Of course they are.
Media Matters = George Soros/Progressives
DOJ = Holder/Obama
Is the DOJ and Media Matters joined to LIE about news to get Obama re-elected?
Charge
2012/09/18 16:02:16
OBAMA PROPAGANDA
Newly published emails show the top spokeswoman at the U.S. Justice
Department regularly collaborating with the liberal advocacy group Media
Matters on stories that slam the administration's critics.
The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and
published by The Daily Caller, often show department public affairs
chief Tracy Schmaler communicating with Media Matters bloggers.
Sometimes, the emails were in response to inquiries. Other times,
Schmaler was pitching ideas, according to the Caller.
In a January 2012 email chain, Schmaler sent a Media Matters writer
lines from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman
Darrell Issa's comments at a recent hearing. She reportedly underlined
passages where the California Republican tries to explain the difference
between Operation Fast and Furious and other anti-gunrunning operations
under former President George W. Bush.
Hours later, an article appeared on Media Matters' site titled "Rep. Issa Ties Himself in Fast and Furious Knots."
Top Opinion
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texasred 2012/09/18 21:24:30
This an excellent example of how disinformation originates and is exaggerated in the Conservative Disinformation Network, like the game of "Gossip"! Such misrepresentation creates a "straw man," which makes the target easier to attack:
"A straw man, known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[1][2]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
Jumping to conclusions seems to be quite common in the fantasyland of the right-wing blogosphere. Such conclusions are drawn despite other likely explanations for the evidence presented. In the world of disinformation, speculation is misrepresented as fact.
When asked to substantiate their conclusions, we may encounter bluster, red herrings, and ad hominem attacks more often than rational, focused answers. Military Intelligence students are quickly disabused of such behavior, and learn the value of supporting every conclusion they proffer. Researchers at the Rand Corporation and other highly regarded research institutions often come from such rigorous backgrounds, where conclusions are based on empirical evidence, rather than wishful thinking. It's a pity that blogosphere researchers and commentators are not held to similar high standards of accuracy.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." - Daniel Moynihan
The emails revealed Media Matters targeted Townhall's Katie Pavlich, Sipseystreet's Mike Vanderboegh, Daily Caller's Matt Boyle, and CBS' Sharyl Atkisson.
Schmaler also requested an attack piece on Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips. What ticked off Schmaler enough to go after Phillips? According to Big Government she didn't like something he said about Fast and Furious when he appeared on Fox News.
In one of the more shocking emails, Ms. Schmaler emailed Matt Gertz at MMfA and suggested an attack piece on Tea Party Nation Founder Judson Phillips. She tells Mr. Gertz what Mr. Phillips said was completely false, because President Bush's operations Wide Receiver and Hernandez "put this to a lie." There's only one problem with that statement. Mr. Phillips was only talking about Fast and Furious. There was nothing false in his appearance on FOX News. He simply said it must be investigated and it was a partisan program.
Later that day Chris Brown wrote a piece calling Mr. Phillips a "right-wing extremist." He tried to prove Mr. Phillips wrong that Fast & Furious had anything to do with gun control, which Ms. Attkisson proved to be correct on December 7, 2011. That was the only part of Mr. Brown's piece that had ...
The emails revealed Media Matters targeted Townhall's Katie Pavlich, Sipseystreet's Mike Vanderboegh, Daily Caller's Matt Boyle, and CBS' Sharyl Atkisson.
Schmaler also requested an attack piece on Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips. What ticked off Schmaler enough to go after Phillips? According to Big Government she didn't like something he said about Fast and Furious when he appeared on Fox News.
In one of the more shocking emails, Ms. Schmaler emailed Matt Gertz at MMfA and suggested an attack piece on Tea Party Nation Founder Judson Phillips. She tells Mr. Gertz what Mr. Phillips said was completely false, because President Bush's operations Wide Receiver and Hernandez "put this to a lie." There's only one problem with that statement. Mr. Phillips was only talking about Fast and Furious. There was nothing false in his appearance on FOX News. He simply said it must be investigated and it was a partisan program.
Later that day Chris Brown wrote a piece calling Mr. Phillips a "right-wing extremist." He tried to prove Mr. Phillips wrong that Fast & Furious had anything to do with gun control, which Ms. Attkisson proved to be correct on December 7, 2011. That was the only part of Mr. Brown's piece that had anything to do with Mr. Phillips' appearance. The rest of it was a smear job on him, pointing out past statements.
The DC emails were released just days before the Justice Department's Inspector General is scheduled to answer questions before the House Oversight Committee regarding his investigation into Fast and Furious. Will IG Horowitz be asked to explain how a tax-exempt advocacy group like Media Matters has become a propaganda arm of Holder's DOJ?
So now we not only have a dead Border Patrol Agent, a dead ICE agent, hundreds of murdered citizens south of the border and an administration supplying firepower to Mexican drug cartels, we have evidence of Media Matters and the DOJ working together to stop real journalists from finding out who ordered this fiasco.
How high up does this bloody gun walking scandal go if Soros' shadow party media group is working 24/7 to stop the truth from getting out?
Read more M. Catharine Evans at Potter Williams Report
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.co...
I know you NEED to back Obama and cover for his administrations divisive actions, but don't act ignorant or blind to cover Obama's transgressions.
There is more but I'm not going to carry your inability to handle the failure of you leader.
A just released DOJ Inspector General report "found no evidence that Holder was informed about the Fast and Furious operation before Jan. 31, 2011, or that the attorney general was told about the much-disputed gun-walking tactic employed by the ATF" (see http://www.washingtonpost.com... ).
Further, even the remote possibility that Schmaler may have lied TO Gertz about Phillips does not mean that they "joined together to lie about news to get Obama re-elected."
Exactly what "Obama's transgressions" are you referring to?
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." - Daniel Moynihan
If this was a Republican administration you would crucify them and you know it.
It's not a "remote possibility"; it is a hard fact, I thought you liked facts, but not when they show you side is the perpetrators of the LIES.
Obama is a liar and a deceiver... let's face it they can't even tell the truth about their indifference to the lack of security in Libya that cost the life of our ambassador.
Ok, so you are going to vote for Romney.
What women's health position; you mean not paying for Flukes contraception?
Romney's weakness, of which there are a few, are INSIGNIFICANT in comparison to Obama.
I reiterate, A lot of people, the majority in fact, are against public funding of Abortion. It can not be justified because PP does OTHER things.
This suggests that the vast majority of PP services do NOT involve clinic income.
2007 Planned Parenthood service numbers
Number of abortions (medical and surgical): 305,310
Total number of abortions per week: 5,871
Adoption referrals: 4,912
Ratio of adoption referrals to abortions: 1 per 62
Despite representing just 3% of Planned Parenthood's reported number of health services provided each year, abortion represents the core business of the organization.
http://politicalcalculations....
World financial downgraded US twice, Lied about Libya. Lie about Solyndra, fast and furious,