WASHINGTON,DC
- NOVEMBER 23: David Brock, a former conservative, is the founder of
the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America. Media... View Enlarged Image
The group Media Matters acts like a lobbyist but is not registered as one. It operates in the shadows, outside congressional oversight and unaccountable to voters.
This makes its collusion with the White House in the heat of a presidential race a serious matter worthy of investigation.
Targeting Limbaugh, a staunch Republican, is no coincidence. If the Obama campaign can silence him, it can knock out the party's most powerful voice for firing up its base and getting out the vote. Limbaugh has a huge Tea Party following.
The White House's attack dog, Media Matters, has been intimidating private businesses into dropping their ads on Limbaugh's popular radio show. It boasts of scaring off 45 of his advertisers since launching its drive last week, when Limbaugh apologized for using sexist terms to criticize a college coed called by Democrats to testify in support of ObamaCare's coverage of birth control.
Media Matters keeps a death watch on its website. It lists those Limbaugh advertisers who have canceled, then identifies sponsors still airing ads — making it clear to Occupy Wall Street and Acorn thugs which business they still need to threaten.
"Limbaugh remains in professional free fall," Washington-based Media Matters gloated Wednesday on its site. It promises its campaign will "alter," if not end, his career behind the mike.
It's not exactly an idle threat. Media Matters reportedly got conservative host Glenn Beck fired at Fox News as retribution for Beck exposing the radical Marxist views and activities of White House aide Van Jones.
In fact, Media Matters coordinates with the White House. According to the Daily Caller, the group is in "regular contact" with Obama aides, including top political adviser Valerie Jarrett. Media Matters founder David Brock has met with her and top communications advisers inside the White House.
Backed by major Obama donors, Brock plans to spend a reported $20 million this year to sway news coverage in Obama's favor.
Brock also runs an Obama Super-PAC called American Bridge 21st Century, which shares donors with Media Matters. Its lead donor is the powerful public-sector union, American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees. Federal Election Commission records show AFSCME gave at least $475,000 to the PAC.
A top AFSCME official is married to Heather Booth, the Chicago socialist who helped groom Obama. She runs an Alinskyite shop that trains groups to target corporations using the kind of hardball tactics employed by Media Matters.
Another major donor to the Media Matters PAC is the Service Employees International Union, which according to the FEC has contributed at least $100,000 this year. SEIU shares offices, leaders and millions of dollars in funding with Acorn. SEIU President Andy Stern is a regular White House guest.
In an unusual move, the president last week injected himself into the Limbaugh row by phoning the coed he insulted.
Then, in a Tuesday news conference, Obama explained, absurdly, that he was protecting the honor of his own daughters: "I don't want them attacked and called horrible names because they are being good citizens."
In fact, he wants to keep the story alive so his attack dogs can run Limbaugh out of his chair — or at least defang him for the general election.
The major media are accomplices in this extortion. Brock has a direct line to the head of MSNBC and often writes the network's prime-time scripts, according to the Daily Caller. He also routinely feeds dirt to Politico and the Washington Post.
The main media have rejoiced in corporate sponsors deserting Limbaugh's program. "Limbaugh has faced backlashes and boycotts before. But not like this," CBS News said. "The question is whether his show can survive the firestorm."
If Limbaugh is crippled, it was a coordinated hit.
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