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.
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.
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MEDIA MATTERS is nothing more than a "SHILL" publication for our 'LIAR-in-CHIEF" who also is funded by GEORGE SOROS.
Let us be thankful for fools such as David Kahane, but for them the rest of us could not succeed!!!
Let's face it, George Soros and his Media Matters are nothing short of socialist/communist/islamist idiots who are hell bent on destroying everything the United States has stood for since its founding! Soros/Media Matters is a multi-billionaire who delights in and heavily funds efforts in taking down any world government that is not hard core socialist/communist. He is an enigma in that he is Jewish and even opposes Israel's existence. It all comes down to this: Soros, the Democrat party and the usurper BHO know that this is their last best chance to destroy American Constitutional Democracy and conservatism before they can be voted out of office in 2012.
It is hard to tell if this is honest left-wing stupidity, or fine-edged conservative satire. Really, I cannot imagine anyone calling themselves a patriotic American, and then – in the same breath – saying ANY of the things in that article with an air of solemnity.
If that was "serious journalism", Mr Samuel Adams has something to say to the writer – something about chains and about licking hands.
If that was edgy satire, I commend the writer on the virtuosity of his product; I couldn't tell if he was coming or going.
So what's new? The foreign idiots like Soros and his cronies he buys, like the dummies at move on {I wish they would keep on movin on back to the communists, where they came from}, media mutters, and the phony "scientists" They are a bunch of sickos. Surely not Americans. They all belong in one of their gulags back over seas. But they have the usual dummy bumpkins, who believe their rhetoric, and are hell bent on destroying this vountry. Thank GOD for Murdoch and the ONLY news in America called FOX. How can you argue with pea brains. Oh, and take the other foreigner, Huffington with you.
I am not a fan of Glenn Beck nor O'Reilly! Also i am not crazy about Fox either! But on the other hand Media Matters is just insanity run amuck!
I honestly don't know which is the most dangerous to national survival, this bunch of Soros followers or Al Qaida. Both stand for nothing but evil and the ultimate road to hell, just their means of getting there are a bit different. One group will destroy your brain by depriving you of all of your freedoms while the other one favors a much quicker demise by chopping off your head. Great bunch of people, if we were smart we would deport both sets of them ASAP!
Has anyone ever asked Kahane a very important question when he paused for a breath, "When you suck that swamp water up your nose Davy, does the swamp come to you or is it that you go to the swamp?"
Soon you and your kind will be like a government union…obsolete and useless.
No swamp water left, ONTIME.
Remember ellen snorted it all up last week!
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I get what Mr. Kahane is saying and he has a good point in there somewhere, but I like my satire well done. This isn't that…
And judging by the comments, satire here–predictably–is a waste of time. Hey, all, did you hear Jon Swift's suggestion that poor Irish folks sell their children to be eaten?
America, wake-up! America has a CIA and FBI and we could never have had Marxist(Anti-Christ) Presidents, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Carter, Obama, etc., etc.; unless they are Marxist in thought! Hello! Marxist New World Order developed by FDR! No? Do you know that even the UN functions under the Marxist manifesto? It does you know! Furthermore, the Bible specifically names the countries that make up the Beast of Revelation and they ALL are Islamic countries! Our women
( remember the story of the "intellectualizer' Eve?) have put over u.s. the forbidden foreigner of Deuteronomy 17:15 and I ask you, who do YOU think will give each other "presents" when the "right" Anti-Christ rides the white horse of the UN and kills Revelation's Two-Witnesses? Watch!
Kahane is right, of course, but if he would like to get the word out and educate the mass of the uninformed, he should be more concise, write with less fervor and dampen the funny words as well as the elite vocabulary. He must realize that the folks we need to vote this impostor out are the middle class independents and those who work their butts off for their families and do not have time to read such flowery oration. Many of us who do read this send email copies to others for educational purposes that trickle down to these people. I doubt I can send this article to them. They don't have to time to read it.
Mr. Kahane, please write with brvity and hit the mark at the same time.
Why are these news organizations so afraid of Fox News? They seem to be obsessed with their news coverage, various personalities on Fox, and any opinion they proffer on any subject! What is it about Fox that threatens them so much they need to declare war on them? You would think news agencies of any elk would welcome other points of view.
FOX tells the whole story, shows us the news as it happened. Alot of these news stories are buried or never shown on main stream tv news. I appreciate the full story so I can decide for myself, like it
should be. "They " are afraid because FOX tells the truths and shows it with video. They can't deny it because it's there for all of us to see. That's what they don't like. That's why they have all come out in the open due to this exposure. Now YOU decide.
Mr. David Kahane, I believe you desperately tried to use child psychology on the masses, but the rhetoric smells of Obama and regime. What one sentence in this silly blog could we take to the bank as truth? If you're a believer in all that you stated above – you need to wake up smell the roses and do some diligent homework on facts and statistics. Not one place in this blog is there verification of your statements, meaning you're flying by the seat of your pants and attempting to be a Socialist Bug!
A clarification is required. First you state that Media Matters is a "not-for-profit" organization, but that would be a 501(c)(4), NOT a 501(c)(3) which is "non-profit" organization. The two types have different structures and tax liabilities. The (c)(4)s are permitted to lobby, but the (c)(3)s are only supposed to provide educational materials. Lots of (c)(3)s (like the NRA) have a lobbying arm (the NRA-ILA) that is a (c)(4); so, which type is Media Matters…other than just a gaggle of leftist trolls dedicated to the dissemination of disinformation and the villification of all things conservative?
And American.
There's a reason why Fox News is Number One in ratings, and it's not because they don't report the real news, either. They don't report it all, of course, but you sure do get more and with a perspective both from the right and left. They certainly aren't another arm of the democrats, "reporting" that which should be classified as political advertising which should be paid for by the democrat party.
Political sycophants who resent Fox News don't want to hear anything that counters their liberal belief system, and they don't want anybody else hearing it, either. That's fear, and it's not fair.
Fox is "#1" only of the cable channels–meaning it beats CNN and MSNBC, but even its top news show are far behind the news shows of CBS, NBC and ABC. And its website trails CNN, msnb, Yahoo! news, the New York Times, and even the Huffington Post, finishing just ahead of the Washingtong Post: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites
Perhaps because Fox is only available on cable/sat?
CBS, NBC, and ABC are about the only networks available off air to just about every remote
corner of the country.
That's part of it, I'm sure, though there are decreasing numbers of those corners and the audience for cable news is dropping. Also, all sorts of other cable/satellite channels do better than cable news, which appeals to a vocal but relatively small group of Americans. That's why Fox, msnbc and CNN all have gone to entertainment during prime time (commentators over news), and why two of the three (excluding Fox) are running mostly non-news stuff during the weekends.
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Carol, despite your inability to use punctuation or grammar or to spell even simple words such as "hey," usually someone might be able to figure out at least part of what you mean. But what do "Eatch the Media-Matters Polls" or "I Wonder The Have Ever Got…" mean?
Time to up the meds?
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It's good that you're trying small words. Maybe one day, with enough determination, you can move on to the proper use of grammar, punctuation and apostophes.
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This is a dumb article and MM sucks balls.
The Best Way To Fight George Soros Is BOYCOTT His Media Matters Lies. God Bless America And Sarah Palin.