stay on media matters.dia matters to the department of justice and back and forth. >> joe: they're tax except, too. >> eric: stay on this issue. should the white house call the left wing -- >> joe: have you read any of the e-mails? they're like ridiculous. there is not anything in the e-mails. >> dana: some of them are fairly benign. it surprised me the head of communication. i didn't have time to do anything. you get 85 calls a day. op a little pink slip, the old ones while you were out. you get 85 calls, return calls. all you did was say no comment. it's just the department of justice changed a lot. >> eric: tracy smaller saying give me a call, do you have time to talk? then the story pops up. >> joe: the e-mails were innocuous. it went out to a lot of people like info e-mails that go out. 60 of them in two years. it just seems to me that yes, they're tax exempt, but that is not the same as taking government money. >> i got to tell you -- >> i'm never mad at you. not so far. >> eric: the e-mails from peop

acting director, the director -- directly collaborating regularly with the left-wing advocacy group media mattersmerica in an attempt to discredit media coverage of several doj scandals including the new black panther party case and the fast and furious investigation. chief washington correspondent james rosen has more from d.c. >> reporter: megyn, good afternoon. the department of justice took nine months to produce to the conservative web site the daily caller 69 pages of materials, these materials obtained under the freedom of information act including multiple e-mails from the director of doj's office of public affairs in which she can be seen corps responding with various staffers at the liberal outfit, media matters. these e-mails picture her as a savvy partisan player, sometimes obliging requests for documents that media matters' writers could use to undermine the credibility of fox news personals and critics like congressman daryl issa, but also sometimes reaching out with her own whereas for stories. >> it is clearly a pure attempt to lie about the news. in one case we have the spokesman

i despise media matters. i think they are dishonest, smear merchants and the fact that they operate on my tax dollar is a disgrace. and that's one of the down sides of democracy is we don't have policing of the nonprofits. it's just absolutely off the chart. they're in business for one thing only, to assassinate people with whom they disagree and because they are so far left, that means anybody moderate and conservative can be smeared by them. they've done it foreyears and gotten away with it. you have proof not only do they smear people on the right, but they're helping the democratic party in the form of attorney general holder. correct? >> that is exactly right. we got over 70 pages of e-mails between spokesmen at the department of justice and writers from media matters in which they discuss programming they see on fox news, pieces written in the daily caller, other journalism critical or they believe is critical of certain programs from the justice department, mostly fast and furious. >> bill: why would t

so what about this collusion between the department of justice and media matters? is it getting any play? >> not much. look, james rosen's piece rose the issue of david according to politico, that led to a former counsel to the president, group making savage shouldn't have a tax exempt but now we have this, not just engaging in global war and sabotage they are part of the obama reelection campaign. you think that would be news, as well. but for perspective imagine if the heritage foundation was caught doing with the bush department three or four years ago. that would have been news. >> jon: george soros gave a million dollars to media matters and given other funding to other organizations. he got a tax deduction for million dollars because they are supposedly, they are truth teller. shouldn't this force some reconsideration? >> i think absolutely it should. we have talked about this a lot on this show. i want to step back for just a moment to point out this is week where we had a cascade of departures from the atf from people involved in fast and furious. they had

so what about this collusion between the department of justice and media matters?it getting any play? >> not much. look, james rosen's piece rose the issue of david according to politico, that led to a former counsel to the president, group making savage shouldn't have a tax exempt but now we have this, not just engaging in global war and sabotage they are part of the obama reelection campaign. you think that would be news, as well. but for perspective imagine if the heritage foundation was caught doing with the bush department three or four years ago. that would have been news. >> jon: george soros gave a million dollars to media matters and given other funding to other organizations. he got a tax deduction for million dollars because they are supposedly, they are truth teller. shouldn't this force some reconsideration? >> i think absolutely it should. we have talked about this a lot on this show. i want to step back for just a moment to point out this is week where we had a cascade of departures from the atf from people involved in fast and furious. they had to a

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so what about this collusion between the department of justice and media matters? getting any play? >> not much. look, james rosen's piece rose the issue of david according to politico, that led to a former counsel to the president, group making savage shouldn't have a tax exempt but now we have this, not just engaging in global war and sabotage they are part of the obama reelection campaign. you think that would be news, as well. but for perspective imagine if the heritage foundation was caught doing with the bush department three or four years ago. that would have been news. >> jon: george soros gave a million dollars to media matters and given other funding to other organizations. he got a tax deduction for million dollars because they are supposedly, they are truth teller. shouldn't this force some reconsideration? >> i think absolutely it should. we have talked about this a lot on this show. i want to step back for just a moment to point out this is week where we had a cascade of departures from the atf from people involved in fast and furious. they had to ack

