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Is Media Matters raising the white flag in its war with Fox News?
That this much-ballyhooed book from David Brock and his leftist Media Matters scribblers is such a grade-school style cut-and-paste leaves the distinct impression.
Boy those Media Matters guys were going to really show Fox News. One reads all this great reporting from the Daily Caller and it becomes clear that when the call goes up for a shot and a beer the shot in question at the Media Matters offices must be for rabies.
All this writing and moaning and obsessing about Fox News — and this is the result?
Aside from boasting about wanting to hire private investigators, there was this line the Daily Caller revealed from a Media Matters memo:
“[W]e should write a book under David’s name that savages Fox News and Fox News employees. The market for this is likely huge.”
Doubtless that may be true — huge with the 20% crowd that routinely self-identifies as liberal. But for anybody else?
This book is nothing but what used to be called a cut-and-paste job. Old news and older news repackaged and marketed as some inside scoop. Oh sure, they name names. Have you ever heard of Sean Hannity? Did you know he’s a conservative? You will now. And Roger Ailes — he whose name is in the book’s subtitle: “How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine.” That Roger Ailes? Well, there’s artfully arranged stories taken from the anti-Ailes gang over there at Rolling Stone or here and over there. The man defended the honor of Christmas at his son’s school. Ohhhhhhhhhhh the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so on and so on, right on through Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Megyn Kelly… yada yada yada.
Thanks to the Daily Caller we now know that when Brock cites ex-Obama White House aide Anita Dunn, as he does in this pitiful little book, Dunn is a “regular presence” in the Media Matters office. We know when Brock approvingly cites the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, although Brock certainly isn’t about to report the fact, that MM used Sargent because “If you can’t get it [a story placed] anywhere else, Greg Sargent’s always game.” We know when he cites then-Politico reporter Ben Smith (who has since left Politico) it may have something to do with the fact that, as the DC alleges, Smith deliberately withheld negative information in a story about Media Matters.
So. In short? Nothing new in Brock’s book, much less scurrilous.
Unless, of course, you are David Brock and the Media Matters gang.
And in the end? The closer that can only mean they have real need to drink something over at Media Matters? Writes a frustrated Brock of his repeatedly futile efforts to harpoon his whale:
Most problematic, once these lies take hold, no amount of fact-checking by Media Matters or websites such as PolitiFact or Factcheck.org will ever convince the segment of the population that is predisposed to believe them…. There is simply nothing comparable on the left.
Oh damn!
Aside from the admission of defeat, this last business is also, surprise, yet another left-wing untruth. Nothing comparable? Really? How about the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and more Mainstream Liberal Media outlets pumping out liberal propaganda hourly, daily, yearly? The only reason Fox News exists is that truth long ago departed from these precincts.
And people like David Brock and his friends are furious they’ve lost their monopoly.
Lost it to Roger Ailes.
And people like Sean Hannity.
Oh… excuse me… you know who Sean Hannity is, right?
I thought so. And in a nutshell, that’s what drives Media Matters crazy. And to an exercise in cutting and pasting.
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albert constantine jr.| 2.23.12 @ 6:54PM
Fox News has been at it since 1996. I think David Brock was still calling himself a conservative until right about that time. Maybe he just regrets jumping ship from our vast right wing conspiracy too soon and not having Hannity's time slot.
Of course, if Brock was at Fox, there would be someone worth hiring a private investigator to investigate.
Good riddance to him.
C Bowen | 2.23.12 @ 8:18PM
Brock jumped ship after his bio on Hillary Clinton was panned by Conservative Inc. He is about careerism, nothing more.
That a homosexual got as far as he did--even launched the career of Paula Jones--is more comment on DC Conservative Inc than anything else.
Does anyone even remember the name of the gay prostitute the Bush network hired to ask softball questions?
See, Brock did well.
albert constantine jr.| 2.23.12 @ 9:28PM
While we remember the name of Paula Jones, has anyone heard from her lately? Not much of a career; and has anyone heard from Trooper Brown?
spike59| 2.24.12 @ 6:20AM
last i saw of her, she was getting her @$$ whipped by Tonya Harding in some celebrity boxing thing
albert constantine jr.| 2.24.12 @ 3:01PM
Had she been successful in the fight, Tonya would have had Paula's leg broken with a blunt object, I would hazard to say.
