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Media Matters quietly removes false claims about Robert Spencer without retraction or apology

Aug 18, 2016 11:14 am By Robert Spencer

andrew lawrence

Last night, the article “White Supremacists Love Trump’s New Hire” by “journalist” Andrew Lawrence at Media Matters contained this claim: “white nationalist think tank leader Robert Spencer lauded Bannon as someone whose website has shown ‘elective affinities’ for his ideas.”

This morning, it says: “white nationalist think tank leader Richard* Spencer lauded Bannon as someone whose website has shown ‘elective affinities’ for his ideas.” The asterisk leads to the small note at the end of the article: “*name corrected.”

That’s not good enough. The truth has just put on its shoes and the lie is already halfway around the world. Search for my name at Google, and the uncorrected story still comes up:

MMFA Robert Spencer

It is also on smaller sites that picked up the original Media Matters story.

So the damage has been done, and Media Matters knows it. Untold numbers of the Leftist lemmings who read their nonsense will believe that I run a “white nationalist think tank” and not revisit the story — and if they falsely attributed a quote to me, who knows how much else of what they put out is false?

Media Matters set out one task for itself: to set the record straight on supposed right-wing media distortions. It failed. This self-appointed media watchdog wouldn’t even pass Journalism 101. Getting the name right is basic journalism. In initially confusing Richard Spencer with Robert Spencer, these “media watchdogs” showed themselves to be shoddy, lazy, and incompetent. In changing their story without issuing a retraction and apology, they showed themselves to be dishonest, apparently content that the false story has circulated among many who will not see the change.

Just for the record, Media Matters: I don’t run a “white nationalist think tank.” That’s Richard Spencer. Nor was I ever married to Prince Charles. That was Lady Diana Spencer. Nor did I write The Faerie Queene. That was Edmund Spenser. Nor am I a Boston-based private detective played by Robert Urich. Watch for “journalist” Andrew Lawrence of Media Matters next week to identify KLM’s Spencer robot as the director of Jihad Watch. No matter — he was great in American Hustle, so he isn’t all bad. Oh no, wait…

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Hillary Clinton funded the Orlando shooter.

    Hold that thought for a while.
    Il confirm my source. latter.
    Trust me.

    • Allan says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 11:57 am

      What’s the name of the headgear on the head of Andrew L?

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Aug 18, 2016 at 1:46 pm

        That would be “waste basket”.

        • Allan says

          Aug 18, 2016 at 2:12 pm

          ?

          OK, OK, but I’m sure that “Andrew” (manly?) has a euphemism for it. So it’s not a waste basket or even a keffiyeh but a ______.

      • JawsV says

        Aug 18, 2016 at 2:36 pm

        Is he a Mohammedan?

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Aug 18, 2016 at 4:31 pm

        Allan, this time, I will be serious. I believe it is called a “kufi”.

        • linnte says

          Aug 19, 2016 at 2:28 am

          Kufi it is! Is that a hat kuffir wear. Isn’t this cultural appropriation? Someone should tell him! haahahahahaha!

      • Nigel GFF says

        Aug 19, 2016 at 1:50 pm

        It’s a beanie, silly.
        Oops.
        It’s a silly beanie.

  2. Cornelius says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 11:28 am

    Well Richard….I mean Robert…I mean,…well, whatever….

    The last paragraph you wrote was great, oh fearless leader. In the face of all the slanders and calumnies you endure, your sense of humor remains intact as always.

  3. Allan says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Calling Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel, please come in. There is another lucrative takedown lawsuit in search of its VC.

  4. Bradamante says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    I wrote to Media Matters once after they published an article excoriating a Fox news broadcaster for saying that the man who beheaded Lee Rigby had been quoting from the Koran. It seemed clear that the Media Matters person hadn’t actually watched the unedited clip and had no idea that the claim was 100% true. I wrote to Media Matters and to the individual writer of the piece. I identified myself as a liberal, a Democrat, and someone who had always trusted Media Matters — all these things were true at that time. Now I’m an Independent and I wouldn’t trust Media Matters if they said the sky is blue. I never got a reply to my attempts at correction.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 4:37 pm

      Good for you. And good to see you posting again.

  5. William says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    Mr. Spencer should sue them. I hope he does. They should not be able simply to walk away as if nothing happened because they will not be deterred in their wanton recklessness. They should be made to feel the consequences for their bad behavior. Consequences is the best teacher in life.

