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Why do some people think Media Matters might be an illegal operation?”

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Why do some people think Media Matters might be an illegal operation?”

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Some think Media Matters is an illegal operation because of some of the ways they conduct their business.

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I pointed out that the lefty activist site Media Matters posted a sleazy hit on the Heritage Foundation’s Overcriminalization project. Last night, Rachel Maddow used the same tactics on her MNSBC program. Like Media Matters, Maddow wrongly assumes Heritage opposes every bill in the “Legislative Watch” section of its website (it’s more a clearinghouse of all federal legislation related to crime), then also falsely equates opposition to a particular crime-fighting bill with being soft on whatever crime that bill’s authors are purporting to fight. As the Popehat blog points out in discussing the original Media Matters post, that intellectually lazy tactic can be pretty easily turned against the person who is using it. There are plenty of reasons to support some high-minded sounding bill giving broad new powers to the federal government to fight, say, the use of foreign slave labor other than secretly harboring pleasant thoughts about slave labor. Maddow seems to understand this point pret

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“Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) [tax exempt] progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” according to it’s website. Media Matters was founded by David Brock with Hillary Clinton, to provide a “progressive” biased forum in which to portray Democrat talking points and to defame conservatives in general and Republicans in particular. The statements made in their “about us” page alone spell out their political agenda in singling out conservatives and Republicans as the subject of their “monitoring” and “correcting”. They solely target Republicans and those who disagree with the Democrats, showing partisanship on their official registered website. IRS form rr2007-41 spells out the rules for a 501(c)3 organization. One such rule is as follows; “However, for their organizations to remain tax exempt under section 501(c)(3), leaders cannot make

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