Senate Minority Leader McConnell Lashes Out At Media Matters

pbrauer said:

Hot diggity-dog the Mitch McConnell is trying to say that Media Matters is trying to stifle conservative free speech, which isn't true at all. See the video at the link, notice at end of his talk he implys the IRS scandal was orchestrated by the Obama administration.

In a June 21 appearance at the American Enterprise Institute to speak about "Washington's ongoing assault on free speech," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described Media Matters for America as part of a "coordinated assault from groups on the left that don't like the idea of anyone criticizing their aims" that seeks to "harass" and "intimidate conservatives with the goal of scaring them off the political playing field."


McConnell described this as "a grave and growing threat to the First Amendment."


In response to McConnell's comments, Media Matters president Bradley Beychok said, "Mitch McConnell seems to be implying there is something underhanded or sinister about what Media Matters does. That is not the case. We monitor and correct conservative misinformation in the media. So what the Senator and so many others on the right are actually afraid of are their own words, which every day prove to contain plenty of misinformation."

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digsbe said:

Media Matters is nothing but a biased organization out to mock conservative media and try and nitpick out their "falsehoods" as perceived by them and their viewpoint. Those who actually take Media Matters seriously are most likely mentally enslaved by an extreme liberal worldview that clouds objective judgement much like the conservatives that parrot Newsbusters.

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pbrauer said:

Hot diggity-dog the Mitch McConnell is trying to say that Media Matters is trying to stifle conservative free speech, which isn't true at all. See the video at the link, notice at end of his talk he implys the IRS scandal was orchestrated by the Obama administration.

In a June 21 appearance at the American Enterprise Institute to speak about "Washington's ongoing assault on free speech," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described Media Matters for America as part of a "coordinated assault from groups on the left that don't like the idea of anyone criticizing their aims" that seeks to "harass" and "intimidate conservatives with the goal of scaring them off the political playing field."


McConnell described this as "a grave and growing threat to the First Amendment."


In response to McConnell's comments, Media Matters president

Bradley Beychok said,

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"Mitch McConnell seems to be implying there is something underhanded or sinister about what Media Matters does. That is not the case.

We monitor and correct conservative misinformation in the media

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. So what the Senator and so many others on the right are actually afraid of are their own words, which every day prove to contain plenty of misinformation."

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ttwtt78640 said:

Is the bolded (above) the media bias that you are referring too? It seems that an unbiased approach would be to "monitor and correct" all misinformation in the media.

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pbrauer said:

Nope, just conservative information.

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OpportunityCost said:

Thanks for explaining bias to us Pete. I was confused for about half a second.

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pbrauer said:

LOL I meant conservative misinformation.

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OpportunityCost said:

LOL it still applies Pete. Unless they look at both sides equally, they are engaging in bias, and you just as equally since you cant see how its bias.

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