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To: FJB who wrote (418747)	3/28/2011 3:06:02 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793897

I hope Soros AND Media Matters gets totally trashed for this! It sounds like something Hitler or Stalin would have thought of doing.... Oh, wait.....they did...

To: FJB who wrote (418747)	3/30/2011 7:10:12 AM
From: Brumar89	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793897

Dumbest Website on Internet Media Matters Unveils First Big FOX Hit Piece… FAILS Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 11:56 AM Hah-Hah! Media Matters, the dumbest website on the internet, released their first big hit piece on FOX News today… It was supposed to be a major story. But, it wasn’t even a squeaker. Media Matters’ frst big hit piece today was on FOX executive Bill Sammons who once said that Obama was a socialist. Reallly, Media Matters? Really? It’s not exactly a secret. The internet’s dumbest website’s first big hit piece was that a FOX contributor thought that maybe Obama was a socialist? Oh, good grief. Speaking in 2009 onboard a pricey Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college, Fox Washington managing editor Bill Sammon described his attempts the previous year to link Obama to “socialism” as “mischievous speculation.” Sammon, who is also a Fox News vice president, acknowledged that “privately” he had believed that the socialism allegation was “rather far-fetched.” “Last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first let it slip to Joe the Plumber that he wanted to quote, ‘spread the wealth around,’ ” said Sammon. “At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched.” Didn’t George Soros just blow $1 million on this group? Nice going, George. gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com ------------------------------------------------------------- Does Media Matters Really Want People To Listen To This Tape? Media Matters, as part of its new "get Fox News" agenda, is spinning a tape of Bill Sammons of Fox News made in 2009 as reflecting dishonesty as to "mischievous speculation" in 2008 as to whether Obama had socialist tendencies. Needless to say, the left-blogsphere has reacted with glee. But listen to the actual audio, and two things are clear. First, the word "mischievous" was related to Sammons' use of the word just moments before related to James Carville. And it is not clear what was the "mischievous speculation" to which Sammons was referring. Sammons statement that he thought it was "far-fetched" is not a confession of lying, which is the Media Matters Spin. Sammons describes the language as "inartful" and that he was dealing with the issue because it was in the news. Second, and this is the part Media Matters doesn't highlight, Sammons made a case for why he feels those concerns about Obama -- whether mischievous or not -- actually had come true. “Now imagine my surprise when this year, I witness President Barack Obama standing in the cross hall of the White House and having taken over the American car industry, look into the camera, and announce to the nation essentially, that he would personally vouch for the warranty on your car’s muffler. All of a sudden, the debate over whether America was heading for socialism seemed anything but far-fetched…The debate over whether America is headed for socialism seems all too real, especially to those who still believe in capitalism." Listen, and you decide. legalinsurrection.blogspot.com