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Old 10-20-2010, 02:36 PM
 
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That is my point. If they do or dont. Why do you care? When its ok for Billionaire Soros to fund the left. What its ok for a billionaire to fund the left but not the right? Isnt that a bit hypocritical?
Basically the Kochs are laundering their money through their AFP organization that gets involved with elections, which is very possibly illegal (and if they are doing it willingly and knowingly, very possibly criminal activity as well) :

Americans for Prosperity - SourceWatch

"...Automated phone calls promoting seven rallies. Stated objective is to send a message to Senator Boxer. The phone call implies that they oppose Senator Boxer's re-election. This may be a violation of their non-political 501(c)(3) tax status.... "
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Old 10-20-2010, 03:19 PM
 
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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.
Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters - NYTimes.com


Soros funding the left is fantastic but the Koch brothers or others helping the right is an issue. Isnt that right democrats?
Notice they ANNOUNCE when they receive a contribution. They don't hide it like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which STILL hasn't revealed where they get their foreign contrbutions from.
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Old 10-20-2010, 04:38 PM
 
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According to Beck this is the first time Soros donated to Media Matters without the money being laundered first. Soros has had his money in Media Matters for a long time. He has just stepped up his campaign to get rid of FOX news and Beck especially.

Soros does not like descent.
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:03 PM
 
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According to Beck this is the first time Soros donated to Media Matters without the money being laundered first. Soros has had his money in Media Matters for a long time. He has just stepped up his campaign to get rid of FOX news and Beck especially.

Soros does not like descent.
soros-->tides foundation --> media morons.

i guess he got tired of beck constantly calling him out on this.
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:08 PM
 
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This is a non-issue, Media Matters is a 501(c)(3). It's a non-profit media watchdog.

About Us | Media Matters for America

"Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:10 PM
 
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Notice they ANNOUNCE when they receive a contribution. They don't hide it like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which STILL hasn't revealed where they get their foreign contrbutions from.
yea, and barry o didn't hide his credit card donnors from all over the world. they just forgot to have the computer system working properly. and neither did bill clinton hide all the monies he got from red china.
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:24 PM
 
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^ hmmm. not exactly.

anyone remember this?



better have a look before they scrub it.

LOL Soros has been backing them for years. No? Why don't they just open their books and prove it? My that sounds familiar.........
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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Notice they ANNOUNCE when they receive a contribution. They don't hide it like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which STILL hasn't revealed where they get their foreign contrbutions from.
Soros has been funding them for years this is their first public ackowledgement.
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:28 PM
 
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There is nothing illegal with this Soros donation to Media Matters. This thread has no point.
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:41 PM
 
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There is nothing illegal with this Soros donation to Media Matters. This thread has no point.
i didn't realize that a law had to be broken for something to be worthy of discussion.

when did this change occur?

or does this only apply when something embarrasses the aspimom
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