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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:48 pm Post subject: Former WH Counsel to IRS: Pull Media Matters’ Tax-Exempt... |
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"Fox Business" journalist Elizabeth MacDonald reports on a 27 Jul IRS filing by former Bush White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray protesting the Tax Exempt status of "Media Matters". In her extensive report, the Media Matters' campaign to disparage SVPT in 2004 is featured...
| Quote: | Former White House Counsel to IRS: Pull Media Matters’ Tax-Exempt Status
By Elizabeth MacDonald
Published August 04, 2011 | FOXBusiness
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Partisanship in Presidential Elections
The partisanship at Media Matters appears to have begun right from the start.
Tim Chavez, a columnist for The Tennessean says he got an email in 2004 from a Media Matters employee, Melissa Salmanowitz, in which Salmanowitz suggested Chavez cover Media Matters' efforts to get chain book retailers to stop selling “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” because of accuracy issues.
The book had questioned then-presidential candidate Kerry’s claim that he had spent Christmas of 1968 "sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia," among other things. Chavez reportedly emailed Salmanowitz telling her he would write about the nonprofit’s efforts, “if they’d make the same appeal to the movie theaters to stop showing Michael Moore’s documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. There was no reply,” he says.
Rather than give the Kerry debate full airing, Media Matters dismissed such attacks on Kerry's record as "unfounded, contradictory, and discredited."
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