Media Matters For America Enemies List

It's not just paranoids like Richard Nixon who have "enemies lists." According to the Daily Caller, so does Media Matters For Ameria.

News Corp

• Fox News Channel
• Fox Business Network
• Fox News’ websites

Conservative news sites

• WorldNetDaily
• BigHollywood.com
• NewsMax
• BigGovernment.com

Conservative think thanks

• The Heritage Foundation
• American Enterprise Institute
• Cato Institute

News Corp executives

• Rupert Murdoch
• Chase Carey
• David DeVoe
• Lawrence Jacobs
• James Murdoch

Conservative donors

• Peter Thiel
• Richard Mellon Scaife
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• John M. Olin Foundation
• Koch Family Foundations

Fox News executives

• CEO Roger Ailes
• Senior vice president Michael Clemente
• Vice president of news Sean Smith
• Vice president of new editorial product Jay Wallace
• Fox Business Network executive vice president Kevin Magee

Fox personalities

• Glenn Beck
• Sean Hannity
• Bill O’Reilly

Fox senior production and corporation staff

• Hannity executive producer John Finley
• On the Record executive producer Meade Cooper
• O’Reilly Factor senior executive producer David Tabacoff
• Fox & Friends executive producer Lauren Petterson

Political figures

• Carly Fiorina
• David Vitter
• Eric Cantor
• John Boehner
• Mitch McConnell
• Michele Bachmann
• Steve King

Perhaps its time to begin reviewing the rules for nonprofit organizations...with an eye to rewriting them so that groups like this can no longer hide behind the nonprof shield.  Personally, I think that there are far too many non profit groups as it is and most do nothing to merit that status.

Media Matter's Group Think

Professor William Jacobsen of Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion has an interesting point to make on Media Matter's charging ahead in it's attempt to limit our 1st Amendment right to Freedom of Speech.  He quotes Eric Boehlert of  MM as saying: 

News that Juan Williams' contract with NPR was terminated over comments he made about Muslims while appearing on Fox News shines a spotlight on the radio network's evergreen controversy: Its continued affiliation with Fox News. Specifically, NPR's Mara Liasson and her long-running association with Fox News has often raised questions. This might be the proper time for NPR to finally address that thorny issue.


I'm not suggesting Liasson has said anything as offensive as Williams, or that she has that kind of track record while appearing on Fox. I'm just saying that if you look at NPR's code of ethics, there's simply no way Liasson should be making appearances on Fox.

But Prof. Jacobson's point very simple: 

No conservatives are trying to prevent people from appearing on NPR, but liberal interest groups and their media outlets are trying to prevent people from appearing on Fox News.


There is a real threat to freedom in this country, and it does not come from conservatives. Media Matters is just the symptom, not the disease.

Emphasis is mine,  but he does make an important distinction.  Freedom of Speech means permitting those who think differently from you the means to speak their opinions without being punished, no matter how stupid, or ignorant those opinions may seem to you.  This is something that many liberals don't understand.