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April 22, 2014

Is Media Matters Helping "Produce" Stories for the Allegedly Mainstream Media?
— Ace

Sharyl Attkisson said that the "independent," non-partisan organization had helped "produce" stories for her, while at CBS, in the past -- but of course turned on her when she turned her investigative eye from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama.

Media Matters issues a non-denial denial on this point -- they deny some things (which I'm not sure Attkisson even claimed) but not that they "help" to "produce" stories in the alleged mainstream media.

n the immediate wake of AttiksonÂ’s Sunday appearance, Media Matters elected only to respond to the assertion by Attkinson that she had been targeted by the organization:

Sharyl Attkisson is continuing a pattern of evidence-free speculation that started at the end of her tenure at CBS. We have never taken contributions to target her or any other reporter. Our decision to post any research on Attkisson is based only on her shoddy reporting.

Did Attkisson even make that claim in bold? I don't remember seeing it.

At any rate, while they deny something I'm not certain was even alleged, they fail to address whether this obviously-partisan organization is helping the networks with their narratives.

Yesterday, Media Matters doubled down on their repudiation of AttkissonÂ’s suggestion they might have have targeted her, calling the claims Â“false.Â” Again, however, Media Matters failed to address the whole of AttkissonÂ’s assertions.
In explaining away the targeting claims as baseless, Media Matters neglected to respond to the more subtle assertion by Attkisson that it worked with her, as she phrased it, Â“to help me produce my stories.Â”

I'm not sure if it's actually a big story that Media Matters "helps" reporters with their stories. Every advocacy organization under the sun does that.

But it Media Matters' refusal to even comment on this is interesting. Why the secrecy and evasiveness from an organization supposedly devoted to get the media to report the "real truth"?

Posted by: Ace at 12:49 PM | Comments (151)
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Hacks, all of 'em!

Jim

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Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2014 12:51 PM (vvk2F)

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Posted by: Jim at April 22, 2014 12:52 PM (vvk2F)

3 the real truth ? nah, just the stories' weighed by them to be newsworthy

Posted by: willow at April 22, 2014 12:52 PM (nqBYe)

4 We totally didn't not write all of the stories that you accused us of writing.

Posted by: Media Matters at April 22, 2014 12:52 PM (78TbK)

5 Boy, that seems like an suspiciously specific denial to make...

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at April 22, 2014 12:53 PM (MlqTY)

6 The point of the State Media is to empower the governing class.

Whether they are doing so via coordinating through Journolist 2.0, Media Matters, or a more informal matter is ultimately unimportant.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2014 12:53 PM (78TbK)

7 ew weren"t paid per se. but , we do have donors that reward us for our type of content. huh, hillary /

Posted by: willow at April 22, 2014 12:55 PM (nqBYe)

8 I'm putting this up mainly because I laughed at the graphic and when I think of "tolerant liberals" Media Matters is one of the groups I think of: http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/31286

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2014 12:55 PM (XyM/Y)

Well yeah, Ace...

Media Matters is like a farm team for the majors.

Posted by: wheatie at April 22, 2014 12:55 PM (fAjDo)

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!

This is a HUGH story in between the lines. Atkisson talked about it as if it was common practice and the CNN anchor agreed.

Media Matters, the left of the left, IS INVOLVED WITH MSM NEWS STORIES!!???????

This is a FLAMING SKULL story. Does any MSM outlet work with the Weekly Standard to develop stories?????!!!!!!!

Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2014 12:55 PM (tVTLU)

11 Are they tax exempt?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 12:55 PM (5UteM)

12 If any group would know about "evidence-free speculation" it would be the hacks at Media Matters.

Posted by: Furious George at April 22, 2014 12:56 PM (yFb77)

13 NPR wasn't enough?

Posted by: garrett at April 22, 2014 12:56 PM (e7g56)

14 Denial of an accusation that was never made so they can have the headline that they denied Atkinsons allegations. And since they are denying a specific fake thing rather than her real allegations they are being "factually true" in their little fantasy world and won't be called on it.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 22, 2014 12:56 PM (6PnAp)

15 It is totally a coincidence that so many news stories on various channels and stations repeat the white house talking points verbatim.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 22, 2014 12:56 PM (aq5Dc)

16 Is Media Matters Helping "Produce" Stories for the Allegedly Mainstream Media?
Daily, since 2004. That's what Soros pays them to do.

