A couple of weeks ago, I covered the large round of layoffs at the Left-wing activist group known as Media Matters.
Many conservatives celebrated the news because of course, Media Matters exists for the sole purpose of smearing the opponents of the Democratic Party. They misrepresent people’s words, stalk them on social media, and so on. But Media Matters’ dishonest attack on Elon Musk and Twitter appears to have been a bridge too far. Elon Musk fought back with a massive lawsuit, which Media Matters’ management cited as one reason for the layoffs.
For my part, I wasn’t particularly thrilled with Media Matters’ collapse because, as I said at the time, they essentially function as my PR agency. They keep clipping segments from my show and broadcasting them all over the place, apparently thinking they’ve found a “gotcha” moment. But really it’s always something that…
