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Media Matters’ Donors Revealed….
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Posted on 02/17/2012 7:39:26 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Media Matters’ Donors Revealed….

Left-wing foundations lavish millions on Media Matters

Published: 12:50 AM 02/17/2012 | Updated: 1:06 AM 02/17/2012

By David Martosko, The Daily Caller

Relying on tax returns and websites of wealthy U.S. foundations, a Daily Caller investigation has revealed the sources of more than $28.8 million in funding collected by the liberal Media Matters for America since 2003, the year before its formal incorporation. That sum represents 54 percent of every dollar the organization has raised in its history, making Media Matters a principally foundation-driven — not citizen-supported — activist group.

The list of Media Matters’ foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left Tides Foundation ($4,384,702), George Soros’ Open Society Institutes ($1,075,000), the Ford Foundation ($966,466), the Sandler Foundation ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization — and the Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.

They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization MoveOn.org ($50,000), the Barbra Streisand Foundation ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered Stride Rite Charitable Foundation ($25,000), the Lear Family Foundation ($55,000)

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1 posted on 02/17/2012 7:39:34 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Glenn Beck had ALL of this stuff about 3 or 4 years ago when he had a Fox News Show. “Tucker Carlson” and the “Daily Caller” are just trying to rip Glenn and his staff off and take credit for this.


2 posted on 02/17/2012 7:46:57 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Grassley is now calling for an investigation of MM’s tax-exempt status.


3 posted on 02/17/2012 7:47:57 AM PST by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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To: US Navy Vet
I have to remind myself of that very thing. I'll hear some story, and I think, that's old news. Then I remember that I watch the "insane guy", and he was telling me all about it at least a year ago.

The left had to get rid of Beck because he is very, very good at connecting dots.

4 posted on 02/17/2012 7:52:50 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: Sub-Driver

In other words, call in the usual suspects!


5 posted on 02/17/2012 7:55:43 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I believe Media Matters is a 503(c) - meaning its supposed to be non-partisan.


6 posted on 02/17/2012 7:56:10 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Here's the list of leftists.
7 posted on 02/17/2012 8:08:52 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Sub-Driver

“Progressive” organizations are like poor South American countries - the powerful bored rich supporting the criminal class to keep the ‘pot’ stirred. Sick.


8 posted on 02/17/2012 8:12:47 AM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: harpu
$30,000 - Children's Wellness Fund
It's all "for the children" don't you know.
9 posted on 02/17/2012 8:13:49 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Sub-Driver

Media Matters was known to be Soros’s Sturmableilung!


10 posted on 02/17/2012 8:24:17 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: LibertarianLiz

beck might have been a few things but on issues like this he was the only one who had balls to cover and report.

The likes of Hannity would rather have his elitist liberal pals on and ignore social conservative issues and instead take his role off what Rush said that day.

Beck is let go form FOX but FOX hires Megyn Kelly’s pal Sally Kohn.

A Soros stooge media matter, homosexual activist , here is some facts about Kohn Megyn Kellys pal and the new FOX hire

http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2012/01/fox-news-hires-soros-funded-activist.html.

http://www.infiltratednation.com/2012/01/fox-news-hires-soros-funded-activist.html

Beck said that if the Govt and the left cannot close down a place like the boy scouts or FOX they then try to get them banned and that did not work with FOX so they now try ti infiltrate FOX and the likes of Megyn Kelly that blond bimbo on in the afternoon or I think she is as I stopped watching her got her on the inside.


11 posted on 02/17/2012 8:25:18 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: LibertarianLiz

the second link states how Kohn has gone after FOX, put down America and capitalism etc, pushed her radical socialist views about and tried to hurt Beck.

Here she is now of all places WORKING AT FOX!!!


12 posted on 02/17/2012 8:27:13 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: Sub-Driver

Fools and their money are soon parted,Soros son will not win the election on matter how many dead people vote.


13 posted on 02/17/2012 8:56:44 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Sub-Driver

Fools and their money are soon parted,Soros son will not win the election no matter how many dead people vote.


14 posted on 02/17/2012 8:57:12 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Sub-Driver.
Tides Foundation ($4,384,702), George Soros' Open Society Institutes ($1,075,000), the Ford Foundation ($966,466), the Sandler Foundation ($400,000) -- endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization -- and the Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son. They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization MoveOn.org ($50,000), the Barbra Streisand Foundation ($85,000), the kids shoes-powered Stride Rite Charitable Foundation ($25,000), the Lear Family Foundation ($55,000)...

15 posted on 02/21/2012 7:14:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: US Navy Vet

http://discoverthenetworks.org/ has all this kind of info all the time.


16 posted on 02/21/2012 7:18:23 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the much needed re-post!


17 posted on 02/21/2012 7:20:18 PM PST by Randy Larsen (No Romney vote from my family!)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Bookmarked your link and thank you!


18 posted on 02/21/2012 7:23:12 PM PST by Randy Larsen (No Romney vote from my family!)
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To: Sub-Driver

404 not found, just me?


19 posted on 02/21/2012 7:44:12 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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