Media Matters Doesn't Matter

Few things get me as riled up as hearing (or reading) some ignoramus call another person a liar because the other person has a different understanding or different interpretaiton of the same facts. I am never sure whether the name caller is simply despicable or too dumb to understand the difference.

Today, my ire is raised because a web site called Media Matters. Media Matters is run by David Brock, the author of The Real Anita Hill and The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. He is a former conservative, turned liberal. With the expected announcement of Tony Snow's apointment as White House Press Secretary, Media Mattersis is saying that Tony Snow, as a conservative commentator, made false or misleading claims about political matters.

"False or misleading" apparently means anything that disagrees the their interpretation of the facts. This is typical liberal arrogance. A careful reading of the alleged documentation deomonstrates this. Here is one example:

Snow put forward numerous falsehoods to argue that "[e]volutionary theory, like ID [intelligent design], isn't verifiable or testable. It's pure hypothesis."

Wake up and smell the coffee. This is something on which people disagree. The other examples given by Media Matters are similar. The lesson: If you disagree with a liberal's opinion, you are putting forth falsehoods (i.e., lying).

The smear is uncalled for.

Media Matters really doesn't matter.