Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 3:55:32 GMT -5
www.theblaze.com/stories/are-you-subsidizing-media-matters-war-on-fox-news/ARE YOU SUBSIDIZING MEDIA MATTERS’ WAR ON FOX NEWS? Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:30pm Could you be subsidizing a declared war on Fox News? That question may sound absurd at first, but according to a former lawyer in the administration of the elder George Bush, the answer is yes. Media Matters, the far-left website that has become a mouthpiece for the Democratic party, currently enjoys tax-exempt status. It’s also declared a war on Fox News, working hard to discredit and attack cable’s most popular news channel. That, says C. Boyden Gray, violates the rules behind receiving tax-free donations. In an op-ed in the Washington Times this week, Gray explains his argument: MMA’s activities should disallow its tax-exempt status in two fundamental ways. First, IRS rulings make clear that attacks on individuals, statement of positions that are unsupported by facts and use of inflammatory language and other distortions will cost an organization its tax-free status. Second, in declaring “guerrilla warfare” on Fox as the “leader” and “mouthpiece” of the Republican Party and in developing a sophisticated Democratic-leaning media training boot camp, MMA has transformed itself into an aggressive advocate for Democratic and progressive causes and thus produced a second deviation from exempt educational activities. According to Gray, Media Matters’s tax-exempt status represents “a form of government support for activities that clearly do not merit tax-exempt status and that as a result infringe on Fox News’ First Amendment rights.” In an interview with Bill O’Reilly last night, Gray explained more: So what kind of work are you subsidizing? For starters, it’s the dramatic anti-Fox rhetoric and headlines the site puts out on a daily basis: But that’s really just the tip of the iceberg. What else is the group up to? Well, it loves attacking conservative hosts such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. It devotes time every day to monitoring both, cutting and putting up clips it feels are gotcha moments. For example, this week the group published a clip of Limbaugh seemingly comparing Obama to Hitler: The Huffington Post picked up the piece and overtly drew up the supposed comparison. But a close listen of the audio reveals Limbaugh wasn’t calling Obama Hitler, but rather talking about Obama’s generals, pointing out that they did something similar to Hitler’s generals — mainly tried to stand up to their commander-in-chief. And finally, just in case you might have thought that Media Matters is an equal-opportunity critic, you’re right. In part. As The Atlantic pointed out this week (via Mediaite), when CNN anchor Ed Henry decided to jump networks to Fox he was immediately targeted by Media Matters (whereas before he was praised): That was fast. Hours after Ed Henry announced his move from CNN to Fox News as chief White House correspondent, the liberal media watchdog Media Matters has begun painting him as a right-wing nut job. The treatment is par for the course in the world of partisan watchdog groups (we’d expect the same from its conservative archival Newsbusters if a CNN anchor moved to MSNBC). But the group’s rushed denunciation of Henry is a little silly considering the group’s only other articles about Henry this year credit the then-CNN correspondent for debunking Republican Darell Issa’s “false claim” that the stimulus “didn’t create any jobs” and criticizing President Obama’s critics for spreading a “myth” about the president’s India trip costing $200 million. Is there really any doubt what the group’s agenda is? And if not, should it continue to get a tax break? “No one would deny anybody the right to use his own or other private funds to criticize media coverage,” Gray writes in the Times. “But equally no one would argue that it would be appropriate for Congress to provide taxpayer funds to organizations for the purpose of financing attacks on free speech. Yet that is the effect of allowing tax deductions for such attacks.” **Videos in link.***
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 4:08:03 GMT -5
washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/media-matters-breaking-law-its-war-fox-newsIs Media Matters breaking the law in its 'war' on Fox News? By: Mark Tapscott Media Matters, the George Soros-backed legion of liberal agit-prop shock troops based in the nation's capital, has declared war on Fox News, and in the process quite possibly stepped across the line of legality. David Brock, MM's founder, was quoted Saturday by Politico promising that his organization is mounting "guerrila warfare and sabotage" against Fox News, which he said "is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.” To that end, Brock told Politico that MM will “focus on [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch and trying to disrupt his commercial interests ..." Murdoch is the founder of Fox News and a media titan with newspaper, broadcast, Internet and other media countries around the world. There is nothing in the Politico article to suggest that Brock, who was paid just under $300,000 in 2009, according to the group's most recently available tax return, plans to ask the IRS to change his organization's tax status as a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation. Being a C3 puts MM in the non-profit, non-commercial sector, and it also bars the organzation from participating in partisan political activity. This new, more aggressive stance, however, appears to run directly counter to the government's requirements for maintaining a C3 tax status. Since Brock classifies Fox News as