being protected by the enemedia, shielded by rougue judges, funded by international socialists and "opposed" by dumbass, Republican cowards means nothing will become Obama's Watergate.

Blackwatch| 2.23.12 @ 11:41AM

yes they are complicit and are our natural enemies.

I won't shed a tear for them when the tiger they are riding consumes them too.

Von Mises Jr.| 2.21.12 @ 8:52AM

The stimulus and other slush funds found in the education and energy budget are all intended for propaganda, smear campaigns and voter fraud.
We are so used to the propaganda a smear campaigns that only the dumbest of the liberal drones believe what they hear, or perhaps the most uninformed paying the least attention. But it is imperative that conservatives continue to point out the truth. Political correctness or weak stomachs will be a disaster if we succumb. TEA party and AFP to the rescue. Get on their email lists and get involved locally.
We have an Agenda21 onslaught in our area where the government and UN are colluding to control your property rights!!!

calvin | 2.21.12 @ 8:54AM

The first principle in conservative thought (see Edmund Burke) is that eventually, lies, falsehoods, wrong assumptions, utopian liberlalism, will always fail eventually. There is every reason to believe that this administration shall fall of the weight of its own lies.
And they no longer have a world war to fight in which to hide behind, as did FDR. We can only hope the shoe drops before the election and not after, although regaining republican control of the senate would help.

Sam S| 2.21.12 @ 9:05AM

Interesting content, but couldn't make it through to the end due to the obnoxious writing style and atrocious sentence structures. This guy is an author? He writes like 13-year old girls talk.

Jeffrey Lord| 2.21.12 @ 10:37AM

Sam S...

There are a lot of liberals out there who think like 13-year old girls. We aim to be inclusive.

Drunken Sailor| 2.21.12 @ 2:25PM

Nicely done.

RIChris| 2.21.12 @ 3:03PM

Very nicely done.

Chris| 2.21.12 @ 10:14AM

A "Civil Racketeering Lawsuit" would get to the bottom of it all. Conspiracy to comitt fraud, false statements and any other predecated acts.

Fox News employees that are named in the "Book"no matter WHO THEY ARE SHOULD SUE UNDER RICO as should FNC as the evidence seeps out to do so.

Fox News' $$$$$$$$ et. al. vs. Media Matters $50,000.00 Donation? It won't even be close. Media Matters will fold up cheaper than a cheap suit. PROTRACTED RICO Litigation will bust them out. Period! Bye-Bye and take the [o]bama[s] with ya.

megapotamus| 2.21.12 @ 10:22AM

Wow, Mission Accomplished for the early worm. Somewhere someone has a news alert on their smartphone for Media Matters. The tone would be something by Public Enemy, I should think. Clearly this extended palgiaristic burp, addressing precisely NOTHING in the article was press-ganged as a blunderbuss against whatever game should come before its muzzle. Who is up with the chirping birds lying in wait for Sean Hannity? If this jackwagon isn't on the generous MM payroll he/she/it is angling for the next perch. I don't know why anyone read it, much less responded, much less allowed the mercenary gasbag to "steal the narrative" as these goons say, on Jeffery Lord's turf. I often wondered how the multiple heads of the sock puppet(s) could commit so fully and flailingly to their exertions. Mystery solved, Shaggy. Like the scruffy unionists, they are paid gutter-dwellers. Whatever, if these finger-sniffing panty-waists think they are moving the electoral needle; fat chance. I would suggest that AmSpec hire an opposing army of comment-jackers but ThinkRegress and similar consumers of David Brock's produce simply ban the offending wordmeisters. That might be something to be tried out here, especially as myself, as severe a Constitutionalist as one may find, is routinely mistaken for a Ukrainian bride peddler, at least briefly. (Yet STILL spammers make it in! I should stop buying their socks.)

