As we all know, reporters ask some questions precisely to allow the guest to answer the criticism, "teeing up" the issue so the guest can hit it squarely. Byron York can swat this questions out of the park, and I think he did.

MRC doesn't go after someone because they're liberal. MRC goes after distortions. MediaMatters goes after people because they oppose the Clintons, and uses distortion to do it.

George Bush and Adolf Hitler,
The U.S. Military and The Huns,
Christianity and [Radical] Islam,
etc, etc, etc.

and now...
MRC and Media Matters, are you surprised?

on another thread...but directed at NewsBusters.  My response, in part:

"Equating MediaMatters to NewsBusters?   Hilarious....the philosophical dissimilarity could not be more pronounced.   NewsBusters, for example, would not have misrepresented the words of a commentator, and then refuse to change their position or defend themselves in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary...."

It's great to see the MM coverage. Yesterday the NYP did a 6 page in depth article which I recommend.

What's MM saying about the Berger aquisition? 

JDW

Sen Clinton: Founder of Media Matters

I think Kelly was just trying to give an example of a conservative equivalent to Media Matter's. I don't think he meant to associate MRC with the likes of MMFA. His remark was made in good faith but a bit misguided.

I don't think Greg Kelley quite understands the depth of corruption or the breath of the overall project, of which Media Matters is a part. I invite everyone to read, "Media Matters: Hillary’s Lap Dogs", By John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine.com, July, 2007. Here's an excerpt:

...The real guiding hand over Imus’ downfall, however, belonged ... to Hillary Rodham Clinton... The toppling of Imus was only a prelude to bigger things for Media Matters, which, because of its strong ties to Mrs. Clinton, is now aiming...to derail the careers of a select group of influential broadcasters who, like Imus, have been publicly critical of New York’s junior Senator...

...it is difficult, at first blush, to see why such an organization should have wished to drive Don Imus, of all people, from the airwaves... His liberal-left views were well known, and he had a well-established reputation for deriding his conservative radio and television counterparts...

To truly understand Media Matters’ motives, we must look at the organization’s special relationship with Hillary Clinton, who has deeply despised Don Imus for more than a decade... March 21, 1996, ... Imus made a number of insulting, disparaging remarks about Mrs. Clinton and her husband, ... at the Radio and TV Correspondents Association dinner ...

More recently, Imus ... had “repeatedly and unapologetically” referred to the Senator as “Satan,” Bill Clinton’s “fat ugly wife,” a “buck-toothed witch,” “the personification of evil,” and an individual who was “worse than” Osama bin Laden...

...Media Matters’ links to Hillary are at once intimate and multitudinous, and the organization’s devotion to her is nothing short of profound. In 1996 (eight years before Media Matters’ creation), the then-conservative David Brock was commissioned (with a $1 million advance) by the Simon & Schuster subsidiary Free Press to write a hard-hitting expose of Hillary. But the book, completed in 1997, turned out to be nothing more than a tepid, distinctly sympathetic account of the former First Lady’s life. That same year (1997), Brock publicly announced his political epiphany, unequivocally recanting his previous negative writings about the Clintons and embracing the liberal/Left cause. During this period, Brock developed a close relationship with Neel Lattimore, Senator Clinton’s openly gay press secretary and close confidante. Brock would eventually hire Lattimore as a director of “special projects” for Media Matters...

... Thrush adds, “Clinton’s extended family of contributors, consultants and friends has played a pivotal role in helping Media Matters grow ...”

Media Matters and Hillary Clinton are further linked by their respective relationships with three of the most influential leftist operatives in the world—George Soros, Morton Halperin, and John Podesta. All three ... are intimately involved with ... the Center for American Progress (CAP)—which ...“was instrumental in getting Brock’s media group off the ground”,... Media Matters ...

According to Dreyfuss, CAP bears the distinct “imprint of the Clintons.” “It’s not completely wrong to see it as a shadow government,” he wrote in February 2004, “a kind of Clinton White-House-in-exile—or a White House staff in readiness for President Hillary Clinton...”

CAP is heavily funded by the aforementioned billionaire financier George Soros, and in turn works closely with Media Matters to remove potential roadblocks (like Don Imus) from Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House...

