Limbaugh claimed Media Matters' "purpose" is to "take things out of context"
On the August 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the "purpose" of Media Matters for America is to "take things out of context here and misreport and cast aspersions." The remark came after a caller accused "professional reporters" of taking Limbaugh "out of context." Limbaugh described Media Matters as where the mainstream media -- which he calls the "drive-by media" -- "go to find out what was happening on this program, what was said." Limbaugh continued: "The drive-by media chooses a website to find out what I said, but it's not mine. ... It defies explanation other than they don't want me to be reported upon accurately because they are trying to harm my credibility. They cannot beat people like me in the arena of ideas." After the caller responded, "[T]hey can't do that with somebody like me who's a regular listener," Limbaugh said, "Well, I'm not saying they succeed at it, but they've been tryin' for 19 years to discredit me in the eyes of people like you."
Limbaugh offered no specific examples of Media Matters taking him "out of context." However, it is the policy of Media Matters to post accurate transcripts of comments made by Limbaugh, as well as any other media personality, in their full context. Past examples of Limbaugh being accurately quoted in full context can be found here.
Limbaugh also claimed that Media Matters is "a Hillary Clinton front group funded by [philanthropist] George Soros." As previously noted in response to similar claims from Limbaugh, Media Matters is not affiliated with any political party or candidate and has never received funding from Soros, either directly or indirectly.
From the August 10 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Back to the phones we go on Open Line Friday. This is [caller] in Callahan, Florida. Thank you for calling, sir. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are ya?
LIMBAUGH: Good, sir.
CALLER: Great, great to talk to ya. Hey, listen, you know, I've been wanting to call for awhile on -- I'm kind of nervous, so just bear with me if I --
LIMBAUGH: I will do that.
CALLER: This, this thing with Bill Moyers --
LIMBAUGH: Yes.
CALLER: -- it goes a lot deeper than Bill Moyers but my problem is is that every time that I see you on -- on the air -- on, like, mainstream media or, you know, on -- any, anywhere you're quoted on the mainstream media -- you're, you're misquoted, and the reason why I know this is because I was -- I was telling your screener that I was in a conference in New York City and on one of the monitors there, they didn't have -- you know, they didn't have the sound up -- but I saw your face and I saw Michael J. Fox's name on there.
And, and so when I heard the news -- I heard what they were talking about, and then immediately I went to your website and -- and here's the deal is that any of these media people can go to your website -- if they're blind, if they're deaf -- they can go to your website and they can get exactly what you said word-for-word. You don't leave anything out of your website on your daily shows, and even if you go back to your archives, you can see -- you can listen to exactly what you said, and there is never any reason for them to take you out of context.
And these people are supposed to be professional reporters. I don't under -- I just don't understand it. If me -- if little old me can walk to my computer within 10 minutes and find out exactly what you said, you know, why is it that they can't? I mean, I know the answer to that, but --
LIMBAUGH: I once again am reminded of the Pew poll that shows vast majorities of the American people think that there is bias, inaccuracy and -- in the drive-by media -- and the drive-by media really doesn't care about the people that are the customers, consumers that they're reporting for, working for.
In this case, you are absolutely right. We have marveled at this ourselves for years. How difficult is it -- especially -- the drive-bys don't listen to this. Well, they probably do, but they'd never admit it. But most of 'em probably don't. Do you know, there's a -- there's one website where they go to find out what was happening on this program, what was said.
CALLER: Yeah, I know.
LIMBAUGH: Media Matters for America. It's a Hillary Clinton front group funded by George Soros and its -- its purpose is to take things out of context here and misreport and cast aspersions. The drive-by media chooses a website to find out what I said, but it's not mine.
CALLER: Yeah, but, you know, all they have -- any reasonable person. I mean, even I -- see, now I've been a subscriber to your website since the beginning.
LIMBAUGH: I know. It defies -- defies explanation other than they don't want me to be reported upon accurately because they are trying to harm my credibility. They cannot beat people like me in the arena of ideas, [caller].
CALLER: Yeah, but they can't -- they can't do that with somebody like me who's a regular listener.
LIMBAUGH: Well, I'm not saying they succeed at it, but they've been tryin' for 19 years to discredit me in the eyes of people like you and --
CALLER: Yeah, but even, even the people that disagree with you -- even the people -- don't you think a reasonable person that disagrees with you even can go to the free side -- I'm not sure about your free side.
