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To: Sully- who wrote (1829)	5/4/2004 4:09:22 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Liar, Liar, Web Site on Fire Timeswatch Media reporter Jim Rutenberg’s story was headlined “New Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ear to the Right.” He’s not kidding about the newness: www.mediamatters.org apparently hit the Web on Friday. <font size=4>Brock said he “hoped his new project could be as influential as the Media Research Center.” Times Watch and the MRC will take that as a compliment, but despite being founded in 1987, neither Times Watch nor the MRC has ever been quite influential enough to be highlighted in a New York Times profile.<font size=3> This kind of publicity might mean millions in contributions to the new site, a project of the also-new Center for American Progress run by former Clinton consigliere John Podesta (and perhaps a few residual nickels for MRC). <font size=4>It’s too bad the favor was never presented to the conservative watchdogs. Rutenberg does devote serious attention to Brock’s first problem: his self-confessed lying for the “vast right-wing conspiracy,” which is rarely offered in any detail. If he’s a big liar, then how does he build a profile as the reliable critic of “erroneous assertions”? Rutenberg allowed MRC Chairman Brent Bozell to underline that point, and to counter the idea that the MRC has dragged the “mainstream media” away from its historically liberal orientation. It’s just too bad that the length demands of the Times don’t allow any old perspective on Brock’s act of publicly apologizing for “brutally criticizing” Anita Hill and for relaying the charges of Arkansas state troopers that they “helped procure paramours when he was the governor of Arkansas, the veracity of which he is no longer sure.” Is this really a matter for doubt? After the Starr report and the verdict of Clinton lying about the trooper-assisted Paula Jones incident, isn’t a little late for agnosticism on this front?

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