So conservatives are only supposed to deal with friendly reporters?
June 29, 2010 9:09 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Or, behold the latest example of the right-wing's skewed view of journalism.
From Politico, in an article about David Weigel's resignation from the WashPost, where he wrote about the conservative movement [emphasis added]:
Starting last month, Dan Gainor, vice president for business and culture at the Media Research Center, the conservative media watchdog group, went on something of a crusade.
Angered by a joke that David Weigel made about Matt Drudge on his Twitter feed, Gainor contacted conservative groups asking them to stop cooperating with Weigel, who had recently taken his blog about the conservative movement to the Washington Post.
“We encouraged conservatives not to deal with him,” he said. “We contacted other conservative organizations and said, ‘This guy is no friend of the conservative movement. We recommend that you deny him access.’ Some did.”
Got that? A right-wing group that ostensibly monitors the media, contacted like-minded, right-wing organizations and urged them not to cooperate with a WashPost reporter because the reporter was, supposedly, not a "friend" of the conservative movement.
Sarah Palin would be proud.


















Because the conservative media is so tight and they got their millions of followers to only go where they say to go, liberals and moderates need to work harder at pointing out the lies. The DNC has finally proposed an intelligent strategy - have activists track the GOP and catalog what they say or do, like a combo between what the conservatives do and MMfA. Hopefully this gets the playing field even.
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The Midnight Review
There's definitely a pattern here that sentient beings can recognize.
They did the same thing to Helen Thomas.