Examiner: The hypocrisy of David Brock's Clinton-supporting super PAC

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Examiner: The hypocrisy of David Brock's Clinton-supporting super PAC

Like many people, David Brock wears multiple hats. A journalist and author, in 2004 he founded Media Matters for America, a progressive, non-profit research and information organization dedicated to monitoring, analyzing and correcting misinformation in conservative media. He also leads a Clinton super PAC, Correct the Record; and on Monday they sent out an email to a Huffington Post reporter that connected Senator Sanders (I, VT) to the new Labor Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. In it, Correct the Record distorted the record.

On Monday, Correct the Record drew "similarities" between Senator Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn which, according to the email, "include Sanders' introduction of legislation to terminate the United States' nuclear weapons program, comments that NATO's expansion into former Soviet states is dangerous because it could provoke Russia, opposition to more U.S. funds for NATO, and saying he 'was concerned' that proposed new NATO members had shipped arms to Iran and North Korea."

The similarities continue, according to Huff Po, because Corbyn had written that former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's "electoral democratic credentials are beyond reproach." The similarity with Sanders? He had helped negotiate a deal with Venezuela's national oil company to provide low-cost heating oil to low-income Vermonters. That is the "similarity" which "Correct" the Record drew between Corbyn and Sanders, an assertion that Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs claimed was "distorting the record." Is anyone at Media Matters for America paying attention?

These "similarities" are precisely the type of misinformation Brock's Media Matters for America was created to expose. If Mr. Brock had a sense of decency, he would issue an apology, but don't hold your breath waiting. The Hill describes Brock as perhaps Secretary Clinton's "most aggressive operative." He is also, perhaps, her most hypocritical operative.

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[djean111]

1. "If Mr. Brock had a sense of decency" - he does not. n/t

[Eleanors38]

2. Hypocrisy: Anti-gunner using armed bodyguards. nt

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3. whore

[FSogol]

4. The examiner is RW garage and shouldn't be linked to on DU.

Shouldn't be hard to find the type of stuff you are looking for on more legitimate news sources.

From wiki:

When Anschutz started the Examiner in its daily newspaper format, he envisioned creating a conservative competitor to The Washington Post. According to Politico, "When it came to the editorial page, Anschutz’s instructions were explicit — he 'wanted nothing but conservative columns and conservative op-ed writers,' said one former employee."