Peter Rosenstein, Congressman Barney Frank, and David Brock at Bo Billups and David Brock’s Birthday Party.
Posted on 10/08/2007 4:32:21 AM PDT by libstripper
Last week, covering the Rush Limbaugh “phony soldiers” controversy, I described Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog group, as an “avowedly political institution.” Media Matters quickly took issue; a few hours after my article appeared on National Review Online, a posting on the group’s website declared, “Media Matters is not, as the National Review claims, ‘an avowedly political institution,’ but a nonpartisan, progressive nonprofit that is unaffiliated with any political party or candidate.”
Indeed, Media matters has to be nonpartisan, if not nonpolitical. It is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable institution, meaning it is tax exempt and that contributions made to Media Matters are fully tax deductible. In a feature of the tax code that benefits groups on both the left and right, a contribution to Media Matters is as tax deductible as a contribution to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross.
But how removed from politics is Media Matters? Whatever the organization says today, statements made by founder David Brock in 2004, shortly after Media Matters was formed, suggest that Brock’s intention in creating Media Matters was frankly political, with a specific electoral result in mind: to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats.
On June 15, 2004, Brock appeared at a Washington bookstore, Politics & Prose, to discuss his just-published book, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. Media Matters was still in its early stages at that point, and Brock explained to the audience what he hoped to accomplish. It was an unquestionably political plan.
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Hahahahahabull****hahahahaha...
If the IRS does NOT challenge Media Matters’ tax exemption, the entire tax system is proven corrupt.
Liberals like Satan, lies.
Cockroaches always scatter when you turn on the light....
BUMP TO RUSH!!!!
If you check out their site you’ll find a slew of threads devoted to slamming conservative media persons every single time.
“now you just hold on there...” F. Lee Levin was right ! Mark is the man.
They can lie to the gubbamint retards all they want, but anyone with an IQ above 75, only need read their webshiite one time to know they are a political Hatchet Inc, for the Democrats and the Socialixt filth that call themselves “Proressives”.
They are criminals that need to be put in prison.
Isn’t “nonpartisan progressive” a stark contradiction? Talk about your code words! And for MM to claim that they are neutral is an absolute joke.
Sure. Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.
Byron was on Fox with the Friends this morning and they actually played the clip of Mrs. Clinton at the Daily Kos Convention where she states that she did indeed start Media Matters.
Progressive = Communist.
The problem isn’t the lying media, it’s the idiots who believe the lies.
Peter Rosenstein, Congressman Barney Frank, and David Brock at Bo Billups and David Brock’s Birthday Party.
When Hillary is on tape telling the Daily Kos crowd that she helped start Media Matters, it’s ridiculous for them to try to pull up their “non-political” fig leaf to hide their naked partisanship.
The IRS needs to strip them of their non-profit status immediately, or do they only go after conservative churches these days?
How can smattering be taken so seriously?
BTTT!
I caught a small segment of Mark Levin’s show last week and he was on this topic. Given his outstanding work at Landmark on the teachers unions perhaps he can further investigate/discuss their exempt status and the legal ramifications.
What’s Brock holding in his left hand,out of view of the camera. Barney does have that Shite eating grin on his face.
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