media matters bills itself as a media watchdog group but spends much of its time and energy attacking fox news. joining me now for more on this, judge andrew napolitano. fox news senior judicial analyst. is there anything questionable, anything morally wrong, anything legally wrong with a government agency getting in touch with this website to try to spin the news cycle? >> the general answer on legally is no. however, media matters is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. meaning people that contribute to it the money they contribute is not taxable by the irs. that limits what media matters can do. for example, it can not advocate for legislation. it can not support publicly the candidacy of anyone running for office. so they are coming close to the line by attempting to put spin on issues involving the justice department. which may reach directly to the president. why do i say it may reach directly to the president? because you will recall after attorney general holder agreed to turn over some documents to the house committee chaired by california congressman darrell issa involving "

spokessman media matters said he could comment only if he could appear live on the network. >> bret: you. iran latest military bluster tops world headlines. the state media says iran deployed one of the russian-made submarines to the persian gulf. the u.s. and allies conduct naval exercises nearby. meanwhile, in turkey, iran top nuclear negotiator met with the european union representatives in an effort to resume talk on the republic nuclear program. attack from afghan against the nato trainer called off operation at least for now. what looks like victory for the insurgents and defeat for the president's afghan strategy for now. jennifer griffin has the story from the pentagon. >> female suicide bomber allegedly motivated by the anti-islam youtube video kills 12 today in kabul. three insider attack in three days. friday, brazen attack on the u.s. base since the start of the war 11 years ago at the main marine come pound if southern afghanistan. 15 taliban attackers dressed in the u.s. military uniforms breached the perimeter. torched three hangars. destroyed six carrier jets and kill

media matters is ostensibly a tax expect nonprofit devoted to exposing media bias.nder has characterized his group's mission as the waging of war on fox news. the justice department declined to comment for this story, a spokesman for media matters said he would only comment if he could appear live on this network. >> shep: james rosen, thank you. hours ago the united states government honored a man who gave his life to protect the nation. the border patrol held a phony to dedicate the brian terry border patrol station in arizona. brian p terry was the agent who died in the shootout with mexican bandits. investigators linked the weapons to the gun sting that james rosen was mentioning, fast and furious. that operation was meant to track guns to mexican drug cartels, but the fed did not keep tabs on some of those weapons and the justice department's inspector general is scheduled to testify this thursday about what we want wrong. did -- we want wrong. the parents of that murdered border agent say they're still waiting for answers about why their son died. >> i want th

scrutinizing and distributing gaffes committed by the right, media matters found by david brock.a staff of about 80 and an annual budget topping $10 million. >> it's quiet in here because there's a lot of concentration required. they're listening to talk radio. they're watching the fox news channel. >> what i'm doing is monitoring live is looking out for stuff that sounds suspicious. >> media matters monitors fox and the right wing talk show hosts, limbaugh, han knit, michael savidge. >> groups like media matters, they're the political police and fascists of our team monitoring conservatives trying to trip us up and get us in trouble, and they're sending it to would be dictators like pelosi, the mouse lien any in a skirt or obama. we don't know whether he's be like muss lynn any or stalin. one of the two would work. >> they do the same job on left wing outlets and what it calls the mainstream media. >> constantly monitoring every broadcast and major publication and website, documenting bias as it occurs. >> we provide all this to the mark levines and sean han kniha and rush limba

but also they are collaborating on messaging and using media matters as a way to get their talking points out to the media. >> katie, i have a question. this is such a dumb, stupid plan that anybody in this room would have vetoed such a dumb plan as that. so that you get the impression that it's not just a food plan that made a -- a good plan that made a mistake and wasn't followed through. there must have been some important hidden purpose of it behind. >> well, and that's one thing that's important to get to the bottom of. and the reason why president obama was pushing for solyndra loans was because his motive was to get more green energy in the united states, right? so what was the motive behind operation and furious? the people i talk to said, look, they knew that gun control was a politically-suicidal issue to take up especially before the 2010 election based on the 1994 election, rahm emanuel at the time was president obama's chief of staff, he is a smart guy. and so you look at the evidence of the e-mails, the internal e-mails, the sources i've talked to, and they say this wasn't a

media matters particularly with its focus on the media.se of us on the left which we never had before. so we are so pleased and proud to welcome back to -- welcome into the studio, maybe the first time in the studio. >> first time. >> matt butler, the president of media matters. great to see you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> bill: big story this week. we have the monitors up here. so on, i'm always watching the morning shows on all of the networks including our own. interesting this week when everybody's talking about the 47% comment mitt romney made, 47% of americans are nothing but slugs and freeloaders. everybody is talking about -- except fox news. >> yeah. >> bill: yeah, right. >> it is an alternate universe over there. they're covering something that the rest of us aren't really seeing. >> bill: or not covering. so they've gotta fill the time with other stuff though. >> bill: they just sort of decided this issue doesn't look good for romney so therefore it may be news worthy but it's not going to appear on our network. it