LIMBAUGH: You would be stunned at how many don't. You would be stunned at how many fringe kook --
CALLER: Oh, I know.
LIMBAUGH: -- Democrats --
CALLER: Listen --
LIMBAUGH: -- refuse. They don't want to know. They live in a cocoon. They got a worldview --
CALLER: I have a whole family -- I have a whole family who does this.
LIMBAUGH: Well, then, you know. You gotta -- they have a worldview. They live in a cocoon. The image of conservatives is A, B, C, D, and E. Image of Limbaugh: F, G, H, I, J, K. And now anything that challenges that, they don't want to expose themselves to.
CALLER: Yeah, but isn't this -- isn't this part of a bigger picture? If they're gonna lie about you with -- when they know --
LIMBAUGH: Amen. Amen.
CALLER: -- that I can go check --
LIMBAUGH: Amen. If they're gonna run phony photos during the Hezbo[llah]-Israeli war -- as they did -- Photoshopped photos -- and they're running phony photos about a Russian mission to the North Pole -- if they're not gonna -- if they're not gonna report on people like me or President Bush or anybody else accurately, then why would you trust anything else that they --
Oh Rush, no darling...
We're not trying to harm your credibility.
You can do that perfectly well all by yourself. You have a matchless ability to make yourself look like a complete fool.
Oh, come on, people. Can't you tell when Limpaugh is joking?
Really, would anyone in their right mind say the things he says with even a smidgeon of sincerity?
This is the second time that rascal Limpaugh has fooled Media Matters for the Homeland, and if we had any sense of humor at all, we could be enjoying all his hilarious satire.
Conservative Calling Card
Every time these conservative freaks are caught with their hands down the toilet hole...
What do they do?
Oh! It was all a joke. Cowards, cowards... COWARDS. Conservatives have become nothing but cowards.
This is why Keith Olbermann calls him 'Comedian' Rush Limbaugh. Because he's so outrageous it's just plain funny!! Rush can't possibly believe he's so great that his talent is on loan from God. He's a big fat hoot! He doesn't sincerely believe a single word that comes from his drug-addled brain. LOL
"Rush can't possibly believe he's so great that his talent is on loan from God. He's a big fat hoot"
The fact that you and so many others are taking the time to bash him on this message board proves that he's doing something right. If Limbaugh was insignificant and was all of the terrible things that you and other liberals say that he is, you wouldn't take the time to come to these message boards and personally attack him. The fact that the far left hates Limbaugh so much simply demonstrates that he's doing something right.
You are soooo correct. What does Rush do right? He plays to fools who want to believe his outragious lies, and lends false credability to their bigotry.
You are a RINO HUNTER? I wasn't aware that sheep hunted rino.
It's nice that you label conservatives as bigots. I hope that the Democrats do the same and keep up these personal attacks against a large segment of America. They won't win another election if they do.
And if all Republicans "think" like you do, Rino Hunter, the GOP will go the way of the Whig Party from which it sprouted.
When the man's right he's right.
Perfecto, Rush!
Rush is never right. His thought processes are fundamentally flawed, and he is always on the wrong side of every issue.
He claims to speak the truth, but he can't even be honest about his own sexuality - thrice-divorced, childless, arrested in the company of a male prostitute in the '70s, and caught with unprescribed Viagra in his luggage after a trip to the Dominican Republic, where many young boys sell their bodies just to survive.....
You were kind to leave out the draft dodging drug addicted bigot part.
Well, I had to leave SOMETHING for further down this thread.....
:-)
How would you know. Like YOU he is never right. Pehaps you can cough up some examples of him being taken out of context? Nah, the flat out lie and baseless assertion are more your style.
He was right on Clinton-a degenerate.
He was right on Gore-a man-made global warming, NUTJOB.
He's right on the ACLU-anti-American slimbags.
He's right on feminists- femiNAZIES.
He's right on the 2nd amendment.
He's right on taxes-the lower the better.
He's right on welfare-compassion is no substitute for justice.
He's right on Hillary C.-Vince Foster.
He's right on Jerry Garcia-a dirt bag.
He's right on liberal talk radio-"a pimple on the rear end of a pig."
He's right on....alright, I think you've had enough.
