MMFA

I was going to stay out of this one, I’m not a morning person, and by the time I noticed, it appeared to be over. I’ve reconsidered.

Media Matters for America enjoys a 503 nonprofit federal tax exemption. This is supposed to be reserved for organizations that do work for the greater good. Charity work, promoting sports programs, educational activities etc. Instead, MMFA has been acting as professional muscle, shutting down anybody unfriendly to its co-founder, Hillary Clinton, and her ambitions for the presidency.

Part of the reason MMFA has thus far gotten away with it is that they snuck up on people. I’ve heard it said that Imus was left out in the cold, was because nobody likes him, that he had a history of making insensitive remarks, I don’t agree. Of course his remarks are often insensitive, that’s been his trademark for many years. Of course powerful people liked his show, he had a loyal if not large audience, of mostly media professionals. I think it was the mulit-teir punch, of MMFA, Al Sharpton and some discrete upper management people who have an interest in promoting and protecting Hillary Clinton. Punishing those who don’t share their rabid devotion.

Here’s how they do it, using the recent Matthews brouhaha. MMFA writes an open letter to the big wig at NBC, Steve Capus. This is for show, public consumption. Capus also gets a quiet call from GE executive Steven Kluger demanding that Matthews be fired. Capus would rather not fire Matthews because his show has an audience, which pleases the advertisers, which generates money for NBC. Capus is between a rock and a hard place. Capus is a big deal at NBC, but GE is NBC ‘s parent company. To placate Steven Kluger, as a courtesy to Capus, and he wants Hillary Clinton to appear as his guest, Matthews agrees to an on air mea culpa. You’ll remember that Steven Kluger shared a house while at Vassar, with Rick Lazio, the guy who walked against Hillary Clinton in her bid for a seat in the Senate.

I know it’s commonly proclaimed that since Hillary Clinton was married to a sitting president that she is, by osmosis, qualified. I ask all feminists one question, is your husband qualified enough, competent enough, to do what you do every day?

Nobody begrudged your little protest march down memory lane. Nobody minds your designer duds, your over-priced lattes, your Ivy League diplomas, but you really did choose an undeserving cause. Did you even consider the harm you do to women in this country just to promote somebody in your cliché? A faux feminist, who deliberately mislead women in their quests for legal council to protect themselves from a hostile work environment, only to learn too late that the attorney they’d hired, was married the guy creating said hostile work environment.

MMFA has told CNN not to use Ralph Reed. This is by my count the third time inside of one year that MMFA has tried to have professionals blacklisted. Don Imus, Chris Matthews, Ralph Reed, big boys all, nobody’s worried about them. But not everybody has their assets. There are a lot of journalists, who don’t have the prestige to weather this modern day McCarthyism.

The Clintons along with MMFA are trying to end the careers of people, because they won’t drink the Kool Aid. MMFA is enjoying prestige and financial benefits from our tax dollars to shut down free speech, in concert with the Clintons.

They’re trying to control the airwaves, making sure that everything broadcast is to their taste, and suits their chosen politicians. A democracy requires discourse, discussion, and yes, disagreement too. Public money should not be used to suppress any American’s Freedom of Expression, tacky or not, it’s an offense against the Constitution.

MMFA has a pattern of trying to jettison working people from the civilized world; it shouldn’t be a one directional thing. Nobody should be able to do this with impunity. Broadcasters, it’s time to find a way to get their 503 status reviewed. Perhaps even revoked. Let the Clinton campaign pay its campaign workers.

It’s fraud.

It’s time for the media to stop airing the unwarranted attacks that Bill Clinton makes against itself. Do not air his unfounded accusations unless you have a proper rebuttal. I mean a pre-taped statement from a station owner, or manager, or president. Do try not to become the story.

If the Clintons don’t like it, let them sue. You have no obligation to report on things that you don’t find credible. No matter how silly his whiney, little tantrums make him look.

Changing the channel because you don’t like a show or a person on it is legitimate. Being an arbiter of the nation’s taste is not.