Published: 12:09 PM 02/14/2012 | Updated: 12:10 PM 02/14/2012
Liberal Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says Media Matters could become the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of 2012 for the Obama campaign if the White House and the Democratic Party don’t clearly distance themselves from the organization.
“Well I think if swing voters in the pro-Israel community had any idea how extreme Media Matters was on issues of Israel and supporters of Israel, they would regard Media Matters as another, you know, Rev. Wright,” Dershowitz told The Daily Caller.
“And for many, many in the pro-Israel community, it would be a game changer.”
Dershowitz went so far as to suggest that Media Matters’s rhetoric on Israel, particularly from Media Matters Action Network senior fellow M.J. Rosenberg, is similar to what one would find on a neo-Nazi website.
“When I started reading their stuff it sounded like the kind of stuff you see on neo-Nazi websites,” Dershowitz said. “Or on Hezbollah-supporter websites. It is so extremist. The thing that shocked me is that anybody regarded it as mainstream.”
Media Matters did not respond to a request by TheDC for comment.
Dershowitz said he is not on Media Matters’s email list and is only aware of the language they use when discussing Israel and Israel’s supporters because of emails sent to him from what he identifies as a neo-Nazi website, ReportersNotebook.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/14/alan-dershowitz-media-matters-could-become-rev-wright-of-2012-for-obama/#ixzz1mOmOLTMw Bee's Note:
Almost everyone remembers the day when Obama threw his 20-year Rev. Wright under the bus during his last campaign - due to a fear that the Rev's comments left a bad taste in the mouths of Americans and Obama , for convenience sake, wasn't going to allow one guy to destroy his campaign or his popularity. I might add that it was the Media that pushed so hard for Obama during that campaign - without the constant, daily build up of Obama, he would not be president today. So, media does matter, when it pretends to know more than the average citizen when it comes to politics, or choosing who they think will be the "best" man.
What is amazing to me is the fact that no matter how many of Obama's close friends and a preacher are removed from the association with Obama, this president manages to find replacements - bad, evil replacements, such as, "Media Matters".
America can only pray that while many were fooled once, we will not be fooled a second time around.
Here's a message from one of my friends, Carlan, which fits in nicely. We were discussing CNN's recent firing of Israeli journalists, but it applies to all liberal media outlets - supporters and backers of Obama's ideology, because "truth" holds no consequences when liberals lie.
This is the power of the Media and the saying “with great power comes great responsibility” so it is with the media, but in today’s world the media has chosen sides, they slant the news or broadcast one side of the story and in doing so change the opinions of those who choose not to think for themselves but rather to believe the Media so they can conveniently go on about their lives and not worry about matters they deem to big for their concern, these are the people that will one day say “and then they came for me”. It seems that the media in that sense is like Islam - if you control the thoughts of the people then you have true power. This is how Obama was elected and unfortunately in today’s world whoever owns the Media controls the substance of how they present the news.I jokingly referred to CNN as the Communist News Network as opposed to the Cable News Network for the outrageously slanted version they try to pass off as news. Many Americans know this and do not judge others by what the biased media report - we stand not for what is reported, but for what is right, and we stand by Israel. Of course the biased media will not report that to the world so know that CNN and their ilk are not speaking for the Majority but rather for their handlers…
