Media Matters for America, the self-described "progressive" research center and media monitor, has called on "folks" to "really go at" Fox News while demanding other media organizations stop treating America's top cable news outlet as a journalistic enterprise.Right now there is a full assault on any sort of conservative speech in this country. Fake quotes were used to drive Rush Limbaugh out of an NFL ownership deal, other conservative voices are being demonized, conservative politicians like Sarah Palin mocked - all under the guidance of the White House and their allies in the wacky left.
Appearing on MSNBC yesterday, Media Matters President Eric Burns said a recent White House campaign against Fox News is "not enough to get the job done."
"Folks are going to have to really go at Fox News," Burns said.
Burns claimed Fox "morphed itself this year into a 24-7 political operation" and claimed the news channel's goal was to "destroy this presidency and destroy any sort of progressive policy agenda that the American people voted for in November."
Separately, Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert posted an entry on his group's website calling on reporters and news agencies to "start treating the cable channel for what it is: a partisan animal."
"The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players – not to get bogged down in criticizing the competition – because those newsroom rules no longer apply," he wrote.
Boehlert continued: "The press needs to treat Fox News the same way it treats the Republican National Committee, even though, frankly, the RNC probably can't match the in-your-face partisanship that Fox News flaunts 24/7."
Boehlert claimed Beltway media insiders fail to criticize Fox News because they are too "spooked by right-wing attacks about the so-called liberal media."
The next logical step is the criminalization of conservative thought. That's what the new hate crimes legislation is all about. It's written broadly enough to allow wide interpretation as to what constitutes "hateful" speech about protected groups.
Our freedoms are being lost and we better start doing something about it.
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Who voted for "any sort of progressive policy agenda ...in November"?
Lefties lied like a rug about Obama. He was Mister Middle during the general election, sometimes lapsing into Reaganesque cadences.
Half the people who voted for him were clueless about what they were getting. The people they cheated the most don't even listen to Fox News. It's their side that got screwed!
Those of us who listened to conservative voices pulled the OTHER lever.
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