Talent on loan from GOD, with half his brain tied behind his back, just to make it fair, with his formerly nicotine-stained fingers, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have....
...more later.
Checkers has responded with a list of Limbaughs greatest slogans. To be sure, Checks considers himself a "dittohead." And for sure, proud to be one. Perhaps even a role model for checky cheese. Lets review. 3 marriges, 3 divorces. Strike a victory for family values, the sanctity of marrige, the fabric of our society, the family man. A real true conservative that guy. How about the rule of law? Oh yeah, that nasty drug addiction to Oxycontin and getting scripts from several sources. THe law doesn't apply to Rush and "W" and the other neocons. Ya see, they are on GODS TEAM, fighting evil, so they can bend and break the law. Because they are our protectors, keeping my family safe from the "evil doers" who are everywhere.
I listen to him pretty much daily, along with Hannity. They are just about the most disgusting and divisive persons on the airwaves. They really just have no class. It's fine to have differing opinions. But these guys lie to advance thier mistaken positions. And you checky cheese, are just a mimic. Spout the bumper stickers. Sometime in say about 2036, you may have a chance to regain some power for the GOP. I predict for the next 20 -30 yrs, your ilk will be bitching about why the Dems have control over the country. The answer my friend is people are sick of the BS spewed from the neocons. Sick of the lies, the deciept, the fear mongering, the lies, and the hypocrisy. You reap what you sow Chuckles.
As far as Rush's multiple marriages and drug problems are concerned, it shows that he is flawed., and as such is open to criticism just like anyone else.
If you're tired of listening to Rush and Hannity, you can always tune into The Savage Nation for a dose of reality. That is, unless the San Francisco Supes don't succeed in trying to shut him up: those Stalinist arses!
interesting. rush says there's "one website where they go....", and the caller says "yeah, i know". and then rush says "media matters for america". the mind reading caller.....
Is he a plant?
Maybe this knucklehead is a plant. Hell, Slimeballs screens his show tighter than a George Bush town hall meeting.
He was probably calling from the next room, LOL.
Well, the audience never gets to hear Sneardley's (Rush's producer) voice.
Coincidence?
Of course, I am assuming that the conversations Rush has with Sneardly are indeed actual conversations with another human being. It's entirely possible Rush has been having on-air coversations with the voice in his head all these years.
I've often suspected the same thing. "Sneardly" has been his silent foil for at least 16 years, as best I can remember.
By the way, Rush criticizing someone for taking things out of context is nothing short of hilarious. As usual, the real tragedy is the army of knuckledragging sycophants and their doting wives who believe this nonsense.
This is a great little exchange. Calling MMFA liars, offering nothing to back that up, and telling several lies in the process of bragging about his credibility.
And the caller-.He seems to spend a good part of his life between Rush's radio show and his website, but is very concerned about where other people are getting their information .
Gotta disagree with Rush here, I haven't seen any Limbaugh threads, that I can recall from memory, where he's taken out of context. They are his words, he should own up to them.
The fact that his inflammatory, comedic rhetoric is highlighted here at all is the real head scratcher.
The way some people visit this site whenever their head happens to itch is a real puzzle, too.
Tommy, I'm guessing you don't have much of your fingernails left with all of the "head-scratching" you do here.
Not only that, but consider the damage that his melon would have sustained, if he wasn't a conservative.
This is one of those rare cases where that thicker-gauge skull saved some precious gray-matter...
Tommy has gray matter?
I always thought it was sort of mauve-ish.
Nope - no grey matter whatsoever. Conservatism is the sign of a non-functioning mind.
Luckily, th damage is not as bad as it would be with an opposable thumb scratching too.
I kid, Tommy. ;0)
yeah i know, all that "comedic" stuff about how the democrats want al qaeda to win, want another 9-11 attack....take my talk show host, please....
Is a deposit required?
Don't blame me, I didn't hang the comedian label on Limbaugh, that would be favorite son Keith Olbermann......so your beef is with him, not me.
The obvious difference, of course, is that you and Olbermann use the "comedian" tag for completely opposite purposes. You use it to excuse Rush's inflammatory statements with the tired "He was just joking" defense, while Olbermann uses it to highlight those inflammatory statements and to deny Rush any credibility as a serious political commentator.
