Tuesday, February 21, 2012
As the curtain is pulled back and more of Media Matters’s actions see the light of day, expect more of these sorts of calls — but don’t expect the IRS to act on them, at least not yet.
◼ Religious Broadcasters Call for IRS to Investigate Media Matters - Derek Hunter/Breitbart's Big Journalism
The Daily Caller reported last week that Media Matters, the progressive-fascist group funded by wealthy leftists to silence anyone who dare fail to meet their political purity test, received a $50,000 grant to “fact-check” religious broadcasters. Coincidentally, last November, religious broadcasters found themselves under attack from the FCC, when their exemption to closed captioning regulations, which is very expensive, was revoked.
According to the Caller, “The grant came in 2006 from the ARCA Foundation, a 60-year-old philanthropy that funds Democratic causes. The foundation gave Media Matters the $50,000 “to support a Religious Broadcasting Project to expand the monitoring and fact checking of religious broadcasts.”
This week, the target of these actions struck back.
The organization National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) called for the IRS to launch an investigation into Media Matters to see they violated the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.