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Soros-Funded Media Matters Declares “Guerilla War” on Fox News…

George has reportedly hired an assistant to shine his horns leaving the Media Matters crew with lots of extra time on their hands to obsessively watch Fox News.

(Politico) — The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.

The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring of newspapers and other television networks and is narrowing its focus to Fox and a handful of conservative websites, which its leaders view as a political organizations and the “nerve center” of the conservative movement. The shift reflects the centrality of the cable channel to the contemporary conservative movement, as well as the loathing it inspires among liberals — not least among the donors who fund Media Matters’ staff of about 90, who are arrayed in neat rows in a giant war room above Massachusetts Avenue.

“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.

The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”

In an interview and a 2010 planning memo shared with POLITICO, Brock listed the fronts on which Media Matters — which he said is operating on a $10 million-plus annual budget — is working to chip away at Fox and its parent company, News Corp. They include its bread-and-butter distribution of embarrassing clips and attempts to rebut Fox points but also a series of under-the-radar tactics.

Media Matters, Brock said, is assembling opposition research files not only on Fox’s top executives but on a series of midlevel officials. It has hired an activist who has led a successful campaign to press advertisers to avoid Glenn Beck’s show. The group is assembling a legal team to help people who have clashed with Fox file lawsuits for defamation, invasion of privacy or other causes. And it has hired two experienced reporters, Joe Strupp and Alexander Zaitchik, to dig into Fox’s operation and to help assemble a book on the network, due out in 2012 from Vintage/Anchor. (In the interest of full disclosure, Media Matters last month also issued a report criticizing “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy’s criticism of this reporter’s blog.)

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52 comments
  1. Tom B says:
    March 26, 2011 at 11:58 am

    Bring it Spooky Dude!

  2. ArchieBunker says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:04 pm

    Pure jealousy from the international banker.

  3. Jack O' Spades says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Fighting against the truth is like standing in the surf and punching the waves.

  4. Larry7 (prev. just Larry) says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    As if they haven’t been at war with Fox and conservatives already.

    How’s that been working out so far, MM? Fox’s ratings up or down? Conservatives do well last election? Breitbart on your ass constantly?

  5. Bunker says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Soros vs Murdoch..you know who my money is on.

  6. DudeofMan says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    He’s a goofy looking fuck!

  7. Captain Gizmo says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Two sayings come to mind –

    What goes around comes around…

    Pay backs are hell…

    WZ U R da best

  8. Sniffy Pop, Tuna Scented Popcorn says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    Talk about spite. These people are off the charts. The truth will always shine.

  9. Rogertheshrubber says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    To paraphrase a Simpson’s episode:

    Mr. Burns/Rupert Murdoch: “(sarcastic) Oooh, the Germans/Media Matters are/is mad at me… I’m so scared! Oooooh, the Germans/Media Matters… Uh oh…

    Chorus of Germanic/Liberal-sounding voices saying ‘Stop it,!”

    Burns’/Murdoch: The Germans/Media Matters are coming after me… Oh, don’t let the GermansMedia Matters come after me… Oh, the Germans/Media Matters are coming after me… No, they’re so big and strong… Protect me from the Germans/Media Matters! The Germans/Media Matters!” etc….

    http://www.megawavs.com/play.aspx?id=11865

    RTS

  10. John Difool says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    If the Nazi collaborator is attacking you, you must be doing something right.

    I’m sure Ailes and Murdoch are shaking in their loafers.

  11. Jimco says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    I taught my grandson to say “pooky doo”. Can’t start ‘em too early. If they have such a problem with Beck, then they should bring out their evidence that he’s wrong and that would be that. They know he’s telling the truth, they just hate it that he does.

  12. Sickofislam says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    Hey GEORGE! You along with all of your staff and attorneys cannot HIDE the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The truth will always prevail and you and your band of LIARS will LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!! LOSE!!!! LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    FOX RULES YOU!!!

  13. Jen06 says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    Beck must be getting too close to home.

  14. barbedwhyer says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    Politico and other JournOlistas casually report this “new” war plan as if
    it it’s “all’s fair in love and war”. Imagine if the vitriolic enterprise were
    birthed on the Right? Think they wouldn’t be condemning it, loudly,
    24/7!? The bias is so thick you can choke on it.

  15. gastorgrab says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    “(In the interest of full disclosure, Media Matters last month also issued a report criticizing “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy’s criticism of this reporter’s blog.)”

