Media Matters, the George Soros-backed liberal echo chamber, has named Sean Hannity as its "Misinformer of the Year." Here are examples of "misinformation," according to Media Matters:
1. Hannity said Obama made a "rookie mistake" by saying he would invade an ally. But Obama's own speech shows that Hannity's characterization is accurate.If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will.
How else do you describe Obama's point but that we would invade an ally? This is no "misinformation." It's accurate.
2. Air-raiding villages. Obama said, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." Media Matters goes to great lengths to try to explain this statement as not being an indictment of our troops. But as Don Surber states, air-raiding means that we're targeting the people in the villages, namely civilians. And that is something we didn't do.
3. Most liberal senator. Media Matters takes umbrage that Sean Hannity quoted the National Journal, which stated that Barack Obama was the most liberal senator in the U.S. MM argues that a different survey finds Obama to be only the tenth most liberal senator. Oh, that's so much better. That really refutes the point, which is that Obama is a classic liberal. Oddly, MM doesn't bother coming up with competing evidence when they attack Republicans as too conservative.
There are multiple other examples of supposed "misinformation," mostly the sort of nit-picking that Media Matters has become famous for, including that when Sean Hannity noted Franklin Raines's role as economic advisor for Obama, it was supposedly inaccurate because the WaPo Fact Checker said it was "exaggerated."
The list is ridiculous and simply disingenuous. I've posted before (see here, here and here) about the lying and obfuscation of Media Matters, so this latest stunt is not surprising. Like most liberal outlets, Media Matters attacks Hannity (and other conservatives) not because they're wrong, but because they're effective.
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