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Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 8 Comments

Please bookmark this post and Tweetfor use in the next political emergency, when some criminal act by a nut is used by Media Matters and its progeny to tar and feather the entire Tea Party and conservative movements: (h/t @JammieWF) Update 1-8-2011 - This tweet takes on special significance...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 4 Comments

A gunman has taken hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters.  According to reliable reports, the guy is an environmental activist motivated by fears for the planet, and spouting rhetoric about how the planet doesn't need people.Guess what it is I will not do?(Hint - rub...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2010 10 Comments

Media Matters wants to prove that is can take on Fox News.  Media Matters wants to run an advertisement on Fox News criticizing the parent of Fox News for donating $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.  Politico has the background.Here is the ad, after some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2010 9 Comments

The latest release by the Rapid Response team at the Democratic National Committee will persuade everyone who, since January 2009, has been living on Mars, in a diving bell at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, on a respirator while in a deep coma, or...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2010 9 Comments

Apparently, some people are claiming that Laura Bush went on a safari in Africa on the taxpayer's dime as a way of justifying Michelle Obama's mostly taxpayer-funded trip to the coast of Spain.Kirsten Powers responded to these claims, and also responded to shouts of bias...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2010 59 Comments

Ever since Hillary Clinton supporters started circulating claims that Obama was not born in the United States, Obama's supporters and strategists have taken a very aggressive posture.Almost any attempt to discuss the subject is met with a furious response from Media Matters, Think Progress, their...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2010 11 Comments

Chris Muir takes note:Worry not, Dear Journolistas,You still have your youthful snark, irrelevant wit, what the f@#k kick ass attitudes, and epistemic closures; and you still can suckle at the informational bosom of Mother Media Matters, and call it journalism.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:My One Question for WaPo Regarding...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2010 22 Comments

On February 18, 2010, I wrote a post titled Progressive Bloggers In The Wizard of Oz, about a trip by several "progressive" bloggers to meet at The White House with Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist to Vice President Joe Biden.The post carried a photo of serious-looking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2010 20 Comments

Now that the left-wing blogosphere and Democratic media operatives Media Matters and Think Progress have found the Religion of Context when it comes to Shirley Sherrod ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2010 25 Comments

Such is now demanded by the NAACP in the Shirley Sherrod matter.You remember her. She's the Department of Agriculture person who, at an NAACP meeting in March, told a story about how 20 plus years ago she had discriminated against a white farmer because he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2010 10 Comments

It's beginning to feel like the hot August of 2009, again.You can feel it. A growing discontent with the top-down, big government, free-spending, patronizing, arrogant ways of Washington, D.C.If that were all there were, it would merely be another year.What kicked off the hotly debated...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2010 9 Comments

The spinning for Harry Reid is in full throttle.The meme is changing -- according to Democratic insiders! -- from one of doomed Harry Reid to Harry Reid the survivor:There’s no denying that Reid still trails in most polls and that his approval ratings back home...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2010 8 Comments

According to the most recent Gallup poll, support among Americans for Israel over the Palestinians is at a near all time high. 63% of Americans (more than voted for Barack Obama) support Israel, while only 15% support the Palestinians, with 23% choosing "both/neither/no opinion."Despite this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 10 Comments

We really are into dumb territory here, with the Democratic media machine defending Richard Blumenthal on the ground that Blumenthal didn't lie about his service "in Vietnam" every time he spoke about the subject.The story line arises because earlier in the same appearance in which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2010 8 Comments

The bullying by Congressional committees of various unpopular industries has taken on warp speed.But in a very disturbing new tactic, Congressional Democrats specifically are targeting a sponsor of conservative media shows, particularly the Glenn Beck Show, on a flimsy pretext: Forget Goldman. New York Rep....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2010 10 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:This is the first post in this series to focus on the use of the race card by both sides of a dispute, call it "race card v. counter-race...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2009 1 Comment

Media Matters is watching everything that FoxNews, and conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, say or do waiting to pounce on any sentence, or clause in a sentence, or word in a clause, which can be twisted out of context and blown up into a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 4 Comments

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am not a fan of Media Matters. All too often, Media Matters spends way too much time staring at videos of the latest O'Reilly show or speech by a Republican politician, or listening to every syllable uttered...

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