Soros in 2004 spent some $26 million trying, unsuccessfully, to defeat President Bush’s reelection bid, a task Soros called “the central focus of my life” and “a matter of life and death.” ...“the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries.” Soros elaborated ... in Davos, Switzerland, where he told reporters: “America needs to . . . go through a certain de-Nazification process.”...

Soros and Hillary have long held each other in high regard, ...: “Now, among the many people who have stood up and said, ‘I cannot sit by and let this happen to the country I love,’ is George Soros, and I have known George Soros for a long time now, and I first came across his work in the former Soviet Union, in Eastern Europe, when I was privileged to travel there, both on my own and with my husband on behalf of our country….[W]e need people like George Soros, who is fearless, and willing to step up when it counts.”...

Morton Halperin is Senior Vice President of the Center for American Progress and Director of the Open Society Policy Center established by George Soros. On both counts, then, he is tied to Media Matters and its pro-Hillary agendas... President Bill Clinton appointed him to several key positions: Special Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Democracy at the National Security Council, consultant to the Secretary of Defense, and consultant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Halperin was given these appointments even though, as a May 2000 World Net Daily report revealed, he was, “according to a well-respected former State official, . . . ‘known . . . as a Soviet or communist agent’” in the Cold War era...

Media Matters has received additional assistance from another entity with close ties to Hillary Clinton, Democracy Alliance, a self-described “liberal organization” of at least 80 ultra-wealthy leftists... “steered more than $6 million to Brock’s group” between 2004 and 2006.

And who is the official leader of Democracy Alliance? None other than Rob Stein, a former chief of staff at the Washington office of the Clinton-Gore Transition, and thereafter an official in Bill Clinton’s Treasury Department...

Media Matters’ desire to eliminate voices critical of Hillary dovetails perfectly with its support of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, ...

In the spirit of its proposed Fairness Doctrine, Media Matters, fresh off its victory over Hillary’s critic Don Imus, is now candidly preparing to challenge the broadcast rights of a number of notable conservative talk radio personalities for their alleged use of “bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity.” (And, oh yes, these broadcasters just happen to be vocal critics of Hillary Clinton.)...

In a 6,181-word report titled “It’s Not Just Imus,” Media Matters documents what it perceives to be the case against not only Limbaugh, but also Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Glen Beck, Neal Boortz, Michael Smerconish, and John Gibson. By eliminating such conservative voices from the airwaves, Media Matters could effectively insulate much of the American public from ever hearing about the negative traits and hidden agendas of Hillary Clinton, and thereby, in essence, ensure her ascendancy to the Oval Office.

...the politically rooted double standard that actually underlies the organization’s activities are obvious ... Media Matters’ very own Eric Alterman—its leading luminary (he is also a Senior Fellow for the Hillary think tank, Center for American Progress)... in the Nov. 9, 2000, issue of The Nation, Alterman wrote: “I got a call one day from a Republican Party functionary telling me that Hillary Clinton supported a Palestinian state and took money from groups that supported terrorist organizations ‘like the one that just blew up the USS Cole.’ I told the sorry sonofabitch that like Israel’s Prime Minister, I, too, support a Palestinian state. And, if there was any justice in the world, Hillary’s ‘terrorist’ friends would blow up Republican headquarters while we were still on the phone, so I could enjoy hearing the explosion.”...

So, MSM is at the point of saying that pigs can fly and we need to get our bacon from the trees? Seriously, this is but another step in muffling conservatives; get them off talk radio; never have them on shows where a balanced panel dicusses any topic (balanced to MSM mean far left and not-so-far left panelists)...in fact, never have them on any MSM news/analysis shows and now declare a moral and reality-based equivalence betweem Media Matters annd MRC! Guess the next step is to say Daily Kos is just like Newsbusters....Why not, the Koolaid is there for the left to drink!!

His dad is NYPD Comissioner Ray Kelly, who's previous bosses were Davis Dinkins, then Bill Clinton. It shouldn't be a surprise to see where Gregg Kelly leans, but he's mostly fair. 

Maybe Mr. Kelly has his application in at MSNBC?