Posted by: HR at April 22, 2014 12:57 PM (ZKzrr)

17 I've had enough of the produce stories. It's about time for some in depth reporting on dry-goods.

Posted by: garrett at April 22, 2014 12:58 PM (e7g56)

18 This has already been covered. Old news. Hey! Chelsea's going to have a baby!

Posted by: Mainstream Media at April 22, 2014 12:58 PM (yFb77)

19 As I recall Atttkssinsoonn (or however you spell it) was asked directly whether Media Matters was paid to attack her, and she said, no, but they do get contributions. Hinting ever so slightly that some people give them money to attack her. She didn't come right out and say it. And it doesn't have to be a specific quid pro quo - if someone like, I don't know, SOROS, gives them a zillion dollars and says "keep up the good work," and the good work they are doing is suppressing negative news stories...

Posted by: blaster at April 22, 2014 12:58 PM (BG5jZ)

20 Our decision to post any research on Attkisson is based only on her shoddy reporting. that's a very Catty statement... and Judgmental... Not questioning the story... but her 'shoddy reporting'... which sure sounds like an ATTACK to me...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 22, 2014 12:58 PM (84gbM)

21 >>>Sharyl Attkisson is continuing a pattern of evidence-free speculation that started at the end of her tenure at CBS. We have never taken contributions to target her or any other reporter. Our decision to post any research on Attkisson is based only on her shoddy reporting.

Did Attkisson even make that claim in bold? I don't remember seeing it.<<<

We have never taken contributions to do that thing you alleged us to have done in your mouth.

Posted by: Media Matters at April 22, 2014 12:58 PM (d6OwI)

22 I wish somebody would Vox-splain this to me.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 12:59 PM (5UteM)

23 Chelsea's fetus for Preznit 2064!

Posted by: Pro prognosticator at April 22, 2014 01:00 PM (1/4XQ)

Media Matters accuse someone of shoddy reporting? I am to laugh yes.

Posted by: polynikes at April 22, 2014 01:00 PM (m2CN7)

25 Still tax exempt right?

Posted by: RWC at April 22, 2014 01:00 PM (iESAu)

26 NPR? Nah, they never have the good juiceboxes when we have our meetings there.

Posted by: mEdIaMaTtErs!!11!!! at April 22, 2014 01:00 PM (AkJEy)

27 Are they saying they do accept 'donations' for targeting others? Like hitmen, or assassins? Interesting.

Posted by: --- at April 22, 2014 01:00 PM (MMC8r)

28 Remember how Media Matters denounced Dan Rather's lame attempt to throw the 2004 presidential election with whatever version of Microsoft Word was in use in 1967? Remember?

Posted by: Furious George at April 22, 2014 01:01 PM (yFb77)

29 Me to cat: Did you puke in the kitchen? Cat: I totally didn't pee in the planter! Me: Wait, you peed in the planter? Cat: No, you dullard! I just said I didn't pee in the planter! Me: Ok, I'll check on that. And BTW, I know you puked in the kitchen. Cat: Why do you keep harping on this planter thing? Totally the same thing.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 22, 2014 01:01 PM (gtjN1)

30 The Media Industrial Complex is worse than the military one.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 01:02 PM (5UteM)

31 We never specifically collected a donation for the specific purpose of targeting Sharyl Atkisson, specifically. So there.

Posted by: Media Matters at April 22, 2014 01:02 PM (8ZskC)

32 Chelsea's "baby" is not a baby yet. She can still rip that unfortunate clump of undefined cells from her cervix and call it a day. Why should she be punished with a baby?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 22, 2014 01:03 PM (32Ze2)

33 I never took contributions to target JFK

Posted by: Lee Harvey Oswald at April 22, 2014 01:03 PM (e8kgV)

34 Yep. Tax-exempt.

Posted by: Lois Lerner at April 22, 2014 01:03 PM (MMC8r)

35 But it Media Matters' refusal to even comment on this is interesting. Why the secrecy and evasiveness from an organization supposedly devoted to get the media to report the "real truth"? Tax exempt status. I know, I know, there are two different parts of Media Matters and one is not tax exempt and the other is and there's no possible way that the IRS would ever go after Media Matters but, in theory, engaging in partisan political activity such as working with a reporter on a story about a candidate could result in revocation of tax exempt status.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at April 22, 2014 01:03 PM (mf5HN)

Ace, you stated:

"I'm not sure if it's actually a big story that Media Matters "helps" reporters with their stories. Every advocacy organization under the sun does that."