Addressing Mr Lord, if this is Watergate in effect it will be a long time on the burner. Anyone who is willing to grasp the enormous corruption and treason of the Democrats at large already does so. Obama's three gay lovers from Trinity United have already ruined the carpets; shot dead in their homes. (A bit of gay-bashing that does not concern our opposites.) Arrests? Shirley, you jest. What remains is to spread the stain, meaning the simple facts of Obamerica. I'm not sure who last weeks Potemkin Stats were supposed to impress. If it was the ground-level Obama base, they don't read newspapers and have never HEARD of statistics. The bump, the fruit of so much bitter toil at Media Matters, has landed with a wet squish. It has evaporated quicker than the SotU bump which, once upon a time, was made of reinforced concrete. Gallup has the bad news; that precious four point spike has reversed into a five point gut-churner. Even Harvard liberal arts types have to realize that ain't good. With some justification the Democrats have long seen media and government as two edges on the same spearpoint. Always in charge of media, when they are in charge of government they advance like phalangists. But media collusion with government, at least socialist and expanding government, was a historical anomaly; the grandest construct of the New Deal. I love the guy who suggests the book, "the audience for this will be, I think, huge." Depends on what the meaning of "huge" is, I guess. Brock's spasm is 637 on Amazon right now, having promotion that only such a tome can enjoy. Ameritopia is at 16. The only public policy books beating it out are also from the Right. As Coulter observed long ago, liberals just don't read books. Not non-fiction anyhow. In sum, Brockgate represents a serious chuckhole to the Obama wagon train but will not be dispositive even if all the most dire facts are proven with video. That's not to say AmSpec, NR, the Foxes et al shouldn't be on it like stink on a steaming pile. The Daily Caller is now a daily call for me which before it was not. Hats off to Carlson. Maybe now he will bring back the old Tucker X look. He punked on that. Since our antagonists have demonstrated such poor manners with that dawn-hour cut-n-paste job from last week, I will paste in my take from last year which, apparently, is when this stupidity really got rollin'.

megapotamus| 2.21.12 @ 10:23AM

evelyn waugh| 2.21.12 @ 10:33AM

What a mess! I'm refering to the article, not the...whatever the he** the author was talking about. Dude, go back to school and take English composition. The paranoid Right will still be around when you've learned how to compose a sentence.

albert constantine jr| 2.21.12 @ 1:23PM

Now that Balthazar's post has been removed, a latecomer might have difficulty understanding all that is referenced in this thread.

trw| 2.21.12 @ 11:28PM

I agree. Mr. Constantine. I did not see whatever "Balthazzar?" (is that the name, moniker?) posted. Must have been earlier than 6:30 a.m.? But one has to spend some time above in the earlier comments piecing together that there must have been one or a few early comments either all from "Balhazar" or another, or others.

It would be nice if a reader comment is removed, it would be nice if the TAS site administrators would put in some short statement telling us why.

Obviously the "Balthazar" comment raised a lot of attention; it would be helpful to know what 'crossed the line' so that we site readers can follow what is going on. There must be a great tolerance at TAS for many things. I reguarly see expletives used here. I see the Brooks, Clint, and the newest fckewe spewing stuff. What made removal of "Balthazar's" comments so necessary? I am not appealing for junk to be permited, no, no. I would be a far more active censor than what I've seen from TAS to date. I just believe that a reader explanation is in order and would be helpful. Thank you.

Ken Besig| 2.21.12 @ 1:41PM

The big difference was that the media despised Nixon and did whatever it could to destroy him and his Presidency. The Congressional hearings were a drumhead court that had already tried and convicted Nixon and all of his aides in absentia, indeed from the first day the Richard Nixon took office. The media loves, and slobbers over Obama. For the media, Obama is the Messiah, the Savior of Mankind, the Light Unto the Nations, the Golden Boy who can do no wrong. Nixon on the other hand, for the media and the Democratic controlled Congress, was the source of all evil in the world, the anti Christ incarnate if you will, whose every move was a disaster.
It is fair to compare the truly despicable way the media poisoned the public against George Bush with the way the media at that time savagely destroyed Richard Nixon and his Presidency.
I think it is fair to say that Barack Obama could hack a puppy to death on the steps of Congress and splash it's blood around in front of the mainstream media cameras and the media would report it as a truly heroic act by the Boy Wonder President Barack Obama.

Merry Crystal| 2.21.12 @ 1:44PM

Another detailed history lesson from Mr. Lord. And, my guess is nothing will change.

America is Dead-Man-Walking---ALREADY.

It’s the realization of THAT which hasn’t permeated the thick skulls of the vast (self) wronged wing of citizens. Most people inhabiting the landmass within the boundaries of the USA resemble the slowly cooked lobster in that hoary parable, long ago past the point of saving.

Despite the best efforts of those people, who’ve SO FAR escaped the liberal “POT”, to explain what’s happening, perhaps the wisest way to live one’s remaining time is in naked observation mode. Of course, when terrible pains flash throughout the body, complementing the omnipresent dull ones, it’s tough to pay attention “out there”.

To boot, there are the noospheric “pains”, all the mental defilements we each have to account for.

Face the truth---the lawyers have ALREADY won, and are in practically total control: sneaky totalitarianism. Consider the latest “White Knight”, Rick Santorum. He’s a LAWYER, and a CATHOLIC. The perfect high rising exemplar of our blocked times!

Yes, just as most bodies AND minds are almost blocked to death, who else should come along, except someone who is HIMSELF a “man of the people”---with the people exhibiting the middleman disease, shall we call it.

