stephanie
11-14-2007, 02:23 AM
Interesting..Media Matters started with Imus, and went on and tried it with Rush...Didn't quite work out with Rush for them though...and don't forget...40 Democrat Senators wrote a letter to Rush Limbaugh employer in the hopes of having him censored....think about it...
long article..this is only a snip...
By Cliff Kincaid | April 17, 2007 In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of one of Hillary's major political enemies in the media. Send this page to a friend
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Do you think something is fishy about the Don Imus affair? Why was the boom lowered on him at this time? The answer may have something to do with his main accuser, the Media Matters group, which is emerging as a front organization for Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and has extensive ties to the national Democratic Party. In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of one of Hillary’s major political enemies in the media.
Glenn Thrush of Newsday wrote a revealing September 7, 2006, article about the relationship between Senator Clinton and David Brock, the former conservative who runs Media Matters. Calling it the “Clinton-Brock alliance,” Thrush revealed that Hillary “advised Brock on creating the group” and “chats with him occasionally and thinks he provides a valuable service…” Thrush added, “For her part, Clinton’s extended family of contributors, consultants and friends has played a pivotal role in helping Media Matters grow from a $3.5 million start-up in 2004 to its current $8.5 million budget.”
Another key funding source for Media Matters (and much of the left-wing movement in this country) is George Soros, the billionaire financial speculator who profits at the expense and decay of Western civilization. His causes include legalization of marijuana and other drugs, gun control, abortion rights, gay rights, rights for felons, opposition to the death penalty, rights for illegal immigrants, and euthanasia. On foreign affairs, Soros, a big backer of the United Nations, is associated with opposition to the U.S. policy of resisting the rise of radical and anti-American Islamic groups and states. He spent $26 million in 2004 trying to defeat President Bush.
Media Matters receives Soros money through the Democracy Alliance, a group of wealthy “progressive” donors that was the subject of rumors in the left-wing press that it was a front group for Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign.
The “Inside Story”
By now, everyone knows the basic story of Don Imus. A shock jock who had been saying shocking things on his radio/TV show for years, said some more shocking things and got fired. But why was he singled out for firing after all these years of saying shocking things? Some are saying that it had something to do with his latest victims, the mostly black Rutgers women’s basketball team. The rationale is that insulting this particular group of people was somehow over the line, as compared with all of his other jokes, insults and put downs. But that argument isn’t very convincing. There is something else to this story.
In a Dateline NBC report by correspondent Dennis Murphy, we are being given the official “inside story” of Imus’s firing. Murphy briefly alludes to the role of the “liberal watchdog group,” Media Matters, in the controversy, and claims that various NBC News employees played a key role in getting Imus fired. But Murphy’s corporate line has to be dismissed completely out of hand because of his ridiculous assertion that Al Sharpton, a notorious racial demagogue, was merely a “civil rights leader” who played a big role in the affair. If Murphy won’t or can’t tell the truth about Sharpton’s sordid background, you know he’s not leveling with his audience about what really happened inside NBC.
Asked by Murphy if the network was caving in to pressure groups, NBC News President Steven Capus replied that “Rather than portraying it as caving to pressure groups, I would say that we listened to America.” Capus must believe we are all saps.
Lots more to read at...
http://www.aim.org/special_report/5390_0_8_0_C/
long article..this is only a snip...
By Cliff Kincaid | April 17, 2007 In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of one of Hillary's major political enemies in the media. Send this page to a friend
Format this page for printing
Do you think something is fishy about the Don Imus affair? Why was the boom lowered on him at this time? The answer may have something to do with his main accuser, the Media Matters group, which is emerging as a front organization for Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and has extensive ties to the national Democratic Party. In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of one of Hillary’s major political enemies in the media.
Glenn Thrush of Newsday wrote a revealing September 7, 2006, article about the relationship between Senator Clinton and David Brock, the former conservative who runs Media Matters. Calling it the “Clinton-Brock alliance,” Thrush revealed that Hillary “advised Brock on creating the group” and “chats with him occasionally and thinks he provides a valuable service…” Thrush added, “For her part, Clinton’s extended family of contributors, consultants and friends has played a pivotal role in helping Media Matters grow from a $3.5 million start-up in 2004 to its current $8.5 million budget.”
Another key funding source for Media Matters (and much of the left-wing movement in this country) is George Soros, the billionaire financial speculator who profits at the expense and decay of Western civilization. His causes include legalization of marijuana and other drugs, gun control, abortion rights, gay rights, rights for felons, opposition to the death penalty, rights for illegal immigrants, and euthanasia. On foreign affairs, Soros, a big backer of the United Nations, is associated with opposition to the U.S. policy of resisting the rise of radical and anti-American Islamic groups and states. He spent $26 million in 2004 trying to defeat President Bush.
Media Matters receives Soros money through the Democracy Alliance, a group of wealthy “progressive” donors that was the subject of rumors in the left-wing press that it was a front group for Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign.
The “Inside Story”
By now, everyone knows the basic story of Don Imus. A shock jock who had been saying shocking things on his radio/TV show for years, said some more shocking things and got fired. But why was he singled out for firing after all these years of saying shocking things? Some are saying that it had something to do with his latest victims, the mostly black Rutgers women’s basketball team. The rationale is that insulting this particular group of people was somehow over the line, as compared with all of his other jokes, insults and put downs. But that argument isn’t very convincing. There is something else to this story.
In a Dateline NBC report by correspondent Dennis Murphy, we are being given the official “inside story” of Imus’s firing. Murphy briefly alludes to the role of the “liberal watchdog group,” Media Matters, in the controversy, and claims that various NBC News employees played a key role in getting Imus fired. But Murphy’s corporate line has to be dismissed completely out of hand because of his ridiculous assertion that Al Sharpton, a notorious racial demagogue, was merely a “civil rights leader” who played a big role in the affair. If Murphy won’t or can’t tell the truth about Sharpton’s sordid background, you know he’s not leveling with his audience about what really happened inside NBC.
Asked by Murphy if the network was caving in to pressure groups, NBC News President Steven Capus replied that “Rather than portraying it as caving to pressure groups, I would say that we listened to America.” Capus must believe we are all saps.
Lots more to read at...
http://www.aim.org/special_report/5390_0_8_0_C/