Media Matters' Editorial Director is Marcia B. Kuntz, who formerly headed the Judicial Selection Project of Alliance for Justice.
We need to finally, formally, do the same to the communists. We need
1.) an easily accessable database ...of communist individuals in Media.
2.)Communist organizations
3.) Their funders
4.) Plans of lawfare instruction for conservatives to fight fire with fire
5.) a database of communist events and strategies
November 23, 2010
Democrats are officially launching their own outside-money push ahead of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Media Matters founder and author DavidBrock plans to file paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission detailing plans to raise and spend unlimited funds to influence the upcoming election.
The group will be called American Bridge, and Brock tells the New York Times’ Michael Luo that he’s already gotten $4 million in pledges from Democratic donors including Rob McKay, heir to the Taco Bell fortune, and longtime TV producer Marcy Carsey, best known as the executive producer of “The Cosby Show.”
The chairwoman of American Bridge will be Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
But Brock isn’t the only Democrat plotting outside efforts in the 2012 campaign. A group of liberal donors met last week in Washington to discuss outside efforts. And on Monday, the operatives behind America Coming Together, a 527 group that spent millions to boost John Kerry in 2004, also held talks about the upcoming campaign.
Leading Democratic donors who have already pledged money to the group include Rob McKay, heir to the Taco Bell fortune and chairman of the Democracy Alliance, a partnership of wealthy liberal donors; Robert Dyson, who heads Dyson-Kissner-Moran, a takeover and acquisitions firm in New York City; and Marcia L. Carsey, a television producer who gave $1 million to Democratic outside groups in 2004.
Guess that’s how most folk missed that Media Matter’s Treasurer, Rachel Pritzker Hunter is among the Who’s Who in the George Soros $100 million clearing house known as the Democracy Alliance (DA).
“Rachel Pritzker Hunter of the Hyatt Hotel Pritzkers was a DA board member after the group was created.” (Matthew Vadum James Dellinger, Capital Research Center, Canada Free Press, Jan. 10, 2008).
A founding DA member, Pritzker Hunter, a nutritionist claiming expertise in sensitivity to foods by profession
George Soros’s Democracy Alliance
The “Partners”: Who’s Who in the Democracy Alliance
George Soros is founder of Quantum Asset Management and the grant-making Open Society Institute. He donated close to $24 million
His son Jonathan is also a member of the DA.
Peter B. Lewis is a billionaire insurance magnate ‚Äî chairman of Progressive Casualty Insurance Co., the nation’s third-largest automobile insurer. He gave $23 million
Herb and Marion Sandler are the co-founders of Golden West Financial Corp. They sold their S&L holding company to Wachovia in 2006 for $24 billion in cash and stock. In 2004 they gave $13 million
Silicon Valley venture capitalists Andy and Deborah Rappaport overlap significantly with those of the Alliance
The Rappaports founded New Progressive Coalition LLC, (“Your political giving advisor”), which is technically a for-profit corporation that allows individuals to “invest” in Political “Mutual Funds
Tim Gill is the software entrepreneur who created Quark, the design and layout publishing program. Gill, who also dabbles in state and local politics, is president of the Gill Foundation in Denver, a funder of gay rights organizations. Gill’s political giving grew from $300,000 in 2000 to about $15 million in 2006
Rachel Pritzker Hunter of the Hyatt Hotel Pritzkers was a DA board member after the group was created.
Gara LaMarche became president and CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies in April 2007. Previously, he was vice president and director of U.S. Programs for Soros’s Open Society Institute.
Guy Saperstein, is an Oakland, California trial lawyer. In 2007, he created the National Security/Foreign Policy New Ideas Fund (newideasfund.org), with DA funding.
Rob Reiner, a Hollywood actor-director, is chairman of Parents Action for Children, a 501(c)(3) advocacy group. In 2005 he promoted Proposition 82, an unsuccessful California ballot initiative that would have raised state taxes to fund preschool for all four-year-olds. (See “The Teachers Unions Fight for Universal Pre-School,” by Ivan Osorio and James Dellinger, Labor Watch, June 2007.)
Herb Miller is a Washington, D.C., real estate developer and Democratic Party fundraiser.
David A. Friedman, a philanthropist and self-described centrist, is treasurer of the Friedman Family Foundation.
Ann S. Bowers is the widow of Intel cofounder Robert Noyce, inventor of the integrated circuit and “mayor of Silicon Valley.” Bowers is board chairman of Noyce Foundation.
Albert C. Yates is former president of Colorado State University.
Davidi Gilo is a high-tech entrepreneur and founder of Vyyo Inc. who made the Mother Jones 400 list of big leftist donors. His wife, Shamaya, created the Winds of Change Foundation in 1998, and is a heavy donor to Democratic candidates.
Mark Buell is a businessman. His wife, Susie Tompkins Buell, co-founded the clothier Esprit with her ex-husband, Douglas Tompkins, who is president of the Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Fred Baron, one of America’s wealthiest plaintiffs’ attorneys, was finance chairman for Senator John Edwards‘s 2004 presidential campaign.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is an institutional member of the DA. SEIU President Andrew Stern and MoveOn.org‘s Eli Pariser have created a political action committee called “They Work for Us,” to take on Democratic candidates deemed insufficiently left-wing on economic issues. The labor coalition SEIU broke away from, the AFL-CIO, is also an Alliance member.
Alan Patricof is co-founder of private equity firm Apax Partners. From 1993 to 1995, he was chairman of the White House Conference on Small Business.