the "leader" of the Republican Party, by his own description he is involving his organization in a partisan battle. High-priced K Street lawyers can probably find a federal judge or a sympathetic IRS bureaucrat willing to either look the other way or accept some sort of MM rationale such as that it is merely providing educational information about a partisan group. But in the IRS application for 501(C)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation status, Section VIII, Question I asks the applicant: "Do you support or oppose candidates in political campaigns in any way?" (Emphasis added). Under Brock's definition of Fox News, it appears he is setting MM on a course of actively opposing all Republican candidates. Brandon Kiser at The Right Sphere blog argues that this new statement of MM's mission means it must change its tax status. Beyond the partisanship issue, explicitly declaring that your purpose as a tax-exempt non-profit public foundation is to interfere with the commercial interests of somebody else's legal business enterprise falls nowhere within the scope of purely educational activities. The official purpose of MM, according to its 2009 tax return, is to "notify activists, journalists, pundits and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and take direct action against offending media institutions." At another point much later in the same return, MM's purpose is more succinctly described as being "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the media." Besides Brock, who is MM's CEO, Eric Burns, who is the organization's president, received just under $260,000 in compensation in 2009. Burns has since left MM to form Bullfight Strategies, a media consulting firm. For the complete Politico piece, go here. And for additional analysis, check out Ed Morrissey's balanced assessment here.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 4:33:35 GMT -5
The Obama's are ready to go, not worried at all. Michelle is so grateful they have help from the media. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/24/michelle_obama_fortunately_we_have_help_from_the_media.htmlMichelle Obama: "Fortunately, We Have Help From The Media" In an interview with CNN, First Lady Michelle Obama thanks the media for their "support" and "kindness." CNN reporter: "How's the family ready for this [the election]? It's going to be quite vicious, isn't it? How do you prepare for that?" First Lady Michelle Obama: "You know, it's … we're ready, you know. Our children, you know, could care less about what we're doing. We work hard to do that. Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see." Video in link.. ****Children.. yeah, right, they care about children... like they care about Sarah Palin's children.... ****
|
|
ugonow
Senior Member
Joined: Dec 21, 2010 10:15:55 GMT -5
Posts: 3,397
|
Post by ugonow on Jun 25, 2011 8:45:14 GMT -5
Why are churches? They too are non profits that engage in politicing.
|
|
ugonow
Senior Member
Joined: Dec 21, 2010 10:15:55 GMT -5
Posts: 3,397
|
Post by ugonow on Jun 25, 2011 8:53:12 GMT -5
Attacking? War on Fox? Sounds like a lot of hyperbole. Sounds a bit to me like Rights claim that the left calls anyone that disagrees with Obama ia racist.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 15:11:57 GMT -5
Did you read the articles? It's no secret that they are after FOX, etc. Churches are NOTHING like a far left media outlet. Believe it or not politics is not a hot topic every Sunday. THE most radical and visible church in Tucson is FAR left, always protesting for something, gays, illegals, Gaza, you name it. I personally do not attend that kind of church. Most churches that HAVE money spend it on charity work around the world, as needed, and stay out of politics. Lots of churches don't get tithings, so they do well to stay open. the church I belonged to for years is second only to the Catholic church in charity work, and I never once heard a political speech in church over all the years I was VERY active in the church. Can media matters claim anything remotely like that? No. They are a left wing media outlet that is tax exempt like a church, and their "job" is to destroy conservatism any way they can. NO excuse for the tax exempt status at all.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 16:34:48 GMT -5
I guess people are fine with this. No outrage over a Soros media outlet not paying taxes, no outrage over conservatives being attacked and slandered, even when there are links all over the internet to back up what they say on air... it's all good as long as it is conservatives being trashed, right?? Just like it is okay to go after conservative women, attack their lives, their families, their flipping hobbies, but no one better say a word about any liberal woman, especially not Mrs. O.... Fine. Ya know, I think Beck should be tax exempt, too. He does exactly what media matters does, but backs up what he says with fact, and he does not have the same status as a church like Obama's left wing machine Media Matters. Just look at all the liberal activity going on to silence the left, through the FCC, through internet regulation, through deliberate attacks like Media Matters admit to.. It's not going to work. People that dislike conservatives NOW-- just wait and see what happens if somehow team Obama manages to shut them up by passing some sneaky law or rules.. that will be fun to watch. I hope Beck, Rush, Levine, Savage, Ingraham, Coulter, Hannity, Boortz, Palin, and all the rest of them NEVER shut up. Not one conservative out there trying to silence people. That is a liberal game, and it is not going to work. Conservatives like to expose hypocrisy and lies, while liberals prefer trying to silence opposition. Disgusting.
