Poe responds to Media Matters (again)
In a November 17 update to his October 31 ShadowParty.com posting, Richard Poe, co-author of The Shadow Party, criticized Media Matters' "tardy response" to Poe's "rebuttal" of Media Matters' critique of The Shadow Party. Poe's response to our response to his response to our response to his book may have been fast, but he didn't actually challenge anything we wrote. Just as he has yet to actually take issue with a single fact in our 2 1/2-year-old debunking of his May 2004 NewsMax article, though he insists it stands un-debunked.
From Poe's updated blog entry:
Media Matters has at last responded to my rebuttal of October 30. Curiously, while my rebuttal raised 82 specific challenges to Media Matters' attack on The Shadow Party, writer Simon Maloy responded only to five of them. He explains: "Since time, space, and frankly, waning interest are limiting factors here, we'll delve into just a few of Poe's attempts to take down Media Matters".(3)
Given the modest goals which Mr. Maloy set for himself, I am puzzled as to why he took 18 days to achieve them. Media Matters usually cranks out these sorts of hatchet jobs within 24-48 hours.
If I were one of Media Matters' financial benefactors, Mr. Maloy's anemic and tardy response would cause me serious annoyance. This is not the sort of "rapid response" which Media Matters promises its donors.
Media Matters would also like to point out two more things:
1) Media Matters waited 18 days -- Poe took three months to respond to Media Matters' original critique of The Shadow Party.
2) We had other priorities.
Sorry for the non-substantive comment but I have to say it ...
This phrase, "Poe's response to our response to his response to our response to his book ..." is so hilarious I am compelled to donate to MMFA. :-)
I donated $100. Thank you MMFA.
You get proven wrong daily, call your drbunkers "radicals" or a "smear site", then go on to the next lie.
Occasionally, invite them on your show, especially when you know thy have better things to do, then call them cowards.
...or does it seem that Poe is just trying to get some free publicity and red meat for his crowd.
The old PR adage is "say what you want, but just spell my name right".
I think that's what Poo is going for here.
The title of the book "Shadow Party" is a not so clever Joycean rightwing allusion to the nonsensical non-fact that rich Democrats are pushing "an African-American agenda on the Amercian citzenry." Both Poe and Horowitz are known for their racist views. The only place you see these guys is on Fox News promoting hate speech against various groups and entities. It's probably why they couldn't repsond in time.
Three months and that's all they replied with? "82 specific challenges" my rear.
I breezed through Poe's feeble rebuttal laughing hysterically all the way. My favorite had to be the non-proof whatsoever the Hillary Clinton and Soros run the Democratic Party.
And a Horowitz are completely nuts.
I hope he responds to this latest response to his response to MMFA response....and so on.