Media Matters Defaming Journalists

A journalist and Republican activist has sued the left-wing Media Matters for America and its founder, David Brock, for slander and invasion of privacy, claiming the nonprofit is a, "hate machine organized and orchestrated to smear conservatives and Republicans who dare to speak out against the liberal orthodoxy and manipulation of the media."

Media Matters for three years has monitored conservative media and attacked high-profile conservatives with provocative language and out-of-context quotations. Brock is a former attack dog who posed as a conservative and now claims he made up stories about such people as Anita Hill, who charged Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment during Thomas's confirmation hearings.

Brock outlined his lies and conversion to liberalism in his 2002 book, "Blinded By The Right." He launched Media Matters in 2004 after conferring with Hillary Clinton.

"David Brock has invented a new form of political organization: a tax-exempt group that is subsidized by taxpayers while Brock gets to spew his hate," Martin said. "The sympathetic left-wing national media love it."

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