NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Media Matters boss paid former partner $850G ‘blackmail’ settlement. “Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization’s donors and the IRS – a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment, according to legal documents obtained by FoxNews.com.”

Related: Dershowitz to campaign against Media Matters. “’Not only will [the Media Matters controversy] be an election matter, I will personally make it an election matter,’ Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, told WABC’s Aaron Klein today.”