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Monday, February 11, 2008

Media Matters Calls for "Action" against MSNBC over Clinton Remarks

Clinton Media Group Has Panties in a Bunch

Media Matters' David Brock recently testified
(in the MM newsletter) about the scurvy journalism
practiced at MSNBC against MM beneficiary, Hillary Clinton.

"As a journalist, I cherish Oscar Wilde's opinion of sincerity: He called it "the highest form of acting." Few of my subjects have told the whole truth, though many were honest. That's why the best reporters multi-source their stories. But there's no way to check out David Brock's account of his illustrious career as a professional liar."
--Richard Goldstein

Media Matters, the Hillary Clinton-sponsored front group--which tries to pass itself off as an impartial "press watchdog"--has issued its weekly newsletter.

If you're looking for a source of unintended laughter, you could do worse than get on its mailing list--we did.

It rarely disappoints.

Last fall, Media Matters was busy attacking popular conservative commentators over their philosophical disagreements with liberal/progressive issues.

With Hillary Clinton locked in a nomination dog-fight, Media Matters has dropped its pretenses of looking out for all liberals and focused on those it feels are biting the hand that feeds MM.

This week's Media[About Hillary]Matters' target is foaming-at-the-mouth liberal network, MSNBC.

What did the network of Kountdown Keith Olbermann and Chris Mathews do that has upset the "media about Hillary watchdog"?

Well, they've made the same remarks about the former first lady usually reserved for conservatives. MM mouthpiece, David Brock, is obviously concerned that some regular viewers may become confused and think Clinton is running on the Republican ticket.

During the past year, three MSNBC commentators have been suspended, reprimanded, fired, or forced to apologize for their sexist and/or racist comments. Rather than address these problems by proactively moving to make certain they do not happen in the first place, MSNBC has instead decided to use these controversies as part of an advertising campaign to promote its political coverage.

That's right -- MSNBC has turned the recent mea culpa by Hardball host Chris Matthews for his sexist comments into an advertising campaign, using clips of his statement to push MSNBC programming. Left on the cutting room floor, of course, are the portions in which Matthews acknowledged having been "callous," "nasty," and "dismissive" toward Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Thank God for the Imus affair, or the MM newsletter would have had to been declared a Clinton contribution under campaign finance law.

Reaction was swift when Media Matters first called itself
an impartial "press watchdog", with no links to Hillary Clinton.

Brock goes onto to lament the coverage of another MSNBC newsperson who deviated from the lapdog position.

The latest example of the systemic problem of sexism and misogyny on MSNBC's airwaves came last week from correspondent David Shuster when he stated, while talking about Chelsea Clinton's campaign activities on behalf of her mother, "doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way" by Sen. Clinton's presidential campaign. Following criticism from many who found Shuster's comments indefensible and demeaning, MSNBC suspended Shuster indefinitely and aired an apology from him that evening.

Of course, MSNBC wouldn't suspend one of its newscasters for remarks made about either President Bush or conservatives--Olbermann alone has labeled Bush as "stupid" and "facist". But it did after a wayward comment about Chelsea Clinton.

But for this "press watchdog", suspension is not enough: they want the reader to take action!

The newsletters says "news organizations like NBC News and MSNBC have a sacred duty to be good stewards of accurate, balanced, and responsible political discourse."

It may be a first for Media Matters: using the word "sacred" in a sentence without the accompanying words: "dumbass", "conservative" or "Christians".

"Media Matters is a "press watchdog"?
"Impartial"?? Stop it! You're killing me!!"

The newsletter ended on a call to "take action today - contact MSNBC president, Steve Capus".

We just might.

Soon as we quit laughing.

by Mondoreb
images:
* thewideawakes
* israel125yroldmanlaughing
* bluebuddies
Sources:
* The Primal Lie
* Meida Matters newsletter "A Mess at MSNBC"

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Friday, November 23, 2007

Top Email News From the Past Year

Nigerian doctors, slashers under the car and rat poison on your envelope glue--just a sample of news you may have received in your email during the last year. Newspapers, telegrams, TV, cable, the Internet and emails are how people get their news. Many times, email news is of a special type.

[Top Email Forward News from the Past Year] at DBKP.com.

Paul Revere jumped on a horse to alert his fellow citizens. People now use emails to "spread the news". And what news it turns out to be.

We got an email from Vickie, the Goth chick, who used to be the barista at the coffee shop we frequented at one time. She apparently received it from someone who had received it from a guy in the U.K.

We're printing it because we've gotten several of the following emails sent to us over the last year. How many of the following stories have ended up in your email?

My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this year.

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat sh*t in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.

Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave them to a sick girl (Penny Brown)who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split $7 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer can buy petrol without taking a man along to watch the car to prevent a serial killer won't crawl into the back seat when I'm filling up.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda,Singapore and Uzbekistan.

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my bum.

And thanks to your great advice, I can't even pick up the £5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large seagull with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00pm next afternoon and the fleas from 12 mangy camels will infest your backside, causing you to grow a hairy lump.

I know this will occur, because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician.

By the way....a South American scientist, after a lengthy study, has discovered,that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity,always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.

Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.