When reporter Steve Brown entered a meeting for the Milwaukee Democratic Party, he did what he always does in such a setting: He and his crew began silently setting up their equipment to grab footage for their report. But, within moments, he and his producer were called out by Sachin Chheda, the Chairman of the Milwaukee Democratic Party, who was at the microphone.
What ensued was a humiliating and degrading public berating of Mr. Brown because he happens to draw a paycheck from Fox News:
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It almost seems as though the arrogantly grandstanding Chheda was reading directly off of the Media Matters website. He dutifully repeated the typical charges levied against the network’s parent company’s donation to the Republican Governor’s campaign PAC but at no time could he describe a single, objectionable or biased bit of reporting from the man standing in front of him.
And the fact that GE (parent company of MSNBC) has made over one million dollars in contributions to Democrats in 2010 seems completely acceptable to the desperately indignant crowd of righteous Democrats poised with pitchforks to drive the scourge from their midst.
So, is this the new standard? When reporters arrive to cover political events is it fair game to call them out and rile up an angry crowd against them because of a dubious guilt-by-association claim promolgated by left-wing advocacy groups?
The Soros-funded Media Matters has created this climate where anyone associated with Fox News is automatically worthy of contempt, or worse. They have called on companies to stop advertising and they have supported the White House’s attempt to isolate and demonize the network. They have even supported NPR’s hugely unpopular and ethically dubious firing of Fox News analyst Juan Williams.
This is the climate that Media Matters has created and MSNBC fosters. They spend hour after hour in prime time holding up Fox News as a villain and deserving of this kind of public humiliation. Mr. Chheda could easily have been a welcome guest on Kieth Olbermann’s nightly disaster with his arrogant and self-serving diatribe against the stoic and dignified Mr Brown.
The contempt you see from Mr. Chheda directed at Mr. Brown can be directly linked to the contempt his party shows to the American people. Remember, Fox News is by far the choice of the majority of viewers looking for news and information on cable television.
When the average American sees this video they will see a sad, angry, pathetic little man trying desperately to aggrandize himself at the expense of a professional who is just trying to do his job.
And the average American responds to that kind of arrogant bullying by flipping the channel to Fox News and by flipping votes to the GOP.
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