You're wrong again, I repeat Olbermann's description of Limbaugh because it's accurate......and I have often said he shouldn't be taken seriously as a political commentator.
But the double standard lies with you and your leftist buddies here. Often times it's said that his listeners are just stupid and he is a fat drug addicted gasbag, then you turn around and say how much influence he really has. You can't have it both ways.
The facts are against you. Limbaugh obviously does have great influence. Again, he's the most popular radio talk show host in the nation. This is what makes his comments worth highlighting. You and Olbermann are coming at the "comedian" from completely opposite ends. You seek to excuse and dismiss Rush's comments by pretending that what he says has no influence or impact, while Olbermann aknowledges that impact and seeks to discredit him with his own foolish words.
I have no intention of arguing with you on this any further, you have your opinion on what you think is my motivation, of course you're way off, but I could care less.
The fact remains that you and many here only feed right into Rush's ego as you stomp your feet everytime he opens his mouth and utters something you don't like - he feeds off of it, otherwise these monitorings of his every word would have him quiet his rhetoric, but it does just the opposite - he relishes it.
It's just too bad you're not bright enough to see that.
Ignore him and he'll go away. That's one of your favorite mantras, and it's been proven wrong time and time again. You say I have your motivation wrong and then you prove me right in the very next paragraph. Move along, nothing to see here, nobody takes him seriously, why does MMFA bother to cover this silliness, why is this here, you're only feeding his ego, distract, deflect, derail, and on and on and on. Your motivation is transparent to everyone who's ever read more than a couple of your posts. It's the same thing day in and day out. Don't try to pretend that you're just taking a cue from Olbermann, because that's disingenuous in the extreme.
why are those two things so inconsistent. He is a gas bag with alot of influence. I dont get the impression that he really intends people take his political commentary as a joke. I think he wants us to ditto it and take it serious. He only backtracks when he messes up and is called on it. Whats more he is not often very funny.
The point is that some say that ignoring him will not make him go away - but the alternative is what this website and many rabid Limbaugh haters do and look what that has accomplished? He is as popular as ever.
So the "highlight, then slur theory" has been obviously debunked.
Debunked? No. First of all, MMFA has been around for a small fraction of the time that Limbaugh has. And he's enjoyed years of popularity without anyone calling him on his bs. You can't measure MMFA's impact. Rush may be as popular as ever, but more people are also being made aware of his lies and propaganda.
Oh, you can't measure MMFA's impact, but you can certainly measure when someone is "furthering the conservative agenda"?
You talk out of so many sides of your mouth, with such contradictions, it's no wonder your posts are senseless.
You've just degenerated into complete nonsequiturs at this point. First of all, I don't know who you're quoting, but it isn't me. You've acquired a habit of putting random phrases in quotation marks, as if to suggest that the person you're arguing with actually wrote them. It's called making sh*t up. Stop it.
Rush has been popular for over a decade. MMFA comes along in the past 2 years, and now you're proclaiming that their efforts have been "debunked," which is a really dumb thing to say on a number of levels, but let's just address one. As I pointed out, you can't measure the impact that MMFA has, particularly when your yardstick is Rush's ratings. The obvious stupidity of that needs no further elaboration.
But back to you made up quote. I have no idea what you mean when you talk about "measur[ing] when someone is furthering the conservative agenda." That isn't something that one measures. Obviously, Rush attempts to further the conservative agenda. In fact, it's his stated mission. Are you somehow trying to say that he doesn't?
Clams said "You can't measure MMFA's impact."
How about by its ranking among other websites (looks like we're tanking):
Data is from [link to www.alexa.com] the rank tab is selected and the graph is set for one year, the drop of MMFA's popularity is striking.
In the above post, I copied and pasted this chart. It showed up properly in the preview, but did not make it to the comment list in either IE or Firefox.
Try #3:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=mediamatters.org
"The fact that his inflammatory, comedic rhetoric is highlighted here at all is the real head scratcher."
Yeah, that's really one of them headscratchers all right. I mean, he's just a comedian after all. It's not like he's the most popular radio talk show host in the country or anything. It's not like he has millions of people listening to him every day or anything.
Just keep scratching.
Thanks Rush for the free advertising... He's such a clown. I guess that caller likes his little world of mis-information and blind-admiration.
