The DC examines the tax records of David Brock’s gilded loony bin.
- Together, Media Matters and Media Matters Action collected $14.6 million in 2010. That represented a massive increase over the $8.1 million the groups raised in 2009.
- While Media Matters does not publicly identify any of its donors, it is required to disclose the largest dollar amounts it received from individual contributors. Its 21 most generous donors gave more than $7.6 million in 2010 — more than half the total it raised. Two of those donors contributed more than $1 million each.
- Media Matters reported paying more than $5.7 million in salaries and benefits, including to seven staffers who earned more than $100,000 each. CEO David Brock was compensated by both Media Matters and Media Matters Action, with a total package of more than $299,000. Eric Boehlert racked up over $119,000 in compensation, making him one of the best-paid bloggers in Washington.
And then there’s this little nugget:
Media Matters reported at the end of 2010 that $612,500 of its assets were “restricted” by donors to be applied to “gun and public safety issues.” During this time, The Daily Caller has already reported, Brock’s personal assistant was carrying a holstered and concealed Glock handgun when he accompanied Brock to events.
Well, in Brock’s defense, don’t you have to pack heat when you’re the self-appointed captain of the president’s palace guard?
Ed Morrissey suggests that Media Matters’ partisanship ought not be investigated by Congress, preferring some giant overhaul of campaign finance law instead. And the driver behind that will be…? In a divided Congress with a shrill partisan atop the regime?
Ain’t gonna happen. Last time Congress mucked around with campaign finance law, it and the Republican president actually made the whole thing worse. Confidence in Washington to clean up the scheme that keeps it in power and its lawyers employed is misplaced, regardless of party. It’s just a fact of life in the swamp.
So investigate away. Expose Media Matters for what it is — an anti-Semitic soup of nuts and worse that is abusing the law to cheat the public out of taxes it ought to pay, while it backs a president who keeps on shilling for higher taxes. Expose their hypocrisy, and disrupt their narrative at every turn.
Investigations, bah.
What we need is to spread the word as far and as wide as we can about MM’s ideology, so that reasonable people realize that they’re heavily biased.
If enough people get that, MM will become less and less relevant.
Their traffic is already down, a fraction of what we get here. But that isn’t the point – as long as they exist they’ll be the MSM’s rip and read.
And fewer and fewer people are trusting the MSM anyway, so they’re both in a death spiral.
Don’t take your enemy’s defeat for granted until it’s a done deal. And the MSM is still far more powerful than any of us in the alternative media. Look who’s driving the GOP primary. It ain’t us and it ain’t the candidates or the party.
True, but we are on the upswing and they are on the downswing. Doesn’t mean we can rest on our laurels (we can’t), but the trends are trending in the right direction.
That’s irrelevant to whether they broke the law and cheated the taxpayers.
Very true.
I’m looking at the wider picture.
– give their trolls a forum here. They are needed back at Kos and MM.
Ironically, the trolls and seminar commenters give PJM money, in an indirect way.
PJM makes its money from advertising, and those ads are usually paid by the view or impression (Bryan, correct me if that’s not the way Tatler is set up), so the more views the page gets, the more PJM can charge.
Trolls and seminar commenters not only give Tatler their page views, they generate page views of people who debate with them, so it’s a win-win.
Yes, it doesn’t matter how much traffic MMFA gets. What matters is that they provide the bullets the MSM uses to shoot us.
just keep getting the simple truth out and it will force the insidious to use their resources to cover their tracks rather than concentrate them for a knockout punch
“Ed Morrissey suggests that Media Matters’ partisanship ought not be investigated by Congress, preferring some giant overhaul of campaign finance law instead.”
Ed needs to get his head out of… the government mindset.
And why do we need yet another “giant overhaul of campaign finance law”? Because too many people are getting their opinions heard?