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Does Media Matters Coordinate Strategy With the White House?







David Brock was smoking a cigarette on the roof of his Washington, D.C. office one day in the late fall of 2010 when his assistant and two bodyguards suddenly appeared and whisked him and his colleague Eric Burns down the stairs.



Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit Media Matters for America, had told friends and co-workers that he feared he was in imminent danger from right-wing assassins and needed a security team to keep him safe.



The threat he faced while smoking on his roof? “Snipers,” a former co-worker recalled.



“He had more security than a Third World dictator,” one employee said, explaining that Brock’s bodyguards would rarely leave his side, even accompanying him to his home in an affluent Washington neighborhood each night where they “stood post” to protect him. “What movement leader has a detail?” asked someone who saw it.



Extensive interviews with a number of Brock’s current and former colleagues at Media Matters, as well as with leaders from across the spectrum of Democratic politics, reveal an organization roiled by its leader’s volatile and erratic behavior and struggles with mental illness, and an office where Brock’s executive assistant carried a handgun to public events in order to defend his boss from unseen threats.



Yet those same interviews, as well as a detailed organizational planning memo obtained by The Daily Caller, also suggest that Media Matters has to a great extent achieved its central goal of influencing the national media.




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Added: Feb-13-2012 Occurred On: Feb-13-2012
By: aranger45
In: Politics
Tags: Media Matters, Coordinate, Strategy, White House
Location: New York, New York, United States (load item map)
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  • : "Brock’s executive assistant carried a handgun to public events in order to defend his boss from unseen threats."


    But yet lefties are always going on about how guns are dangerous to society. Funny how things change when it's one of them in "danger."

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    jum_runky (1528.14)  

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  • I would let the facts play out, but in the mean time, It would be foolish to assume otherwise.

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    wharris (2246.32)  

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  • lol... Ron Jeremy... that'd be a hell of a ticket.

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    Amusing (5221.08)

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  • People with money influence 99% of US politics, voting these days is worthless, look at the Republicans for example, they are forcing (coercing) conservative voters to choose Mitt Romney even though the vast majority of voters don't want him.
    Money talks ,the US public walks.

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    werdum12 (254.00)  

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    • @werdum12
      Maybe it's cause they actually want to win the election? This is about WINNING, not some ideology contest.

      Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
      Blue3tar (481.70)  

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    • @werdum12 think about it. it takes a majority of individual votes to pass anything, including putting these leeching liars into office. the poor and middle class are the majority, and they cast more votes than the rich. they are the ones who are influencing politics by putting the same ol' same ol' into office.

      how hard would it be to come up with a questionnaire that had nothing but two boxes for answers to each question on the list, one being "yes" and the other being "no" More..

      Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
      Amusing (5221.08)

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  • I am excited if I will spending in X-mas in the U.S. or Canada.
    Let's see how smart our nation really is.

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    CommonJoe (37.70)  

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  • Sure seems like it...

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    Eddie Meeks (1750.70)

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  • The only thing I have to say to this matter is BOOOOOOOOO! HOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOO! HOOOOOOOOOO!

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    you_did_it (228.00)  

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  • The majority of Americans are for letting the billionaire tax cuts expire. Why Bush would cut taxes and wage war is beyond comprehension. Why Bush would allow a bill to pass for medicare not to be able to negotiate drug prices is also a mystery as is his willingness to burden the Post office with a ridiculous measure requiring them to pay for the retirement of employees not even alive yet.

    maybe if we fixed all those things, brought our industries back to life and stopped waging wars everywher More..

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    Zardoz003 (1572.42)  

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  • All I take from this is just how absolutely disgusting Ron Jeremy is.

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    RoccoSantoro (506.20)  
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  • politics.....yawn. most boring thing on earth.

    Posted Feb-13-2012 By 
    fobfob77 (14251.62)

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