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Is This David Brock Guy Literally Insane?

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Here's a rather eye-opening expose of the inner workings of Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog. Turns out the director of MMfA is quite the kook:
David Brock was smoking a cigarette on the roof of his Washington, D.C. office one day in the late fall of 2010 when his assistant and two bodyguards suddenly appeared and whisked him and his colleague Eric Burns down the stairs.

Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit Media Matters for America, had told friends and co-workers that he feared he was in imminent danger from right-wing assassins and needed a security team to keep him safe.

The threat he faced while smoking on his roof? “Snipers,” a former co-worker recalled.
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The article is mostly interesting for its coverage of Brock; at times the balance of the piece seems to engage in borderline conspiracy theorizing. This is the first in a series.
 
I've never even heard of this guy, so the tu quoque attempt from the Briehtbart thread is also a false equivalency.
 
I have no doubt the guy probably gets nasty emails all the time; it comes with being a public figure. But protection from sniper attacks? That's just silliness, reminiscent of Michael Moore hiring a bodyguard and an armored limousine because he thought conservatives wanted to assassinate him over Bowling For Columbine.
 
Just so we're clear here. A thread is started with a video of the subject wondering about the things we all can see on the video.

In Republican skeptic tradition, a tu quoque thread is created. Only this time instead of a video of the subject, we're provided a link to an article quoting people saying bad things the subject.

This would actually have to ratchet up a couple of intellectual notches to reach tu quoque.
 
Checkmite said:
I have no doubt the guy probably gets nasty emails all the time; it comes with being a public figure. But protection from sniper attacks? That's just silliness, reminiscent of Michael Moore hiring a bodyguard and an armored limousine because he thought conservatives wanted to assassinate him over Bowling For Columbine.
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Considering the amount of vitriol lumped on him over the years, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Moore was getting death threats regularly. Brock too, I imagine, though as an individual he's been more low-key than Moore.

Whether those threats are substantive enough to warrant hiring bodyguards and armored cars, I don't have enough evidence to say.
 
Is it a totally irrational fear?

Look what happened to Gabby Giffords. Or Theo Van Gogh.

Maybe he's received death threats.
 
Cleon said:
Considering the amount of vitriol lumped on him over the years, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Moore was getting death threats regularly. Brock too, I imagine, though as an individual he's been more low-key than Moore.

Whether those threats are substantive enough to warrant hiring bodyguards and armored cars, I don't have enough evidence to say.
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Hell, I have gotten death threats. The Internet has made it pretty simple to threaten somebody without consequences. I did not take them seriously, but I can see where somebody might.
 
Checkmite said:
I have no doubt the guy probably gets nasty emails all the time; it comes with being a public figure. But protection from sniper attacks? That's just silliness, reminiscent of Michael Moore hiring a bodyguard and an armored limousine because he thought conservatives wanted to assassinate him over Bowling For Columbine.
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More liberal media people than right wing have been assassinated.
 
Puppycow said:
Is it a totally irrational fear?

Look what happened to Gabby Giffords. Or Theo Van Gogh.

Maybe he's received death threats.
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Uh, had Giffords received death threats from the dipstick who shot her?
Didn't he shoot a whole bunch of people?

Theo Van Gogh, OK, I see where you are coming from there, but I don't think the two cases have all that much in common.

Can you show me the connection, beyond high speed hot lead? :confused:
 
Darth Rotor said:
Uh, had Giffords received death threats from the dipstick who shot her?
Didn't he shoot a whole bunch of people?

Theo Van Gogh, OK, I see where you are coming from there, but I don't think the two cases have all that much in common.

Can you show me the connection, beyond high speed hot lead? :confused:
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The point being, there's a lot of crazy people out there. If you're a high-profile and polarizing figure who tends to get death threats, it may be prudent to consider the possibility that one of them might be more than "just talk."
 
Brainster said:
The article is mostly interesting for its coverage of Brock; at times the balance of the piece seems to engage in borderline conspiracy theorizing. This is the first in a series.
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Gee, the first name I see on that page is Tucker Carlson. I can't say I even want to get through the first sentence of this article considering Tucker Carlson is one of the most Inane Idiots of American News Journalism! I have no respect for him whatsoever!
 
Apparently Brock is hard into the coke and other illicit substances.
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
And he wasn't killed by conservatives or anyone influenced by conservatives.

He was murdered by neo-nazi skinheads.

COLOR="White"Yes, I know what Lefty is going to say./COLOR
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You mean that there is not that fine a distinction? Yup. I notice that the Shrub's DoJ did not seem much worried about the outlaw militias and that even now, the GOP seems more worried about Muslims who want to build a community center than they are about gangs of armed criminals planning to rise up against the government when they figure it has "gone too far," whatever that means.
 
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