Media Matters Defends CNBC over GOP Debate
by Joel B. Pollak 29 Oct 2015
For once, almost the entire media agreed that the CNBC moderators
at the GOP debate showed an unacceptable level of political bias and
plain incompetence–except for Media Matters for
America.
The Soros-funded, tax-exempt left-wing
organization functions as a de facto opposition research pit for
the Hillary
Clinton campaign. So it is perhaps no surprise that it found little
to complain about in CNBC’s performance.
In a post on the Media Matters website, senior fellow Eric Boehlert
accused “right-wing media” of fomenting the false charge of “supposedly liberal
media bias” by the CNBC moderators.
At the liberal ThinkProgress site, Emily Atkin wrote:
“Reporters from both conservative and liberal-minded news organizations seem to
agree: the CNBC Republican presidential debate was kind of a train wreck.”
Yet Boehlert rejected out-of-hand the idea that CNBC could
be left-wing, since it is a business news network “which chronicles and
celebrates the exploits of Wall Street tycoons.”
He also claimed that the charge is hypocritical, since the Fox News Channel, which is ostensibly “leading the charge
against CNBC, tagging it as hostile and unfair,” was also criticized for
hostile questions in the first GOP debate.
Boehlert does believe that there is possible media bias–but
only against Hillary Clinton.
He wrote: “…the one person who would have a completely
legitimate beef with the press this campaign season, and the one person who has
been the target of an unprecedented barrage of negatives [sic] attacks is, of
course, Hillary Clinton,” he writes.
In fact, he argued, “Republican candidates have been on the
receiving end of fawning press coverage for a very, very long time.”
The charge of liberal media bias against CNBC is just “the
ultimate comfort blanket” against the chilling thought of Hillary Clinton’s
resurgence, Boehlert concluded.
As a 501(c)3 tax-exempt charity, Media Matters is not
allowed to engage in political campaigning.
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Clinton is the candidate for the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, Sidney Blumenthal’s friend & confidant, and was a director at
the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
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Blumenthal was a consultant for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s friend & confidant, and a consultant for
Media Matters.
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Matters, and the Robin Hood
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Progress Action Fund.
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Alterman is a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, and was a senior fellow at Media Matters.
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Fox News.
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Brock is the founder of Media
Matters, and an adviser for the Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary).
Lou
Dobbs was a critic for Media Matters,
a columnist for CNN.com, and the
host for Lou Dobbs Tonight.
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is a division of CNN.
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Tonight was a CNN program.
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a division of CNN.
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Zucker is the president of CNN
Worldwide, a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and was the president & CEO for NBCUniversal.
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