Choreographing The News On The DOJ’s AP Investigation With Media Matters

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 15th at 11:30 AM  | 

While the ORS* busies itself with the deliberate political harassment of Barack Obama’s political opponents, his Department of Justice seems to be busily engaged in doing similar things to members of the previously untouchable 4th Estate. Some of these previously loyal Professional Democratic Party Activists with press credentials have the utter effrontery to have gotten their backs up. Jake Tapper sticks it to Jay Carney in the exchange below.

Jake Tapper, the senior White House correspondent for ABC News, asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney how public support of those journalists’ work “square[s] with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistleblowers to court. There just seems to be a disconnect here,” Tapper added. “You want aggressive journalism abroad; you just don’t want it in the United States.”

(HT: Huffington Post)

As the vassals of Barack Obama busily minding the 4th Estate threaten to go rogue and commit spontaneous acts of professional reportage, the alarm claxon sounds and the highly trained manipulators of Media Matters man the trebuchets in defense of the empire. They tell us all what key issues must be raised. A discussion can’t flow freely – it must be channelized in the manner suggested below.

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Tech at Night: Our Broken Patent System. Connecting the dots on pro-regulatory hypocrisy.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 05:00 AM  | 

Hey Mark Cuban: We both know that when Obama signed the American Invents Act, crushing small businesses was a feature, since it meant a) more work for lawyers who backed the bill and b) easier competition for the big businesses who backed the bill.

I see the vultures using Aaron Swartz’s dead body for political purposes are now going full Weekend at Bernie’s on this. It’s amazing.

And yet nobody reconciles the Democrat outrage at this, with Democrat plans to ignore the Constitution and use Executive Orders on cybersecurity. If we allow stuff like what Swartz did, we’re letting cybersecurity threats go unpunished, sorry.

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The Left No Longer Finds Dissent Patriotic

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 26th at 04:46 AM  | 

Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the videos here at RedState. The videos document a growing trend in American civic discourse — the use of intimidation against private citizens to punish dissent. Listen to Media Matters For America and other outlets | Read More »

Media Matters’ Desperate Need to Focus on Rush Limbaugh

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 04:46 AM  | 

The Washington Times has the story of Media Matters’ latest effort to drive Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves. They’ll use radio ads in eight cities. In one of the anti-Limbaugh ads, listeners are urged to call the local station that carries Limbaugh to say “we don’t talk to women like that” in our city. Ad time was purchased in Boston; Chicago; Detroit; Seattle; Milwaukee; St. | Read More »

Daily Links – March 19, 2012

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  March 19th at 05:15 PM  | 

Today is March 19th. On this date in 2003, President George Bush announced that American and coalition forces were “in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” Also on this date in 2011, President Obama failed to address the nation about the beginning of operations in Libya. On this date in | Read More »

Dylan Byers of Politico Defends Media Matters While Ignoring Herman Cain

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 13th at 03:35 PM  | 

We should not be surprised Dylan Byers is defending Media Matters over at the Politico. I’m sure he does not want the spotlight shifting to him and the Politico for continually running Media Matters generated hit jobs. Byers himself cited Media Maters bashing Dana Loesch. He repurposed a Media Matters hit job on George Will recently too. He makes sure we all see both Greg | Read More »

Media Matters

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 13th at 10:13 AM  | 

A friend of mine has been insistent for a few years that I set up a Google News Alert about myself. It was very interesting to watch it last week. On my radio show I’d laughed about that Occupy guy in McPherson Park who was tearing down police fliers and cussing out the police until they shot him with a taser. One day last week, | Read More »

Tech at Night: Amazon Tax fight, Free Press dishonesty, FCC’s mask slips

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 16th at 12:00 AM  | 

Wednesday I told you guys to look for two posts of mine. One is still pending, but I at least got my post on the California Amazon tax, and possible referendum shenanigans posted yesterday. At least I’m halfway there. Beyond self promotion, we still do have other matters, like the pending AT&T/T-Mobile deal. Despite being left out of the Sprint coalition, Free Press is still | Read More »

RedState: A “Nerve Center” of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 26th at 10:23 PM  | 

Well, this will make you feel good. The kids over at Media Matters are gearing up to lose their 501(c)(3) status I’m guessing as they go headlong into a new mission to destroy Fox News and Newscorp. Along the way, the Politico tells us this: The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring of newspapers and other television | Read More »

Media Matters Helps Prove the CDC Did Cover Up Abortion Data

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 7th at 05:00 AM  | 

It was certainly not intentional, but the leftwing interest group Media Matters for America has uncovered an internal memo from the CDC proving the CDC did in fact cover up and suppress abortion data until RedState revealed the coverup. On Thursday, I reported that the Centers for Disease Control was covering up abortion data. Each year since 1969, the Centers for Disease Control has published | Read More »

So Called Constitutional Option Is A Trick

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 5th at 04:00 PM  | 

The Senate commenced debate on a filibuster reform today.  Be aware that liberals in the Senate are using strong arm tactics to seize power.  They are using something called the “Constitutional Option” and you need to understand that this is a rhetorical and procedural trick.  There is nothing unconstitutional about the filibuster and the “Constitutional Option” is a means to ignore the explicit rules of the | Read More »

The rising tide of left-wing violence?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 16th at 08:00 AM  | 

Back about two weeks ago, Media Matters was duly upset about Glenn Beck saying that “there seems to be a mounting call for violence from the left:” [Video not working: sorry.] Oddly: as of 7:37 AM, 12/16/2010, Media Matters has precisely zero to say about would-be class warrior Clay Duke. Clay Duke is, of course, the guy who decided to Fight The Power by walking | Read More »

The Rhetoric of Violence

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  September 1st at 11:59 PM  | 

Today, James Jay Lee died, shot by police. Lee walked into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Springs, Maryland, armed and seemingly strapped with a bomb. Though most of the building was evacuated safely, Lee managed to take three people hostage. The stand-off lasted several hours, and ended when Maryland police had no choice but deadly force to finally ensure the safety of | Read More »

Today in Washington – August 3, 2004

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 10:40 AM  | 

Anti gun activist Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court hits the Senate floor today.  Ironically, this is the same day that the Washington Post reports that a federal judge in Virginia refused to dismiss a challenge to ObamaCare’s mandates.  This case is going to the U.S. Supreme Court, yet many Senators are not willing to put up a real fight before this left wing extremist is | Read More »

Media Matters Continues Debunked Claim that Kagan is Not Hostile to 2nd Amendment

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 3rd at 07:00 AM  | 

Media Matters for America is pulling out all the stops to support the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.  I dared to write a blog post criticizing Elena Kagan’s lifetime of anti-gun activism as evidence of the way Kagan would act and vote as Supreme Court justice.  Media Matters targeted a few of my claims to criticize, yet they ignored the meat of my blog post.  Media Matters wants Americans to | Read More »