There’s a lot of attention being paid to the 1%. Well, duh!

While the best creators of economic productivity are happily doing their thing, as unfettered as possible, there are always way more “brokers”, who in essence resemble protection racketeers. Ah, how stupid people are!

Hey—perhaps they are like this guy I overheard, as he said he was just happy to be upright and able to eat, after going through some cancer treatment. Or, like my sister, who already had her breasts removed after successful cancer surgery, but had another bout, which stem cell treatment stopped---for now. She said it WILL definitely return, and then---more stem cells?

What if Mark Steyn is a Pollyanna? Those who KNOW what’s what are aware that he’s the great “declinist”. It could be that when the financial house of cards collapses, and humanity gets to experience the latest version of the infamous Tulip Mania or South Sea Bubble, given how high technology has tied people SO TOGETHER, communication wise, the reckoning readjustment will be breathtakingly speedy.

Maybe we’ll yearn for the “order” of Greek riots!

Make hay while the sun shines, and store it securely.

Let’s close on an Enlightening note---

“The Bodhisattva desiring to adopt the spiritual discipline must cultivate the attitude of unceasing, critical alertness with regard to things. And what is this alertness? It is the perception of all things in their true form. And again, what is the nature of this true perception? Where, Kasyapa, there is not the viewing of things as substance, etc, that which does not take matter, feelings, ideation, forces, or consciousness as eternal, or changing. That things are unchanging, this Kasyapa, is one end; that they are changing is another. That reality is substance is one end; that it is only modal is another end. The middle between these two extremes of substance and mode is the intangible, the incomparable, non-appearing, not comprehensible, without any position---that verily is the Middle Path: the vision of the Real in its true form.”

From “The Central Philosophy of Buddhism”, by T.R.V. Murti, pages 209-210, 1955.

Yup. There are only four ways “happening”. Whatever reality that is “your” here-now, it is either improving, getting worse, or staying the same---these are the conventional “ways”. However, the Enlightening Way is to Transcend ALL THESE.

Return to what YOU were before your mother and father were born!

I thank you, Leslie thanks you.

Tom Kyba| 2.21.12 @ 1:58PM

Thanks to the lib trolls whing about Lord's writing style. You make these comments sections interesting, somewhat like a science experiment. I would ask that you stop licking the snot from your upper lips long enough to ask yourselves if these seemingly endless scandals would be glossed over by the MSM if Republicans were involved. How can you stand to constantly defend these actions? Here's another for you. Would the Republicans get away with sending a former security advisor like Sandy Bergler to steal documents from the National Archives? Thank you Mr. Lord for the comparison to Watergate. I've been telling friends that there have been numerous Watergate-style scandals on the left from Clinton on. No interest from the MSM. Gee, you'd think they were biased or something.

Minneapolis| 2.21.12 @ 2:24PM

This is a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Most of the article is spent rehashing Watergate (something that was entirely Nixon's fault -- and not the media's) instead of saying anything about what Obama is doing. It's just a smear job -- baseless attack without evidence. Total garbage.

Al Adab| 2.21.12 @ 3:12PM

Nixons' fault?
Do you not remember the day by day, gavel to gavel coverage of the Senate hearings? Do you suppose the media and press would cover any such hearings that way today?

Nixons' fault? It was a media feeding frenzy and was fated never to stop until they had managed to crucify and hound from office their enemy. Since they created and worship this president, they will never give attention to any of the multitude of corrupt scandels involving this administration.

Who in this administraiton would risk their lives being the turncoats John Dean and "deep throat"? Chicago political style makes people disappear.

Warrior | 2.21.12 @ 5:27PM

You have to love the liberal heads I win tails you lose concept. When it's a Republican president, it's all the presidents fault. When it is a Democrat president, all problems are the last presidents fault and all mistakes are the Republicans in the congress and senate's fault.

Al Adab| 2.21.12 @ 6:47PM

What I can never understand Warror is that so many people continue to buy it. "There is one born every minute."

Mimi| 2.21.12 @ 2:45PM

We shall see!

Tex Expatriate| 2.21.12 @ 3:11PM

Obama's Watergate? Not hardly. The Marxist Media will cover it up, and the Democrats in Congress and Department of (in)Justice stop any investigation.

Super90| 2.21.12 @ 3:30PM

Valerie Jarrett's job is she oversees the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. Her job is to talk to various interest groups and the media. Media Matters is a media organization. They talked to the media coordinator, as they should. This article is apparently upset at her for doing her job? How does that make sense?

Did the Bush White house "coordinate" with Fox News? Of course they did. Nothing illegal about it. Unseemly, perhaps.

Do Republicans and Democrats both employ Oppo researchers? Yes.

