Yes, let’s do see what Media Matters, Hillary Clinton’s favorite media lapdog watchdog, has to say about Brian Williams and his big lie about getting shot at in a helicopter in Iraq.
Here’s what their homepage looked like last night:
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/563142913878925312
No coverage of the story. At all.
And as of the writing of this post, there’s still nothing on their Twitter feed or on their homepage.
https://twitter.com/icwhatudo/status/563194382736969729
4 hours & counting since Brian Williams confessed to lying & here's @mmfa ALL. OVER. IT. pic.twitter.com/yAO2j8lGv6
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) February 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/drhoagie/status/563321090148433920
Yes, really, really “weird.” That is if you define weird as “expected.”
Media Matters, however. has found time to tweet about Fox News though:
Fox host Ainsley Earhardt claims Obama won't call the Islamic State terrorism. Only he did. In September: http://t.co/0fi9k98BIl
— Media Matters (@mmfa) February 5, 2015
Eric Boehlert did, at least, acknowledge the story:
if Brian Williams ever questioned Hillary abt her Bosnia flight landing under enemy fire, this day will be complete.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 5, 2015
But he is more angry that somebody referred to Hillary Clinton as the “Death Star”:
kinda says it all…..same DC columnist: Jeb is "moderate," Hillary's fronting "Death Star." http://t.co/nHot70VPbl, http://t.co/gzK0mLmOEX
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 5, 2015
Of course, it will be incredibly difficult for Media Matters to criticize Williams because his story is the same kind of “fog of memory” fabrication that happened to Hillary during her failed 2008 presidential campaign when she lied about taking sniper fire in Bosnia.
But if we want a preview of how Media Matters and other libs might respond to the Williams lie, here’s Oliver Willis, who after linking to the Stars and Stripes story, went with this:
NBC’s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest http://t.co/s32I9G41xh woah
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 4, 2015
i see the people of "friends of hamas" fame are getting on a high horse about brian williams' fabrications. how interesting.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 5, 2015
it was definitely very wrong of brian williams to make up that story. wrong indeed. you should never make things up. pic.twitter.com/jtihIp7uxV
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 5, 2015
“You should never make things up.” Well, tell that to Hillary when she eventually does decide to run in 2016.
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