No wonder “Media Matters” is defrauding the public about my legal actions
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NYT: Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters for Fight Against FOX and Glenn Beck https://www.theblaze.com/ (He is also donating money to the far left leaning Huffington Post and NPR to fight Beck)
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 1:56pm by Jonathon M. Seidl
Billionaire financier George Soros announced today that he will officially fund the group Media Matters with a $1 million donation, aimed at fighting Fox News and Glenn Beck.
George Soros has long claimed not to be a funder of the liberal media group Media Matters for America (MMFA). That will all change today when the billionaire philanthropist donates a reported $1 million to the organization, which will use the money to hold “Fox host Glenn Beck and others on the cable news channel accountable for their reporting,” the New York Times reports.
According to a statement obtained by the Times “The Caucus” blog, MMFA is set to announce the donation later today. That statement reads in part:
Fox has transformed itself into a 24-7 G.O.P. attack machine, dividing Americans through fear-mongering and falsehoods and undermining the legitimacy of our government for partisan political ends. … We are especially pleased that in this moment of hidden right-wing billionaire money corrupting our democracy, Mr. Soros, upon deciding to support our efforts, quickly and transparently has made that support public.
In an accompanying statement obtained by the Times, Soros continues his stance that he has “not to date been a funder” of the organization, but says the donation is now necessary in order to fight Fox News and the “incendiary rhetoric” of its hosts.
Soros made a similar claim in the past regarding the liberal Jewish organization J Street. However The Washington Times recently uncovered documents revealing Soros and his family had been funding the group.
In 2007, Bill O’Reilly outlined how he believes George Soros secretly funds Media Matters.
Accusations that Soros has been secretly funding Media Matters have been circulating for quite some time. As the NYT points out, in May Beck called MMFA a “left-wing George Soros-funded media machine that is now referring to me as a jihadist.” In 2007, fellow Fox host Sean Hannity called the group “Hillary Clinton’s George Soros-funded group Media Matters.”
That argument is usually based on the idea that Soros finds ways around being directly connected to funding Media Matters. Instead, critics say, he funnels his money through other organizations that turn around and donate to the group.
In 2004, National Review’s Donald Luskin explainedthat Soros funded MMFA through donations to the Center for American Progress. In 2007, Bill O’Reilly explained the connections on his TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZZGTGVePE&feature=player_embedded – O’Reilly: George Soros is funding Media Matters,John Edwards On its website, Media Matters denies O‘Reilly’s claims: “Soros has never given money to Media Matters, either directly or through another organization.”
Politico, however, reportstoday that “Media Matters has received funding from or formed partnerships with several groups that Soros funds or has funded. These include the Tides Foundation, Democracy Alliance, Moveon.org and the Center for American Progress.” It later corrected its post to absolve Moveon.org because it “has not received a donation from Soros since 2004.”
Media Matters vice president for research and communications Ari Rabin-Havt tells Politico that the organization has unsuccessfully solicited Soros’s funding wing, the Open Society Institute, for the past six years. “We’ve asked for money,” he said. “We just haven’t gotten it.”
Now that’s officially changed. Soros believes Fox and its hosts have become too dangerous and are a grave threat to “civil and informed discourse.” He explains in a more complete version of his statement, available via Politico:
“Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters,” Soros said. “However, in view of recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence, I have now decided to support the organization. Media Matters is one of the few groups that attempts to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast. I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”
Perhaps by coincidence, or in connection with the donation, Politico reports that Media Matters launched a new section of its website today specifically attacking Glenn Beck. Reflecting a recent letter by Tides Foundation CEO Drummond Pike calling on advertisers to drop Beck, the new section gives readers the chance to “sign” a petition:
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November 17th, 2010 @ 11:15 am
You mean they cut out the parts of the interview where you just rambled on about something you were never asked about?
It would be nice if some Muslim terrorist pulled you from your car, kicking and screaming and then tore off all of your clothes and dragged you through the streets with pancakes on your head and belly.
Yes. The whole world is laughing at you biotch.
November 17th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
Neil N Bob, you are one sick FUCK…Have a little HATE in you dude? Why don’t you just do all of us a favor and don’t post your HATE and go away. That would make my day!
November 18th, 2010 @ 11:15 am
George Soros is Anti Gun, New World Order Scumbag;as well as a convicted Felon! He needs to flushed down a very large toilet.