Posted on 08/03/2011 2:31:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
David Brock, chairman and chief executive of Media Matters for America, told a news website earlier this year that his nonprofit is now moving to “sabotage” FOX News because it says the network is now the “de facto head of the GOP,” among other things.
Anchors and guests appearing on FOX News have said because of such statements, the nonprofit is violating U.S. tax law.
There is no indication the IRS is auditing or probing Media Matters for these alleged violations.
However, interviews with current and former IRS officials, tax lawyers and tax experts, as well as a review of Media Matters’ IRS documents and its activities indicate the nonprofit has put its tax-exempt status in jeopardy for reasons beyond those allegations.
But these charges are serious. Given that Media Matters is a tax-free nonprofit, the government is effectively supporting its efforts to disrupt the commercial enterprises of a taxpaying business. The government is also effectively supporting its partisan activities that the nonprofit was ostensibly created to monitor in the first place, a problem also at right-wing nonprofits.
Taxpayers have effectively been supporting Media Matters in its campaign to get advertisers to "Drop Fox,"--words billboarded on its website along with "NewsCorpwatch" that link viewers to form letters to send to advertisers to get them to stop advertising on the network.
The U.S. government is also effectively supporting the website's attacks on News Corp's attempt to buy Great Britain's BSkyB, a satellite broadcaster. And taxpayers are effectively supporting the nonprofit's demands to Congress to investigate News Corp. and its head, Rupert Murdoch.
Also, the U.S. government now effectively supports the nonprofit's purchase of a full-page ad in the International Herald Tribune urging James Murdoch to use his "power" to "usher in a new era for News Corp."
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“There is no indication the IRS is auditing or probing Media Matters for these alleged violations”.
...of course not! Media Matters sole purpose is to help the MSM weed out conservative and/or factual negative stories or events connected to the kenyan usurper and label them as a “hoax”, “lies” etc. They taunt, destroy and ridicule until the “hurtful” event goes away. Alinsky all the way. Just another day at the office.
Karma can be such a b*tch!!
To actually EXPECT the current IRS to investigate Media Matters is childish beyond belief! This regime and its’ brute force tactics makes the Nixon White House look like the Washington Administration!
It’d sure be a hoot to see them nailed on this.
I expect that to happen right after a real solution to the debt is passed in Congress.
Last week, all of the MSNBC commentators told us that Rush Limbaugh was the 'de facto head of the GOP'. Now which is it??? Fox News or Rush Limbaugh???
I’m sure the IRS will get right on this.
Very sad but I believe you’re correct.
I prefer it be President Palin that puts a halt to this but any conservative President will do on this issue too.
““There is no indication the IRS is auditing or probing Media Matters for these alleged violations”.”
I really wouldn’t bother looking until after on or about January 21, 2013.
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