How Not to Track

[meegbear]

Run time: 01:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdzNTIZDcg   Posted on YouTube: August 06, 2010 By YouTube Member: mediamatters4america Views on YouTube: 310   Posted on DU: August 06, 2010 By DU Member: meegbear Views on DU: 674

 
Wednesday afternoon as our building held an ice cream social in the lobby, a young man showed up at Media Matters office armed with a camera. Positioning himself outside our office, he proceeded to ask people leaving the building what is was like to work for George Soros.

I decided to go have a conversation with him.

I would like to note, no matter how many times Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly says it, George Soros has never made a contribution to Media Matters. However if he would like to make a contribution, he can do so at MediaMatters.org.

There is nothing wrong with tracking -- Media Matters regularly sends trackers to conservative events -- but if you are going to track, perhaps it would be a good idea to come prepared with more than a single question based on a false premise. And when you are confronted with your own questions, have a better answer than rubbing your nose and mumbling.


http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008060017

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Media Matters has received some funding from Democracy Alliance

Soros helps fund Democracy Alliance, but to make that the connection that Soros is funding Media Matters is a HUGH and MORANIC leap ;)

[DeSwiss]

5. Hugh/Moranic is what Repukes do best! :-) n/t

[PA Democrat]

2. I wouldn't have shaken Spencer's hand after he repeatedly rubbed his nose

with it. Yuck!

[JDPriestly]

3. Breitbart or Breitbart wanna be. Good work.

The nose wiping was just stellar. Spencer looks like a modern-day Little Lord Flaunteroy. That was mandatory reading when I was a child.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. how emb-awwwwwww-ressing for that poor young man - no poker face?

talk about sending the least of your minions to a battle - that was a recipe for it

Ingredients:
uninformed activist

shake well by turning camera on him
allow ingredient to rub nose, stroke hair, stretch, act confused, ignore questions, rub face, stroke hair, etc

continue until fluffy

[DeSwiss]

6. And who pays you????

He never answered that one did he? (Because everyone already knows the answer: Andrew Brainfart that's who!)


K&R ;)

[Kweli4Real]

8. No ...

He's no doubt some unemployed beck/fox"news" listener hoping to send the video to breitbart and get a payday ... so he can move out his mother's basement.

[Captain Boomerang]

7. Why do you guys talk to these "trackers?"

It seems to me you could do so much more... (Especially, if you know what questions are going to be asked.)

An example is maybe watching someone like Joan Baez and media questions thrown at her. Once the interviewer side steps or attempts to paint Joan, there is an invisible bitch slap that comes back. (And it's beautiful.) If you could track her down or someone like her to help you get your black belt in media chi... (Just a suggestion.)

You are the one they are after, so plan ahead. That "snot nosed kid" who kept asking you about George Soros might have been better misdirected. (The right loves lies and fear...) It's not like they are going to go report to a legitimate news outlet.

My thoughts are that they should live their lies. I would have told them that George not only pays my paycheck, but is also part of a member of the Mexican mafia who are currently working with the ACLU to overturn other Arizona laws. (Fuck that guy, and the dorks that sent him.)

[ScottLand]

9. Simply beautiful!

That should be the outcome everytime O'Leilly does that crap!