This could not be more wrong. What are you telling me, exactly what conservative advocacy organization WORKS WITH MSM reporters????

You need to reread and review the quoted interaction b/w Atkisson and the CNN guy. They both acted as if it was commonplace at both news organizations.

For fuck's sake, MSNBC basically reads from lefty blogs. Ok, we know about those idiots. But for all the MSM dead media to do the same, that would be A BIG STORY...

Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2014 01:03 PM (tVTLU)

37 I never took contributions to target soldiers at Fort Hood

Posted by: Nidal Malik Hasan at April 22, 2014 01:04 PM (e8kgV)

38 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 22, 2014 01:04 PM (PYAXX)

[from quoted text:] ...Sharyl Attkisson is continuing a pattern of evidence-free speculation

Hah!

'Evidence-free speculation' is what the Left excels at.

It's hilarious that they would blast her for this.

Dems in Congress have been using their buddies in the Leftist Media to promote 'evidence-free speculation'...for years.

Here's how it goes:

1) Get someone in the media to write an article full of 'evidence-free speculation'.

2) Read that article on the floor of Congress, and point to it as "troubling".

3) Voila! Now you have laundered the 'evidence-free speculation' and turned it into Fact....thereby creating a reason why "Something must be done!"

Posted by: wheatie at April 22, 2014 01:04 PM (fAjDo)

40 Liars lie. Suppositories take care of hemorrhoids. Media Matters is a f*cking cesspool.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2014 01:04 PM (HVff2)

41 Sure would be nice if ABC or CBS would just read from this blog.

Posted by: Furious George at April 22, 2014 01:04 PM (yFb77)

42 Chelsea's "baby" is not a baby yet. She can still rip that unfortunate clump of undefined cells from her cervix and call it a day. Don't assume that a Royal Baby has the same status as your clump of fetal cells, citizen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 22, 2014 01:04 PM (8ZskC)

43 Why does the MBM need help "producing" stories? I'm sure every reporter knows where Barky's cock is located.

Posted by: logprof at April 22, 2014 01:05 PM (DdphP)

44 I never took contributions to target Abraham Lincoln

Posted by: John Wilkes Booth at April 22, 2014 01:05 PM (e8kgV)

45 Ummm... I'd want some clarification there. There's a huge difference in "helped with a story" and "helped produce a story." "Producing" the story includes research, following-up with sources, and helping edit the story- among other things.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 22, 2014 01:05 PM (PYAXX)

46 Guessing this will be Voxsplained away by the morning.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 22, 2014 01:06 PM (Qt8mS)

47 I'd be shocked if journalists actually did their own reporting. Cut and paste is the way it is now.

Posted by: joeindc44 at April 22, 2014 01:06 PM (FQLT3)

48 I never took contributions to target James Garfield

Posted by: Charles J. Guiteau at April 22, 2014 01:06 PM (e8kgV)

49 For fuck's sake, MSNBC basically reads from lefty blogs. I was watching Fox News Special Report and they were reading from the Paul Anka stuff (hey, how come all the ace's greatest hits things are gone from the sidebar? Why didn't someone come to me like a fucking man and tell me? ) Now I can't even finish this joke right. Seriously, I am just going to keep phoning it in.

Posted by: blaster at April 22, 2014 01:06 PM (BG5jZ)

50 I never took contributions to target William McKinley

Posted by: Leon Czolgosz at April 22, 2014 01:07 PM (e8kgV)

51 Hate to jump OT so early. Re: SCOTUS opinion, affirmative action

Note 9 of the Scalia concurring opinion dismantles the wise latina's apparent inability to grasp the concepts of logic. That had to be a fun one to write.

9. The dissent thinks I do not understand its argument. Only when amending MichiganÂ’s Constitution violates Hunter-Seattle, it says, is that constitutionally prescribed activity necessarily not part of the StateÂ’s existing political process. Post, at 21, n. 7. I understand the argument quite well; and see quite well that it begs the question. Why is MichiganÂ’s action here unconstitutional? Because it violates Hunter-Seattle. And why does it violate Hunter-Seattle? Because it is not part of the StateÂ’s existing political process. And why is it not part of the StateÂ’s existing political process? Because it violates Hunter-Seattle.

