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Hilldawg: “I helped start Media Matters”. MM: “No she didn’t!”

From Newsbusters:

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the leftwing organization responsible for the recent smear campaigns against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, Media Matters, has direct ties to the Clintons.

To be sure, folks on the left, and in the media that support them, will either deny this connection, or ignore it.

In the end, that’s going to be hard to do, for on August 4, while speaking at the YearlyKos convention in Chicago, the junior senator from New York boasted of “institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress.”
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Sounds like the junior senator confirmed my contention from Sunday: “Hillary and her backers have created an advocacy network whose expressed goal is to take down all of her critics in the media.
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In yet another instance of Media Matters making false claims, the left-wing group has issued several denials that it is tied to Hillary and Bill Clinton.

But in true Clintonian fashion, these denials are hardly that at all. Here is the phrase that the group keeps falling back on:

“Media Matters for America is a ‘progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.’ The Center for American Progress identifies itself on its website as ‘a progressive think-tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action.’”

Of course this means nothing whatsoever as far as Hillary Clinton goes. And yet in typical disreputable MM fashion, the far left group has repeatedly referenced it in subsequent articles as a denial of a Clinton connection.

Apparently Media Matters can’t even quote itself in context!

We can’t help but wonder how the group tries to spin and distort this flat-out statement of involvement from Clinton.

Either (a) Shrillary is having an Al Gore “I invented the Internet” moment and falsely claiming credit for that which she is not due; or (b) Media Morons is lying by denying Her Highness’ intimate relationship with them. Considering both have a track record of lying, it’s hard to say which one is “facts-impaired and truth-deficient” on this one.

Wonders Bryan at Hot Air:

Doesn’t that make them an adjuct part of her campaign for the presidency? What does McCain-Feingold have to say about this arrangement? And has Norman Hsu’s Ponzi scheme money funded any part of Media Matters? These are the questions that the MSM that regurgitates Media Matters press release attacks as if they’re actual news will not ask and doesn’t want answered.

October 2, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hillary, media bias, moonbats, shameful