Williams claimed Media Matters "attack[ed]" him by quoting his "accurate description" of "domestic insurgent" Obama
SUMMARY: Mark Williams claimed that Media Matters "attack[ed]" him by highlighting his statement that Sen. Barack Obama came "out of the closet as the domestic insurgent that he is," referring to Obama's comments explaining why he longer wears an American flag lapel pin. Williams offered no explanation of how Media Matters' highlighting of his comments constituted an "attack" on him.
In an October 5 blog entry on MarkTalk.com, former radio host Mark Williams claimed that Media Matters for America "attack[ed]" him by highlighting his statement on the October 5 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) came "out of the closet as the domestic insurgent that he is," referring to Obama's comments explaining why he no longer wears an American flag lapel pin. Williams wrote: "Media Matters seems to take exception with my accurate description of Barack bin al Hussein Osama O'Bomber as a 'domestic insurgent.' " Williams, however, offered no explanation of how Media Matters' reproduction of his comments constituted an "attack" on him. Instead he wrote: "Cockroaches always hate having a light shined on them."
Williams has made several appearances on MSNBC's Hardball and Tucker, during which he attacked Democrats and progressives, most recently claiming that Democrats are "playing politics" with the Iraq war and "plucking the pennies off the eyelids of the newly dead."
The entirety of Williams' October 5 blog entry is reproduced below:
Media Matters Attacks Mark Williams' comments on Obama
Media Matters seems to take exception with my accurate description of Barack bin al Hussein Osama O'Bomber as a "domestic insurgent".
Cockroaches always hate having a light shined on them... click here to go to the Media Matters attack.
Obama as a representative of the domestic insurgency is a major topic on today's Mark Williams Show
This guy is hysterical. He must think that picking a fight with MMFA will boost his audience numbers.
This is pretty transparent stuff from Willard, or whatever his name is. Enjoy your fifteen minutes Wilford.
That's exactly it. This guy wants some attention. Hell. they're all gonna start jumping into this...just watch.
The funny thing is, how many in the right wing audience had ever even heard of MMFA? I'll bet some of them are wondering what the big flap is all about...wondering why their heroes are getting so worked up over something that MMFA wrote.
Mark Levin is one. Was practically begging MMFA to do an article on him the other day. Seems odd to actually desire MMFA's attention.
If they wished, I imagine they could do a lot more stories. But then maybe the effect would be diluted.
EDDY,
You said:
Mark Levin is one. Was practically begging MMFA to do an article on him the other day. Seems odd to actually desire MMFA's attention.
Perhaps it is this possibility:
A cry for help, in that they want to be stopped but can't come to say it out loud, like in a recent episode of ColdCase where one of the kids that had killed a fellow schoolmate left a note begging to be stopped before it was too late....
The adult that found it either misread it or ignored it....... perhaps that is what we liberals/progressives are doing as it pertains to these right-wingers?
Misreading their cries of help?
It's not a cry for help. These wingnuts know that the hate filled rhetoric sells to a right wing audience. Michael Savage is the third highest rated wingnut out there. It's a proven formula for success.
But just as they attract the wingnuts, they put off the independent middle ground. It's a net losing proposition for them, but I don't think they even have the ability to anlayze it that much. I still think Rush making fun of Michael J Fox helped the Democrats in Missouri.
People who are capable of voting for either party are put off by this stuff.
I've said this before, but the purpose of FOX, Limbaugh and all the lesser right wing copycats is to hold on to the Republican base, the approximately 30% of the voters in the countery that considers themselves hard-core conservatives. The secondary purpose is to keep these hard-core "conservatives" (i.e. right wing nuts) as angry as possible about "you liberals" (<spit>) so they will go out and vote on election day. Look at it that way and it is never surprising when you hear outrageous statements coming from the right side of your TV or radio.
Maybe getting "attacked"(quoted) by MMFA is becoming some sort of 'rite of passage' for right wing nutjobs.
