10/4/2005 - Open Letter to Media Matters
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Since MMFA CEO David Brock often sends letters to people in the media who he believes are distorting facts for conservative purposes, and then posts them on his website for everyone to enjoy, I have decided to do the same. I sent the following e-mail to MMFA:
To whom it may concern,
As someone whom, I hope, holds an important role in the organization Media Matters for America, I was wondering if you could explain what constitutes "conservative misinformation"-- or anything, for that matter-- in a recent item posted on your website.
"Following NewsMax's lead, Limbaugh called Sheehan an 'anti-American war protester' " was the title of the item. There was no explanation as to what made this quote deserving of a post on Media Matters. There was nothing given to the reader that exposed any sort of lie or false indication in Limbaugh's comment. Before you answer the question (if you do), I would mind you that this woman, Cindy Sheehan, once said that America is not worth dying for. I realize that several people from the left have tried to dismiss this claim as "out of context," but I do not believe that, when read in its entirety, that the comment was taken out of context. I will provide you with the full quote so you can decide:
"I take responsibility partly for my son´s death, too. I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I´m going all over the country telling moms: 'This country is not worth dying for.' If we´re attacked, we would all go out. We´d all take whatever we had. I´d take my rolling pin and I´d beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq... and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant. {applause}"
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/Stewartrally.htm
Please explain to the readers of Media Matters what makes Limbaugh's statement wrong in any way, given the outrageous statements made by Cindy Sheehan. I believe this would be helpful to the readers of Media Matters.
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