Is Media Matter after Fox News? Of course they are, just as Fox News is after everyone on the left. The reason Media Matters is being pursued by The Daily Caller and other right-wing sites it that they have been EFFECTIVE at exposing right wing shenanigans.

Is any of the above a crime? Not even remotely.

What this article fails to note its that Tony Ulasewicz got into trouble not for his investigations, but because he was bag man carrying illegal bribes to various figures involved in the Watergate scandal, including convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy (WHo you guys affectionately call "The G-Man". Hilarious.) Just because the Senators asked him about his investigations does not make them a crime, as this article implies.

Furthermore, it wasn't the crime of Watergate that got Nixon into trouble, it was the coverup. Nixon's cronies lied to the senate investigators and then got busted by their own tapes.

The sudden interest in Media Matters should be called what it is: an BS election year "Scandal." This dog will not hunt and will be lost in the woods come November 7th.

Lastly, "Follow The Money" is a phrase used only in the movie "All The President's Men". It was never used in reality and was only a piece of fiction, just like this Media Matters witch hunt.

rd| 2.21.12 @ 7:36PM

Super90, you open what you write by mentioning this job title: "Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs."

This, all by itself, is massively problematic and a sucker punch in the face to all Americans.

This office probably with an annual operating budget of $millions is an affront to the American people, a slap at them.

No White House needs such a thing, present, past, or future.

This is what irks normal Americans. We work hard and entrust government with our tax monies. What do we get in return?

Obviously this issue is much bigger than the operation that V. Jarrett oversees. But, for now, for just right here, let's tackle that. Let's sideline it.

It is absurd to just grow, grow grow people, staffs, offices, work spaces, infrastructure, and bureaucracy with new laws, regulations, dictates, mandates on our dimes, nickles, and pennies -- whether in the White House or any of the other 230 large (and getting larger all the time) U.S. national government institutions and agencies.

Incidentally, pennies is all I have left. And for you?

You don't seem to get it, just having an "Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs" is abomination in the eyes of good Americans.

ArrestZero| 2.21.12 @ 4:44PM

Zero's Watergate is his nomination, his swearing-in, his Great Fraud against the electorate.

"Natural born citizen?" Not.

word.

fewfir| 2.21.12 @ 5:17PM

i'd advise BHO to put some weight on his skinny butt and prepare for a congressional spanking.

Lt F| 2.21.12 @ 5:52PM

This article is the embodiment of champagne comedy. Well played, Sir!

Erica | 2.21.12 @ 6:20PM

Here's a graphic some might find useful . . .

Watergate & Media Mattersgate: Identical & Indefensible
http://jeffersonsrebels.blogsp.....tical.html

ModerateConservative| 2.21.12 @ 6:23PM

What a cynical attempt to whip up the low-information voters. Invoke Watergate. Yup, easy as pie.

You folks have no idea how much the people who write this tripe are laughing at you and laughing at how easy it is to manipulate you.

Paul in Colorado| 2.21.12 @ 6:43PM

Swept under the historical rug was Lyndon Johnson arranging the bugging of Nixon's operation in 1968 on behalf of his VP Hubert Humphrey. Nixon always claimed that the plumbers job at the DNC was simply tit for tat, but he didn't want to owe Hoover, so he got his own people to do it. Clearly, the FBI was much better at it.

Pat| 2.21.12 @ 7:34PM

Watergate redux? Hardly, because with Watergate we knew all the names by heart and could readily identify the usual suspects from their photographs alone. With Media Matters we don’t know who the players are except Obama of course, David Brock, Karl Frisch and “inside sources”. Like the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation, all the little guys are safely cloaked in secrecy, we don’t know their names, we won’t learn their names, we aren’t sure what roles they play or played in this little comedy – they’re safely hidden within the mainstream medias’ Witness Protection Program, we’re left with only our vague suspicions.

Without the names and ugly details, Congress can heave a sigh of relief just as they did with Fast and Furious – you can’t investigate anonymous evil doers – whew that was close, Congress successfully dodges another bullet.

Conservatives have the power to bring down the mainstream media but not by petulantly crying “shame, shame” each and every time journalistic ethics are breached. The key to dismembering the mainstream media lies in emptying their corporate wallets and the path to those wallets runs directly through their advertisers. With their vast economic power, Conservatives can drain the media corporations of wealth and the ability to continue operations as usual, but they choose not to.

Scandal is a fun read, a little righteous indignation is good for the soul and possibly the digestion as well, tomorrow will surely dawn along with another tale of mainstream media duplicity and double standards. We can be sure of two things here: Hollywood won’t make a movie featuring Liberals as the bad guys and Conservatives will continue to carry the mainstream media scorpions on their backs each time they wish to cross the river.

foxjohnsix| 2.21.12 @ 10:25PM

Mr. Lord concludes his fine article with the fact that conservative blogs, talk radio, and FOX will be covering the MMgate with a focus on abuse of power.

