Showing posts with label Media Matters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media Matters. Show all posts
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
YID With LID: Simon Weisenthal Center Bashes Antisemitism at Media Matters and Center for American Progress
From: YID With LID
Media Matters for America's Senior Fellow MJ Rosenberg has become infamous for accusing any American Jews who support Israel of dual loyalty (he calls them Israel-firsters), he also has claimed the evil Israel lobby" controls both the media and the U.S. foreign policy. He also uses the term neo-con in a similar fashion to another Jew-Hater Pat Buchanan-- as a slang pejorative term for Jews who are politically conservative. Rosenberg is not the only Jew-Basher at Media Matters just the most vocal.
Rosenberg and his fellow progressive Jew-Haters at MMFA and Center for American Progress have finally picked on the wrong Jews-The Simon Wiesenthal Center. Formed by the famous Nazi-hunter, the center's only purpose is to preach tolerance. Unlike groups such as the ADL and the AJC which have progressive agendas, the Wiesenthal Center is non-political. Also unlike those groups, the Center will criticize and/or praise people on either part of the political aisle.
Last week, Politico published a piece about how the Progressive MMFA and CAP were fighting with the more mainstream Democrats about Israel. They want to change the party to the Anti-Israel party. The article reported the battle was being led by several bloggers at Media Matters and the Center for American Progress' Think Progress blog.
Media Matters for America's Senior Fellow MJ Rosenberg has become infamous for accusing any American Jews who support Israel of dual loyalty (he calls them Israel-firsters), he also has claimed the evil Israel lobby" controls both the media and the U.S. foreign policy. He also uses the term neo-con in a similar fashion to another Jew-Hater Pat Buchanan-- as a slang pejorative term for Jews who are politically conservative. Rosenberg is not the only Jew-Basher at Media Matters just the most vocal.
Rosenberg and his fellow progressive Jew-Haters at MMFA and Center for American Progress have finally picked on the wrong Jews-The Simon Wiesenthal Center. Formed by the famous Nazi-hunter, the center's only purpose is to preach tolerance. Unlike groups such as the ADL and the AJC which have progressive agendas, the Wiesenthal Center is non-political. Also unlike those groups, the Center will criticize and/or praise people on either part of the political aisle.
Last week, Politico published a piece about how the Progressive MMFA and CAP were fighting with the more mainstream Democrats about Israel. They want to change the party to the Anti-Israel party. The article reported the battle was being led by several bloggers at Media Matters and the Center for American Progress' Think Progress blog.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Taxpayers' subsidization of war on Fox News
From: Washington Times
David Brock, the conservative turned liberal advocate, has recently garnered a considerable amount of press coverage for his attacks on Fox News for, among many other things, allegedly taking over leadership of the Republican Party. What the news coverage has ignored is his use of tax-free funds for his organization, Media Matters for America (MMA), for these attacks — 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.
MMA was originally established as an Internal Revenue Service Section 501(c)(3) organization, that is, an organization that can receive tax-deductible contributions to engage in educational activities. The more precise purpose was to counter alleged media bias and so to “identify occurrences of excessive bias in the American media, educate the public as to their existence, and to work with members of the media to reduce them.”
What MMA actually is doing, however, moves far afield from identifying possible bias to mounting a campaign to undermine a major media outlet and to promote the Democratic Party and progressive causes associated with it. Mr. Brock himself has described this new strategy as “a war on Fox,” an effort “to disrupt [Rupert Murdoch‘s] commercial interests” and look for ways to turn regulators against News Corp.’s media outlets.
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.
MMA’s role as a Democratic training camp parallels exactly the operations of the American Campaign Academy (ACA), which was denied tax-exempt status by the IRS in 1989. ACA operated a school of intensive training for people planning to be campaign professionals. The facts showed, however, that most of the program’s graduates were Republicans, as were the officials who ran it and the funders who donated to it, and it was based on materials developed by the Republican National Committee.
It would obviously be highly discriminatory to allow tax-free donations to go to Democratic Party advocates when they are (properly) denied to Republican advocates. But the problem goes beyond a question of evenhanded IRS interpretation of the tax code.
As we are learning in connection with efforts to cut spending and reform the tax code, tax deductions are similar to appropriations outlays in the sense that they are a form of government spending. Tax-exempt status confers government support — support that cannot be used to attack speech without violating the constitutional bar on government’s abridgment of free speech.
David Brock, the conservative turned liberal advocate, has recently garnered a considerable amount of press coverage for his attacks on Fox News for, among many other things, allegedly taking over leadership of the Republican Party. What the news coverage has ignored is his use of tax-free funds for his organization, Media Matters for America (MMA), for these attacks — 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.