P. 15 (.pdf, p. 41), n. 9, (Scalia, concurring in judgment).

Posted by: flounder at April 22, 2014 01:07 PM (Kkt/i)

52 Still tax exempt right? Yep. And non-partisan, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 22, 2014 01:07 PM (0HooB)

53 Why does the MBM need help "producing" stories? For the record, we bought the fireworks ourselves.

Posted by: NBC Dateline at April 22, 2014 01:07 PM (8ZskC)

54 Advocacy orgs do "help" reporters a lot. That's mostly what they exist for. They churn out press releases, press people mostly reprint them.

Posted by: blaster at April 22, 2014 01:08 PM (BG5jZ)

55 41 Sure would be nice if ABC or CBS would just read from this blog. Posted by: Furious George at April 22, 2014 05:04 PM (yFb77) Bob Schiffer and George Stepho saying fuckity fuck, now that would be funny.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2014 01:08 PM (HVff2)

56 I never took contributions to target FDR

Posted by: Giuseppe Zangara at April 22, 2014 01:08 PM (e8kgV)

57 Is it a surprise that MSM reporters are dumb, biased and most of all LAZY. If they could have stories handed to them that pretty much reflect their worldview, are researched enough to get beyond the "layers and layers" of editors and fact checkers (as they are) and all they have to do themselves is pitch it to the suits, why not? And you get paid for it. Good times.

Posted by: jwest at April 22, 2014 01:08 PM (u2a4R)

58 I was totally freelancing when I whacked that Archduke.

Posted by: Gavrilo Princip at April 22, 2014 01:08 PM (8ZskC)

59 I never took contributions to target George Wallace

Posted by: Arthur Bremer at April 22, 2014 01:08 PM (e8kgV)

AllenG's comment is dead on. The actual exchange b/w Atkisson and the CNN guy is the FLAMING SKULL STORY HERE.

Fucking bullshit conservative advocacy groups WORK WITH any MSM news outlet. They won't even answer the phone when conservatives call...

Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2014 01:09 PM (tVTLU)

61 Old news. Breitbart said this years ago. It was a staple item of his talks on the Democrat-Media complex.

Posted by: rrpjr at April 22, 2014 01:09 PM (s/yC1)

62 I never took contributions to target Bill Clinton

Posted by: Drudge at April 22, 2014 01:10 PM (e8kgV)

63 >>>>I was watching Fox News Special Report and they were reading from the Paul Anka stuff (hey, how come all the ace's greatest hits things are gone from the sidebar? Why didn't someone come to me like a fucking man and tell me? ) Uh they are still there. They appear on the sidebar of the main page not on the sidebar of the comments.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 22, 2014 01:10 PM (z/Ubi)

64 I never took contributions to target JFK

Posted by: Sirhan Sirhan at April 22, 2014 01:10 PM (HVff2)

65 Barzini is dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia. Moe Greene. Stracci. Cuneo. No contributions either.

Posted by: Michael Corleone at April 22, 2014 01:10 PM (8ZskC)

66 or RFK

Posted by: Sirhan Sirhan at April 22, 2014 01:11 PM (HVff2)

67 51 That's the judicial scholar version of " Sonia,you ignorant slut.."

Posted by: steevy at April 22, 2014 01:11 PM (zqvg6)

68 I never took contributions to target Herbert Hoover

Posted by: Severino Di Giovanni at April 22, 2014 01:11 PM (e8kgV)

69 Oh wait they appear on the sidebar in the comments too. What the fuck are you smoking blaster?

Posted by: Buzzion at April 22, 2014 01:11 PM (z/Ubi)

70 I never took contributions to whack off.

Posted by: Reggie Love at April 22, 2014 01:12 PM (yFb77)

71 Posted by: bonhomme at April 22, 2014 05:01 PM (gtjN1) You have a talking cat?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 22, 2014 01:12 PM (84gbM)

72 I never took contributions to target Gerald Ford

Posted by: Sara Jane Moore at April 22, 2014 01:12 PM (e8kgV)

73 @51 Shorter scalia: if you can write it in, you can write it out. Progressives operate under the assumption that once they win something it has to stay won forever.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 22, 2014 01:12 PM (X9npt)

This is the transcript re the Atkisson-Stelter interview that got me most interested:

ATTKISSON: Media Matters, as my understanding, is a far left blog group that I think holds itself out to be sort of an independent watchdog group. And yes, they clearly targeted me at some point. They used to work with me on stories and tried to help me produce my stories, and at some point Â–

STELTER: ThatÂ’s interesting.

