10) Think Progress
When you and I think about progress, we think about securing our borders, fighting terrorism, and making the Bush tax cuts permanent. The progressive organization Think Progress, however, has something different in mind – the unrelenting bashing of everything Right is the way to progress in America. Think Progress is comprised of your standard progressive hypocrites who follow the mantra “state falsities enough until people think they’re facts.”
They believe in “vast Right wing conspiracies”. According to Think Progress, the Right is engaged in a massive “disinformation campaign” on the “manmade” global warming issue, and is upset that the Right has criticized Al Gore’s Nobel Prize win. Ironically, it’s Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that has been accused by the scientific community of being misleading, incorrect and pushing disinformation. But, like many issues the Left holds near and dear, if you point out the falsities in Gore’s phony research, you hate the environment.
9) Muslim Student Association
Call me crazy, but as a Jew, I am very nervous about organizations that would like to see death to Israel. It’s just a personal preference of mine that Israel be left to… I don’t know… survive? That is why the Muslim Student Association (MSA) made the list. As Discover the Networks reports:
On October 22, 2000, Ahmed Shama, then-president of the UCLA Muslim Students’ Association, led a crowd of demonstrators at the Israeli consulate in chants of “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!”
MSA is a group that supports radical Islam that calls for the death of Jews, the wiping out of the United States, raises money for Hamas, and has many other ties to terrorist organizations.
CodePINK
CodePINK is a “women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.” While that makes our hearts flutter, CodePINK is nothing more than a far- Left group of loony, hypocritical women who don’t seem to care about the lack of women’s rights in Iraq or Iran. These people want peace at all costs – all costs to the U.S included.
They pretend to care about our troops, but in reality they frequently use them as a way to attack conservative politicians and thinkers with whom they disagree. They accuse President Bush of treating our troops as “toys,” but also spend their resources defacing military recruitment offices and implying our recruiters are “assassins” (that sure is support for our troops, isn’t it?).
7) American Civil Liberties Union, National
Sure, I will admit that sometimes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is on the right side of the law, particularly local ACLU chapters (their support for the “Bong Hits for Jesus” case was spot-on). It is their national organization, which frequently uses far Left interpretations of the Constitution to give unheard-of rights to terrorists that makes them such a dangerous organization. And despite their far-out ideas, the media loves the ACLU, giving them airtime to push their agenda on us.
6) Family Research Council
The Family Research Council is a far-Right organization that oftentimes does not contribute positively to debates, but takes hard lined stances on issues to the point where they simply don’t seem reasonable. I have no problem with religious organizations taking respectful stances on controversial issues, but FRC routinely goes too far. We know they are against homosexuality, but to bolster their cause they even criticize monogamous homosexual relationships as being unhealthy. Similarly, on the case of media decency, the FRC takes a firm stand that the FCC should have more power to censor what the group deems indecent, rather than stressing on parental responsibility to prevent children from watching certain television shows.
I believe in a lot of what the FRC preaches but when they needlessly go too far, it does them – and the nation – a tremendous disservice.
5) Center for American Progress
This liberal think tank does far less thinking than it does smearing and misleading. The Center for American Progress supports driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, refers to critics who oppose illegal immigrants as “racists,” and suggests conservative SCOTUS Justices are somehow plotting to create a conservative America.
4) League of the South
It’s hard to believe a group like this still exists. The League of the South is a sexist and racist group of Southerners who call for the cessation of the South. They believe the household should be run by the male and according to the book “Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime,” “Founder Michael Hill, a former college professor, called blacks ‘a deadly and compliant underclass.’” The goal of this group is to create a South where they will withhold “support from all institutions and objects of American mass culture that are antithetical to our beliefs and heritage.” In other words, diversity of thought will not be tolerated: you either support them, or you don’t.
3) MoveOn.org
Whenever there is a patriot who happens to support a conservative viewpoint, MoveOn.org is there to smear. Whenever a conservative pundit can be taken wildly out of context to sound racist, stupid, sexist, MoveOn.org will be there to smear. Whenever a far Left Democrat needs some extra bullying because they are losing a political debate, MoveOn.org will be there to smear.
MoveOn.org, a far Left anti-war, anti-Republican organization, became a political player not because of their campaigns (which have resoundingly failed), but because of their well-to-do contributors and support from liberal leaders and liberal celebrities. While they have little effect on elections or policies, they are powerful because they are not only in bed with so many liberal leaders, but they do the liberals’ dirty work for them. Here are two notable failed campaigns by MoveOn.org:
- After attacking Gen. David Petraeus in a New York Times advertisement, there was a loud outcry from the Right and the Left, leading to a House resolution condemning that kind of smear tactic.
- MoveOn.org candidate Ned Lamont lost the general election to Independent Joe Lieberman.
2) Universities and Colleges
Anyone familiar with my column at Family Security Matters knows my thoughts on the Left’s stranglehold on American colleges and universities. Unfortunately, many professors use the various organizations on this list as a part of their curriculum, often selectively ignoring facts that don’t support their far-Left agenda.
1) Media Matters for America
You’re unlikely to find a more dishonest machine than Media Matters. Their entire operation involves listening to conservative talk radio and television commentators, taking anything out of context that they can, and running the host through the mud. They are professional smear merchants who routinely attack Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Neil Cavuto.
Media Matters is virulently anti-free speech when the speech involved is conservative in nature. The organization actively issues directives to its readers to contact Rush Limbaugh Show affiliates to try to boot him off the air for the “phony soldiers” comment that organizations like Media Matters willfully took out of context.
Media does matter for America – which is why you should steer clear of the astoundingly inaccurate and unethical Media Matters for America.
