Teachers Unions Gone Wild: The Director’s Commentary (Part 2)

Media Matters owes its readers an apology.

In my previous column, “Teachers Unions Gone Wild: The Director’s Commentary (Part 1),” I challenged Media Matters — who pompously mocked Trenton Tea Party Leader Daryl Brooks for believing in the authenticity of our videos because “[James] told [him]” they were — to hold Alissa Ploshnick and her spokesman Steve Wolmer to the same standard as Brooks.

Steve Wolmer spoke on behalf of Alissa Ploshnick, who is now “in seclusion,” claiming that when editing “Teachers Unions Gone Wild,” I maliciously grouped two soundbites of hers together that were allegedly uttered in totally separate contexts. Wolmer claims that Ploshnick’s comment about a teacher calling a student the N word was actually an anecdote about a student-to-student confrontation in her high school days, and “had nothing to do with tenure.” Wolmer explains that we “edited that out and put it in the tenure conversation to make it look like that was the context.”

While I was admittedly tempted to sit back and hear more of their creative fairy tales, I had to set the record straight and release the unedited raw audio of Ploshnick’s dialogue, pulling the rug out from under her and Wolmer’s lies.

What is even more amusing is that Media Matters, after snobbishly chastising Brooks for trusting James’ word that the videos were authentic, flipped a 180 and took at face value Ploshnick’s and Wolmer’s alibis which I have now proven to be undeniable lies.

Upon receiving wind of Ploshnick’s lies, jumped and clapped like kids in a candy store to trumpet her case, albeit taking her words at face value: “I’m sure you will be shocked to learn that Ploshnick now reportedly believes her comments were taken out of context,” concluding that “out-of-context videos” are now obviously “synonymous with O’Keefe’s name.” In a subsequent piece, Media Matters goes right ahead and definitely calls “Teachers Unions Gone Wild” a “series of heavily edited smear videos.”

Media Matters has officially renewed its reliability as a pollutive factory of smears, lies and blatant hypocrisy. They have yet to produce any evidence of Brooks’ foolishness for trusting James, save for the testimony they ravenously gobbled up which is now a proven lie — which only proves that they are the fools. They owe the public an apology and until such an apology is made have forfeited any and all credibility.

But then of course, it is Media Matters.