Brent Bozell on Media Matters.
By John Amato Saturday Feb 16, 2008 2:58pm
The Bozell crowd chirp in on our pals at Media Matters while discussing their anti-Clinton book. Yea, another untold story about ---wait for it---are you waiting?--- “Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will.
OMG, get over it already. Millions of dollars wasted for nothing....
It sure sounds like the little red beard certainly is jealous of MM, wouldn't you agree? Anyway...MM, like C&L takes a look at "conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time" in the mainstream media. Bozell whines a good game but really has nothing to say when it comes to smearing MM. Let's ask Brent about the role Rush Limbaugh plays in his MRC organization? Wow, and he just happens to defend him in the clip. Eric has a great piece up called: "Poetic Justice: Limbaugh tries to tear GOP apart"
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Brent Bozell: Uh, one more question.
Male Speaker: what role do you think Media Matters plays in the whitewash process as it relates to the Clinton machine?
Tim Graham (Co-author): Well, it's too new to be - you know. Most of this book is pre-2004. Uh, they're obviously now playing a really important role. We kind of giggle when we read some of their reports, where Media Matters...we're not in tight with the Clintons but they write articles about how people are criticizing her colored pant suits, you know? Or somebody finds her screechy. How dare somebody find her screechy? Well, don't they listen to her on television? Uh, so they are so exquisitely sensitive that - there's a Princess and the Pea level of sensitivity on Hillary Clinton. Uh, you know, frankly we find it amusing. We just enjoy reading it.
Bozell: Well, and add to that Hillary Clinton goes to Daily Kos' convention taking credit for the creation of of Media Matters, so there's just that little itty bitty bit of information to pass on. Are they playing a role in this campaign? I don't know if they've played a major role so far in the presidential campaign. Don Imus will say they have a role to play; they cost him his job. They tried going after Rush Limbaugh unsuccessfully and unfairly, and they're still being dishonest about it. Unequivocally I say that. Um, so they haven't been successful there. I haven't seen a real impact that they've had on this campaign so far.
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Brent Bozell to put it mildly, is a loser who spreads propaganda and disinformation.
I don't understand how right-wing books work. Obviously, there are audio versions, but what about the book copies that sell? Do conservatives find someone to read the books to them? Or are they mostly in picture form? I've never really understood this.
When we get the silverware back from your thug friends, son, we'll be seeing you in the woodshed.
With some good strong soap to wash out that lying mouth of yours.
Duuude...
...What were yo smokin' before you went on the air?
Marcus Aurelius @ 4:
Lava?
but the fact remains that Media Matters is sickening in its unflagging defense of Hillary....no matter how many bad ideas she supports by voting for them. (Iraq invasion, Iran ok, clusterbombs, death penalty, etc. etc. etc.)
Media Matters is very pro-Hillary. who would deny that?
James @ 2:
Nah. Nobody reads their books. Rich right-wingers buy the books in bulk to put them on the best-seller lists; then they go straight to the $1 remainder bins, where rank-and-file wingnuts scoop them up as gifts for their illiterate relatives.
It's telling that MRC doesn't have a comments section on their website while Media Matters does. There's plenty of trolling at Media Matters by regulars who seem to have nothing else to do with their lives. One wonders if they don't work for MRC. Media Matters fears nothing from the trolls that regularly attack it, claim the media is really Liberal despite copious evidence, and always disingenuously question why every item is posted. Media Matters posters knock these trolls down with logic and reason every time. One suspects the reason that MRC doesn't allow comments is that they know their BS can't stand up to scrutiny.
The big JOKE
Bad mouthing Hillary may pay off big, McCain can not beat Obama. Obama will bring out the black vote, and that will mean a great loss in southern republican Congress person, and that means more than who is president. ha ha love it when Republicans Fu@k one another as much as when they Fu@k each other
ROFL!!!!!! Again, reich-wingers prove to us that they have their own version of "reality".
