John
Verum Serum
2/27/2012
Media Matters is facing not one but two very bad stories in the press today. First is this embarrassing story about David Brock being blackmailed by a former boyfriend for almost a million dollars:
In an acrimonious lawsuit settled at the end of last year, Brock accused William Grey of making repeated threats to expose him to the “scorn or ridicule of his employees, donors and the press in demanding money and property.” Brock claimed in legal papers that he sold a Rehoboth Beach, Del., home he once shared with Grey in order to meet Grey’s demands, which he called “blackmail” in the lawsuit…
…Also today a story that may actually do more harm to the organization as a whole:
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a leading Democratic lawyer who takes a hawkish line on Israel, has declared a personal war on the liberal group Media Matters, which has branched out into sharp criticism of Israel.
“Not only will [the Media Matters controversy] be an election matter, I will personally make it an election matter,” Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, told WABC’s Aaron Klein today… [link removed by buzzfeed.com; new link added]
Read the entire article at Verum Serum.
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