Is Media Matters Breaking the Law?

Media Matters is funded by George Soros and claims 501(C)(3) tax-exempt status with the IRS.

One of the requirements of maintaining a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt status is stating that your organization does not support a specific political party but, David Brock, MM's founder, has declared an open war on Fox News, calling the news network an arm of the Republican party.

Anyone with a brain, that has gone on Media Matters website, knows that they've been declaring war on Fox the whole time! That's all they do is scream at Fox, and distort the truth. I'm surprised this is only being brought up now. 

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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