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03/06/12 - The Hill
Sponsors rush from Limbaugh program over ‘slut’ comments controversy
By Sam Baker and Alicia M. Cohn
Rush Limbaugh is facing the most significant controversy of his decades-long career after losing roughly 30 advertisers in the days since he called a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
02/28/12 – Mediabistro’s FishbowlDC
Fox News Haters to Host Joint B-Day Party
By Betsy Rothstein
Don’t expect FNC Prez Roger Ailes to be on the guest list, or anyone from The Daily Caller for that matter. But this weekend, former MMFAers Eric Burns and Karl Frisch, now of Bullfight Strategies, are coming together to host a joint birthday party. Frisch is also a syndicated columnist.
Will the birthday cake say “F–k Fox?”
The invitation is as follows:
“They attacked Tom DeLay and the culture of corruption in Congress together on the House Rules Committee. They battled Fox News and the right-wing noise machine together at Media Matters. Now they duke it out for their clients at Bullfight Strategies. The only fight Eric Burns and Karl Frisch seem to be losing is the one with age. Please join us for a party celebrating their respective birthdays at BLANK on Saturday, March 3, 2012 upstairs at BLANK.”
02/22/12 – The Washington Blade
Disbelief, Backlash After Vote Against Marriage
By Kevin Naff
Maryland Del. Sam Arora’s decision to vote against the same-sex marriage bill last week proved unpopular with many in his progressive Montgomery County district, but no one was more disappointed than Arora’s own state senator, Roger Manno.
Sen. Manno (D-District 19), in a lengthy interview with the Blade, recalled his ultimately unsuccessful efforts to persuade Arora to support the bill, stretching back to last year.
01/20/12 – The Daily Caller
Ruth Bader Ginsburg staying put, won’t give Obama SCOTUS opening this year
By Myles Miller
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has donned a black robe for 32 years, including 18 on the Supreme Court, and she has no plans to hang it up anytime soon.
It’s official. Last night it was announced that I was voted “Best Gay Television Personality” in the 10th annual Washington Blade “Best of Gay D.C.” contest. Here’s the write-up:
Television is the defining medium for the way people consume their news and make decisions,” progressive strategist Karl Frisch says about being able to share his vision with millions through his television appearances. “[Television] gives me the opportunity to show what a serious gay man has to say about politics.”
Frisch says since he left Media Matters last year to form Bullfight Strategies with former Media Matters president Eric Burns, he’s been tapped by shows like “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” “The Big Picture with Thom Hartman” on RT America and several CNN and MSNBC shows to not only discuss LGBT issues, but all progressive values.
“People embrace the fact it’s important to have LGBT people appearing in news programs,” says Frisch, a Los Angeles native and now D.C.-based syndicated columnist and radio/TV guest. “I hope people see the need for having more LGBT voices in the news.
08/23/11 – Washington Times
Inside the Beltway
By Jennifer Harper
Quake-a-Mageddon
Yes, why not use the Great Capital Earthquake of 2011, the proverbial Quake-a-mageddon to exercise vigorous political humor? Bars in the nation’s capital were offering discounts on “shaken” drinks. And after the White House rattled from the Earth’s shifting tectonic plates rather than the undulating sound bites of Congress, folks took to social media. Among the aftershocks and after-tweets that surfaced, almost instantly, on Twitter:
“Shaking buildings full of people yelling and screaming, Tweeting up a storm and freaking out. Just your run-of-the-mill Rick Perry rally.” (From RickPerryFacts.)
“Capitol evacuated. Nation experiences brief economic recovery.” (commentator Ann Coulter)
“Okay, I’m done talking about the Earthquake. So far as I know, it didn’t hurt anyone. The Republicans on the other hand…” (Karl Frisch, former spokesman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee).
“Has Michael Bloomberg called in grief counselors yet?” (Columnist Michelle Malkin)
08/11/11 – Washington Blade
Queery: Karl Frisch
By Joey DiGuglielmo
Karl Frisch started his career as a Republican. He now makes a living pointing out what he calls the party’s hypocrisies and biases masquerading as journalism.
“It’s been an advantage in some ways,” the 33-year-old Westchester, Calif., native says. “I came to this fight having seen what the other side is capable of. I started very young … working on the campaign of a local Republican. My parents were Republicans … my politics were not motivated by ideology but more by my own trajectory and career. I was thinking about what would raise my profile and make me more successful.”
08/02/11 – FishbowlDC
Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers
By Betsy Rothstein
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Ahh…the memories
“It’s worth noting that in @DexterVonFrisch’s first year of life he was named the cutest dog in DC by @FishbowlDC. #happybdaydexter” — Syndicated Columnist and Bullfight Strategies Partner Karl Frisch in a Monday tweet. This photograph was taken when we met up with Dexter at Starbucks in Dupont Circle. We presume he was reading FishbowlDC. Happy Birthday Dexter!
From today’s Creative Loafing in Tampa:
Karl Frisch, a Breitbart critic with the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters, says the only difference between the ACORN incident and the Sherrod affair was that “he was proven a fraud in a few hours vs. several months,” referring to the fact that initial reports about the ACORN story (such as the fact that the undercover “reporters” were dressed as a pimp and a prostitute) were later found to be untrue. After a four-month investigation, a Brooklyn D.A.’s investigation found no illegal activity by the organization.
“He’s like everyone in conservative journalism,” Frisch says. “Which is to come up with a story and go get one side of the evidence to prove that story.”
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But does he have a future after the Sherrod embarrassment? When asked if he considers Andrew Breitbart dangerous, Karl Frisch says simply, “He’s as dangerous as the media allows him to be.”
Read the entire story after the break.
The June 15 edition of CSPAN’s BookTV featured a party hosted by Media Matters for Bill Press’ latest book, Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America’s Airwaves.
During his remarks to those assembled, Press said:
And then I’ve got to say a word about Media Matters. Right? And that’s where we are. This book would not exist without Media Matters. Truly, It was born — or conceived I guess is the word — in the office of Karl Frisch… where Kevin and I came in a year or so ago and sat down with Karl and said, “you know what? We’re thinking about writing a book about right-wing talk radio, what do you think we ought to do?”
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