Given how much prominence they've attained among the righty talking heads, MMFA, in essence, has become a measuring stick. It seems you really haven't reached the pinnacle of right wing douchedom until MMFA has reprinted your words.
I just want to wander the halls of right-wing punditry with a big rubber stamp and whack a big red "Sociopath" onto the forehead of every loonie in sight. I'll need a lot of cans of red ink.
Would you vote for Clinton if she's the nominee?
This has absolutely ZERO to do with Hillary Clinton.
It has to do with a far-right nincompoop doing a McCarthy-type slur of Obama.
Now quit with the lame diversions your gurus keep spooning out to you.
I should have said 'O'bama'. No interest in diversion.
Even so, it's still a diversion.
Yes, I would vote for Obama.
Who's the alternative in the GOP?
I wouldn't vote for Obama either. He's two-faced.
I wouldn't vote for Clinton even if you paid me a million dollars to do so. She's slime of the worst kind.
I'm normally not a stickler for spelling and grammar, but you misspelled "tunnels" as "halls".
I'm just afraid someone might get the wrong impression.
Perhaps he meant "conduits" which is the technical term for the tunnels which control the flow of gasses and liquids through sewers.
I shoulda said dungeons. since they're all sadistic lunatics, the kind you find operating medieval dungeons.
You're much too kind; but thank you for the clarification.
King, that would be kind. They should all be housed in a room together and forced to listen to each other for hour after hour, day after day. Soon the windows will open and....... da daaaaa.... problem solved. ;-)
I'd force them to watch Democracy Now and Free Speech TV all day. They'd all be screaming for their lord Satan to save them.
Apparently, cockroaches don't ALWAYS hate having a light shined on them.
He couldn't do this with Clinton or Edwards. He's just exploiting Obama's non-whiteness and the paranoid racist hatred that inspires in his target audience. According to his nickname Obama has Irish blood, so he's with al-Qaeda AND the IRA. That fiend. That unapologetically not-white FIEND.
To these right wing nut cases any mention of their statements in the general media is an attack on them. The statements are only intended for the insiders. The "insiders" understand and love the craziest statements of someone like Williams. As soon as the far out ravings are revealed to the general public they sound like the ravings that they are. To a right winger that is an attack.
These people (I use the term loosely) long for the days when the John Birchers could distribute their ravings to only their own members and no one outside of the magic circle of believers ever hear about them. The problem is they are trying to reach a wider audience by using modern technology. However, they still have the fifties mindset. Because of the wide spread of modern technology anything you say on the internet or on the radio immediately is spread to the whole world.
"Cockroaches always hate having a light shined on them."
Yes, and that's exactly why O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Fox, et al HATE Media Matters so much...because they're shining a light on the conservative cockroaches!! Williams must have been referring to himself and his colleagues.
Another self-inflicted wound. Another wimpy, cry-baby right-wing victim shoots himself in the foot.
Pff-f-ff ... MMfA is becoming a bandwagon meme for penny-ante reich-wing punks. We can thank Bildo Lielly and Pilonidal Pusbag Limbaugh for the boosts.
Git it, MMfA. The reich-wing is going postal.
Jeez, if I was a Republican, I'd be really embarrassed by these people. I mean, is name-calling all they have left?
You know, I'm a big believer in the First Amendment and all that, but I'm beginning to fear that exposure to this rampant stupidity is actually lowering my IQ.
"is name-calling all they have left?"
Well....yes.
I'm now convinced they're being stupid JUST to get on this webpage, because if Rush and Bill are on here, then it means the "important people" are here.
Personal note to neocon political televangelists: There is only so much room for your stupidity on MMFA's front page. If you all clamor to get here at once, none of you will make it. Please take your turns at displays of public idiocy.
So according to these Neocon fascists, disagreement with government policies automatically makes someone an insurgent. I have a few problems with this:
1.Our republic was founded by people who disagreed with and rebelled against the British government. One man's insurgent is another man's patriot.
2.Our Constitution is designed to protect dissenters and other minority voices from the tyranny of the majority.