media matters is a partisan ideogical organization . y smears people in the media and for the justice department press office in the job to explain the position and work with the media and for them to work with media matters to attack the media. that is propaganda more than justice department. >> gretchen: thank you for getting up bright and early with us today. is the united states negotiating with ejipt to let the blind sheik go free? show needs to be good looking. tim tebow's girlfriend needs to have a servant's heart. we'll explain. ♪ ♪ i want to reach out and grab you. ♪ abracadabra. the entirely new lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. -oh, that's just my buds. -bacon. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] donuts. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? okay. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. and what they said is amazing. introreview 5-hour energy over 73 percent

we have one email in which the writer from media matters emails someone at the justice department totching in fact this store. and i saw bill hemmer tee tease a story and how can we undermine it. this proves coordination. martha: it sounds like an independently-paid group that might help a media organization find information, but the crazy thing about this is as you point out is that the department of justice is taxpayer funded, media matters is taxpayer funded yet it appears they he have one motivation that the taxpayers are all collectively paying for and that is to sort of support one line of thinking. >> our reporter matt boil has p-pb working on the fast fast and breaking story for the better part of a year. he gets almost no cooperation from the justice department. and media matters which is a partisan hit group with tax exempt status is in moment to moment coordination with the justice department. and this is a problem on a pretty basic level. the point of the public affairs office in a federal agency is to keep the public informed of what that agency is doing. the point is no

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been running off ads from mitt romney's advisers without disclosing its ties we'll speak with media matters the group reporting on this case about subjective journalism. plus it's the place we turn to in a crisis in the hospital but according to a prominent surgeon up to thirty percent of health care the seri and one in four hospital patients are harmed by mistake will look into the issue in just a moment. it's friday september twenty eighth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r t. alright well we want to begin today with an update on your privacy we want to take a closer look at the ways the government is stripping away your digital rights and also ways that you are making it easier for them as well as hackers to access your information and here to help me do that is our cyber guru r t where producer and like hi and you're also we have a lot of ground to cover here but let's start off by talking about the cloud a relatively no low number of people actually knew. you know what the digital cloud does but ninety five percent of us actually use it in our daily lives

all it takes is whether you've got the media matters on the one hand or brent boozele's outfit on theand. you ha people sittin th headsets 50, 70 of them watching television sets, listening it to rao programs, waiting for someone to make a >> that'righseek's a -- anythg th can find. >> the whole campaign is about gaffe. >> hillary rentimaly familiar with the gaffe seekers botha s a maers for the depth of st opio ch issue. >>tts does o brent boozele's outfit does they have instantly at their fingertips four or five yes of mitt romney video clips and quotes and tapes of what he has said ie past >> same thing on the other side, right? >> you count on those organizations essentially to be research arms for our partisanship. >> so they're feeding the sausage machine? >> absolutely. >> which brings to mind the old chestnut, that the laws are like sausages. it's best not to see them being made. all you really need to know that a 30-year-old law student, sandra fluk, was not permitted to testify on this all-men panel of clergy and thee engines last february. a few days later house democrats c

the media matters, back to tracy, thanks again for your help. here is the piece.rs of congress are asking for her to resign from her job or be ousted from her job because of the conflict of interest that is apparent in these e-mails. >> brian: they keep the no profit status for media matters, it will be quite interesting. you said sometimes they have left wing views. >> gretchen: always. >> brian: i challenge that. i have yet to sew one right or middle. >> gretchen: i don't read them. i'll leave that up to the viewers. but yes, a left organization. >> steve: 20 minutes before the top of the hour on this thursday. so much for the middle east peace. the white house doesn't have time to meet with israel, but the president got a private sit-down with a pirate yesterday in the oval office. sorry, bb. >> brian: that meeting could still happen next week. then they were happy living the life they had 'til the government told them they were living on the fourth largest deposit of natural gas in the country. biobillionaires here with us. >> steve: why are they so happy [ mo

has been running op ads for mitt romney's advisers without disclosing the ties we'll speak with media matters the group reporting on this case of subjective journalism. it's friday september twenty eighth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. all right well starting off this hour reverend jesse jackson has made quite an impact on the u.s. throughout the years you probably know his name from his many crusades for human rights so much so that he was nominated for the nobel peace prize this year his latest cd is brokering an agreement for the release of two imprisoned american citizens from prison in. the dual citizens who are serving sentences for treason. to talk about this sad more reverend jesse jackson joins us now he's the founder and president of the red rainbow push coalition thank you thank you for joining us reverend jackson so let's start off by talking about the two gobby of americans who helped free from prison can you tell us about that it's a good news. for weeks ago that none gunman had been executed and thirty more were it to be executed based upon

