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Tails of the Gun

Why Rush survived pressure onadvertisers-- while O’Reilly didn’t  by William A. Jacobson Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News career now swims with the fishes. The conventional wisdom is that after the NY Times exposed a history of sexual harassment  settlements, and two new accusers came forward, advertisers “fled” the show, forcing the hand of News Corp and the Murdochs. That conventional wisdom is only partially correct — advertisers didn’t flee, they were chased away by the same organized effort as was used against Glenn Beck once upon a time, and Rush Limbaugh in 2012. Longtime readers will recall my extensive and groundbreaking research into the StopRush operation just after Limbaugh’s comments about Sandra Fluke in 2012, for which he apologized. I proved then that the operation — at least initially — was a Media Matters astroturfed assault on Limbaugh’s advertiser base, based on a pre-existing plan by Angelo Carusone, then Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters (and now President). Supposedly independent groups coordinated their efforts with Media Matters, and then tried to cover it up. My research led Limbaugh to activate his personal Twitter account to spread the results of my research. It also earned me threats to interfere in my employment, although those threats never materialized as far as I know. I continued to follow the main group, as it targeted advertisers and eventually imploded from infighting and infiltration. The efforts largely failed at causing any meaningful damage to Limbaugh. Nonetheless, a small cadre of operatives, who often used multiple proxy accounts to multiply their effect, continued to plug away at harassing Limbaugh advertisers over a variety of issues. That eventually led Limbaugh, through a spokesman, to push back against the operatives, Limbaugh outs #StopRush Twitter operatives. [FULL] SELECTED  COMMENTS If the Progressive Fascists targeted O’Reilly on the basis that he was Conservative, we’ve already won. If they can’t even identify the appropriate target, they can’t do anything but flail. And that’s a good thing. O’Reilly worked for Fox News and he was viewed by the Left as a prominent, conservative-leaning commentator, so, his scalp was deemed to be a valuable one. That’s the essence of the matter. Clearly O’Reilly wasn’t a conservative and Fox News has been inching to the left for a long time, but to the left, Fox is THE “mouthpiece” of conservatism. It’s an example of appearance over substance. The larger issue is that Soros’ interests and puppets cannot lay a glove on Trump, so they’re going after his allies- everywhere, in every medium. First, it was Ailes, now it’s O’Reilly- with the Murdoch sons in charge, they have a natural ally. More than anything, they want to take out Fox- and will succeed, if the Murdoch boys are too stupid to see what’s going on. Not all great companies can survive when the next generation, who have inherited their jobs, takes over. James and Lachlan will not suffer financially when they’ve destroyed the legacy that their father has built- and, ultimately, they won’t care. It was Rupert Murdoch’s call, ultimately, although his sons did help to convince him to hire the Paul, Weiss, law firm that investigated first Ailes and now O’Reilly. Murdoch’s not going to be swayed by liberal boycotts or a few advertisers, in my opinion, he was looking at the future of the company. Would you want your wife or daughter working for Fox News in that kind of environment? IMO, O’Reilly was sacrificed only because the Murdock kids are weak and are clearly ready and willing to stop pretending that Fox is different than ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN. They want to jettison their viewers and go mainstream. They all run in the same circles and only the uber-left thinks Fox is conservative. During the last election, they clearly showed themselves to be clueless anti-Trump water carriers of NYC and DC culture. O’Reilly will do ok. I hate the way he was taken down… and no doubt, more scalps to come.

At Least Breitbart is dead"

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Obama in the crapper

2012                                            La La La La La “ We're almost out of toilet paper The most comical analyses as usual come from Media Matters, who evidently see this as a race between Fox News and Obama. Right-Wing Media Help Romney Hide His Opposition To The Successful Auto Rescue The Fox Built Lie: Apology Tour Edition Fox won't let go of the ridiculous myth that President Obama went on a global tour apologizing for America. Here's why that's not true. "Deliberate Misinformation" In a blow to his own network, Fox News host Juan Williams debunked false narratives that Fox News has frequently pushed since the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. ”

Holder Hearts Media Matters

OBAMUNISM, The Party, Media Matters hearts the DOJ “ "Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency. On February 21, 1975, Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request." [Media Matters hearts the DOJ Not only did John Mitchell go to the hoosegow for his minimal by Holder standards transgressions,  review these  Articles of Impeachment leveled by House Democrats, and celebrated for all time by the media.   Compare them to, say, Obama's  actions in any given month. Historical note for younger victims of modern education: Unlike Clinton, and Andrew Johnson, Nixon was not Impeached. ”

