Glenn Beck (AP)
Nice work if you can get it.
Some folks work in coal mines. Others are waitresses who live on tips. But if you're one of the lucky ducks in the "George Soros Steno Pool" otherwise known as Media Matters, you get paid to... post clips of other people's tv shows without comment, then stick a few scare quotes in your headline.
Here's one new scoop at Media Matters:
Beck attacks media-reform organization Free Press and its "radical, Marxist founder" Robert McChesney
Now remember: those scare quotes around the words "radical, Marxist founder" are a form of left wing shorthand, intended to convey the following:
- Robert McChesney is NOT a radical Marxist
- Being a radical Marxist is no big deal anyhow
- Glenn Beck is a big fat wiener head
However, as some of us have been reporting here since July -- when a Free Press staffer started working at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- Robert McChesney and Free Press are, uh, radical Marxists. Via Discover The Networks:
On January 12-14, 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee, Free Press sponsored another National Conference for Media Reform. Exhibitors at the event included the Revolutionary Communist Party; Mother Jones magazine; Pacifica Radio; Amy Goodman; and representatives of the so-called "9/11 truth movement," which contends that the September 11 attacks were carried out by U.S. government officials who then blamed their deed on innocent Muslims. Prominently featured for sale at the Conference were books authored by Barack Obama, Al Gore, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Mikhail Gorbachev, former White House reporter Helen Thomas, and Webster Tarpley, a former associate of Lyndon LaRouche.
And of course:
At a panel discussion moderated by Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America, participants argued that the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections had been "stolen" on behalf of Bush.
The libertarian free speech group Technology Liberation Front (their site's Soviet style graphics are ironic) has more on McChesney:
He is the godfather of the media reformista movement, the founder of Free Press, and an avowed socialist. And he has made his intentions in this regard abundantly clear throughout his prolific career. In his book Rich Media, Poor Media, he says that “Media reform cannot win without widespread support and such support needs to be organized as part of a broad anti-corporate, pro-democracy movement.”
But I guess since McChesney doesn't actually use the word "Marxist," he can't possibly be one! So let's review: Free Press advocates decentralizing ownership of broadcast media. And now a former Free Press staffer is at the FCC. Which ultimately controls what you hear and see on radio and television. Speaking of which: given Glenn Beck's eight-million daily listeners to his #3 rated nationally syndicated radio show, this biographical factoid is particularly amusing:
McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio; it is the top-rated program in its time slot in the Champaign-Urbana area.
Comments
What's fascinating is the invective hurled at McChesney from the pseudo-conservatives who also bash the MSM as untruthful.
McChesney's main thesis for years has been that American media is a "governmentally sanctioned oligopoly," owned by a few highly profitable corporate entities - which seems to be the same complaint the pseudo-cons have!
A Mormon multimillionaire controls the news media! We are no longer cultists. All of my wives agree with me. Where are my magic under garments?
When pro-democracy media activists get labeled "Marxists," you know the conservative movement has been hi-jacked by crazy. Making media more accountable and less controlled is a fundamentally conservative idea. Seems the right and the left should hang together on this one.
Why does the left attack the messenger but they are afraid to debate the message?
Also, why do people on the left think they are so intelligent, but they are grouped in with people who have their hands out for Obama money without knowing where it comes from? Tragic if you ask me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGLB8LO1aM
Russ -- Look into the money behind this Mainstream Media attack on Net Neutrality and you'll have your answer.
Beck is a mormon - which I KNOW is a cult 'cause God told me so. And if Beck is a mormon, that's only ONE small letter away from moron.
Besides, everyone KNOWS freedom of religion only applies to "unbiased" commentators who gets a chill up their legs when Obama speaks.
Did I use enough invectives to make my point?
I've just finished reading Glenn Beck's latest NY Times #1 Best Seller "Arguing With Idiots" damn it's an American Classic!!!!
OK, I'm not sure if I saw this as a vision on the wall of my room or of Jesus Himself whispered it to me in my sleep, but I now know who the walrus really is.
Arnie Lemaire, Coo coo ca choo.
All its messy ramblings makes sense now.
I have never understood why we don't treat communists the way we treat Nazis. They are flip sides of the same coin. It made no sense to me to defeat national socialism abroad yet allow global socialism to exist where it is completely incompatible with the workings of free democracies.
Poor Clare, you're awesome. I'm still laughing.
From the self-styled "Conservapedia," which makes no mention of Kathy Shaidle:
Since 2004, Media Matters has monitored conservative media and attacked high-profile conservatives with provocative language. In addition, it is often accused of using out-of-context quote mining. It is headed by David Brock, a former conservative who claims he made up stories about such people as Anita Hill, who charged Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment during Thomas’s confirmation hearings. Brock developed a relationship in the 1990s with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton's press aide, Neel Lattimore, and came out of the closet, announcing he was a homosexual and joining the liberal cause. Brock later hired Lattimore at Media Matters as director of "special projects." bit.ly/AjIOs
ooooh, now we know that "special projects," which the self-styled critic Kathy Shaidle calls "scare quotes," on account of as how they're in, you know, "quotes," means no projects, nothing special
The Left acts like Marxism/Communism is harmless. That is because many of the "Progressives" are similar to them.
Communists killed more of their own citizens than the Nazis did around the world. Both of those political systems are horrible, Communism/Marxism killed millions. Yet some in the Obama administration like Marxism, like Van Jones. That is like someone liking Nazism and working in the whitehouse...and before you kooks on the left start screaming Bush was a Nazi, he was not. That is only in your own warped mind.
Meanwhile Obama actually has people who work/worked in his administration who believe in Marxism and Communism were actually great.
Communism killed more people around the world and especially their own citizens. It is on the same level as Nazism in its murderous repressive policies.
The Left acts like Marxism/Communism is harmless. That is because many of the "Progressives" are similar to them.
Communists killed more of their own citizens than the Nazis did around the world. Both of those political systems are horrible, Communism/Marxism killed millions. Yet some in the Obama administration like Marxism, like Van Jones. That is like someone liking Nazism and working in the whitehouse...and before you kooks on the left start screaming Bush was a Nazi, he was not. That is only in your own warped mind.
Meanwhile Obama actually has people who work/worked in his administration who believe in Marxism and Communism were actually great.
Communism killed more people around the world and especially their own citizens. It is on the same level as Nazism in its murderous repressive policies.
The RWPs don't have any problems running their ugly little mouths and calling people Marxists. Well, who are these Marxists? All you are doing employing your usual crude guilt-by-association attacks, which is par considering you are just a totally unethical talk radio mouthpiece.
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