Your myopia is stunning, if not understandable, in its simplicity. Whether you agree with him or not, Limbaugh is a shining example of Amercan success. He's carved a niche for himself that others can only imitate. The fact that he's a frekin' egomaniac is beside the point.
Enjoy it while it lasts, you ungrateful fools!
LOL
Nice backhand!
I don't think there was any backhand intended.
Rush is a lying, drug-addicted hypocrite.
But he's found a bottom-feeding group of Americans that believe him, and has made a ton of money .
That is, he's successful.
And anyone that doesn't admire that success, in spite of what a crap -bag Rush is, is "myopic".
It's your view of success that's warped. This kind of adulation that Republicans reserve for the worst among them is how people like Karl Rove happen.
Republicans are willig to let the ends justify the means, never once considering that the means are the ends.
No its societie's image of sucess. HBL is just bringing it into veiw. We need other criteria(s) for sucess in our world. Any suggestions.
Limbaugh has never filled out a job application in his life. He said that on his program once. the sure sign of someone born into a wealthy and influential family-- not someone who made his own way from scratch. He has a gift of gab and is willing to promote causes which the wealthy support. Had he been born poor he probably would be trying to make some boss happy and worrying about his bills etc. I have lived around both worlds and someone like Rush always has an influential friend of a friend. Access to capital never dries up no matter how bad you do. His family is very prominent in eastern Missouri. His cousin and uncle are both judges.
"Limbaugh has never filled out a job application in his life. He said that on his program once. the sure sign of someone born into a wealthy and influential family-- not someone who made his own way from scratch"
That's simply false. Limbaugh wasn't born into a rich family. He was in a middle income family and had to work his way up from scratch. He's stated on his program many times that he's been completely broke three times. He had to overcome a lot of obstacles and challenges in his life to get to where he is today. His story is inspirational and proves that anyone can achieve the American dream if they set their mind to it.
MIDDLE INCOME ! . . . [sorry about the delay, but I fell of my chair laughing.]
Rush has mentioned many time that nearly everyone in his family were lawyers. His father and grandfather (also lawyers) ventured into radio. By ventured into, I mean they bought a couple of radio stations. One of which broadcast the Kansas City Royals back in the George Brett days. Rush sold tickets for the Royals for a short time before he got his start in radio by working for his father at one of these stations.
I don't know what you consider "middle income," but no middle income people I know of own a radio station.
Did I hear you say "Bhaa-aa-aa-ah" ?
Your stupidity is stunning. He is only successful in the way McDonalds was. He sells a lot and makes plenty of money but will never be seen as a respected commentator by anyone by sychophants and partisans. He is a liar, and a bloviator at THOSE THINGS he is successful.
BLOVIATOR?????
Look up Al Gore in any recent DICKTIONARY.
Yeah, a success just like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff
As a famous show business promoter once said, there's a sucker born every minute.
Consider this, every child attending public school in this country is exposed early and often to the proven danges of tobacco use, yet vast numbers take up tobacco use. What's to keep them from taking up another deadly habit like Dittoism?
LOL, this is amazingly stoooopid! Rush Limbaugh talking about taking people out of context? They have no shame! None! He's made a successful career out of exploiting misrepresented soundbites and quotes and his syncophantic ditto-heads believe every lie as if it were gospel.
He is stupid, stupid man. But his audience is even stupider. And because there are 4-5 million of them that listen each week signifies absolutely nothing other than that there are 4-5 million really, really stupid people that listen to him weekly.
get the feeling this guy is starting an argument?
I won't argue with him.
Rush and Shakespeare...
Life is a tale, told by an idiot.
Dang, if the purpose of Media Matters really is to "take things out of context", then someone should tell them to stop posting all those damn complete transcripts.
MEFIRST, as he's spent most of his career avoiding any possible real argument. I don't think he's going to start now. More like, "Hey, where's the mic cut off switch here."
i meant kromecom was looking to start an argument.
I would be if any statement I made was arguable. But I think it's pretty factual. Have you ever noticed that Rush's numbers have stayed flat for more than a decade? No growth there for some reason. Out of a population of 300 million, he's got 5 million idiots. Not so impressive in that context right.
There are only so many villages, with so many idiots to comprise a top-rated talk radio show audience. So if you ever want to be a talk radio show host, just remember, keep it stupid and they will come!