media matters says more money for the union. >> the members don't know this. classified as public relations it is like administration and overhead. john: and they seem happy. >> if they could have the job without part of a. john: tea and wisconsin when they were forced to be a member they left like that. >> is important to give them a voice and a vote. john: the union is not pro worker but pro "shadowbosses". john: you talk about the military i assume that is the exception. >> one-third of the military or civilian and 60% are already unionized there on military bases, filing grievances and be found a grievance union filed when the price of soda went from of $0.50 up at $0.55. >> and they had to fight that. and imagine the taxpayer dollars used. john: border patrol, immigration, fema, e ven the nasa scientist. >> even the peace corps. >> at home insecurity we found 62 people getting paid to do work do you know, what they do full-time? just union work. homeland security. >> 40% of unionized. john: i am depressed their writing a book together and still set next t

media matters is a tax exempt nonprofit dedicated to exposing media bias.ity the sole mission is the destruction of fox news. the group started out using conventional 24 hour monitoring techniques but turned in more recent years to the use of private detectives and other methods. utilize them as is a proxy in engaging in a dispute whether it is on the new black panther party and the denial of the party to bring civil rights actions against them or whether it is on the coverage of fast and furious should raise serious concerns. >> the justice department declined to comment. a spokesman for media matters said he would only comment if he could appear live on this network. >>> the youth vote really mobilized in the year 2008 but with unemployment now holding above 8% for many months many of the same college graduates are still jobless or underemployed and has many one-time obama supporters asking where the hope and check they werchange they were promis gone. here now for a fair and bailed debate. alex is schreiver and rob snyder president of the young democrats

she colludeed with media matters the left wing propaganda blog. >> bob: they attack me viciously.x news. i'm telling you. if you are asking me, reporters and people talk all the time and say have you looked at this? i'm not sure it's firing offense. >> dana: congressmen should work to change the i.r.s. code so media matters doesn't get -- >> juan: good point. >> greg: i forgot to read the story. >> kimberly: match that. you're out. greg gutfeld has been eliminated. thank you for playing. coming up, andrew breitbart final act. a new movie that reveal what is forces were at work in the occupy movement. >> we are finally telling you the true story of radicals behind the occupy movement. greg gutfeld has thoughts. that is directly ahead. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> doing what americans do. [ chanting ] >> this is not done spontaneously. this was community organized. >> greg: i love horror movies. my favorite of all time eel dead 2. the second favorite is the obama administration. it kid! hands down the year's best horror fill system the documentary andrew breitbart made shortly before h

media matters says more money for the union. >> the members don't know this.lassified as public relations it is like administration and overhead. john: and they seem happy. >> if they could have the job without part of a. john: tea and wisconsin when they were forced to be a member they left like that. >> is important to give them a voice and a vote. john: the union is not pro worker but pro "shadowbosses". john: you talk about the military i assume that is the exception. >> one-third of the military or civilian and 60% are already unionized there on military bases, filing grievances and be found a grievance union filed when the price of soda went from of $0.50 up at $0.55. >> and they had to fight that. and imagine the taxpayer dollars used. john: border patrol, immigration, fema, e ven the nasa scientist. >> even the peace corps. >> at home insecurity we found 62 people getting paid to do work do you know, what they do full-time? just union work. homeland security. >> 40% of unionized. john: i am depressed their writing a book together and still set next to

meanwhile media matters does not pay taxes nor do its donors when they contribute to media matters. you could be in that position. >> vince from the daily caller, thanks so much for bringing it to our attention. >> thanks, ali. >> the p.c. police are they at it again in the state department wants you to watch what you say. find out which common phrases could get you in big trouble. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? yeah, maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number? >> welcome back. republic presidential nominee mitt romney touching on many themes during his acceptance speech at the rnc thursday night including a pleasure to keep our nation's military strong. >> everywhere i go in america, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for america. there is no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living that america, that united america will preserve a military that's so strong no nation

from media matters. don't know if you all know what media matters is. >> i know because this is a media review group but it dedicates itself to killing off fox. >> that's right. >> they have come after me. >> 1 thun -- 100,000 dollars. the teacher's union. the rank and file members don't do that. but also ask me american federation employees gave them money. the afl cio gave them money. but you know what the teachers classified it as? public relations. >> well, it is. it's public relations for their side. >> media matters and democrats say more money for unions. >> but the members don't know this. the members never get a chance to know how this money is being spent. when it is classified at public relations it just goes into over head. >> i would disagree with you when they have the opportunity to have their job without being part of the union they vote pretty critically last night. in wisconsin when they were forced to be a member of the union keep their job tap left like that. >> it is important to giv