Mr. XXXX @ 1:
Bozo!
otto @ 7:
It's not that Media Matter defends Clinton on unquestionable criticism, but they are right to do so against Conservative misinformation. They also do it for Obama and on a wider range of issues from SS to Telecom immunity. If you think that anything that MM says is untrue, you can post your complaint in the comments section.
i may be hearing things....but didnt that questioner sound alot like our old pal jeff drucker/gannon?
anyone have vid of the audience?
Have you viewed that video??
Most likely not... Which is why being an ideologue is so fucking Dangerous to FREEDOM!
They catch her red handed doing some fucked up things... IE: on tape--
And they show her to be the phoney fraud she is.
But you are not going to listen to it because she has a D next to her name... and because the rightwing scumbags attack her...
Smartest method is always to take in information from as many sources as possible.. The more data you have the more questions you can formulate.
Seriously... the only way you are going to get the jist is by looking at the two wings of this beast...
Never toss he baby out with the bathwater
Professional Republican
"thousands of revelers unfurled giant American flags, carried posters of former President Bill Clinton and chanted “Thank you U.S.A.” and “God bless America.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/world/europe/18kosovo.html?hp
Meanwhile, w is in Africa claiming he is loved there.
What gets me is that CSPAN gives unfettered access and unlimited air time to the likes of Brent Bozell, you won't see people from Media Matters doing interviews there. It seem that every time I turn on CSPAN, if they aren't showing Congress voting on a bill it's a forum by the Heritage Foundation, AEI or another Right wing group. If you want to see something similar from a Liberal or Left wing perspective, you have to tune in at 3:00 in the morning.
rduke @ 15:
The word you were looking for was GIST, not jist. But the rest of you rhetoric was pretty ok. right out of the FOX handbook.
This has nothing to do with this article, but the comments for the Creepy Obama Cult of Personality article were closed. Did anyone notice that when CNN reported on the Time article about Obama they made a slip. The words on the screen from the Time article by Joel Stein were: "...the message is becoming dangerously self-referential." The word the commentator used when reading the quote was "reverential". There is a big difference between referential, meaning Obama's message refers to itself, and reverential, meaning Obama reveres himself or his own message.
This disturbs me very much.
rduke @ 15:
Viewed what video? What the hell are you talking about? If you have video evidence of Clinton doing something wrong, post a link. I'm no fan of the Clintons, but I also am not about to jump on the bandwagon for every little smear that comes from the Right wing and their operatives.
rduke @ 15:
Here you go: http://www.kleenex.com
Adrasteia @ 20:
I noticed that, so did a few Brits sitting next to me. Sad, they are getting like FOX, or so I've heard, don't get fox here, just
CNN intnl
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Hell-Bent Bozo has (if it's possible) even less credibility than his hero Duhhbya.
An archive search at Media Matters will show why.
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Snowball @ 21:
Exactly.
I think trying to read a riech-wing book would have same effect as banging your head against a brick wall. It would be painful and lower your I.Q.
Any chance his crap is printed by Regnery? If so they're likely to sell to the books to themselves overnight so they can squawk about how big of an NYT bestseller it is, and how much the country "isn't buyin' teh librul ajenda".
Ya know, this Bozell reminds me of another Bozell, a non-existent one, but a character nonetheless. This fake Bozell always crowed about how he was wronged via some insignificant social process, and often could be heard whining and crying about how he was going to sue everyone remotely involved in wronging him.
That Bozell was a character, nothing more than a voice, created by Phil Hendrie, but it appears the psychological model fits this garbage-writing Brent Bozell idiot.
im telling you guys...the questioner had to be jeff gannon
how the fuck is he getting back to being a "journalist"?
Wow, the excerpts really make this book sound like a must read. They focus on whether Hillary's pantsuits trouble people and whether her voice is screechy?
All I csn say, boys, is that I have listened to the world's worst speaker who sounds slurred, twangy and uneducated for seven years. I'll take Hillary, if she's screechy or not, any day. There is intelligence in her statements, unlike Mr. Prez.
And when Bush is gone, I certainly don't want to listen to a 71 year old man starting every sentence with, "My friends...".
These dudes seriously need to write a book with some relevance.
Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
According to American BBC reporter Greg Palast (he's an investigative reporter and there's no work in the states), our choices for president are three front people for organized criminal operations.
