Media mutters non kinetic war against Fox
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeMedia Matters, the George Soros-backed legion of liberal agit-prop shock troops based in the nation's capital, has declared war on Fox News, and in the process quite possibly stepped across the line of legality.I think this is an admission of failure by Media Mutters. I suspect this was their real objective all along, but their current business model was not working. They are therefore going into a more overt non kinetic operation against Fox. This version is unlikely to be effective either since they are now admitting their partisan objectives.
David Brock, MM's founder, was quoted Saturday by Politico promising that his organization is mounting "guerrila warfare and sabotage" against Fox News, which he said "is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
To that end, Brock told Politico that MM will “focus on [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch and trying to disrupt his commercial interests ..." Murdoch is the founder of Fox News and a media titan with newspaper, broadcast, Internet and other media countries around the world.
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Since Brock classifies Fox News as the "leader" of the Republican Party, by his own description he is involving his organization in a partisan battle. High-priced K Street lawyers can probably find a federal judge or a sympathetic IRS bureaucrat willing to either look the other way or accept some sort of MM rationale such as that it is merely providing educational information about a partisan group.
But in the IRS application for 501(C)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation status, Section VIII, Question I asks the applicant: "Do you support or oppose candidates in political campaigns in any way?" (Emphasis added).
Under Brock's definition of Fox News, it appears he is setting MM on a course of actively opposing all Republican candidates. Brandon Kiser at The Right Sphere blog argues that this new statement of MM's mission means it must change its tax status.
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Why is it that liberals cannot stand to here the other side of an argument? Are they so weak that even allowing conservatives to hear things conservatives agree with is a problem for them. This is an attitude that suggest they think they cannot compete in the market place of ideas and they must therefore have a monopoly in that market.
Conservatives on the other hand are content to let liberals listen to their three networks and two cable outlets while they watch something else. It seems that watching the other side has driven Media Mutters mad.
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