With a major tip of my imaginary hat to Paul Mirengoff of powerlineblog.com, here are significant excerpts from his latest piece about the war being waged by mediamatters.org against Sean Hannity (and other conservative voices) for daring to provide something other than far left orthodoxy:
Sean Hannity is under fire from left-wing smear artists like Media Matters. They are trying to force Hannity off the air by pressuring advertisers to boycott his show. Peter Hasson has the details.
The current smear campaign claims, in the context of the controversy over Roy Moore, that Hannity defends child sex abuse. In reality, as Hasson notes, Hannity has explicitly (and repeatedly) said that anyone guilty of what Moore is accused of doing has no place in politics.
Moreover, Hannity did an immense service by conducting an interview of Moore that was anything but soft. Even some on the left praised the talk show host’s questioning of the candidate.
The smear campaign against Hannity strikes me as a case of no good deed going unpunished. Initially, Keurig said it would pull its advertising. It has since relented.
However, Volvo and Hebrew National say they will pull their ads from Hannity. Unless they relent, conservatives should boycott Volvo and Hebrew National.
My one area of disagreement with Paul is his suggestion that conservatives should boycott companies that pull their advertising based on the mediamatters.org campaign. People of ALL political views should do the same, not just conservatives. If you believe in freedom of speech and all voices being heard, you should be all over this outrage.
One last thing: mediamatters.org is a george soros-funded, far left ideological entity. Can anyone explain to me why it was given, and to this day retains, a 501(c)4 tax exemption? This is the product of raw partisanship and media indifference, both of which should, to use a bad pun, be “trumped” by this administration immediately.
