This issue hasn’t got much coverage in the fake NZ media, and now, the story is no longer the issue, but Jason Mattera’s reporting on the issue. Mattera is another in the Andrew Breitbart style, meaning a real reporter as opposed to most of the Democratic operatives who pose as reporters.
He first came to my notice when I read his book “Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation.” A great read by the way, and spot on with telling how the left are abusing and perverting the education system. (Adults reject their ideas, so the only way to get them into the mainstream political discussion is by brainwashing naive and gullible children.)
Joe Biden has laid a complaint with the Senate press Gallery over questions Mattera asked him about Biden’s claims that Republican opposition to Obama policies would lead to increases in rapes. In the house, Biden claimed-
…if Republicans continue to block the Democratic jobs bill, “murder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise.”
In Mattera’s interview Biden said-
“I said rape was up three times in Flint, [Mich.]. There are the numbers. Go look at the numbers. Murder’s up, rape is up and burglary’s up. That’s exactly what I said,” Biden added.
All these claims were later proven to be lies. The Hill expands on the story.
Mattera admits to using a pretext to momentarily disarm Biden, but argues his methods were justified.
“ABC and CBS have done undercover sting operations and have done them for decades. The fact that a conservative publication goes after a public official who was misrepresenting himself and a Senate bill to the public and tries to get an answer from him, that’s great,” he said in an interview Monday.
“The media should take notice that this is how you ask a question. If I had said, ‘Hey, Mr. Vice President, a question regarding your rape comments,’ he would shrug it off.
“He’s not going to take questions hostile to his agenda. I want to get him in that honest moment when he doesn’t have his talking points and isn’t prepared to spin,” Mattera added.
Mattera said his technique is “premised on looking to get the most honest reaction from politicians used to conning the media daily — and even their constituents.”
“You shouldn’t play patty-cake with politicians to gain access,” he said.
The video of Mattera’s “ambush of Biden is below. Its a demonstration of how bad things have got in the media when a reporter MERELY BY DOING HIS DAMN JOB RIGHT raises this kind of response.

2 responses to “Jason Mattera- Part of the “new” media, and a reporter with guts”
I must finish his book. I bought the same book (last year?) for Kindle, but Kindle has given me a bad habit of beginning books and not finishing them. BTW, Biden has now jacked up some kind of investigation of Mattera and wants his press credentials yanked.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/white-house-wants-journalist-jason-mattera-investigated-for-asking-biden-about-his-outrageous-rape-accusations/
That’s what Liberals do when they don’t get their way or feel threatened – they “investigate” the threat, eg, bring the full force of the law down on them to intimidate.
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Yep, its yet another example of how we are so deep in the corruption that sustains the left. A reporter who does his job is “under investigation”.
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