ATTKISSON: Well, I think they call Â— donÂ’t they call you? I mean, they call journalists and theyÂ’re trying to Â–

STELTER: Right, theyÂ’re always emailing things, making us Â–

(CROSSTALK)

STELTER: Â— try to act outraged about something, right?

Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2014 01:13 PM (tVTLU)

75 Wormer? He's a dead man. Marmalard? Dead. Niedermeyer...

Posted by: Bluto at April 22, 2014 01:13 PM (8ZskC)

76 I took regular contributions from Mr. Clinton.

Posted by: Monica Lewinski[/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 22, 2014 01:13 PM (0HooB)

77 "Hey....isn't Media Matters a 504(c)(3) organization that is bascially engaging in political advocay? Any chance the IRS will begin looking into their misuse of that tax exempt status soon?"

Yeah, you can be sure that those earnest guardians of nonprofit probity, Lois Lerner and Elijah Cummings, are going to get right on that.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 22, 2014 01:13 PM (noWW6)

78 Fucking bullshit conservative advocacy groups WORK WITH any MSM news outlet. They won't even answer the phone when conservatives call... --- Pretty much. Wasn't there a media outlet recently where one of their employees went on a tirade against a conservative outlet who had sent them a press release? I'm fairly certain that this same organization not only took in lefty PR releases but also took entire propaganda pieces pushed by these organizations and published them.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 22, 2014 01:13 PM (APuJ7)

79 Mediamatters? You mean Soros Inc.?

Posted by: maddogg at April 22, 2014 01:13 PM (xWW96)

80 I'll get right on this. BWAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Lois Lerner at April 22, 2014 01:14 PM (MMC8r)

81 Does Soros pay taxes? Cuz I've heard rumors he hasn't.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 01:15 PM (5UteM)

82 Scalia, stop using all this logic nonsense and talking about the Constitution and stuff. Ezra Klein says its really old and hard to understand.

Posted by: Wise Latina at April 22, 2014 01:16 PM (yFb77)

83 Mika queefs press releases from MMFA.

Posted by: --- at April 22, 2014 01:16 PM (MMC8r)

84 Alright, all- I'm out. Gotta pick up the kids and then (oh joy-of-joys) take them to Walmart for some long overdue grocery shopping. See y'all tomorrow.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at April 22, 2014 01:17 PM (PYAXX)

85 MMFA needs to be investigated.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 22, 2014 01:17 PM (0HooB)

86 "Hey....isn't Media Matters a 504(c)(3) organization that is bascially engaging in political advocay? Any chance the IRS will begin looking into their misuse of that tax exempt status soon?" Yeah, you can be sure that those earnest guardians of nonprofit probity, Lois Lerner and Elijah Cummings, are going to get right on that. Posted by: torquewrench at April 22, 2014 05:13 PM (noWW6) When pigs fly and obama grows a pair

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2014 01:17 PM (t3UFN)

87 You have a talking cat? She talks a lot. Not in English though. I imagined her side of the conversation based on body language and eye-contact.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 22, 2014 01:17 PM (gtjN1)

88 Wasn't there a media outlet recently where one of their employees went on a tirade against a conservative outlet who had sent them a press release? It was a reporter for Univision, I think, who said, "stop sending me stuff. I'm a Democrat."

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 22, 2014 01:18 PM (qNzkX)

89 Hey, did you get your check from the Koch's this month ?
Me neither.

Posted by: Jared Loughner at April 22, 2014 01:18 PM (e8kgV)

90 91 Wasn't there a media outlet recently where one of their employees went on a tirade against a conservative outlet who had sent them a press release? It was a reporter for Univision, I think, who said, "stop sending me stuff. I'm a Democrat." --- Yes, that was it.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 22, 2014 01:18 PM (APuJ7)

91 @81 That was univison. If you think the msm is left the spanish media is postively marxist. That would be the same spanish media that all of the naturally conservative illegal population gets information from.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 22, 2014 01:18 PM (X9npt)

92
MFM: Media Matters? err...I thought we were getting our talking points from Think Progress or was it the Daily Worker?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 22, 2014 01:18 PM (1Jaio)

93 People have accused me of making bad movies. Those accusations are groundless.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at April 22, 2014 01:19 PM (DdphP)

84 Does Soros pay taxes? Cuz I've heard rumors he hasn't.

No.

