I don’t know about you wingnuts, but for my money the finest, most patriotic organization currently doing Gaia’s work in the never-ending battle against Rethuglican malevolence is the George Soros–funded Media Matters for America. Yes, media really does matter for America, and the media that really matters for Amerikkka is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. If it weren’t for Faux News (as we lefty wags, justly renowned for our sense of word play, like to call it), the scales would fall from America’s media-mattering eyes, and the legions of the unblessed would suddenly achieve a moment of perfect clarity. Fox News’ lies are America’s demise. Or something like that; I’m still working on the word play.
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In case you’re one of the dupes and fools who believe everything they hear on Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Fox News, Media Matters is in no wise a left-wing fever swamp of overpaid, high-dudgeoned hacks and nonentities, chained to their desks in fancy offices on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington as they monitor the latest outrages from Fox News and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Not at all. Instead, it’s a not-for-profit, $10-million-a-year, 501(c)3 “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media” that’s now threatening “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against —
You guessed it: Fox News.
Like the minutes of a Union Square Communist cell in the 1940s, Media Matters eschews stylish writing and individual voices. It’s a true tool of the leftist collective, the media that matters for an America that needs its media to matter. No matter which of its many “senior fellows” is writing “research” or “columns” about Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, and Fox News, it all sounds exactly the same. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Eric Boehlert, Ari Rabin-Havt, Jamison Foser, Sarah Pavlus, Simon Maloy, or your great-aunt Hilda, the heroic prose reads like the product of the best J school in Belarus — or my alma mater, the Columbia Graduate School of Social Research, Marxism-Leninism, and Journalism. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Leaving aside for the moment the unfortunate resemblance of many of the names of MMFA staffers to those of the moochers and looters in Ayn Rand’s mean-spirited “novel,” Atlas Shrugged — Wesley Mouch, Floyd Ferris, and Balph Eubank — here’s a typical example of 501(c)3 non-partisan, tax-exempt columnizing, from a drone heroic people’s writer named Karl Frisch, who can turn a weather story into an attack on, well, Fox News.
This is as a [sic] good a moment as any to note that there is a very real difference between weather (what we experience outside over a short period of time) and climate (the study of weather over a relatively long period of time). Got that? Conservative media figures telling you that this week’s blizzards (short period of time) disprove global climate change (relatively long period of time) are either lying or shockingly misinformed. I’ll let them choose which is a more apt description.
Leading the anti-science idiocy is a host of conservative Fox News figures.
So imagine the tingle that ran up my leg when I learned that David Brock and the rest of his Soros-financed fellow-travelers are finally ready to take the gloves off and bring Fox News and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and the Koch brothers and Roger Ailes and Fox News to their knees. Brock, you vicious savages might recall, is one of the sterling exemplars of the American Left, someone who started out as one of you, then came over from the dark side and into the light of sweet reason, smashed windows, and George Soros’s moolah. He’s sort of David Horowitz in reverse, except that people on our side are actually afraid of David Horowitz, because his mommy really was a Commie and he knows what he’s talking about.
Mr. Big Kahuna, why must you keep up this incessant drumbeat for MMFA? As outlined in your post, I recently discovered that these folks are not all chained up in their mothers basement reviewing Fox, Rush, Glenn and the rest, but are in fact set up in a nice shiny office building. I was so for them when they were in the basement, listening to the radio or watching tv in their underwear. Not so much now. Can I play Mark Levin in the movie. I kinda look like him, but I need to work on the high-pitched screedy voice a little bit. Maybe with some gov't. funded acting lessons I could pass muster. Waiting for the trailers to come out!
"Fear not, Comradse! We will have Happiness at long last: Harmony achieved by Theraputic Guidance, inclusiveness guaranteed by Judicial Order, efficient use of resources assured by Central Planning, thus granting to each citizen the right to be born by permission, live a politically-correct life, and then die by prior arrangement, ushered into eternity by morphine, soft music and cuddly crib-toys. Man will finally achieve his glorious future!"
And it will be a Blue-Ribbon, Paint-By-Number Paradise.
Oh, joy.
Remember what a wise man wrote, a man who knew that evil didn't just come with battalions of Orcs:
"’No!’ said Merry. ‘It’s no good “getting under cover”. That is just what people have been doing, and just what (Media Matters likes). They will simply come down on us in force, corner us, and then drive us out, or burn us in. No, we’ve got to do something at once!’
"‘Do what?’ said Pippin.
"‘Raise the Shire!’ said Merry. ‘Now! Wake all our people! They hate all this, you can see: all of them except perhaps one or two rascals, and a few fools that want to be important, but don’t at all understand what is really going on. But Shire-folk have been so comfortable so long, they don’t know what to do. They just want a match though, and they’ll go up in fire. The Chief’s Men must know that. They’ll try to stamp on us and put us out quick.
I remember in the 80s having to listen to Dan Rather skewer Reagan nightly. The local newspaper/rag was to the left of Rather. My college newspaper/fishwrapper was left of that.
"Conservative media figures telling you that this week’s blizzards (short period of time) disprove global climate change (relatively long period of time) are either lying or shockingly misinformed."
And how do we characterize that conduct when the global warming/climate change proponents do it?
Everything is shockingly this and shockingly that these days. I take it as a sign that the writer is about ten times as earnest as he or she is informed, and about one-tenth as experienced. Where do they get the expression from--was it a teen show on the CW that I have never watched?
how did they ever hire a say nothing, know nothing writer of oyur sort at NRO? Whoever is responsible should be tested for drug abuse. If it weren't for the Beck's, Hannity's and O;reilly's of the world, I would be forced to listen to your left-wing garbage. We right wingers don't need play on words. We are not afraid to tell it like it is. If I ever ask myself again, "How did we get to the era of Obummer?" i will refer to this article as my answer. Do me and the world a favor. Find a new day job
iralester, you do know that this author is being sarcastic, don't you?
I must be one of the "humorless dopes," because I simply can't watch any of the three network news shows or even two of the major cable news channels. They simply make me gag. I am no Fox sycophant; many of their personalities irritate me, and I certainly don't believe everything I hear. But when I want some television news, this is where I go. Thank goodness for choice.
"how did they ever hire a say nothing, know nothing writer of oyur sort at NRO? Whoever is responsible should be tested for drug abuse. If it weren't for the Beck's, Hannity's and O;reilly's of the world, I would be forced to listen to your left-wing garbage. We right wingers don't need play on words. We are not afraid to tell it like it is. If I ever ask myself again, "How did we get to the era of Obummer?" i will refer to this article as my answer. Do me and the world a favor. Find a new day job"
You are an idiot, and people like you give the left so much ammunition against the cause of small government, etc. God you are stupid. You may as well be one of the lefties.
If a blizard doesn't disprove global warming, how about 13 years of rising CO2 while temperatures have been falling. Would that disprove global warming?