But will it matter when so many weak and ignorant people in the Congress and the Mainstream Media don't care about letting the Executive Branch accumulate more power than the Constitution allows.

POST American| 2.21.12 @ 11:15PM

----------------------FINAL WORD----------------------

---False spectrum and Tavistock side shows.

MEANWHILE, as the CFR/RED China
handover and TREASON OP consolidates
------AND as the EUGENICS age-enda ramps
up with soon to be mandated injections
----------------NOT A WORD----------------
on the matter of Bill Gates buying off and into
the mejor media on BOTH sides of the Atlantic
pond.

NOT GOOD

BackToBasics| 2.22.12 @ 12:02AM

The article tries to equate Brock's book with the tapes with Nixon's OWN voice which is what finally did him in. They do not equate. Even Nixon, without the tapes, would not have had to resign. He would have remained, though wounded.

Without the media fanning the flames like they did during the constantly televised Watergate Hearings, Obam will not be touched.

BackToBasics| 2.22.12 @ 12:46AM

I think it could be argued that Watergate, more than the VietNam War or more than Civil Rights (not really or exactly a leftist issue), is what shaped and drove the left including the many leftist baby boomers, to more hurriedly dismantle the Constitution, the Republic form of government and attack conservatives with greater zeal. Taking Nixon down awoke the predator instincts in the leftists like nothing else.

Bob K.| 2.22.12 @ 1:07AM

Mr. Lord,
I got into this late and I kept wondering why your editor did not send this back to you to see if it could be condensed into 3 pages or so.

Bob K.| 2.22.12 @ 1:14AM

Mr. Lord,
I got into this late and I kept wondering why your editor did not send this back to you to see if it could be condensed into 3 pages or so.

Osamas Pajamas| 2.22.12 @ 2:43AM

OK, so English is a second language for you.

Bob K.| 2.22.12 @ 6:33PM

No it is not. But to give him credit, the English he writes has, unlike yours, coherence to it.

Osamas Pajamas| 2.22.12 @ 2:25AM

ROUNDS COOKING OFF

The Democrats have this "enemies list" --- denominated in epithets aimed at the people whose wallets they wish to hijack and take up residence inside. You can be a “Racist!” and you can be a “Terrorist!” and you can be a “Dictator” and you can be a “Hostage-taker!” and you can “Wear a tinfoil hat!” and you can be a “Homophobe!” and you can be a “Teabagger!” --- a homosexual man taking his partner’s scrotum into his mouth. You can be “Selfish!” and you can be a “Wacko!” and you can be a “Hick!” and you can be a “Rube!” and you can be “Uneducated” and you can be an “Extremist!” You can be a “Right-wing-nut!” and you can be “Mentally Ill” and you can be “Deranged!” and you can be a “Flake!” and you can be a “Warmonger!” and you can be "Unenlightened!" and you can be a “FatCat!” and you can be a “Nazi!” and you can be a “Fascist!” --- although no one more closely approaches the precise description of “Nazi!” or “Fascist!” than the usual Democrat propagandist --- either official, or self-appointed.

Lies, after all, are the heart and soul and the sword and shield of the Democrat party.

So all you have to do to occupy multiple epithets on the Democrats’ enemies list is to insist that they take their hands off yourself, off your wallet, off your property, off your kids, off your diet, off your healthcare, off your household appliances, off your car, off your bank account, off your weapons of self-defense, off your liberty, and off your freedom of speech. Insist on all these good things - and that qualifies you to be spat upon by nasty, mean-spirited scum --- by The Friends of All Mankind --- by a gang of lying, thieving, dope-smoking, pill-popping, coke-snorting, sticky-fingered, bloodsxcking, tax-eating, gun-stealing, predatory humanitarian hoodlums, thugs and gangsters --- by the Democrat party, in other words. No political party in the history of America more profoundly deserves absolute and outright destruction.

Dipesto| 2.22.12 @ 12:39PM

Our local paper out here in iowa is now blaming all the ills of state society on right wing "Calvinists." The paper for years put us in terror of Evangelicals, as back in the 20th century the monsters were The Puritans.

Osamas Pajamas| 2.22.12 @ 2:27AM

THE AGE OF OHBUMMER

OhBummer is a b00b and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. Heck, he thought that he had all of us hoodwinked, hornswoggled, and bamboozled. He’s annoyed that the Tea Partiers are not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers --- and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House --- and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House until his “papers” have been lab-tested for age and chemicals, etc --- the community organizer of the OhBummer Wrecking Crew, the Fleabagger-in-Chief, the King of The Republic of Lies --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_p.....SWSzY#t=28

Osamas Pajamas| 2.22.12 @ 2:41AM

SPARKS FROM WYATT’S TORCH

Conservatives and libertarians should stop calling Democrats "liberals" ---- because they are helping the Democrats with this label --- not hurting them.

