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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

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    • Author by progressivevoicedaily (June 29, 2010 9:22 am ET)
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      The conservatives are controlling the message and that's it. They will not take back the house in November rest assured. These people are so far up each other's @ss'es they fail to realize that most Americans are turned off by fearmongering and blatant lies. The Democrats are going hammer the heck out of these nuts during the campaigns, especially with all of the juicy soundbites the crazy right puts out on a daily basis.
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      • Author by Moderate Man (June 29, 2010 10:50 am ET)
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        I think the GOP will make some gains in November because of misinformation like this, unless the Democrats work harder at getting the message out...

        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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        • Author by progressivevoicedaily (June 29, 2010 11:14 am ET)
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          Yes your right. Unfortunately most liberals have a life and don't live and breath politics along side their regular job like I do. That's exactly why MSNBC's ratings are so much lower than Fox's. People on the left tend to have a more active lifestyle. Notice on Friday nights MSNBC only runs their programming until 9. No re-runs like you see the rest of the week. Fox can run hate talk all day and night and still get the ratings. MSNBC doesn't even do politics on the weekends.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (June 29, 2010 9:35 am ET)
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      So they're all for the polarization of media?
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    • Author by angels4light (June 29, 2010 10:17 am ET)
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      But I thought the MSM was liberal! You mean that claim of the so-called conservative movement is just another empty claim?
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (June 29, 2010 11:42 am ET)
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      And people think that these "conservatives" are interested in protecting free speech?

      There's definitely a pattern here that sentient beings can recognize.

      They did the same thing to Helen Thomas.
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