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| Leftist Attack Puppy Brock Can’t Kick the Habit of Lying... |
| 2004-06-25 |
| EFL David Brock has written a new book called The Republican Noise Machine: How It Corrupts Our Democracy. In it, he purports to expose the vast right-wing media conspiracy, a menace Brock claims to know first-hand as someone who was once a cog in its malignant machine. First-hand knowledge is an important claim for Brock because, as a famous self-confessed prevaricator, he is aware that he stands on shaky ground as he attempts to extend the successful career he has made out of his confession of malfeasance and the political reversal it announced. A similar dilemma haunts the postpartum lives of other reborn prevaricators like Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair. Brock’s advantage over them in finding a readership willing to believe his stories again is that he is selling a message his new political allies are eager to hear. ...Snip... In the above review of almost everything that Brock has written about me in The Republican Noise Machine (there are scattered lumpings of me with other conservatives that would be too tedious to examine), I have avoided dealing with the tendentious opinions that form the argument of Brock’s text or his ideological disagreements with me. It is perfectly possible to write a reasonably accurate account of someone you disagree with entirely. Scott Sherman did this in a lengthy profile of me that appeared in The Nation (some years ago). However, Brock’s account of the facts of my career is an entirely different proposition. On the evidence presented above, probably 95 percent of what Brock has written about me is false in one way or another, either cynically misrepresented, or so sloppily reported as to give an entirely erroneous impression, or simply made up. Nor is there anything unique in Brock’s distortion of my career as opposed to the distortions in his accounts of other conservatives and conservative institutions in his book. It is just the Brock method at work, which appears not to have changed in the course of his well-publicized political reversals and betrayals. This is a long article. I enjoy Horowitz’s work, many of his views and his writings. Brock is a real piece of work. He runs the Medai Matters website, a leftist ’watchdog’ of conservatives, which has a diamond-cutter of a hard-on for Rush Limbaugh. This man has a seemingly pathological problem wth facts and with fact-checking. Go to his site and look it over. You will see distortion after lie after twisting of facts in this site. One example was the contention, published only days before Air America admitted it to be true, that Air America was in fact beating Limbaugh in New York in the 25 to 34 year olds, when in fact Air America along with other programming on the radio station that offers Limbaugh was slightly ahead of the programming that included Rush. There was no indication of any head-to-head analysis, because simply there was none, but there was Brock staing that those who said Air America was not doing very well were lying. |
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