WI GOP operative Brian Sikma linked to sexual predator

Well this is something… On March 7, 2014 Bill Gothard resigned from the ministry he founded, the Institute of Basic Life Principles (IBLP), after 34 women accused him of sexual misconduct and spiritual manipulation. Gothard’s groups were previously plagued by a massive sex scandal in the 1980’s and a child…

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Understanding Brian Sikma

Before the Wisconsin State Journal could get the story out about the DNR report warning of the health and water quality hazards of an open pit iron mine in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin, Media Trackers was all over it, publishing a piece about how the DNR report was…

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Looks like MediaTrackers’ “scoop” is nothing more than a pile of po….well, you get the idea

“COMPROMISED INTEL: Secret Democratic Political Research Files for Twelve 2012 Match-Ups Found via Google” says the title of an “article” posted yesterday on Media Trackers’ website by Brian Sikma. With a headline like that, you’d like the hacks at Media Trackers had uncovered some juicy bit of top-secret intel the…

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Media Trackers smears Sen. Lena Taylor, refuses to apologize

Why am I not shocked by this?!?!? Media Trackers had suggested Taylor and her mother might have been “accessories” to voter fraud for their role in helping a felon named Russell Collins vote illegally in the April election. In reality, Collins had been released from custody weeks before the election….

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Media Trackers? More like miserable hacks.

Over the past few years, a number of pseudo (read, fake) “news” websites have sprung up here in Wisconsin, and many of those sites purport to be “non-partisan” in nature. One such site is Media Trackers, aptly referred to as “miserable hacks” by capper of Cognitive Dissidence. According to its…

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