Saturday February 16, 2008 (2)
Investigative American reporter Greg Palast tells Richard Green who is funding Clinton, Obama and McCain. The proverbial men behind the curtains
Somewhat OT
Still deals with the current campaigns.
Someone wrote a letter that appeared in this morning's Dallas Morning News Editorials (called Points; less syllables that way), parroting Tom Sullivan's Obama/Hitler speech meme.
To appear today, they must've been sitting at their keyboards writting this letter, and claiming the thought for their own, almost as soon as Sullivan said it.
Expect more of the same in your own local papers letters to the editor.
The Poetic Justice link was delightful. To paraphrase Shakespeare the Republicans are now "hoist with their own retard". Want to be bet that shows up in the next New Rules?
You can cut your hair, you can put on a suit and you can even change your name but a Bozo is still a Bozo!
Avid Reader @ 31:
As the saying goes, " Any fool can write anything and any fool can read it, it doesn't make it true." Did your article mention the criminal-in-chief who is presently running this country for the benefit of Halliburton and the oil companies?
MM and MRC are both operating in some alternate universe where, respectively, neither liberal or conservative misinformation seem to exist. It sure would be nice to have some 501(c)(3) which focused on the plethora of misinformation coming from both sides, which would appeal to everyone with an interest in such things, and maybe bring people together instead of fostering more divisiveness, but thus far the only sustainable business model apparently depends on appealing to hyper-partisans for financial support.
getalife @ 17:
And another small part of Europe is rewarded for trafficking in drugs, in humans, and in the harboring of terrorists.
U.S. recognition of an independent Kosovo at this point both flouts nearly a century of established international law, and negates the decisions of the United Nations Security Council. But who gives a sh*t about international law? We're big, bad Americans. We can do what we choose. International law only appeals to us when it's convenient.
Snowball @ 13:
I've been a fan of Media Matters for a long time but have to admit that, a few weeks ago, they broadened their mission to include complaining about anything anybody (conservative or liberal or in-between) said that was at all dubious about Hillary Clinton. At the expense of their actual "misinformation" coverage. Now they seem to have gone back to their original format, thank goodness!
Media Matters cost Don Imus his job? OMG, I was under the mistaken impression it was because he made a disgusting, raciest, sexist remark. Fucking Media Matters. What's wrong with them? Trying to keep the press honest. Geez.....
You know, in thinking of my life experiences I've come to the conclusion that Republican hacks like Bozell and Graham must have teeny little penii. Why else would they need to go to such far lengths to "feel" justified about their "goodness?" Why work theories from obvious lies? Democratic men (big D) have such large schlongs that they're perfectly happy with reality and start there when discussing the world.
peaceful easy feeling @ 36:
Your post is naive false equivalence, just like the "fair and balanced" act we get from the Corporate Media. Just because the two organizations exist and one side says one thing and the other another, doesn't mean both sides are equally right or wrong. There's such a thing as objective fact. Media Matters does a good job of backing up their analysis, MRC does not. All MRC offers up are their opinions inside of a self-referential right wing echo chamber.
Aside from that, what good is having a democracy if there's no partisanship? That's what a democracy is, competing ideologies. The Corporate Media has been pushing this bi-partisanship meme ever since it became apparent that the Republican party was headed for big electoral losses. It's funny how the onus for bi-partisanship is a one way street falling on the heads of Liberals and Leftists. Acquiesce to the corporate elite right wing agenda or be labeled an extreme partisan. It's a game, an act, and I'm not falling for it. Shame that you are.
To paraphrase Colbert, "How DARE Media Matters use the words they speak against them!" In a world where facts are useless is the mind of a conservative, idiots like Bozell will have their fringe group of idiots to enable their idiocy.
Wait - granted, the book is about the supposed past sins of Hillary Clinton, but it came out in November 2007 and is about "whitewashing" Hillary Clinton, but most of it is "pre-2004"? Jeez, real timely of these guys, isn't it?
Of course, that's the entire point - they're hoping their audience either doesn't know or doesn't care that mostly, they're recycling disproven bullshit from long ago.
