[khnyny]

Excellent article by Byron York on the background of Media Matters.

[Slapshot68]

““All this garbage that’s coming out of the Right is like the worst contamination of this country”

You mean the truth that you feckless cowards choose to ignore? Wow, how delusional.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

It did get Hillary and her money crimes off the air, so it is a win for the Dims!

[Rick.Donaldson]

Folks, the problem with these people isn’t that they are feckless, cowards and liars.

The problem is this: MOST AMERICANS believe the crap they hear WITHOUT BOTHERING TO CHECK IT OUT. People who come here, and check other sites know the facts, or can easily learn them. MOST normal folks hear only the crap they are fed by the media and refuse to bother to check out the facts. So, the PROBLEM here is that Media Matters and MoveOn get AWAY with this stuff because only people who really CARE look up the facts. The rest of them ought not be allowed to vote.

[donna]

donors to Media Matters include Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corp., who has contributed more than $7 million to the 527s in partnership with his friend, the financier George Soros.

Anyone here have their automobile insurance with Progressive?

[BluH2o]

But the more Brock insists that he has lied, and lied, and then lied again, the more one begins to suspect Brock of being, well, a liar.

'Nuff said.

[isthisnickcool]

Media Matters for America is yet another 501(c)(3) nonprofit "charity" that pays no taxes and simply should not exist unless David Brock wanted to go in to a business, collect money and then pay taxes for what they are doing.

This is another farce where someone forms a "nonprofit" entity to push their own political agendas and make some money. In 2005 according to their 990 media Matters For America took in $8,470,957. They paid out $1,379,765 in salary and wages. All exempt while Rush Limbaugh paid MILLIONS in taxes.

We need to reform these fake nonprofits in America. This is way past due! The idea was to allow poor groups to hekp poor people. How can it be that something like a soup kitchen, a REAL charity, who helps people can be the same exact kind of busness entity as Media Matters?

It's outragous when elected officials try to censor Rush Limbaugh. It's sickening that by allowing groups like Media Matters to exist as a "charity" as a taxpayer I'm basically paying part of their cost to do business. And because they can raise tax decuctible money as a charity they can afford to attack real businesses like EIB and Clear Channel.

There are about 1,500,000 so-called "charities" in America today. We are fools to allow some of these groups to have the same tax advantages as groups that help their fellow man.

[libstripper]

The brutal conservative noise machine will keep going, Brock warns, “until its capacities to spread filth are somehow eradicated.”

Thus spake the vile little rump riding Stalinist. "Somehow eradicated" leaves a lot of scope for means, up to and including gulags. Hence, protecting the Second Amendment becomes all the more important.

[Milligan]

ThinkProgress.org is another Soros publications.
Why is that tax exempt?
It’s not really educational but political.