Uncovering a network of rat holes is hard work!

Since the day it was unveiled, local bloggers in Minnesota smelled a rat at the Minnesota Monitor blog site.

The “New Journalists” at MiniMoni would have you believe that they are a bunch of independent reporters who’ve been pulled together to uncover the unbiased, unvarnished “truth” in today’s political and social landscape.

In reality, they are nothing more than more puppets dangling from the fingers of uber lefty George Soros, who is spending money like water to blow smoke up the collective American rear end.

Over the past few months, several bloggers have put together bits and pieces of the network that sponsors the MiniMoni “New Journalists”. What we’ve come to see is that the one interconnecting thread that runs throughout is uber lefty George Soros.
I’m going to lay out this network, but hang tight; this crew is covered better than the money trail of a Colombian cartel.

Today, Minimoni’s head cheese Robin Marty proudly posted an article by Eric Alterman , a “Senior Fellow” at the Center for American Progress (which in turn rolled out Media Matters.org , which explains why Alterman has consolidated his blog “Altercation” with Media Matters).

Columnist Eric Alterman writes of Minnesota Monitor's role in the "marriage of the blogosphere and MSM" in The New, New, New Journalism which can be found at the Huffington Post.

The story is nothing more than a puff piece, but it names the “originator” of the “New (new, new, new..remember it's new!) Journalist” project as David Bennahum.

Our trail starts there.

Bennahum’s bio ( http://www.bennahum.com/david/bio/index.html ) tells us that he is a Senior Fellow with Media Matters. Source watch goes further to explain that David S. Bennahum is "a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America and assists in guiding online communications and technology strategy."

"Online strategy" is an excellent description indeed.

Bennahum’s front is called the “Center for Independent Media”, but as we see from Discover the Network.org, they are anything but independent:

“Officially launched in April 2006, CIM states that it grew out of “a four-month intensive research study conducted by a progressive not-for-profit media watchdog organization.” (An organization that fits this description perfectly is the George Soros- and Hillary Clinton-affiliated Media Matters, from which CIM rents office space in Washington, DC, but CIM does not identify the “watchdog” group by name.)”

The group for which the author of the article Marty is crowing about (the Center for American Progress) is also (shock) a Soros front as Discover the Network again explains:

Robert Dreyfuss reports in the March 1, 2004 edition of The Nation: "The idea for the Center began with discussions in 2002 between [Morton] Halperin and George Soros, the billionaire investor. … Halperin, who heads the office of Soros' Open Society Institute, brought [former Clinton chief of staff John] Podesta into the discussion, and beginning in late 2002 Halperin and Podesta circulated a series of papers to funders."

Soros and Halperin recruited Harold Ickes -- chief fundraiser and former deputy chief of staff for the Clinton White House -- to help organize the Center. It was launched on July 7, 2003 as the American Majority Institute. The name was changed to Center for American Progress (CAP) on September 1, 2003. The official purpose of the Center was to provide the left with something it supposedly lacked -- a think tank of its own.”

Quite a mess isn't it? That's deliberate my friends. But we're not done yet!

MiniMoni's "sister" site Coloradoconfidential.com, is spewed out of Colorado. Oh, yeah Soros is there too, but he's teamed up with a local boy. Check out the full story at To the Right.

MiniMoni’s Marty has been leaving comments on several blogs that would have you believe that CIM and Media Matters sharing of office space is nothing more than a happy coincidence (no, really); the first in a long string of deliberate lies by Marty to cover the trail.

Since then, the whole crew has repeatedly denied any ties to George Soros or any of his other front groups...it's all bullshit folks.

What we see here is that the “New Journalists” are simply engaging in the good old fashioned “yellow journalism” that MSM rags like the Star & Sickle have been churning out for decades. The only thing new here is the length to which these puppets of the left have gone to keep the source of their funding hidden.

What makes this story especially laughable, is the unbridled hypocrisy that Robin Marty showed when she had the gall to condemn Michael Brodkorb, the driving force behind Minnesota Democrats Exposed as a “paid blogger”. Brodkorb has stated many times that he receives not a penny for the grief he has wrought the DFL via his website, and do date there is not a shred of evidence to the contrary.

Marty will tell you that she is not paid by George Soros…and the fact is that the checks she and her fellow travelers receive in exchange for being obedient puppets prbably are not signed by Soros himself (how many times can these people redefine what the meaning of “is” is?). But there is no doubt that he is the source of the funds from upon which those checks are drawn…and the MiniMoni puppets know it.

But listen, here’s the important part.

If these dolts were in any way interested in the truth, how can they excuse themselves from the web of lies that their puppet masters have laid for them. If they are content to live a lie, and to look themselves in the mirror every day knowing that they will continue to perpetuate that lie…well, only another lefty could be gullible enough to believe a word they write.

As for me, I have one last word for the "New Journalists".

Dance puppets..dance!

UPDATE: For a sample of the kind of accuracy one might expect from a George Soros puppet, I offer this gem from Eric Alterman's piece:

So far, the results are real. Since the two sites [MiniMoni and Coloradoconfidential.com] went live in July (through October), CIM’s bloggers produced 2,200 news stories, appeared on radio and TV 30 times, and have been cited in the newspapers—either credited for a piece of news they broke or
mentioned—195 times. The blogs themselves have racked up 700,000 visits in that period. “When we look at ourselves in terms of fulfilling our social mission,” Bennahum said, “which is to use news to enhance public debate, we look at that 30 million number and we’re very happy.”

Huh. Let's look at those "real" results shall we? According to their site counters, "CIM’s bloggers" must get a lot of hits from elves who can erase any evidence of their visits...

MiniMoney:
Total 89,336 Average Per Day 448

Coloradoconfidential:
Total 169,441 Average Per Day 736

Looks like the Soros twins are a few hundred thousand short of the advertised impact. Where the 30 Mil. number came from is anybody's guess.

UPDATE II: I don't speak "reality based" English....can anyone who came over here on "The Wedge's" dime tell me what the hell he's babbling about..or is everyone as baffled as I?

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