    ———-

    The author, Ben Smith, was also a member of the group calling itself, Journ-O-List.

  16. T2M says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    @ Jen06, yeah that’s it, Beck is all over them and FOX won’t stop him.

    Their problem is, Beck publishes his research and lets people read and decide for themselves. This leaves Soros in a bind, facts are stubborn things.

  17. Liz says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    I can’t wait. Bring your facts George and prepare to be annihilated.

  18. ThomNJ says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    soros declares war on his enemies at Fox, obama claims we are his enemies – is there going to be any kinetic action? You commies out there are cowards.

  19. DEADEYEDICK says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    Hmmmmmm…..Well why don’t they just sue Fox? Like Glenn said, The light always wins over darkness!

  20. whthfk says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    What a perfect waste of time for George.. please focus on Fox and we will focus on you and unlike your boy in the White House ..We have laser sites ready and willing to topple the rein of Another King by the name of George who needs to GO!!!

    Only this latest George is King if Shit and Brimstone.

  21. dri says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    Typical Liberal response. Don’t debate the facts, attack the messenger.

  22. John Difool says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    Satan has a nice little bunk right next to Hitler already picked out for you in hell, Georgie boy.

    Enjoy all that barbed cock.

  23. big-pete says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    This is all in preparation for 2012. They need to destroy FOX’s credibility to sucker enough gullible independents if Obama is to stand a chance.

  24. rbosque says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    If they’re this wound up about just one station, then Fox must be doing something right. The left should be exposed at every turn for its treason. collusion with evil, hypocrisy, lies, and distortions.

  25. Sickofislam says:
    March 26, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    @ John Difool says:
    “Satan has a nice little bunk right next to Hitler already picked out for you in hell, Georgie boy.

    Enjoy all that barbed cock.”

    LMAO…the bunk analogy is too “soft”. Georgie will be smokin’ a corn laced turd in hell with Pol Pot, Hitler, Mousolini and Saddam. Pretty good company ehh??

  26. rae4palin says:
    March 26, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    This first rule of MMFA Fight Club is you don’t talk about MMFA Fight Club.

  27. rbosque says:
    March 26, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    Envy is the ulcer of the soul. -Socrates

  28. Lurvleymomma says:
    March 26, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Yawn…..

  29. King kong says:
    March 26, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    I don’t get it. There is msnbc, NBC, CBS, NPR, ABC, PBS, comedy channel and CNN. Then there is FOX. It is already 8 to 1. Why are they so afraid of little old FOX? I know it must be that Glenn Beck is getting to religious for them.

  30. Greg says:
    March 26, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Go right ahead Georgie. Just remember the internet can reach people much better than Fox can.

    I don’t even have Fox News because I don’t have cable. There is much more truth out there on that their internets.

    Plus I’m pretty sure karma is coming in a big way for you boy. You’ve done more than enough to sign your death wish either in this life or the next.

  31. Sickofislam says:
    March 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    I believe it is time. It is time WE the people, as Americans TAKE Georgies money. He has more than he will ever need. Who needs billions?????? WE need to take all the extra $$$ he has and redistribute it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  32. mathew lefebvre says:
    March 26, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    Him and the rest of these Marxist scum need to be convicted for their crimes against the people of United States and the rest of the world, its clear their ill intent and they need to be put behind bars for good.

  33. IWearInfidelUndies says:
    March 26, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    The desperation of the Soros mafia is laughable. I’d be interest to know which websites these guerilla “warriors” plan to focus on. They will have no impact on Fox unless they can comehow get regulators to do their dirty work. I immagine people like Cass Sunstein are equally obsessed with Fox. PS watching Fox News right now.

  34. GRIZZ says:
    March 26, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Jack O Spades that is so funny.

  35. maraz says:
    March 26, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    Wouldn’t it be funny if while they obsessively watch Fox… that they suddenly find themselves in a position where they discover the truth…

  36. BigJake says:
    March 26, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    Good plan – they’ve all worked so well so far, eh? Soros, MM, unions and all the leftist scourge have been dragged into the light and now are kicking and screaming and yelling “unfair”.

    You want to further piss off the American public? You want Fox to gain more viewers? You want people to hate you (Soros) and all your ugly, god-like manipulating even more?

    then bring it on big boy – you’re gonna get your nuts slapped!

  37. King kong says:
    March 26, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    I forgot the BBC and algezera. The makes it 10 to 1 against little old Fox.

  38. Sentinel says:
    March 26, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    Ha! This ought to be good and certainly another method to drain his wallet in his action of futility.