He creates tax-exempt 'non-profit' orgs...then donates to them...then uses that as a tax deduction, so that he doesn't owe any taxes.

Posted by: wheatie at April 22, 2014 01:19 PM (fAjDo)

95 Progressives operate under the assumption that once they win something it has to stay won forever. Sadly, many Republicans think when they win that still applies.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 22, 2014 01:19 PM (qNzkX)

96 Media Matters? Never heard of 'em.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at April 22, 2014 01:20 PM (d6OwI)

97
I never took illegal contributions to elect Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 22, 2014 01:21 PM (hJauc)

98 @98 I can't think of single thing that progressives have won that was actually constitutional. Once you apply the constitution to progressisvm it all falls apart.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 22, 2014 01:22 PM (X9npt)

99 I'm surprised that anyone still thinks there are truly impartial media extant anywhere. Even the alternative folks are towing one line or another. There is no such thing as unbiased news media.

Posted by: TrueNorthist at April 22, 2014 01:22 PM (3Aixx)

100 BUNKERVILLE, Nev. (CBS Las Vegas/AP) Â— Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Â“something is going to happenÂ” to get Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to stop letting his cattle graze on federal land.

Â“ItÂ’s obvious that you canÂ’t just walk away from this. And we can speculate all we want to speculate to whatÂ’s going to happen next,Â” Reid told KSNV-TV. Â“But I donÂ’t think itÂ’s going to be tomorrow that something is going to happen, but something will happen. We are a nation of laws, not of men and women.Â”

... Harry is trying his best to get somebody killed

Posted by: Thomas Friedman at April 22, 2014 01:23 PM (e8kgV)

101

BTW, fuck John Paul Stevens in his pasty white ass that totalitarian mother fucker.

He should be disbarred and disgraced...

Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2014 01:23 PM (tVTLU)

102 You guys keep accusing me of letting being a sex symbol go to my head. Enough already, I'm humbler than that!

Posted by: Moochzilla at April 22, 2014 01:23 PM (DdphP)

103
Alternately, I never profited off the work of Nicola Tesla.

Posted by: Thomas Edison at April 22, 2014 01:23 PM (hJauc)

104 105 BTW, fuck John Paul Stevens in his pasty white ass that totalitarian mother fucker. He should be disbarred and disgraced... Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2014 05:23 PM (tVTLU Hey, that's my guy.

Posted by: Gerald Ford, The Oaf at April 22, 2014 01:24 PM (HVff2)

105 Media Matters exists to advance an agenda. Everything it does serves that goal. Including its denials.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:24 PM (9W+0f)

106 Aren't there already direct ties between most major news organizations and the WH? IIRC Atkisson's boss has a brother who works in he WH, and he may even have had a hand in developing the infamous Benghazi talking points. Seems like Media Matters would just get in the way of the MSM/WH story management.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2014 01:26 PM (pt5t7)

107 ... Harry is trying his best to get somebody killed --- If a US Senator incites a murder and he DOESN'T do it from the floor of the Senate, can he be charged with it? He made this statement to a Nevada TV station, so this obviously isn't covered by the same kinds of protections that shitsack Murtha got for running down those US servicemen.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 22, 2014 01:26 PM (APuJ7)

108 109 I never took any contributions to illegally hit David Backes. Posted by: Brent Seabrook at April 22, 2014 05:24 PM (OWjjx That was a wicked hit

Posted by: The Boards at April 22, 2014 01:27 PM (HVff2)

109 Media Matters exists to advance an agenda. Everything it does serves that goal. Including its denials. And that agenda is the destruction of America by spreading lies and propaganda.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 22, 2014 01:27 PM (0HooB)

110 Leftist denials tend toward the infuriating. 'We're not doing anything. And even if we were, it would be good. And even if it were bad, you would have no right to dislike us. And you only dislike us because you're a faggot. And, by the way, hating faggots is wrong. Don't hate faggots. You faggot.'