While many Democrats and other leftists agitate in favor of socialism or communism [distinctions without a difference], the majority of them prefer the Nazi / fascist economic model --- which works out in practical terms to the "crony capitalist progressivism" now practiced by Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer, the OhBummer Wrecking Crew, the Democrat party at-large, and the “establishment” / "RINO" [Republican-In-Name-Only] Republicans.

Keep in mind here that Hitler and Mussolini launched their political careers as Marxist communists and later they adopted political disguise for their agenda of moral cannibalism and “eating the rich.”
Does this sound familiar, given who now controls the White House and the US Senate?

Note that progressivism, socialism, Nazism [“national socialism”], fascism and communism are all joined-at-the-hip in their common contempt, enmity, and disdain for human rights. More on this, later.

Now, the Democrat [and other leftist] technique for character assassination is what it has always been --- a barrage of outright lies, half-truths, misrepresentations, innuendos, misinformation, disinformation, and poisonous propaganda --- all of that directed at anyone who obstructs their access to our wallets and our other property --- and especially any public figure who rises to fight them with any prospect of beating them and liberating the American people from the Democrats' kleptocracy.

In the past thirty years or so, from Ronald Reagan going forward, the technique has been to try and destroy anyone before they rose within striking distance of the Supreme Court, the Congress, or the White House.

These Democrat propagandists could and can count on the corrupt, complicit, and compliant sycophants in the Democrat-captured media to help keep their propaganda afloat and their dictatorship fastened on the backs of the American people.

Listen up, if you are a privately-employed, non-government taxpayer--- and thus a member of America’s # 1 class of victims.

We are ruled by armed force and by fraud by lying, thieving, arrogant, bloodsucking, greedy-for-the-unearned, tax-eating government hoodlums, gangsters, and thugs, by spies, spooks, and snoops, and by their sticky-fingered constituents and assorted limpets, lampreys, barnacles, parasites, and other hangers-on.

And they are our “protectors!” Just ask them and this predatory humanitarian Mafia will tell you so.

Who protects us from our protectors? The outspoken American citizen under the First Amendment --- and the armed citizen under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.

Little wonder, then, that the Democrats seek to destroy the First Amendment --- in order to silence their critics by prohibiting “hate speech” --- and that they seek to misinterpret and destroy the Second Amendment in order to disarm their intended victims --- those whom they intend to silence and to plunder. Freedom of speech works best when millions of guns in private hands are aimed at our rulers.

---------------------------------------------------------

Now, are you ready for this?

What this country needs is a truly LIBERAL president and congress and judiciary! And I forgive the reader for suspecting that this must be some kind of bad joke!

But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism."

Strip them naked of their “liberal” camouflage and behold their ugliness.

They benefit from the imprecise American political terminology ---- we say "the government" here in the USA ---- rather than "the state." And that's a dangerous problem.

Famous brands of statism in recent centuries have been Nazism, socialism, fascism, communism, progressivism, and welfare statism ---- these last two are mixtures of fascism and socialism.

Liberalism, on the other hand, is a political philosophy of small, cheap government ---- it is a constabulary ---- and the job of a liberal government is to enforce human rights within its own jurisdiction.

What "human rights?"

I speak of the unalienable and perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness.

A slave is owned by someone other than himself --- but a free man owns himself.

The first article of private property is "the self" --- and all other rights are derivatives of and flow from these cardinal rights.

These rights ---- The Rights of Man ---- are the gift of nature or of nature's god ---- and they belong to all human beings, everywhere.

Show me a Democrat who subscribes to all of the above, without qualifications or weasel words.

The words "liberal" and "liberalism" were hijacked by the Democrats, socialists, progressives, and fascists, long ago ---- and it was the mistake of conservatives and libertarians to let them get away with it.

It is long past time that liberalism be reclaimed, defined, and explained by its rightful owners ---- by the champions of freedom, i.e.: not by Democrats.

Friends of freedom! Friends of peace-through-strength! And friends of prosperity!

Declare yourselves to be "liberals," then ---- and kick over the bloody coffee tables --- and overthrow and trounce the Democrats in 2012! Destroy them!

ModerateConservative| 2.22.12 @ 5:15PM

One of the interesting things about the internet is how it has allowed the absolute, barking mad to discover a louder voice for themselves. One could easily get alarmed by paranoid delusionals like you and fear for our society, but then one only has to realize that the crazy have always been with us, except that these days they share with everyone what they used to only mutter to themselves.