MMA was originally established as an Internal Revenue Service Section 501(c)(3) organization, that is, an organization that can receive tax-deductible contributions to engage in educational activities. The more precise purpose was to counter alleged media bias and so to “identify occurrences of excessive bias in the American media, educate the public as to their existence, and to work with members of the media to reduce them.”
What MMA actually is doing, however, moves far afield from identifying possible bias to mounting a campaign to undermine a major media outlet and to promote the Democratic Party and progressive causes associated with it. Mr. Brock himself has described this new strategy as “a war on Fox,” an effort “to disrupt [Rupert Murdoch‘s] commercial interests” and look for ways to turn regulators against News Corp.’s media outlets.
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.
MMA’s role as a Democratic training camp parallels exactly the operations of the American Campaign Academy (ACA), which was denied tax-exempt status by the IRS in 1989. ACA operated a school of intensive training for people planning to be campaign professionals. The facts showed, however, that most of the program’s graduates were Republicans, as were the officials who ran it and the funders who donated to it, and it was based on materials developed by the Republican National Committee.
It would obviously be highly discriminatory to allow tax-free donations to go to Democratic Party advocates when they are (properly) denied to Republican advocates. But the problem goes beyond a question of evenhanded IRS interpretation of the tax code.
As we are learning in connection with efforts to cut spending and reform the tax code, tax deductions are similar to appropriations outlays in the sense that they are a form of government spending. Tax-exempt status confers government support — support that cannot be used to attack speech without violating the constitutional bar on government’s abridgment of free speech.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
David Brock: Who Cares?
The last few days we have become aware of Media Matters' change in mission. They are now in "sabotage" mode where Fox News is concerned. The George Soros financed Media Matters is run by David Brock, a former darling of the right and investigative reporter for The American Spectator.
I remember picking up his book, "The Real Anita Hill". I never did get around to reading it. This guy has been a media whore for as long as I can remember. Exactly what has he ever created or originated? Washington is filled with pundits reliving their glory days by giving "expert" opinions on any show that will listen or think tank that will take them in. What about David Brock? A former conservative muckraker that has disavowed the muck he raked.
So, now with a George Soros checkbook he's a liberal lackey. Pretty convenient. Again, he's not offering anything new,creative or original. He's just the same hack he always was. Have Conservatives missed him? Has Conservatism lacked for his continued participation? Are we really afraid of this so called watchdog? Of course not and that's because he has no real core, no principles at heart. When he didn't find himself at the forefront of the movement he bailed.
Guys like Brock are seen by all but themselves for what they are. A puppet. The difference is who is pulling the strings. And the guy that's signing the checks. David Brock was never a conservative. He was exploiting a popular movement and when he failed to produce anything of value, he became a liberal. George Soros's puppet.
Puppets have no real core, no heart, no will to resist. They roll over. That's what David Brock is at heart. He's a Soros puppet lacking a critical eye fully embracing mediocrity while condemning productive and meaningful enterprises like Fox News. Not that Roger Ailes or Rupert Murdoch are shaking in their boots.
David Brock: Always looking for someone to pull the strings.
I remember picking up his book, "The Real Anita Hill". I never did get around to reading it. This guy has been a media whore for as long as I can remember. Exactly what has he ever created or originated? Washington is filled with pundits reliving their glory days by giving "expert" opinions on any show that will listen or think tank that will take them in. What about David Brock? A former conservative muckraker that has disavowed the muck he raked.
So, now with a George Soros checkbook he's a liberal lackey. Pretty convenient. Again, he's not offering anything new,creative or original. He's just the same hack he always was. Have Conservatives missed him? Has Conservatism lacked for his continued participation? Are we really afraid of this so called watchdog? Of course not and that's because he has no real core, no principles at heart. When he didn't find himself at the forefront of the movement he bailed.
Guys like Brock are seen by all but themselves for what they are. A puppet. The difference is who is pulling the strings. And the guy that's signing the checks. David Brock was never a conservative. He was exploiting a popular movement and when he failed to produce anything of value, he became a liberal. George Soros's puppet.
Puppets have no real core, no heart, no will to resist. They roll over. That's what David Brock is at heart. He's a Soros puppet lacking a critical eye fully embracing mediocrity while condemning productive and meaningful enterprises like Fox News. Not that Roger Ailes or Rupert Murdoch are shaking in their boots.
David Brock: Always looking for someone to pull the strings.
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