David Brock is a journalist currently living in Washington, DC. He
started out in professional journalism with a piece in "The Wall Street
Journal", that caught the attention of
John Podhoretz, who was assigned with
starting a magazine for the conservative daily newspaper, "The
Washington Times".
He worked as a news reporter for a while at "Insight" (the Washington
Times' magazine) until eventually moving up to work for the paper,
itself. His prominence in the conservative movement as a journalist got
him a job at the American Spectator. During his time at the Spectator,
Brock became very well known for filing "hatchet jobs" against
then-President Bill Clinton
(William Jefferson Clinton) and the first lady,
Hillary Clinton.
He wrote the hugely popular book, "The Real Anita Hill", which
attempted to paint Anita Hill (who accused
Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas of sexual
harassment while he was being confirmed to the Court) as being a liar
who could not be trusted (Brock labeled her "a bit nutty and a bit
slutty").
He eventually "broke" with the conservatives and went on to try to make
amends for his character assassination and fabrication of the truth
while he was in the movement.
He detailed these fabrications and denounced much of his own earlier
work in his 2002 book, "Blinded By The Right".
He is now the CEO and founder of "Media Matters for America", a
progressive media watchdog group thats mission is to find and correct
conservative misinformation in the mainstream press.