  39. Lee says:
    March 26, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    You throw a rock into a pack of dogs and the one that yelps the loudest is the one you hit. Was that you Spooky Dude?

  40. Axel says:
    March 26, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    EVERYTHING always leads back to Soros. Soros and islam are truly the root of all evil going on in the world today. I want to see this man broke living in the sewer gutter w/the rats nibbling on him.

  41. Sentinel says:
    March 26, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    @Axel

    I just want to see his body in the gutter with rats nibbling on it. I’m gonna get wasted the day that monster croaks.

  42. World's Creepiest Government says:
    March 26, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Puppeteer Central with a large side of Ugly.

  43. jabbernaught says:
    March 26, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    That picture of Soros should be the poster for Liberalism!

    They think they can just stick to their usual tactics of ignoring the issues, and slandering their opponents. They think Americans are so stupid they can be duped by mud and sheeite slinging apes like Soros and his ilk.

    Sosos uses the power of the press to defame, to spread lies and innuendo, suggestions, accusations, and spin matters in such a twisted manner that the truth is not addressed, but focus is subtly shifted to the persons’ of their opponents.

    Then they strut off acting like they have established the truth – when they have completely ignored the message and called upon everyone to hate the messenger.

    People have fallen for this wholesale in the past, and Soros can’t stand having this power to deceive taken away from him. So he plans to pull his usual tactics on Fox News…

    May Soros be crushed under the collapse of his evil empire.

  44. Monster Zero says:
    March 26, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    It is my hope that in 2012, after we put this Administration of progressive liberals out to pasture (at Leavenworth) that George Soros is hunted down for the crimes that he has committed against our sovereign Nation. I would believe that his efforts of economic manipulation and political pandering to coerce and manipulate our Government officials and processes qualify as terrorism under the definition presented by the FBI.

  45. tina says:
    March 26, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Monster Zero-I want that now. Soros is evil hell spawn. He needs to be put away for the rest of his sorry life. And anyone connected to him. If you remember right the muslim fraud in the whitehouse,dismantled the CIA and FBI right off the bat. He placed all of his pawns around him. Man,we need honor,respect,values back in this Country. One of the first steps of Communism,is demoralization,moral decay. obama is a homosexual and fights hard for them. he has hit us in every way possible. Time to make a comeback.

  46. joefriday says:
    March 27, 2011 at 12:53 am

    Looks like he is wanting some of what Markey has in the jar. WooHoo.

  47. just sayin says:
    March 27, 2011 at 9:04 am

    Soros is the al-Bama puppet master.

    Keep shining the light on the Soros/al-Bama/Oppressive Cabal of Cockroaches.

  48. dirk pitt says:
    March 27, 2011 at 10:21 am

    The Truth Has No Agenda – Clearly Sorass Does!!!

  49. Ender says:
    March 30, 2011 at 2:14 am

    Isn’t this old fart ready to kick the bucket yet? Eighty years on this earth is enough for this atheist Jew. He is evil personified. May he hot in the hottest part of hell!

    http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30823
    Below is part of the interview that Soros the Nazi collaborator easily admitted.

    KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

    Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

    KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

    Mr. SOROS: No.

  50. Ender says:
    March 30, 2011 at 2:16 am

    http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30823
    Soros proclaimed on the show “60 Minutes” that he does not believe in God. Soros as an atheist is not too fond of Christians or Jews. He told CBS in 1998 that he felt no guilt during the Nazi era when he assisted in taking Jewish property. He told CBS reporter Steve Kroft that he was 14 when he watched Jews filling up boxcars as they were sent to their deaths.

    Below is part of the interview that Soros the Nazi collaborator easily admitted.

    KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

    Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

    KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

    Mr. SOROS: No.

  51. Ender says:
    March 30, 2011 at 2:16 am

    Soros proclaimed on the show “60 Minutes” that he does not believe in God. Soros as an atheist is not too fond of Christians or Jews. He told CBS in 1998 that he felt no guilt during the Nazi era when he assisted in taking Jewish property. He told CBS reporter Steve Kroft that he was 14 when he watched Jews filling up boxcars as they were sent to their deaths.

    Below is part of the interview that Soros the Nazi collaborator easily admitted.

    KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

    Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

    KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

    Mr. SOROS: No.

  52. Ender says:
    March 30, 2011 at 2:19 am

    Soros is every bit as evil as Stalin, Mao and Castro.

    May his end come soon.

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