Media Matters for America doesn't know squat about NumbersUSA

Media Matters for America (MMA) describes itself as a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

But is anybody out there paying attention to MMA's own brand of misinformation?

Take, for example, this Oct. 20 whining about a recent NumbersUSA ad that ran during the Las Vegas debate  between the GOP Oval Office hopefuls.

For openers, NumbersUSA was founded by Roy Beck, not John Tanton.  MMA also says NumbersUSA supports "mass deportations."  Sorry, guys, but attrition through enforcement is the Arlington, Va.-based group's preferred (and least expensive method) of removing 11 million illegal aliens, 7 million of whom President Obama says should be permitted to remain here and keep their non-farming jobs while 22 million Americans are unable to find full-time work.

Finally, MMA says reducing legal immigration is a "new strategy."  Tsk! Tsk! Wrong again. Long before illegal immigration became newsworthy, NumbersUSA was calling for the reduction of legal immigration levels that are four times higher than the historic average of about 250,000 immigrants admitted annually during the first 200 years of the nation's history.

Many organizations have mottos or slogans that reflect their stated mission.  MMA might consider adopting these words from the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."