Media Matters stirs a weak pot of tea, asserting--in a piece titled "The Right-Wing Pushes Back: No, We Really Do Want Impeachment"--that "as many in the conservative media grow more insistent that the Republican Party will not and should not impeach President Obama, major right-wing figures have started pushing back to keep the impeachment option on the table."
The major figures cited by MM are three--Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin--and the proofs offered by MM of a pushback campaign are these: a Drudge headline, "Surrender: Boehner Rules Out Impeachment"; a Limbaugh remark, "Republicans are doing everything they can to tell people 'we're not going to impeach, we're not going to.' It's purely defensive, it's rooted in fear, and I think it's a miscalculation"; and Levin telling his audience point-blank: "Here's the dead truth--Obama should be impeached. But he won't be impeached."
In other words, the evidence fails to support the allegation. In its headline, MM virtually screams a widespread, well-orchestrated pro-impeachment campaign, only to then whisper some vague, quoted gobbledygook--except that of Levin's words, which outright contradict the notion of an imminent impeachment campaign.
Media Matters seems not to be bothered by its headline/text incongruence. That I don't mind so much. In a violently competitive Internet market, often incongruent click-bait is what it is, and it's not going anywhere. What disheartens is that Media Matters is essentially playing the same propagandistically misleading game that its daily right-wing targets play. The left should be better than that.