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   From: democrat.prostitutes@abc.com   
      
   On January 27, 1998, then First Lady Hillary Clinton – without a   
   shred of credible evidence – infamously claimed during an NBC   
   "Today Show" interview with Matt Lauer that a “vast right-wing   
   conspiracy” had been working to destroy her husband “since the   
   day he announced for president.”   
      
   Sixteen years later we have tangible, documented proof that a   
   vast left-wing conspiracy is in fact out to destroy conservative   
   presidential hopeful Gov. Rick Perry, and the liberals who run   
   the establishment media are doing everything possible to cover   
   it up.   
      
   The alleged wrongdoing by Gov. Perry is a farce and the   
   indictment a brazen political abuse, denounced by conservatives   
   and liberals, Republicans and Democrats alike.   
      
   Who is behind this outrage?   
      
   We have tangible, documented proof that a vast left-wing   
   conspiracy is in fact out to destroy conservative presidential   
   hopeful Gov. Rick Perry, and the liberals who run the   
   establishment media are doing everything possible to cover it up.   
   According to a Media Research Center analysis, from the moment   
   Perry was indicted on two flimsy counts by a Travis County,   
   Texas grand jury on August 15 through the morning of August 20,   
   the Big Three broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – have run   
   24 stories totaling 38 minutes and 34 seconds across their   
   morning and evening broadcasts.   
      
   In all that coverage, not one single story mentioned that the   
   group responsible for filing the complaint against Perry in   
   June, Texans for Public Justice (TPJ), is part of a   
   “progressive” coalition that has received $500,000 in funding   
   from prolific left-wing billionaire George Soros.   
      
   Imagine for a moment that Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley –   
   another presumed presidential hopeful, but a Democrat – was   
   indicted in similarly obvious political ploy, and the group   
   responsible for that indictment had received a half million   
   dollars from those awful Koch brothers.   
      
   Every single story on ABC, CBS, and NBC would make that   
   connection while the liberal media machine would rain fire and   
   brimstone across the land, claiming an all-out assault by the   
   “extreme Right” on the sanctity of our electoral system.   
      
   Forests would be slashed to the ground to print the endless   
   string of liberal columns denouncing the evils of conservative   
   money in politics.   
      
   I wasn’t in the least bit surprised to learn the Soros machine’s   
   fingerprints were all over this brazen, partisan ploy.   
      
   It’s what they do.   
      
   It’s a clear effort to undermine and circumvent the political   
   process and yet the media refuse to divulge his role. Not one   
   reporter, on any program, could find the time to report this as   
   part of the Perry story – never mind this being its own story?   
   This is deliberate censorship.   
      
   Any mention of Soros-funded TPJ is almost as difficult to find.   
   Of the Big Three, only ABC named the organization during   
   Monday’s "World News" broadcast and made no mention of the Soros   
   connection. Switch to cable, and TPJ remains almost entirely   
   anonymous with the exception of the inevitable positive shout-   
   out from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow lauding the group for spurring   
   the bogus two-count indictment.   
      
   CNN mentioned the group a handful of times, but never made the   
   Soros connection. On Saturday’s "New Day," correspondent Peter   
   Hamby referred to TPJ only as “a left-leaning watchdog group.”   
      
   The next morning Mary Maloney, on the same program, reported the   
   story saying, “The corruption charges stem from a complaint   
   filed by Texans for Public Justice, a public interest group."   
      
   Later that morning on "State of the Union," an infographic   
   stated, “"Texans for Public Justice identifies itself as a non-   
   partisan watchdog group."   
      
   A second box a moment later clarified, "Some consider Texans for   
   Public Justice to be a left-leaning group."   
      
   At no point was TPJ’s benefactor mentioned.   
      
   The media’s double standard in covering a story such as this   
   misleads and misinforms the very public it claims to serve. In   
   this case, the media have gone beyond mere bias and are   
   complicit in the Soros machine’s scheme to take down a   
   conservative leader.   
      
      
   L. Brent Bozell III is founder and president of the Media   
   Research Center.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/22/mainstream-media-   
   censors-soros-connection-to-rick-perry-   
   indictment/?intcmp=obnetwork   
      
          
      
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