Navy SEALs respond to Media Matters

Hitler's Mustache                Media Matters staffer says Obama-critical SEALs ‘don’t have guts’ Navy SEAL responds Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert said on Thursday that a group of former Navy SEALS “don’t have guts” after the special forces operators launched a media campaign condemning the Obama administration’s national security leaks. Boehlert accusing Navy SEALs of being gutless has inflamed conservatives online, who view Boehlert as the face of liberal smears emanating from Media Matters for America.   “Boehlert is such a straight up Obama boot licker that he actually smears former Navy SEALs who don’t like the fact that President Obama’s administration is leaking sensitive information that could put current SEALs in danger,” reads a reaction post on The Right Sphere, a conservative blog. With everybody not on their side a potential liar, Media Matters is a sort of ACLU of the media monitoring game. Sonny Bunch, managing editor for the Washington Free Beacon, wrote on Twitter, ”Dear God: All I ask before I die is that you let me witness Eric Boehlert call a Navy SEAL a coward to his face.”   There is some irony in Boehlert accusing a political group of hiding its affinity for, or opposition to, a particular candidate.   Media Matters, as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is forbidden from explicitly endorsing or opposing a candidate for elected office. But as TheDC has previously reported, the group has steadily expanded its support of Obama as he mounts up his 2012 re-election campaign.  Read more: I've not gone looking for it, but lately I'm struck by how many conservative  ripostes  appear on just about any lefty posting, or newspaper article with commenting allowed.  Eric Davidson's Twitter response is a prime example.  It's getting harder for these mofos to lie, and I think much of that is due to Obama.  He's so egregious a  liar that a lot of people who were prone to accept as gospel any "official" voice are now willing to accept that media  and democrats regularly  lie from out their asses.

David Brock Compendium of Evil

MEDIA MATTERS MATTERS a compendium of filth and crime to clip and save

“ Media Matters’ Brock paid former partner $850k in ‘blackmail’ settlement David Brock, fearful that damaging information about Media Matters For America would be released, reportedly paid his former domestic partner $850,000 to stay quiet, according to a Fox News report Monday. Brock later characterized the arrangement as “blackmail.” Brock is the founder* of Media Matters, a liberal messaging organization that was the subject of a recent Daily Caller series. *In fact, Media Matters was created by John Podesta after Hillary Clinton's request for a vehicle to combat the VRWC's  (Vicious Right Wing Conspiracy) control of media messaging-  lol. Madoff-invested charities contributed $365k to Media Matters “It’s too late in the game for them to get sued. That have certain defenses as a secondary recipient of the money. So I just don’t see it happening.” NEXT: Media Matters won't say if it will return the money Dem leaders, WH silent on Media Matters’ hostile rhetoric against Israel, Israel’s supporters Alan Dershowitz is on a crusade against Media Matters. The liberal Harvard Law School professor has taken every opportunity to lambast the left-wing organization for the bile it spills against Israel and its supporters. He is also critical of the association the Democratic Party has with the group. Dershowitz has written that the rhetoric used by Media Matters senior foreign policy fellow MJ Rosenberg is like the “virulent hate speech you’d expect to find on a neo-Nazi website.” He didn't say Hitler, but that's okay. We know. Dershowitz falls into the category of  decent people whose Liberalism keep them from thinking straight.  Except, like here, when their ox is being gored.  Still, it's good that the Jewish nobility, so important to creating Obamunism (in both word and deed$) are finally taking measure of what they've bought.  ”

Media Matters Terrorists

Media Matters memo called for hiring private investigators ‘to look into the personal lives’ of Fox employees

“ As an aside A little after 1 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, Karl Frisch emailed a memo to his bosses, Media Matters for America founder David Brock and president Eric Burns. In the first few lines, Frisch explained why Media Matters should launch a “Fox Fund” whose mission would be to attack the Fox News Channel. “Simply put,” Frisch wrote, “the progressive movement is in need of an enemy. George W. Bush is gone. We really don’t have John McCain to kick around any more. Filling the lack of leadership on the right, Fox News has emerged as the central enemy and antagonist of the Obama administration, our Congressional majorities and the progressive movement as a whole.”   [Full]   I suppose it's too much to expect this congress to hold hearings on this most unseemly effort by the administration to silence critics through intimidation and terror.  Just the opposite is being proposed as a matter of fact. “ So far more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have called on Congress to launch an investigation into whether Murdoch and his company were engaged in similar illegal activities in the U.S.  You can take action here. On this page we have collected resources about Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. and their impact on U.S. media policy. [Control The News.com] ” ”