Let's not hold back, of course there are stupid people in the world. And most of them actually heed the likes of OReilly, Hannity and Limbaugh.
Ok, I'm not sure what he wants argue about though. Other reasons for people to listen to rush as if he were the fount of rhetorical mother's milk?
There are other reasons people listen to rush &co. Stupidity maybe one of the safer reasons.
Snoopy below, have you got your pundits crossed? Or did Bill sic rush on the site? I thought he was autosic only. A plot of spalteen convections, relationships between seals and shetland ponies, rubbergoods and spiders secretly traded?
Or am I overreacting?
I'm just sayin, it's a righty tactic to stick up fer each other regardless! First Bill, now Rush, wanna guess who the screech bomb is? ;)
Miss Annie?
Second guess, Mikey S. Rush, bill and, he are the only ones I know who mention the site with any regularity.
Looks like O'Reilly finally launched his counterattack against us. 1st comes the "heavy" artillary. Next will be the screech bombs.
Does he just keep recycling the same lies?
So, Mr. Limbaugh is saying that by providing exact quotes in their exact context and allowing the readers/listeners to decide on the meaning there-in is mis-reporting....ok, now my head is starting to hurt! I am beginning to believe that there is no difference between the dynamic duos of Bill-O, Rush and Nicole R, B.Spears....i.e. I mean is there a Social-Psychological term for those in a state of Perpetual Public Meltdown? ....geez
Too funny! He actually cites a website that quotes him, in context and verbatim, as the evidence that he is constantly taken out of context and misquoted. Up is down, wrong is right, cats are dogs, and Rush is a victim...of his own, well-documented words.
Rush Limbaugh lost his credibility when he was busted for drugs. Then he lied about it too. Do you really believe what this man says?
Michael Savage, who I don't care for myself, said Limbaugh was a phony conservative out to make a buck. Very interesting!
"Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." from the about us section.
"However, it is the policy of Media Matters to post accurate transcripts of comments made by Limbaugh, as well as any other media personality, in their full context." from the article.
im confused. all i see here is conservative hate. lets be honest and call this site for what it is. "leftist media matters". i have no problem with fact finding and having a different point of view. i came here hoping to get info from the other side, but the hate here is just too much. there is some on the conservative side as well, some of them really are pretty bad, but its so frustrating trying to get a balanced view, when all i get on the left is every other sentence bashing the right. i thought this would be a site that scanned both sides for "innaccuracies". most of the stuff here isnt about wrong facts, but how you dont like what the right has to say. guess ill have to keep looking. there was some useful stuff on savage. ive rarely heard his show, and never have i heard his xtreme view on gays. oh well, no one can be right in everything.
oh wait, since you dont check out the left, i guess that means you think those on the left are perfect. ...i guess the search for untainted liberal viewpoints continues.
Check the mission statement upon entry. I can't think of any place like what you say your looking for. This site does give you the conservative statements and then tells you where their wrong. There are conservative sites that supposedly mirror this one. Though none that allow both sides to air out their arguments like this one does. Quixotic quest, or bust. Good luck.
How can you possibly be confused when the first thing you copied was the mission statement that says they monitor the right and monitor for information that pushes the conservative agenda?
Oh, looky everyone! Here's an O'Reilly talking point if I've ever seen one. "The lefty posters are so full of hate" routine. Bill? Bill, is that you again?
I, for one, would really welcome a broad based expansion of the mission, and editorial policy here at MM. I do not hate either BIll O, or Rush. But these two, along with others in the Cable news racket, __Never__ face any real accountability for the impact of their destructive approach to Journalism/entertainment. I will say that I am personally offended that these two guys, who clearly have serious personal demons and challanges they need to deal with , do not engage in their craft with some amount of authentic humility. Any one who has, or knows one who has, struggled with and tries to face their personal problems, in a mature way, gains a real level of compassion and humility when they "grow up"
It doesnt check both sides. Neither does MRC or AIM. THEY go after the liberal side. MMFA after the conservative side. So what. If you thought you were informing us of something we didnt know or pointing out some kind of hypocrisy, you werent.
"They cannot beat people like me in the arena of ideas, [caller]."
I'd love to see el-rush-bo prove that. Doesn't he get tired of debating his microphone?
The reason he sticks to debating his microphone is obvious. He's terrific at coming up with bumper stickers - but a critical thinker...not so much. Rush - please come out of your cocoon and let the world see you for what you really are.