|
|
|
Post by lakhota on Jun 25, 2011 17:06:08 GMT -5
Yes, krickitt, we are fine with this. The George W. Bush Administration granted Media Matters its tax-exempt status - like the Obama Administration recently granted pimp James O'Keefe tax-exempt status. Republican activist C. Boyden Gray is disgruntled since his demotion on Fox after Media Matters revealed his conflict of interest in acting as a Supreme Court analyst on Fox. Fox News Going After Media Matters’ Tax-Exempt Status With Questionable Tacticswww.newshounds.us/2011/06/24/fox_news_going_after_media_matters_taxexempt_status_with_questionable_tactics.php
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 17:46:33 GMT -5
Bush granted the status, but they are not doing what they are supposed to do. They are totally biased and political.
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 17:49:59 GMT -5
Trying to muddy the waters, Lak? It does not matter at all why this story came out. What matters is that Media Matters is not doing what it is supposed to do to have tax exempt status. But-- there ya go-- try to divert attention off the issue by talking about someone else.
|
|
|
Post by lakhota on Jun 25, 2011 17:51:36 GMT -5
Bush granted the status, but they are not doing what they are supposed to do. They are totally biased and political. Prove it! Then mail your "proof" to the IRS. BTW, what exactly are they "supposed to do"...?
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 17:54:39 GMT -5
MM is trusted by everyone but lyin' cheatin' Pubs and the sheep.The truth is liberal now, and you have to act batshytte crazy to get the Pub nomination. The question is, why are Koch supported liars, totally partisan orgs like Heritage tax exempt?
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 18:07:59 GMT -5
Everyone but Beckites and Limbaughites know- and I mean the rest of the MODERN WORLD. Charles G. Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, as well as more recently funding tea party groups like Americans for Prosperity Koch supported his brother's candidacy for vice ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._Koch The Koch brothers' campaign to kill social security The Koch echo chamber begins with think tanks like the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and ... The investigation revealed Koch-supported policy fixes, and specific ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../jun/22/koch-brothers-social-securityOpEdNews - Article: Inside the Koch Brothers' Expensive Echo ... The Koch echo chamber begins with think tanks like the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and ... The investigation revealed Koch-supported policy fixes, and specific ... www.opednews.com/articles/Inside-the-Koch-Brothers--by... Inside the Koch Brothers' Expensive Echo Chamber - Newsroom ... The Koch echo chamber begins with think tanks like the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and ... The investigation revealed Koch-supported policy fixes, and specific ... sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=C1789EB9-A685-4DD2... Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Charles' biography on the Koch Industries Web site states that "he has continuously supported ... In addition to funding think tanks and advocacy institutes, the Koch ... old.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=9 Group Requests DOJ To Investigate Scalia and Thomas ... Last October, ThinkProgress published a memo from Koch Industries detailing a secret ... About Think Progress | Contact Us | Donate thinkprogress.org/.../01/20/139866/scalia-thomas-koch-doj The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama : The New ... Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s co-chairs, Blaine ... related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and ... www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayerKoch-Funded Book Argues Against Mine Safety Laws In West Virginia The Koch-funded think tank recently started a phony news service in West Virginia, called the “West Virginia Watchdog.” Americans for Prosperity, the fake grassroots ... thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/09/27/121012/koch-mine... Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine ... Organizations and think tanks supported by the foundation include ... management agencies are the product of the think tanks created by, and funded by, the Koch ... annares.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/koch-industries Bye Glenn- we won't miss your lying bought off butt
|
|
djAdvocate
Member Emeritus
only posting when the mood strikes me.
Joined: Jun 21, 2011 12:33:54 GMT -5
Posts: 75,233
Mini-Profile Background: {"image":"","color":"000307"}
|
Post by djAdvocate on Jun 25, 2011 18:08:05 GMT -5
for the same reason that the Media Research Center is.
|
|
vonnie6200
Senior Member
Adopt a Shelter Pet
Joined: Jan 8, 2011 14:07:17 GMT -5
Posts: 2,199
|
Post by vonnie6200 on Jun 25, 2011 18:10:22 GMT -5
MM is trusted by everyone but lyin' cheatin' Pubs and the sheep.The truth is liberal now, and you have to act batshytte crazy to get the Pub nomination.
|
|
|
Post by marshabar1 on Jun 25, 2011 18:15:39 GMT -5
"The truth is liberal now." And verrry elastic. ;D
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 18:15:53 GMT -5
|
|
vonnie6200
Senior Member
Adopt a Shelter Pet
Joined: Jan 8, 2011 14:07:17 GMT -5
Posts: 2,199
|
Post by vonnie6200 on Jun 25, 2011 18:17:29 GMT -5
Some people wouldn't know the truth if it hit them between the eyes.