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:27 PM (9W+0f)

111 @105 He is not on the SC and does not practice law but yeah I would move to void any and all law licenses he may have. Its becoming typical of progressive justices to display their ignorance of the constitution, history of the founders and tradition.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 22, 2014 01:27 PM (X9npt)

112

104...."We are a nation of laws, not of men and women.Â”

... Harry is trying his best to get somebody killed

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

Hairy Reed gets to pick which Laws are enforced in this so-called 'nation of laws'.

And...Hairy Reed is a political terrorist.

Posted by: wheatie at April 22, 2014 01:28 PM (fAjDo)

113 111 I never took any contributions to molest 11 year old boys. Posted by: Harry Reid at April 22, 2014 05:25 PM (OWjjx Says who?

Posted by: NAMBLA at April 22, 2014 01:28 PM (HVff2)

114 >>Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 05:27 PM (9W+0f) Nailed it!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2014 01:28 PM (pt5t7)

115 Didn't Soros help Jews into the gas chamber or something?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 01:28 PM (5UteM)

116 'And we're definitely not being paid to do whatever it is we're definitely not doing. We're not whores. You faggot.'

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:29 PM (9W+0f)

117 'We have class. Not like you. You faggot.'

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:29 PM (9W+0f)

118 I will NOT BE IGNORED!

Posted by: Hairy Roid at April 22, 2014 01:30 PM (fAjDo)

119 Because Love.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:30 PM (9W+0f)

120 121 Didn't Soros help Jews into the gas chamber or something? Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 05:28 PM (5UteM) An all around evil fucker

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2014 01:30 PM (HVff2)

121 From the sidebar- Erin Sauerkin just apologized for not making the "Newsroom MORE of a moonbat masturbatory fantasy? I mean for fuck's sakes-really?

Posted by: sven10077 at April 22, 2014 01:30 PM (TE35l)

122 "We are a nation of laws, not of men and women.Â” Not one of Harry's better thought out pronouncements.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2014 01:30 PM (XyM/Y)

123 Didn't Soros help Jews into the gas chamber or something? I think he helped relieve them of their gold teeth and stuff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 22, 2014 01:30 PM (8ZskC)

124 Would somebody please tell me what time the NC Senate debate is tonight?

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 22, 2014 01:31 PM (ZshNr)

125 The socialists at MMFA don't want the extent of their collaboration with the socialists in Big Media and the socialist propagandists in Ezra Klein's Never-Went-Away-At-All-Journ-O-List to become widely known, for some reason.

Posted by: Adjoran at April 22, 2014 01:31 PM (QIQ6j)

126 6 18-1, Yup, I have a dream of the media being like Dabney Coleman in 9-5...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 22, 2014 01:32 PM (TE35l)

127 No, Harry. I'm willing to agree you're not much of a man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2014 01:32 PM (XyM/Y)

128 I never took contributions to sack Rome...oh wait, sorry, that's a lie.

Posted by: Attila the Hun at April 22, 2014 01:33 PM (rt3TY)

129 Harry Reid, if we're going to operate under "Chicago Way" rules....

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 22, 2014 01:33 PM (Ec6wH)

130 "127 From the sidebar- Erin Sauerkin just apologized for not making the "Newsroom MORE of a moonbat masturbatory fantasy? I mean for fuck's sakes-really? Posted by: sven10077 at April 22, 2014 05:30 PM (TE35l)" Probably. :-P

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:33 PM (9W+0f)

131 LetÂ’s go to the wayback machine, during the heat of the 2008 Democratic primary season when Hillary Clinton was trying to burnish her far-left street cred. Listen up after the 2:30 mark when she notes she helped found Media M jwf may 10 2013

Posted by: willow at April 22, 2014 01:33 PM (nqBYe)

132 Nude

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 22, 2014 01:34 PM (5UteM)

133 they think were dumb like the people that vote for them but were not- they want to keep as many people as dumb as possible so they can keep getting reelected so they can keep people dumb so they can keep getting reelected...

Posted by: sound awake at April 22, 2014 01:34 PM (pk/NG)

134 Look, somebody was going to get that Joooo property anyway so I figured why not me?

Posted by: George Soros at April 22, 2014 01:34 PM (8ZskC)

135 Modified Limited Hangout.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 22, 2014 01:35 PM (BAS5M)

136 But it Media Matters' refusal to even comment on this is interesting. Why the secrecy and evasiveness from an organization supposedly devoted to get the media to report the "real truth"? Because what MMFA is advocating isn't really the truth?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at April 22, 2014 01:35 PM (0HooB)

137 OT- Just looked at Hot Air. Looks like the GOP is making a full-court push for amnesty again, which of course is all lies and overexaggeration according to the 'realists.'