    • Allan says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 12:39 pm

      Plaintiff’s attorneys should file a motion asking the court to pierce and set aside the corporate veil behind which the directors and financiers of MMFA are operating.

  6. awake says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    George Soros…nuff’ said.

  7. Keys says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 12:51 pm

    I thought Lawrence of Arabia was dead.

  8. Wellington says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 12:52 pm

    Media Matters is beholden to the Saul Alinsky school of radicalism which entails, among other reprehensible things, the conviction that the truth is merely optional.

    • Darryl Kerney says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 7:33 pm

      ah ha, so then they must love obama and hillary, being fellow alinsky fans !
      i haven’t had the misfortune of ending up on that site but,
      these “liberals” today sure have no problem doing what they accuse others of doing,
      the most worrying part is the growing acceptance of “the ends justify the means”, which
      they find affinity with in islam. the fools today admire ideas that they don’t even know have failed
      many times at improving human life, and they love extreme dedication to those ideas so much they don’t even seem to care if they’re supporting the destruction of everything that enables them to hold those views without being branded enemies of the state. will they ever realize that what they think is the answer is actually the rail line to the gulag where they will be forced to dig their own graves ? or will they cry that the biggest injustice is that somebody else didn’t have to dig it for their entitled deluded asses ?

  9. underbed cat says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    You run facts Mr. Spencer…the left loves to relabel reality information to fit their agenda.

  10. Mirren10 says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    Does anyone else think this Andrew Lawrence looks very much like that repulsive little toerag, Nathan Lean ?

    Maybe they’re related. Certainly they’re brothers under the skin.

    • ECAW says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      I enjoyed you bout with classicalmusiclover Mirren10 🙂

      (I informed him about 35:39, 40:10 and 60:4 which I think make the point about the hatred in the Koran)

      • Mirren10 says

        Aug 18, 2016 at 2:07 pm

        ”I enjoyed you bout with classicalmusiclover Mirren10 ?”

        🙂

        But I don’t suppose he/she will ever read the koran !

        Also, several comments I made were deleted. I wonder what Lawrence’s rationale is re deleting comments …

  11. David says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    Muslims do not like when anyone expoese truth about them!

  12. David says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    Expose.

  13. Robert Siena says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    Andrew Lawrence is a Medical Marijuana patient. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/investigations/2016/04/13/medical-marijuana-patient/82110856/

    • Mirren10 says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 2:50 pm

      ”Andrew Lawrence is a Medical Marijuana patient.”

      Are you saying that Andrew Lawrence, the author of the above article in Media Matters, is one and the same as Andrew Greenspan of South Nyack, in the article you linked to ? What evidence do you have for this ?

  14. Champ says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    So *that’s* what a weasel looks like! …I’ve often wondered.

  15. Angemon says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    In initially confusing Richard Spencer with Robert Spencer, these “media watchdogs” showed themselves to be shoddy, lazy, and incompetent.

    If one is charitable enough to assume they were trying to accurately report the news to begin with.

  16. King Tut says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    fucking media.. Richard Spencer is not a racist. neither is Jared Taylor, neither is David Duke.

    • King Tut says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 4:24 pm

      for anyone interested in the truth. here is a speech by Richard Spencer talking about all the hate towards white men from the left and the entire world

    • Champ says

      Aug 18, 2016 at 5:07 pm

      “for anyone interested in the truth” …then DON’T read anything from “King Trickster”!

  17. Richard says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    Shameless Effin liars! Shills for racist, discriminatory, retrograde Islam.

    They should apologise. But will they? I doubt it.

  18. Manuele says

    Aug 19, 2016 at 6:43 am

    I say that some people takes desperate measures to make a lie stretch but it won’t go very far. These kind of people knew all along that they are in a different level as Robert Spencer so what do they do? Damage control is the only way which at the end shows HOW IGNORANT THEY ALL ARE. THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE BEATEN WHICH EVER WAY THEY TURN. I say that they won’t apologize. WHY? BECAUSE THE SHAME IS TO MUCH TO ADMIT THEIR IGNORAMUS. i say to Robert Spencer,YOU are more of a man than any of those who thinks less of you. May God bless and keep you safe to continue your good work..

  19. More Ham Ed says

    Aug 19, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    Robert Spencer also eats ham sandwiches every Sunday afternoon, oops sorry, that’s Sam Spencer.

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