Media Matters gets "Free Pass" from IRS

IRS gives free pass to famous Obama leftist group

But strips tax-exempt status from small conservative nonprofit

Published: 21 hours ago

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WASHINGTON — A stunning example of IRS political activity and liberal bias is sitting in plain view for all the world to see, following an investigation by WND.

The IRS has just stripped a small, obscure, conservative nonprofit of its tax-exempt status for two alleged rule violations a decade ago, while taking a hands-off approach to a famous leftist website that’s well-financed by billionaire George Soros and other liberals and has engaged in more egregious practices for years, and on a much vaster scale.

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George Soros

On Monday, USA Today published an IRS document confirming that in February the IRS revoked the tax-exempt status for the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, a small, conservative group founded in 1997 and based in Manassas, Va. The group had operated for years as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. The center advertises itself as “committed to fostering, promoting, and advocating the restoration of Liberty as the primary object of American society.”

To make its case against Patrick Henry, the IRS had to go as far back as 10 years ago to find a pair of items it considered unacceptable political activity by the nonprofit.

The IRS cited a 2004 column by the group’s president, former FBI agent Gary Aldrich, that was critical of John Kerry and a 2005 fundraising letter that criticized Hillary Clinton.

The liberal behemoth Media Matters is also a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. It claims on its website to be a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”


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Permalink Reply by al pambuena on April 24, 2014 at 8:38pm

talk about domestic terrorism..here is a clear example of how the irs is used illegally by the Obama administration, which has become a tyrannical organization, that is used to crush any opposition, using illegal tactics.....so what happened to the most open, honest and transparent administrations in history....it was never there in the first place.......meanwhile the coverups, lies and deceit to the American people on fast and furious, Benghazi, irs, nsa and obamacare...still goes on.

Permalink Reply by Jo Gonzalez on April 24, 2014 at 9:44pm
You got that right!!! I don't know who is going to live that long!!
Permalink Reply by douglas a. hawkins on April 24, 2014 at 10:51pm

I find criminal activity to be very consistent with the Obama administration.  Of course the IRS is targeting companies who have any complaints about the emperor.  The entire government is out of control and no longer represents us the people.  We will get the country back one way or another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Permalink Reply by John Thomas Dunlap on April 25, 2014 at 11:10am

Theirs the rat Bastered that needs to be delt with, it's the progressive socialiest UN IRS Gov .Agencie that backes their own proaganda spiewing Media.

Permalink Reply by Thomas Laman on April 27, 2014 at 9:08am

No surprise to us the little people who pay and pay and pay.

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