As for the last several thousand words from you - well, fifteen years ago, the same things used to be what the weird guy standing on the corner of any NY city street corner in a ragged trenchcoat was saying to himself.

How 'bout you go back to your street corner and mutter to yourself, dude?

Barking Mad Muttering| 2.22.12 @ 5:50PM

ModerateConservative = just another way of describing a really stupid lying tyrannical liberal idiot lacking any integrity.

oldfart| 2.22.12 @ 6:14AM

Interesting discussion but the only thing that matters is that come election day 60% of the population will vote their pocket book - not what is written in endless rows of elucidation produced by the educated idiots in the halls of lower learning. I am, of course, referring to what passes for the present news media. Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Assuming people are honest with themselves they should be scared sh__less of what four more years of BO will do to the bank accounts of ANYONE making more than $30K to $40K per year. All levels of Government, Federal, State and local are so wound up with giving away the bank that they have become blind to what is going on in Europe. We only have ourselves to blame.
It used to be from Colonial times until about 40 years ago that if you did not like the political situation in the state where you lived – you took your family and moved. Now – where do you go? So we need to throw the bums out.
That is why I adopted a policy, several elections ago, that I will NEVER vote for the same person twice.
At this point Dr. Hannibal Lecter looks pretty good.

jsfox| 2.22.12 @ 9:01AM

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you.

This is a pretty stunning piece of paranoid absurdity and to think you kept it up for eight pages.

CflyJuice| 2.22.12 @ 9:50AM

While I see a correlation between the 2 events, nothing will come of it.

The difference is back in the 70's, when people like Tony got caught, they sang like birds. They we're not driven with insane ideology and were worried about the repercussions on themselves and NOT the "Party".

Today they are so blinded by ideology and are not afraid to lie under oath nor does it bother them to destroy evidence (is incriminating emails). Just look at the stonewalling on the Fast & Furious. Holder lied under oath and the people behind the operation are getting promoted and when called by Congress, they take the 5th.

If this was the ethical environment of the 70's, you can be sure Obama, Holdern, Chu and more would have been prosecuted or forced to resigned for things like: Solyndra, F&F, Lightsquared, Sestack bribe and a myriad of other tax payer kickbacks like what happened during the "corn husker kickback" days of the health care vote.

Tenn Slim| 2.22.12 @ 10:01AM

Opine
Wonderful memories, recalling Nixon's wave from the USMC Helo...
Folks, this is simply a wonderful fantasy to entertain us till the Nov 2012 election.
We can and probably will, once again succumb to Head in the Sand trash. Obama is far to slick to allow any Impeachment proceedings this late in the game, regardless of innuendos, etal.
This Nation is under serious attack. Clarion calls continue to be made, and much like the Chaldeans of old, when the final Hand wrote on the wall, we will be besotten with trivia as the Medes overwhelm us.
SURVIVE>
Semper FI

Egypt Steve| 2.22.12 @ 10:04AM

Let's just concede for the sake of argument that everything you're alleging is true.

You have only your own party -- starting with Gerald Ford, and continuing with all the nice pardons that Bush I passed out after Iran-Contra -- for cementing in place a culture of executive impunity that ensures no President or any member of his inner circle will ever be held accountable for any crime.

You cheered when Obama decided it was better to "look forward not backward," and decided not to even investigate, let alone prosecute, clear violations of U.S. torture and FISA statues by the Bush administration. You can hardly whine now, if Obama escapes from any serious investigations of what you allege.

EriktheRed| 2.22.12 @ 10:09AM

Sir,

You are:

1) Extremely desperate
2) Not very bright
or
3) Both.

ADF| 2.22.12 @ 11:17AM

Wait, is this a parody article?

If this is serious, you people are just insane.

Get used to Obama being in office for another term, kids. Ha ha!

No Morans| 2.22.12 @ 12:18PM

No.

How pathetic you are.

Narf| 2.22.12 @ 3:18PM

Thanks for the history lesson on the Watergate scandal.

As for the rest: it's a smear article, because the situation is totally hypothetical. Even the alleged strategy meetings between Media Matters and White House folks only come up in two Daily Caller articles that do not even cite sources for these meetings.

The Bruce| 2.22.12 @ 11:16PM

Okay, to sum the entire article up:

Media Matters is a "non-partisan" organization that enjoys tax-exempt status because it's a "non-partisan" media "watchdog." Yet it's clearly partisan. Nothing new here.

P.S. Who is this Balthazar I keep reading people mention? I haven't seen a single one of his posts, though admittedly I tend to view AS during the later afternoon/early evening.