3.So Barack Obama doesn't wear a freaking lapel pin. Real patriotism comes from within: real patriots protect and defend the ideals the flag stands for and don't give in to the nationalism and idolatry of the flag that the Neocons try to push on us.
4.The nationalism being pushed on us by the neocons is the number one sign that we are living in a fascist state:
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
Williams has his audience, Limbaugh has his, Boortz and Savage their own sycopantic group of fans. Each directs their daily output of words TO those fans, feeding them what they want to hear, and facing absolutely no danger of being questioned or taking responsibility. Certainly, there is no reason to EXPLAIN a comment with is assured of being accepted without question as being true and proper.
The Bush Administration has the same "closed" club, with internal conversations, decision making, and political strategizing conducted in COMPLETE SECRECY. Any "outsider" would not understand, and might even be outraged at what's going on behind closed doors. The employees of the Executive Branch, including the Military, have NO opportunity (or in most cases MOTIVATION) to question or analyze the output; they can only follow orders.
If there had not been a police sting set up in that airport bathroom, Larry Craig's behavior would have been conducted in secret, between him and his "select audience", and nobody would have been the wiser.
What MMFA does -- no more, no less -- is to take comments made by these rightwing bloviators, and giving it a WIDE AUDIENCE, allowing people who are not "in the club" to see what's going on within these isolated enclaves of exclusive Rightwing brotherhood, and allowing the public to make up their own minds about what this SAYS about Rightwingers and the Republicans they promote.
Alas, this is DEATH to the Rightwing message, which looks HORRIBLE to normal human beings. It's said that CHARACTER is what you do when nobody's looking. The Rightwing Character is well established, and it exists within the virtual SECRECY of a thousand "select" groups of "fans" of Rightwing message carriers.
Bottom line, Rightwing rhetoric simply cannot withstand wide distribution and analysis. Rightwing rhetoric is intended for a specific audience of supporters, and cannot withstand public scrutiny. Exposed, their words reveal the TRUTH, and it is very ugly indeed. And the Rightwing Pundits are furious that MMFA and others have lifted the veil, with the public's judgment being predictably astonishment, revulsion, and REJECTION.
Who is this jerk? I never heard of him.
He looks like a waste of time dittohead from the looks of his utterly lame blog. Looks like he has one or two fans who are even dumber than he is.
Just another idiot trying to get attention ala Coulteresque methods.
I have posted some of your email responses to me, on the blog at MarkTalk.com (go to http://www.marktalk.com and click on "blog"). They're very funny!
Feel free to use the comment feature on my blog to add more. You may also upload your MP3 rants, free, by using the upload feature on MarkTalk's main page. Comments are uploaded - unedited - to the "Daily Rant" section on the MarkTalk Home Page. I can't wait to hear yours! LOL!
Mark Williams
Never knew I was a cockroach...
Bill O'Reilly's attack on David Brock is an excellent opportunity for MMFA, I think. For anyone keen enough to follow MMFA regularly, this attack by O'Reilly is a good opportunity to see how he and the FOX producers operate.
They know that Brock WAS a hatchet-man, so they know they can hide behind that fact in claiming that that's what he IS now. And they know that their viewers and listeners aren't so good at making close distinctions.
It shows MMFA is on their radar. And it shows that they're afraid MMFA is getting big enough to possibly be on the radar of some of their viewers.
O'Reilly's comments are really close to slanderous, in my opinion. (I would be curious how a law suit might play out.) But it's clear that that type of law-suit is rarely successful; much better for Brock to win the case in the court of public opinion.
What we're seeing is Abraham Lincoln's apocryphal comment being played out before us: FOX and O'Reilly have fooled a lot of people for a decade and a half; but the truth is SO MUCH stronger... What MMFA does is lay it all out, and it's up to activists like us to make it stick.
Ergo, we need to stick it to O'Reilly on this issue. The opportunity is BIG for MMFA to edge into the radar of the popular news media. The more Americans who know Brock's story, the better. It's an important story, and it tells a lot about our political scene over the past 15 years.