MSNBC Host Actively Involved In 'Stop Rush' Campaign

MSNBC host Krystal Ball is refusing to talk about her participation in the “Stop Rush” campaign targeting radio host Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers. The Daily Caller reports.

Ball secretly participated in the Stop Rush movement since becoming affiliated with MSNBC, emails reveal. But Ball did not respond to The Daily Caller’s emailed request for comment on her participation in the activist effort.

“Stop Rush” is a campaign principally organized by Angelo Carusone, who is now a Media Matters executive vice president embroiled in controversy after The Daily Caller published racist and anti-Semitic blog posts that he wrote. The DC recently exposed the latest incarnation of the Stop Rush movement as a small group driven primarily by ten activists using technology to robotically harass Limbaugh’s advertisers on social media.

Ball was involved in trying to smoke out a suspected mole in the Stop Rush movement in the spring of 2012, months after she joined MSNBC as a contributor and shortly before she debuted as co-host of the network’s 3 p.m. talk show “The Cycle.”

Blogger Brooks Bayne first published transcripts of a string of 2012 emails showing Ball actively participating in trying to find the mole, who they believed was a man named Randy.

Ball’s involvement in the the Stop Rush movement, just prior to her rise to national fame on “The Cycle,” was noted by bloggers including Robert Stacy McCain and William Jacobson. But Ball has never spoken publicly about her involvement in the now unraveling movement. It is not known at this time whether Ball is still involved with the group.

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