POST American| 2.22.12 @ 11:37PM

--------------------BOTTOM LINE-----------------------

Rothchild OWNS FT, founded REUTERS.

The Economist is certainly in the pocket
as well and is little more than a pump
head and apologist for Globalist power
grabs and EUGENICS.

The White House and GE shamelessly
pay off our major media ----even as
FUKISHIMA is covered up while dirty power
plants are being built across China at OUR
expense ---TAX FREE! Even as the very
last shreds of OUR economy are transported
also at OUR expense.

MANWHILE, Bill gates is buying off,
and buying out ALLLLL media dissent
in the face of the awesomely unfolding
GMO halocaust and injection scandals.

BBC is, and has been traditionally, a
bastion and key instrument of Oxford
Fabian subversion.

Reports have it that even the Globalist
Murdoch's FAKE OP Fox 'News' is being
blackmailed, purged and reined in.

One and ALLLLL are burying the
NON-Age-enda ---NON CFR advancing
----------EUGENICS 'unfriendly'-----------
--------------RON PAUL----------------.

AND ----ALEX JONES ---IS---THE PRESS.

Steve Hansmann| 2.23.12 @ 2:25AM

What a crock of horse-apples. So W asking only extremely conservative lobotomites like Mike Gallagher and Hannity to the White House is A-OK with this partisan hack, but Media Matters, which by the way, only uses targeted fascist's own words and deeds, actual acts, against them, is part of some great commie conspiracy? By these "standards", all of Fox news, all of bible-nazi hate radio, and a good part of the print media is part and parcel of the great right-wing attack machine. Absolutely pathetic.

mark273| 2.23.12 @ 3:04AM

This is a silly article. But typical Nixon methods. Has the author considered the fact that there is a difference between Fox (a company) and politicians running for office?

cybercorrespondent | 2.23.12 @ 1:13PM

Obama needs to be impeached on many counts, but unfortunately it’s not going to happen. http://youtu.be/8qHmXMMCrlI

Infohack| 2.23.12 @ 1:24PM

Did he actually just compare Tucker Carlson to Woodward and Bernstein? Really?

This is just wishful thinking on the part of conservatives. This is a vastly different political climate than the Watergate era. When Fox News is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican party - how many "weekly strategy calls" have there been between Roger Ailes and the Roger Ailes, I wonder? - the story of a couple of alleged meetings with Valerie Jarrett is likely to generate little heat.

This is another manufactured conspiracy by the right wing media. Tucker Carlson obviously wants to become the next Andrew Breitbart. I'm sure we can expect to see another wildly out of context James O'Keefe video in the near future.

Infohack| 2.23.12 @ 1:28PM

Edit: how many "weekly strategy calls" have there been between Roger Ailes and the RNC, I wonder?

isnrblog | 2.24.12 @ 4:34PM

I'm sure Brock will tell us in his book.

qrstuv| 2.23.12 @ 4:12PM

A critical component of Watergate was that the press could not wait to take down Nixon.

Yeah, they might mention this Media Matters thing but they're not going to have Watergate-style coverage of it. It doesn't matter how many of us turn off their TVs; media folks see their job as reforming the world to progressive ideals.

isnrblog | 2.24.12 @ 4:36PM

I agree but at some point, when it lokks like Obama is going down the MSM will have to jump ship.

porno | 2.23.12 @ 7:11PM

The loopholes are the big problem. While many exemptions have the best intentions behind them, a system like ours encourages companies to essentially buy preferentially treatment from Congress.

porno | 2.23.12 @ 7:12PM

The loopholes are the big problem. While many exemptions have the best intentions behind them, a system like ours encourages companies to essentially buy preferentially treatment from Congress.

isnrblog | 2.24.12 @ 4:32PM

Shades of "Fast and Furious", Hey, let's create a situation where we fool the public so we can get their guns! What, we got caught?

Now it's "Hey, lets dig up dirt on Obama's enemies and make it look like Media Matters is a real news outlet. No one will ever make a connection to the White House"

Geeez, you libtards can't get it right. This is what you get for not playing fair.

Now, the Brock book is going to be a blueprint for every conservative and some honest news outlets to lay bare this big conspracy that goes all the way to the White House.

Brook gives us the paint by numbers conspiracy.

"Yea, this Obama enemy has sex with prostitutes"

"Really, Mr. Brock. And you know this how?"

What a bunch of bumblers. This is going to be fun.

Brock is now pulling a Homer Simpson..."Duhoo"

BBBWWWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

anna stuart| 2.26.12 @ 12:11PM

@Steve H: clue me in.......what is the bible-nazi hate radio? Guess I'm not being a good nazi as I don't know wheredehell to tune in to get my daily dosage?

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