Bren Simon is president of MBS Associates LLC, a property management and development firm. Her husband, Melvin, ranks on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people. He is a part owner of the Indiana Pacers and runs the Simon Property Group, developer of shopping malls. (It is not known if Mr. Simon is active in the DA.)
Software entrepreneur Chris Gabrieli, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Massachusetts governor in 2006, co-founded and heads Massachusetts 2020 Foundation.
Anne Bartley, the daughter of Winthrop Rockefeller, is vice chairman of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and a trustee of the Jennifer Altman Foundation.
Simon Rosenberg, the founder and president of the New Democrat Network (NDN), ran unsuccessfully in 2005 for the DNC chairmanship.
Lewis B. Cullman is a financier and philanthropist whose website says he and his wife, Dorothy, have given away $223 million to date.
Rob Johnson, a DA board member, is a partner at Impact Artist Management and former portfolio manager for Soros’s Quantum Fund.
Michael Kieschnick is founder of Working Assets. Every time a customer uses one of the Working Assets donation-linked services (long distance, wireless and credit card),
Steven M. Gluckstern, a former chairman of the Alliance, is a founding managing directorof Azimuth Alternative Assets, an investment banking firm.
Inventor William Budinger, who founded and ran Rodel, Inc.,is a DA board member.
DA board member Robert H. Dugger is a managing director of Tudor Investment Corporation, an asset management company. Previously he was chief economist at the American Bankers Association.
Manhattan psychologist Gail Furman, a DA board member, is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on the boards of Human Rights First and The Brennan Center for Social Justice at NYU Law School.
San Francisco attorney and political organizer Steven Phillips is president and founder of PowerPAC.org, which focuses on California politics. He is a DA board member.
Charles Rodgers, a DA board member, is president of the New Community Fund, a family foundation in Massachusetts.
DA board member Deborah Sagner is a social worker and president of the Sagner Family Foundation.
Michael Vachon, a DA board member, is Soros’s spokesman and political director.
Patricia Stryker is granddaughter of Homer Stryker, who founded Stryker Corporation, a medical technology company.
Rutt Bridges is founder of Advance Geophysical. He ran for governor of Colorado in 2005 but dropped out of the race.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1297
Media Matters' Editorial Director is Marcia B. Kuntz, who formerly headed the Judicial Selection Project of Alliance for Justice.
Media Matters' president Eric Burns
He most recently served as the communications director for the House Rules Committee and ranking member Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY). Prior to that, Burns was the primary spokesman and a senior adviser to Rep. Chris Bell (D-TX)and a former investment banker.
GEORGE SORO’S MEDIA MATTERS HOLDS CONFERENCE CALL TO PLOT DEFEND PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Dana Loesch) It was reported that Alternet, Soros’ Media Matters, and other progressives staged a conference call this afternoon where they mapped strategy to defend Planned Parenthood from the choices Planned Parenthood staffers made on tape.
The majority of the call was spent discussing ways to discredit Rose because of her funding. They surmise that some group which donates to her pro-life magazine is a group donated to by a group given money by the Koch Brothers. So says people who just cashed a $1 million-dollar check from George Soros.
My new tagline:
I ONLY watch FOX NEWS because “Media Matters”.
MSNBC, which was (at the time) owned by General Electric who received $23 million in funding from the stimulus bill that the Tides Foundation and the Center for American Progress (another Soros funded group) helped write has a dwindling audience to spread misinformation to.
They have new ammunition, Angelo Carusone, who is the founder of StopBeck.com, who has pursued Glenn Beck’s advertisers tirelessly, watching and reporting on every thing Beck states
“Angelo Carusone received a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Fordham University in 2004 and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2010. Carusone is a former president of the American Parliamentary Debate Association. During college, he competed in four World Universities Debating Championships and over 80 national and international debate competitions. Carusone interned at the Department of Veterans Affairs and also served as a New York City Government Scholar in the Office of Emergency Management. After college, he was a Case Coordinator at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and co-managing editor of the nonpartisan 2008Central.net. During law school, Carusone founded the StopBeck effort. Organizing participants via social media, the StopBeck effort has helped hold Glenn Beck accountable by successfully convincing sponsors to cease advertising on Beck’s show. Carusone is Director of the DropFox campaign at Media Matters for America.”
DropFox Director, Angelo Carusone of StopBeck, Portrays Glenn Beck as Anti-Semite to Kodak
Angelo Carusone, a 28 year old law student and founder of the Twitter based StopBeck campaign, approaches Glenn Beck advertisers and attempts to convince them to stop spending their advertising dollars on Glenn Beck programming. Carusone considers advertisers targets. His method is simple. Once he identifies his target, he messages his 18,000 plus followers on Twitter and asks them to telephone, email, and blog (in effect harass) said advertiser in order to convince them to drop their advertising on Beck programming. Once accomplished, he sends out a Twitter message thanking his followers for all their hard work. He publishes his activities on his website, StopBeck.com, where he also maintains a running tally of his successes.
Hey isn’t Fox News “Fair and Balanced”, what’s their problem?/s.
The left loves lists.
*Quote* Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.*Unquote*
http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/
I have noticed also that Media Matters provides closed captioning for some TV shows, including news, on various channels. This accounts, I think, for some very weird “misprints” of what is actually being said.
Saw another article that I posted on the Texas board on this same thing, and that article talked about how they are going to target some “other conservative websites”...
Whatever could they mean by that??? ;-)
bttt