Comments on: Media Matters: where scare quotes magically transform facts into "smears"

By: LCpl Mosley

LCpl Mosley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:19:55 +0000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347420/posts?page=7#7

Underage teen boys being molested not the first I’ve heard of this crap happening in Frank’s house.

By: LCpl Mosley

LCpl Mosley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:17:05 +0000

Media Matters is the one who smeared Doocy. By falsely claimed he “smeared” aka in leftist lie wordspeak told the truth about that criminal Frank. Frank is a sick joke. Media Matters is a disgusting and foolish bunch of imbeciles whose sole job in life is obsufucate and lie and smear Republicans, Chriatians and Conservatives with inane garbage that has been and always will be soundly refuted.

By: Media Matters: Marx’s own words aren’t Marxist (you crazy stupid rednecks!) « NewsReal Blog

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:25 +0000

[...] again, Media Matters accuses Glenn Beck of “smearing” a prominent leftist. (As weâ€™ve noted here before, the left has redefined “smearing” to mean â€œhaving the nerve to publicize [...]

By: Media Matters defends Kevin Jennings with “scare quote-fu” « NewsReal Blog

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:01:30 +0000

[...] the left, using so-called scare quotes has become a favored polemical trick. You know what I mean: they put quotation marks around words or phrases, either to denote sarcasm and cynicism, or to [...]

By: In the know

In the know — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:07:37 +0000

If you cared for the truth, your argument of “they do it too” would not be only basis for your argument. Is it? Mediamatters has proven time and again that facts are less important than their opinion. Using them as a reference is almost as ridiculous as whitehouse.gov

By: Terry K.

Terry K. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:12:21 +0000

You’ve ignored my questions as well. Does that mean I can claim that you don’t want legitimate intellectual dialogue either?

Since you appear to want an answer, here’s one: I think for myself. And I care about the truth. Which is what I’m doing here in the first place — to correct a misleading claim.

So, any chance that will happen anytime soon?

By: David Swindle

David Swindle — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:49:36 +0000

This is the second time you IGNORED my question in this discussion, thus demonstrating that you have no interest in legitimate intellectual dialogue.

By: Terry K.

Terry K. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:25:01 +0000

Spending millions to dig up scandalous dirt on a president he didn’t like is hardly “celebrating the American idea” — though I guess in a perverse way it is. I’m pretty sure that’s not the America I want.

Have you read anything Soros has written, or do you let David Horowitz do your thinking for you?

By: David Swindle

David Swindle — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:52:37 +0000

And except that you’re more in line with Soros’ vision of what America should become.

You read that book? Or you just going to let Media Matters think for you?

Soros and Scaife’s visions of America are worlds apart. One celebrates the American idea and wants to use his money to defend it. The other does not and would rather invest his money in remaking this country as something very different than what it is today.

By: Terry K.

Terry K. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:21:08 +0000

Ah, yes. I remember that book:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200608020003

I’m merely positing that Soros isn’t really all that different from, say, Richard Mellon Scaife, except that Scaife helps fund part of your paycheck and Soros doesn’t.

By: David Swindle

David Swindle — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:17:27 +0000

You dodged my question Terry. Very Telling. As to why we might be concerned about what Soros is doing with his money:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Party-Hillary-Radicals-Democratic/dp/1595551034/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254064601&sr=8-1

By: Terry K.

Terry K. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:04:11 +0000

Why are right-wingers obsessed with who funds Media Matters? Or, more to the point, why do they insist on creating false links between Soros and Media Matters?