Non-profit, 'apolitical' Media Matters beclowns itself again: accuses Fox of 'spin' for calling government-run health care government-run

There are two hilarious aspects to the non-smoking gun, non-story advertised by the Marxist nuts at Soros Matters. First -- the background:

The latest meme among the legions of lefty Fox-haters is that FNC "distorted" or "skewed" the ObamaCare debate by instructing employees to call the "public option" the "government option" or some variation of that. The horror!

Of course none of the Fox-haters uttered a word of criticism when National Public Radio officially instructed employees to drop the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" labels in favor of "abortion rights opponent" and "abortion rights advocate," labels that clearly frame the debate favorably for the pro-choice position (who wants someone's rights denied them, after all?).

Hilarious aspect #1: every crackpot Leftist blog including the seventh-tier, incoherent "Zandar vs. Himself" jumped on this story as if it were Watergate.

However, even Time Magazine and Salon agree: Media Matters consists of a small cabal of Statist losers who seek to destroy this society and are willing to make up stories from whole cloth to advance their Marxist agenda.

I'm paraphrasing, of course.

Just a hint for Zandar: when Time and Salon are aligned against you -- and the story has only the imprimatur of Soros Matters behind it -- run. Run like the wind.

The second hilarious aspect: the Daily Beast -- not exactly a bastion of conservative thought -- offered the best take on the media's use of various phrasing alternatives.

Other news organizations periodically described the plan as government-run or used the terms interchangeably [and] news executives routinely offer guidance about proper wording in news stories...

Precisely. The New York Times, the vanguard of Leftist agenda journalism, routinely makes up entire news stories: witness the John McCain-lobbyist 'affair' and Al Qaqaa hit pieces, to name but two.

If you're a reporter, using Soros Matters to source a story is akin to giving your teenage son a fifth of Cuervo and the keys to the Porsche. A lot of things can happen -- and all of them are bad.

Which explains Keith Olbermann, among others.