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 18:20:07 GMT -5
I'll go with Soros, the NYT, Nobel Prize winners, the Guardian, BBC- you go with Beck, Rush, the great polluters and worker screwers (Koch Bros), Murdoch, Rev. Moon, and the birthers....the whacko 20%.
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 18:22:42 GMT -5
I know- let's cut taxes on the bloated rich and destroy Medicare. You go girls!! Palin/Bachmann 2012!! ;D
|
|
vonnie6200
Senior Member
Adopt a Shelter Pet
Joined: Jan 8, 2011 14:07:17 GMT -5
Posts: 2,199
|
Post by vonnie6200 on Jun 25, 2011 18:23:02 GMT -5
I'll go with Soros, the NYT, Nobel Prize winners, the Guardian, BBC- you go with Beck, Rush, the great polluters and worker screwers (Koch Bros), Murdoch, Rev. Moon, and the birthers....the whacko 20%. I do my own research - I don't blindly follow anyone
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 18:26:27 GMT -5
Sure And believe 60 Minutes is a commie plot- without watching...
|
|
vonnie6200
Senior Member
Adopt a Shelter Pet
Joined: Jan 8, 2011 14:07:17 GMT -5
Posts: 2,199
|
Post by vonnie6200 on Jun 25, 2011 18:29:52 GMT -5
Sure And believe 60 Minutes is a commie plot- without watching... Just ask my parents and my former teachers and a few former bosses.
|
|
hello fromWarsaw
Senior Member
Hiya! Wake UP!!
Joined: Feb 13, 2011 1:24:04 GMT -5
Posts: 2,044
|
Post by hello fromWarsaw on Jun 25, 2011 18:33:32 GMT -5
Names and #s please
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 18:35:19 GMT -5
Hi, Vonnie. Rebellious conservative women rock!
|
|
djAdvocate
Member Emeritus
only posting when the mood strikes me.
Joined: Jun 21, 2011 12:33:54 GMT -5
Posts: 75,233
Mini-Profile Background: {"image":"","color":"000307"}
|
Post by djAdvocate on Jun 25, 2011 18:38:22 GMT -5
Hi, Vonnie. Rebellious conservative women rock! like the Taliban?
|
|
vonnie6200
Senior Member
Adopt a Shelter Pet
Joined: Jan 8, 2011 14:07:17 GMT -5
Posts: 2,199
|
Post by vonnie6200 on Jun 25, 2011 18:38:40 GMT -5
Hi, Vonnie. Rebellious conservative women rock! Right on - we do - don't we!
|
|
|
Post by lakhota on Jun 25, 2011 18:39:01 GMT -5
The Weird Case Against Media Matters's Non-Profit StatusAt the (conservative-leaning) Washington Examiner, Mark Tapscott notes that currently Media Matters is classified as a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation, which puts it in the "non-profit, non-commercial sector, and it also bars the organization from participating in partisan political activity." He notes that "this new, more aggressive stance, however, appears to run directly counter to the government's requirements for maintaining a C3 tax status." The official purpose of Media Matters, says its tax return, is that it's "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the media." There appears to be one potential snag in Tapscott's reasoning, however. In order for the IRS to decide that Media Matters should lose its tax exemption, it would also need to formally declare Fox News a partisan appendage of the Republican party, a conspiracy theory that Brock has long pushed. That's unlikely, to say the least, so it would seem less likely that Media Matters will lose its tax-exempt status anytime soon. More: www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/03/media-matters-fox/36140/
|
|
vonnie6200
Senior Member
Adopt a Shelter Pet
Joined: Jan 8, 2011 14:07:17 GMT -5
Posts: 2,199
|
Post by vonnie6200 on Jun 25, 2011 18:39:26 GMT -5
Hi, Vonnie. Rebellious conservative women rock! like the Taliban? they're not conservative women, they are just slaves
|
|
Deleted
Joined: May 18, 2024 22:13:43 GMT -5
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 18:44:46 GMT -5
LOL, Vonnie.. they do not know conservative women like us. They have this totally FALSE impression of what conservative women are... Kind of funny, actually. ;D
|
|