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I’m going to have to disagree with my friend Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, who questions whether concerns about Media Matters’ tax-exempt status are simply a partisan grudge. “I think this is a mistake,” he says. “Setting a precedent of opening tax

Last night, while defending himself against attacks of giving rapists immunity and total hypocrisy, one brave conservative let Olbermann have it: Olbermann’s typical response: Yes, Olbermann’s doing this for ratings. He’s using us, and I’m using him as an example that the ill

Not just Google, but other advertising companies as well: Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers–tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who

Keith Olbermann, still unable to admit that he was wrong, tweeted today: “@Wes_Wheeler I didn’t cover them up nor pretend they didn’t happen. I just refused to blame the Occupy rape victims as @AndrewBreitbart did” Decide for yourself. Olbermann previously tweeted: “Love this. @AndrewBreitbart goes nuts,

The other day The Daily Caller released David Brock’s enemies list. At first I didn’t think much of it until the last group: It’s a group of GOP politicians. What do GOP politicians have to do with “conservative misinformation?” Unless … these

Worth reading: On Monday, Current’s Chief News Officer created an uproar when he and guest Markos Moulitsas joked about alleged rapes at Occupy Wall Street protests. This is always a dumb move. He later doubled-down on the stupid when he tweeted“No Occupy rapes, no

Controversy has been stirring over a tweet that Jodi Rudoren, the incoming New York Times bureau chief in Jerusalem, sent to anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah this week: As Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic notes, Abunimah “is a player in extremist circles.” That’s a fair assessment. The Chicago-based

Keith Olbermann published a weak spin of his defense of rapists and exploitation of women’s bodies for political profit. His excuse? No one who did the raping and attacking was identified as an Occupier. Really? How are people not at Occupy protests

– Media Matters Occupies the MSNBC newsroom: Just in recent weeks, there have been several examples. Two MSNBC hosts who have recently, and regularly, used the organization’s content for their programming are Ed Schultz of “The ED Show” and Al Sharpton

Mediaite and certain members of their staff are rather infamous for their hostility towards women. In the past, they’ve specifically targeted Governor Sarah Palin, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, stay-at-home-moms, and our own Dana Loesch. Also, and most of you won’t remember this (but I do), Mediaite has a

In what amounted to a media “night of the long knives,” last week Fox Business Network abruptly cancelled its three politics-oriented prime-time shows and starting February 20th will replace them with repeats of its earlier 5-8pm business related lineup.  It would appear that

Before I debunk Keith Olbermann’s “debunking,” let’s remember what Keith Olbermann said. It’s the standard to which Mr. Olbermann needs to be held: “No Occupy rapes, no cover-up, no apology, no retraction.” That is Mr. Olbermann’s statement and he hasn’t

In a Huffington Post story yesterday, editor Michelangelo Signorile referred to Andrew Breitbart as a “conservative gay activist.” He has since retracted the headline and the claim, but in publishing it in the first place, it is not quite certain what he intended.

On his Current TV program this evening, Cenk Uygur–to his credit–admitted that he had made a “mistake” in smearing Andrew Breitbart as a terror supporter. Uygur did not apologize, but credited Big Journalism for pointing out that the quote he had

It’s a sign of deeply damaged liberal thinking that I have to explain to the likes of Tommy Christopher and Keith Olbermann why the rapes and other crime associated with the Occupy matter. There’s no doubt that these crimes occurred (despite Olbermann’s

 [Andrew Breitbart] doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the women who were raped. — Tommy Christopher Apparently, Tommy Christopher has a very specific mission at Mediaite. Legitimate stories reported by Team Breitbart that expose the left and pick up steam are

When I read articles such as these I always think about the villains in Scooby Doo. The Gang removes the monster mask from the perp and underneath, it’s old man Jenkins! And he would’ve gotten away with it, too, were

From Accuracy in Media’s Logan Churchwell: Go ahead, read the headline again. Mine is almost as bizarre as the original Associated Press piece, titled “How is Romney like 007? Both have money offshore.” Giving us yet another example of the AP’s

In light of Current TV host Keith Olbermann’s firm and unconditional Tweet “‘No Occupy Rapes, No Cover-Up, No Apology, No Retraction,” it’s worth remembering that @KeithOlbermann actually suspended his own Twitter account in 2010 over allegations made by many —

A defiant Keith Olbermann — former MSNBC host now working for former Vice President Al Gore’s Current TV — flatly stated in a tweet this afternoon: “No Occupy rapes, no cover-up, no apology, no retraction.“ The message, directed at Washington Times columnist

This evening, Andrew Breitbart accepted Cenk Uygur’s invitation to appear on Current TV to debate the phenomenon of rape in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. The result was a complete demolition of Uygur, whose ignorance and dishonesty were on full

We call on Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, Countdown host Keith Olbermann and DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas to issue an immediate written and on-air retraction and apology for broadcasting a statement by Moulitsas that called the subject

Media Matters for America has become so politically toxic–due to its Israel-bashing and its attempt to silence conservative media voices–that Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz–a pro-Israel Democrat and civil libertarian–declared today that he would not vote for President Barack Obama unless

The thing about Ben Smith is that we always seem to eventually discover something about him that helps to explain so much. Over the past few weeks, after he moved from Politico to Buzzfeed, I haven’t written  a word about Ben