George Soros Gives $1 Million To Media Matters

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Written By:
Rob Port

Oct 20, 2010
2:17pm

Media Matters is a “non-partisan” (yeah, right) organization of liberals who spend their days watching Fox News and griping about what they see on their website.

From the New York Times:

Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros.

In a statement obtained by The Caucus, the organization says it plans to use the money to intensify its efforts to hold the Fox host Glenn Beck and others on the cable news channel accountable for their reporting.

“Fox has transformed itself into a 24-7 G.O.P. attack machine, dividing Americans through fear-mongering and falsehoods and undermining the legitimacy of our government for partisan political ends,” the group will say in the statement, to be released Wednesday afternoon.

In an accompanying statement, Mr. Soros, a billionaire who has a history of supporting liberal politicians and causes, accused Fox News hosts of “incendiary rhetoric” and said he hoped that his money would be used “in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”

The myopic fixation on Fox News proves that “civil and informed discourse” isn’t really the objective of Media Matters. If it were, they’d target MSNBC about as often as Fox.

Instead, Media Matters is little more than a shill group advancing a leftist agenda by muddying the waters around any media report of opinion that’s inconvenient for said agenda.