Vern Crisler | 2.23.12 @ 8:54PM
I just thought Brock was a bitchy homosexual.
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.
PCP Smoker| 2.23.12 @ 9:29PM
Brock is a homosexual, and that explains much of his perverse behavior. The only consolation is that his putrid genes will not be passed on to the next generation.
spike59| 2.24.12 @ 6:21AM
no, the explanation for his perverse behavior is that he's a liberal; they're famous for that
WL| 2.23.12 @ 10:58PM
Sorry Guys,
I like to blast other folks as much as the next guy...and I don't mind characterizing the left for what they are...a bunch of traitors, if you ask me.
However, I don't think that all of the "homosexual" assertions do our cause any good.
I don't give a whit about whether the man is or not...and the sad fact is that some gay people read these blogs...see comments like yours...and go out and believe that all of us conservatives hate them...THEN, they fall right into the arms of the Liberal Democrats. So, please stop.
And if you don't like my comment, you can go to hell.
PCP, you are an ignorant idiot anyway.
BcdErick| 2.24.12 @ 6:52AM
Nope I'm not going to hell, but your comment was stupid.
WL| 2.24.12 @ 12:50PM
yuckety yuck yuck...you are a moron.
BD57| 2.24.12 @ 11:54AM
I agree with WL on this - - - - unless someone wants to make the case that Brock's partisan hackishness is CAUSED by his sexual orientation (which I don't think can be made), it isn't relevant to the discussion of his partisan hackishness. All bringing it up does is give people who'd like to change the subject an opportunity to do so.
When you're opponent is making a fool of himself, the last thing you want to do is divert attention from his foolishness.
Anommynous| 2.24.12 @ 6:25AM
Every time I hear or read somebody mention the name David Brock, my first thought is the guy from the band Hawkwind.
Ryan| 2.24.12 @ 8:38AM
What's amusing is the hard left considers the major media outlets right-wing.
Tenn Slim| 2.24.12 @ 9:47AM
Great Review.
Consider the Soros effect. FOX is clearly moving their news, opines, various information shows, to the Center Left.
Money talks.
Semper Fi
end
Mimi Mayes | 3.8.12 @ 1:37PM
I find Fox News to be sliding to the left, too. And even before, the standard one-from-the-right and one-from-the-left routine i found so tedious. Those of us who saw Fox as an oasis don't NEED to hear the left side of any issue; we can get that 24/7 on ALL the othe networks. If I watch Fox, it's just to check to see if the world is still spinning, and always on mute. I get all my information elsewhere.
martin j smith| 2.24.12 @ 10:58AM
FOX is no paragon of virtue of truth --but of course compared to the other MSM they are almost angelic--however then the bar of sainthood is extremely low. The LEFT whines about anything while Establishment Republicans are phoneys,cowards and liars.
Tina B| 2.24.12 @ 11:28AM
I am one of those who still gets my visuals on the news from FOX, and my details from the articles, and even more from the bloggers at TAS, headlines from Drudge, his links to WND and Cal Thomas and others at JWR, Jonah Goldberg and some others at NRO, from AmericanThinker, and from my son, who listens to Glen Beck and reads The Blaze online. So FOX is used only for the visuals, as well as a few funny folks like Greg Utley on The Five and RedEye and Ann Coulter (although not so much now).
Then, to round it all off, I read books by recommendation, and listen to my favorite apologists and preachers. Oneplace.com links to all of them online for an immediate dose of grace and wisdom.
But FOX was a great part of my late hubby's and my awakening, politically speaking. We were both grateful for the only Conservative Media game in town, in those early years, available 24/7. I grieve the loss of this FOX, and find little time for its replacement.
albert constantine jr.| 2.24.12 @ 3:03PM
Is there a Greg Utley, or are you referring to Greg Gutmann (who is on the Five and Redeye?)
Chaucer| 2.24.12 @ 4:58PM
It's Greg Gutfeld.