Atlanta’s own right-wing bulldog Phil Kent is No. 2
May 10, 2007 at 4:28 pm by John F. Sugg in NewsPhil Kent, never at a loss in bashing liberals on his gig on WAGA-TV’s “Georgia Gang,” is eating a little crow today. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gave him the silver “runner-up” for “Worst Person in the World” on the May 9 edition of “Countdown.”
A little explanation is needed:
The two groups most hated by right-wing blowhards are MoveOn.org and Media Matters.
MoveOn.org organizes at the grass roots. Meanwhile, Media Matters
diligently documents the errors, misstatements, fabrications, falsehoods, mendacities, fibs, lies and canards of the right’s pundits. The pundits, since reality is not an issue to them, concoct more errors, misstatements, fabrications, falsehoods, mendacities, fibs, lies and canards about Media Matters, which Media Matters then documents. It’s fun to watch.
And the most hated man by the right is George Soros, the billionaire investor who puts his money where his mouth is in backing progressive politics. For the right, this is unacceptable, ignoring the fact that conservative corporations, front groups and billionaires (e.g. Richard Mellon Scaife) make Soros look like an amateur in using money to manipulate politics.
So a popular myth among the veracity-challenged right-wingers is that Soros funds Media Matters. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly — despite evidence to the contrary — routinely parrots that untruth. Media Matters has documented that it hasn’t received money from Soros, directly or through other organizations.
Back to Kent. He wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Times (which is, without a doubt, a multibillion-dollar propaganda organ controlled by the ultra-right Moonie religious cult). The article, referring to Soros, states:
The billionaire George Bush-hater is perhaps best known for massive funding of MoveOn.org, a group that opposed the 2003 Iraq invasion and supported Sen. John Kerry for president in 2004.
Soros has contributed to MoveOn.org. So what? It would be mean to point out that what Kent is saying is that MoveOn.org supported a decorated war hero for president (as opposed to a guy who evaded combat and went AWOL from the Air National Guard) and that the group was wise enough to see the looming disaster in Iraq. But sometimes I feel mean.
With his enthusiasm overwhelming any lingering aspirations for accuracy, Kent goes on to refer to the “Soros-funded, D.C.-based MediaMatters.” It just ain’t true, Phil.
Kent was formerly a journalist for the Augusta Chronicle. I guess that paper forgot to teach him to check facts.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
David Brock is an x righty who hung with Coulter. I wrote a lot more but it got lost in the process and I’m not willing to repeat. I wish Brock would stress his past. It’s really the most interesting thing about him.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Wes Clark ate Bill O’Reilly’s lunch when O’Reilly confronted the General about his George Soros conspiracy theory.
May 11th, 2007 at 6:54 am
I hear Georgia Gang’s even trolling that pointless Other Paper That Must Not Be Named for pseudo righties new to the table of nonsensical-babble-pulled-entirely-out-of-asses. Do people even watch TV anymore? How quaint. How desperate GG must be for anything resembling a clue. Come to think about it, I may have to tune-in just to watch them thrash about in some last-century, fantasy politics.