Posted by Jeff Dunetz Nov 15th 2010 at 1:03 pm in Featured Story, MSNBC, Mainstream Media, Media Matters, Soros, media biasThis week there has been much discussion about Glenn Beck’s use of George Soros’ own words to describe the progressive sugar daddy’s youth in Nazi-controlled Hungry. Media Matters, the ADL and other Progressive organizations had a feast making the false claim that Beck is an anti-Semite.
Their reaction is part of a much larger and more disturbing trend. Progressives, sometimes with the help of the Anti-Defamation league, are trying to brand just about everybody as an anti-Semite. Not just Beck but people in the Tea Party Movement, and other conservatives are falsely accused of this horrible hatred. When not accusing conservatives of Antisemitism, they accuse conservatives of inappropriately labeling others of being Nazis (particularly President Obama). In the vast majority of these cases, these Progressive charges are simply not true.
There are however, legitimate cases of people inappropriately throwing around the terms Nazi and Fascist, even using them to accuse a President. Of course not President Obama, but his predecessor.
If Media Matters and their Progressive comrades truly cared about falsely throwing around terms such as Nazi and Fascist they would speak out against these real cases. But Media Matters, and other Progressive Organizations have been silent about these inappropriate charges and others just like them. Its time for them to get smart about the truth:
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