1. Don't be taken in by what Savage says. The only reason these Republican hatchet men criticize each other is prove they aren't working together.
2. If you doubt the power of these people, look what they've done to Sen. Clinton. Even among the fine people here, how many of you think she is a bitch, but don't know why? When she started looking into health care problems as the first lady, they started a slander campaign that has 50% of this nation believing she is for no good reason. If you tell a lie long enough, people will accept it as truth.
3. A friend of mine (who is gay, for crying out loud!) told me about a man that called into Rush's show. He was complaining about how he was unemployed, his mother was eating dog food, and he barely had money for Beer! My friend was ecstatic about the way that Rush gave this bum hell for being lazy and good for nothing in God's good old USA. When I suggested that it was a set up call by Rush, he could not believe it, and accused me of being a hate monger. He said I shouldn't talk that way about a real patriot like Rush Limbaugh.
I enjoy all the humorous jabs we take at these slime balls, but don't be deceived for a second that they don't know exactly what they are doing, the effect they have on their target audience, and who is pulling their strings.
- Limbaugh also claimed that Media Matters is "a Hillary Clinton front group funded by [philanthropist] George Soros - limbaugh
- Media Matters is not affiliated with any political party or candidate and has never received funding from Soros, either directly or indirectly. - mmfa rebuttal
- I helped to start and support Media Matters - Hillary Clinton
Many posters here have continually stated that there is no connection between Hillary and Brock...and Hillary torpedoed that notion in one sentence.
How bout it mmfa...the comment by Hillary stopped the music...have you got a chair to sit in?
Accurately quoting somebody is the important thing. Keeping people's comments in context is important.
Media Matters does that. You did not. You snipped her comment, and by snipping it, you removed the site she actually did help create.
In addition to her claim that she helped found mmfa...Hillary also claimed that she was responsible for helping to start and support the Center for American Progress...another group that helped mmfa get off the ground.
Anything wrong with that? Only the dishonesty of mmfa in claiming that they have no connection to Hillary.
Strawman argument. MMFA hasn't "claim[ed] that they have no connection to Hillary" -- however loosely one could define that. I believe the quote you used by MMFA was much more precise: "- Media Matters is not affiliated with any political party or candidate..."
Nothing you have typed proves MMFA is affiliated with any political party or candidate. If you can prove that, you should file a complaint with the FEC as a violation. Good luck with that.
OMG! Hillary donates money to a website that publishes truth! The HORROR!!!
Nice ad hominem, with dubious implications, such as; your outrage would indicate that you find it more virtuous to donate to websites that lie.
And before you retort that you're just pointing out that her "confession" of monetary support evinces a contradiction to MMfHomeland having no connection to Hillary, I suggest that an appropriate parallel would be that if you put gas in your car, you have a connection to terrorism.
Wesley, Interesting...however, a WHERE and WHEN would go a long way to proving your point.
This year's dailykos convention.
Got a link?
I thought not.
Don't float that load of crap with me magnolia...google it up for yourself...it's out there...you know it...and I know it.
Your argument, your burden. Just that simple.
No Rush you hypocrit,if anything its the other way around,SPIN CITY that's you and O'RIELLY and i''ll throw in hanitty for good measure,I'M a news junkie i listen to or read it all, go away!!!!
Its been mentioned before. Lots of people influenced the creation of this site. There is no financial connection. Do all connections mean the same thing to you. That being?
There is an incredibly convoluted and dubious "article" that ties Soros, Media Matters and HRC into a vast left-wing conspiracy here: [link to tinyurl.com] that one of the sources for the Soros-MM connection is, uh, Bill O'Reilly.
In essence, the Front Page article asserts that the connection exists because all these liberals know one and another and at some point some of them have either worked together and belonged to the same organizations.
But then, couldn't this site be all Al Gore's fault? I mean, after all, he "invented the internet" didn't he? My God! It IS a vast left wing conspiracy to print and publish people's exact words and hold them accountable for it. The horror, oh, the horror...
Not surprising Fat Head is talking out both sides of his mouth again. The show promo's (and Limbaugh himself) brag that Mainstream Media listens to his show, yet now he claims that MSM "chooses a website to find out what I said."
Was he lying then or now?