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 22, 2014 01:35 PM (uhAkr)

138 105 BTW, fuck John Paul Stevens in his pasty white ass that totalitarian mother fucker. He should be disbarred and disgraced... Posted by: prescient11 _______________________ Yeah, that'll teach him. The media will turn on him lack a pack of wolves.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 22, 2014 01:36 PM (yFb77)

139 We are certainly better prepared and more focused on, you know, taking our arguments, and making them effective, and disseminating them widely, and really putting together a network, uh, in the blogosphere, in a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress newbusters 2007 oct 1 at kos convention.. er kos, lol yeah

Posted by: willow at April 22, 2014 01:36 PM (nqBYe)

140 There are laws against bribery, Harry.

Posted by: --- at April 22, 2014 01:36 PM (MMC8r)

141 "137 LetÂ’s go to the wayback machine, during the heat of the 2008 Democratic primary season when Hillary Clinton was trying to burnish her far-left street cred. Listen up after the 2:30 mark when she notes she helped found Media M jwf may 10 2013 Posted by: willow at April 22, 2014 05:33 PM (nqBYe)" Hillary helped found Media Matters? Well, Charles Darwin still hates her.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 22, 2014 01:36 PM (9W+0f)

142 got that? Hillary at a kos convention helping the progressive Infrastructure which i guess includes media. as I'm sure when Obama says Infrastructure it also means medai

Posted by: willow at April 22, 2014 01:38 PM (nqBYe)

143 Not only did I help found Media Matters, but the first person to climb Mount Everest was named after me.

Posted by: Shrillary at April 22, 2014 01:39 PM (yFb77)

144 I nver took any contributions to go to the gay bars in Rehobotoh Beach.

Posted by: David Brock at April 22, 2014 01:39 PM (Pt5Ms)

145 I've gone toe-to-toe with Media Matters in a public spat (http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=990) and drop-kicked their asses over the horizon. You know what happened next? First, three days of DDOS attacks on my site. Next: Phone threat called in to the anonymous industrial building in Texas that housed the servers on which zombietime was hosted. Building was evacuated and the hosting company threatened to delete my site "out of safety concerns" unless offending material was deleted. Next: Stalker email barrage threatening physical violence against my family. All three of these incidents happened in the week immediately after I made the post above. Coincidence? I think not. I am convinced that Media Matters is not just a shadow propaganda arm for the Obama Administration, but are essentially "media terrorists," or if you want to be kind, "media bullies." They use gangland tactics, terror tactics and hacker tactics to harass and silence opponents. (In addition to writing the MSM's narratives for them.) Beware of Media Matters.

Posted by: zombie at April 22, 2014 01:40 PM (mizYg)

146 Posted by: Thomas Edison at April 22, 2014 05:23 PM (hJauc) AC what you did there!

Posted by: Zombie Nicola Tesla at April 22, 2014 01:42 PM (o3MSL)

147 So not only is Media Matters a bunch of thugs, but they also support the school sexual agenda of Kevin Jennings?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2014 01:47 PM (XyM/Y)

148

151...They use gangland tactics, terror tactics and hacker tactics to harass and silence opponents.

Yep, zombie...they are Political Terrorists.

Posted by: wheatie at April 22, 2014 01:51 PM (fAjDo)

149 Usually when people deny something you haven't accused them of, its a big red flashing beacon of guilt (in the matter they have denied).

Posted by: Mega at April 22, 2014 02:19 PM (mZ7hT)

150 Lying Liars and the Liars Who Pay Them

Posted by: How Is This Clown a Senator? at April 22, 2014 02:28 PM (Y92Nd)

151 Telling a lie is nothing on the right/wrong meter to this dishonest and malicious bunch of hacks, that's for sure. Their eager willingness to attack, punish and destroy a man or woman personally over politics is unfathomable to ordinary people sharing the most basic notions/standards of "right and wrong", civil behavior etc., indeed, humanity. It seems beyond "the ends justify the means" justification for attempts to "fundamentally transform" this country. They seem to relish the hurt.

In other words, they're a sick bunch of stronzos.*

* Italian for 'floating pieces of shit'.

Posted by: eureka! at April 22, 2014 06:40 PM (q7DBM)

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