anti-conservative organization media matter declares war against fox news and chief antagonist david brock initiating guerilla tactics, ap disrupting because for news corporation and anti-fox effort is being paid for by tax-free funding. why is the government supporting their status and why are the media ignoring the issue. michele bachmann's rising star has mainstream media poking fun and picking apart everything she says and did they do that for the president's gaffe's. the people's princess gets a star role on the cover of newsweek and the reaction is strong. >> it's haunting and quite disturbi disturbing. >> on the panel this he can woo, writer and fox news contributor judy miller, and cal thomas, jim pinkerton, yellow and fox news contributor jehmu green. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. have you heard of media matters for america? it's an anti-conservative organization funded by a guy or founded, i should say, by a guy named david brock with this stated mission. media matters for america is a web-based not for profit 501 c3 progressive research and information center de

anti-conservative organization media matter declares war against fox news and chief antagonist david brock initiating guerilla tactics, ap disrupting because for news corporation and anti-fox effort is being paid for by tax-free funding. why is the government supporting their status and why are the media ignoring the issue. michele bachmann's rising star has mainstream media poking fun and picking apart everything she says and did they do that for the

group founded in 2003 by former reporter david brock conservative turned liberal and funded in part by billionaire george soros. in documents filed that o-the group described itself as charitable and educational and counter viewpoints in the media the rights of the wealthy and christian influence ideology, unquote. >> you may advocate a

it's an anti-conservative organization funded by a guy or founded, i should say, by a guy named david brock with this stated mission. media matters for america is a web-based not for profit 501 c3 progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively mon

>> has david brock in his anti-conservative media matters website failed in their mission to analyze the media and their war on fox news? plus, when it comes to political gaffes, do the mainstream media go overboard in their coverage? all next on news watch. also get a free flight. you know that comes with a private island. really? no. it comes with a hat. you see, airline credit cards promise flights for 25,00miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for ,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow. [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's okay. i've played a pilot before.

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so is david brock and media matters breaking the law?pscot is the editorial page editor at "the washington examiner." what do you think? >> i think it's pretty clear they are at the very least pushing the law far beyond what any reasonable person would read it to me. irs regulation says a nonprofit tax exempt group like media matters cannot in anyway comment or be involved in a partisan campaign. and by their own description, they've involved themselves in a partisan campaign and made it the major focus of their reason for being. >> sure. they're absolutely, you know, the opportunity to criticize us is open to anybody. freedom of speech. they shouldn't get a tax break for it. >> they shouldn't get a tax break for declaring that fox news or anybody else in the journalism business is merely -- they're not journalists, they're merely a partisan tool of one of the other parties. because when you do that and you say that you're the person who is going to -- or the organization that's going to correct that, you're involving yourself in a parti

they apparently hacked at least his telephone records to find out that he'd been talking with david brock. this is starting to get creepy i mean is this james bond intelligence for him i mean what's the deal here with fox and what will it mean if it's true if it's true that would be a very significant significant factor in whether the you have c.c. would would renew those licenses you know there's there's a standard in getting an f.c.c. license that you have to be of good character the license holder has to be of good character now you know there has been a lot of push from some organizations who are ideologically opposed to fox news on principle to say let's get those license let's take those licenses you know there are twenty eight stations and twenty eight locations and each one of them is subject to to a challenge at some point. and they're saying let's get this investigation let's get convictions well actually you don't need convictions it's just a matter of good character and if the organization is in fact investigating people outside the law using extra legal means to look at their

over the past week, the far left web site media matters and their founder david brock has been exposedtatus. with taxpayers essentially subsidizing their attacks, doesn't this deserve more coverage? we're back with our panel now. and we start with you, christopher hahn, i'm perusing "the new york times", arguably the biggest and most successful paper in this country. i don't see a whole lot of coverage. in fact, there has been zero. there are some inmates wearing theater make-up, i believe, a very important story. where is the major -- >> a 501c3. i was president of united way of long island which is a 501c3. it can actually take positions on things. they can be political. you may not agree with the positions, you may not like the positions but they can take positions on it. it's when they actually engage in campaigning and supporting candidates actively, candidates actively. not causes. not iessues, that they violate the rule of the irs. >> media matters claims to be an educational organization when they applied for this 501c3 and in fact, most of the groups that have these are school

you know, david brock, the founder of media matters has said he's waging a war on fox news and you lookthey -- and posts they've done about fox news since january of this year, 2600 and just a handful from the other -- about the other networks. clearly, that is their business plan, to try to take us down as they have a tax exemption from federal government. >> it's backfiring, steve, because all of their watchers drive up our ratings because they have thousands of people who have they hire apparently just to watch us. but seriously, the point is that o'reilly is reaching over five million people a day. >> driving them nuts. >> and it's driving them insane. they don't have far to go, by the way. >> you're right about the insane part. all right, dick morris joining us live from connecticut. thank you, sir. next up on the rundown, we'll take you live to orlando. today, 2 1/2 hours from right now, casey anthony could be a free woman. she's going to be sentenced. plus could the prosecutor caught laughing in court have swayed the jury's decision? that prosecutor jeff ashton here live next hal