Red Beard The Conservative Pirate! When you have loonies like Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center troop, there wouldn't be any "LIBERAL" media boogeymen! OOOOH.....
Snowball makes a great point - the sudden hue and cry for "Bi-Partisan Co-Operation" has risen to new heights now that the RepigLiCONs are headed to a single minority seat on the Senate Select Committee on Human Waste Transportation . . . sorry - time has come to screw them as they screwed America . . .
Greatest joy will be the sight of long lines of smoking Chevys with "Regent Graduate" bumper stickers, idling OUT of Washington in a blizzard with trunks full of lobbyists . . .
MarcyJ @ 39:
imus lost his job because he lost his advertisers
he has said comparable things on his new gig (when you can understand the babbling idiot)
Wouldn't it be sad to spend your "golden years" chasing a ghost?? These idiots writing books to defame the Clintons are enough to make me want to cry. Do people buy these books? I certainly hope not, but there are enough "Clinton-haters" out there in the neocon, have no-life world that will suck up any lie or innuendo possible.
Do you think they would buy a book based on fact of their fuhrer? I seriously doubt it.
Snowball @ 9:
Most -- Most --of the popular Conservative websites do not allow for free public comments; does Limbaugh, Hannity, or O'Reilly offer free public comment, for example? No.
... even YouTube has a few Neocons who filter out any and all opposing views. It's a Neocon hate fest.
Seriously, is this the Old Spice dude? Or the guy from Ghost and Mrs. Muir? Who wears a beard like that anymore?
I bet he makes and stars in his own 1950s educational films, sitting in an oversize chair with a pipe and lecturing about the dangers of integration. Probably shows them at CPAC.
I saw this idiot on C-Span a few weeks ago promoting this book and I thought the same thing about him as I do Obama, David Axelrod, and all of the Obama supporters. It is from books and people like this so called author that keep perpetuating and propagating the same old ridiculous things we have heard over and over again thinking it is going to scare us away from Hillary because they are so desperate and scared as hell for her to become President. Whatever anyone’s reasons are for not liking Hillary, they are just plain ridiculous or insane and derive from pure gossip. It is obvious that the well intended people support Hillary and the bad intended people like the Republicans and Obama do nothing but become cumbersome rambling idiots repeating the same BS!
That is why I support Hillary Clinton because I know they have nothing new on her! Now Obama, there are all kinds of new things the Republicans have in their bag of tricks! This also proves that Obama is the divisive candidate because he is always getting ahead only by using the same old BS half truths to get people to hate Hillary which is exactly like the Republicans.
The only reason we have to "keep fighting the fights of the 90's" is because Obama won't let us forget! He is also just helping the Republicans, not the Democrats!
Obama + Republicans = Democratic Party Divided!
Hawaii Voter @ 50:
are all clinton supporters insane???
what does bozell have to do with obama?
uncle joe mccarthy @ 51:
Because he uses their playbook to attempt to polarize her and Bill Clinton and turn their loyalist against them so he can win! This in turn is causing division in the Democratic base therefore his actions are working just like the Republicans actions do!
The similarities are so apparent and simple to see if you do not have Obama blinders on!
uncle joe mccarthy @ 51:
Pay no mind, it's a troll attack. Claim to be a supporter of Democratic candidate X and attack the supporters of Democratic candidate Y and blame them for the BS coming out of the Corporate Media that relentlessly smears any Democratic candidate. It's a divide and conquer strategy, they have nothing left in their playbook.
MRC trolls are very tricky, at least they think they are.
Anyone with working eyeballs and working ears can see that is ALL Obama does is attack Hillary Clinton and convinces his supporters that The Clinton's are worthless demons! I do not get this from the MSM! Only straight from the horses mouth!
Name calling will never change this fact!
Hawaii Voter @ 55:
Neither will trolling win the election for Republicans.
Bozell is an assclown!
Yes Mr. Bozell, we all know that the Clintons are the cause of everything bad that happened in the 20th century (and into the 21st apparently), now move along!
If you're not a troll, pledge to support the Democratic nominee in the general elections no matter who wins.
Hawaii Voter @ 55:
Bullshit, pal. Looks like you got your "facts" from the other end of the horse, that is, not the mouth.
bmw 528 @ 59:
So you are saying that Obama's words are the other end of a horses mouth? Obama himself with his own voice and his own lips say the exact same things as the Republicans do about the Clinton's! Period! That is not an opinion! It is a fact!
What I just can't fathom is that Reagan -- A cardboard cut-out who couldn't say "Good Morning" without Michael Deaver's approval -- gave this country our current debt, a legacy of homelessness, turned this country from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation, re-ignited the cold war via Latin America, brought us Iran-Contra, planted the seeds for the savings and loan scandal, etc., and the current moron-in-chief has followed suit by invading a country that had did nothing to us and subsequently killed tens of thousands of human beings, turned a sovereign nation into utter chaos, succeeded in breaking the treasury, and doesn't have a clue to the nation's economic woes, and they have the gall to hate a man for a blow job?
There are some people in this world I just cannot stand, and Brent Bozo Bozell is one of them. Jesus, that guy is such an asswipe.
Media DOES matter.
Bozo Bozell--not so much.
Hawaii Voter @ 60:
My favorite part about your comments is how you present yourself. "I SAID IT SO IT MUST BE TRUE!!!" haha fantastic keep up the good work..
As if he wasn't bad enough in his own right, Brent Bozell is William F. Buckley's nephew!
Regarding the venom being spewn by Limbaugh; it makes perfect sense. These simple-minded fools who listen to his tripe day after day, year after year, really believe that "real" conservatism is the cure-all for everything that ails this country and the world. This attacking of McCain is just the latest in a series of attempts to separate themselves from the failure of the GOP dating all the way back to the 'Contract on America'.
It's denial, plain and simple. Limbaugh is the idiots' Political Jesus, and there is no way they'll accept that he, and by extension they, are at fault for the horrible mess we find ourselves in. They hope that by walking away from the GOP mainstream now, they can claim some sort of purity later on, instead of accepting their part in the predictable rise of corporate-conservative corruption and fascism.
I guess I missed the memo. Who are these asshats and why should I care about them? Just wondering....
PLEASE Obama, Bring back the Fairness Doctrine, and run these lying SOBs out of business, already.
Rush Limbaugh has a sack of pills waiting for him in the DR with his under-aged hookers.
Oh yes.. Its a G instead of a J.. My goodness forgive me for incorrectly spelling a word I have only ever phonetically used... Coming from NY it sounds like a fucking "J" word...
My words out of the FOX handbook?..
Go fuck yourself...
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Don't you do any of your own research???
Or do you just wait for Blogs like this to TELL you what to pay attention to?...
Just the headlines ehhh-- It is not Jumping on a BANDWAGON to do some Digging..
I do not do BANDWAGONS! Case in point I am one of the resident C&L LIBEREAL curmudgeons, and I do not hold sway for anyone who does wrong or lies.
I also do not say believe everything you hear .. however.. I notice how the LEFT has not even barely mentioned this video- In fact I am willing to bet money that most of you have never even heard of it.
Well I did my own cross referencing ... and well just as sometimes Micheal Moore gets all or most of the FACTS across... Well so do right wing guys as well.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019
Is the video they are stemming this all on...and while it is certainly biased.. and from the right end of the spectrum.. Facts are facts..
Watch the first 15 minutes of it... thats all you need to see... Cross check what they say..
And just take the rose colored glasses off .... ESPECIALLY regarding our parties poly-tics and who they stand in front of us...
Dems and Liberals should be harder on their own party then they are on Repiglicans..
But were not... And thats why we have the Dems taking Impeachment off the table and giving the Bush Administration rim jobs and not even demanding a reach around...
Wake up people...
Must be nice using daddy's million's to go around the country trying to create your own little fantasy land. No matter how idiotic or irrelevant you are, through the wingnut welfare program, you can peddle your pablum to unsuspecting imbeciles who will believe anything that leads them to their own economic destruction.
MAtt @ 64:
Do not compare me to Obama! That is just low!
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