media matters never does that. is there is a distinct difference with media matter. different animal. than a think tank. they don't think. >> greg: it makes you wonder what it's like for the thig and christmas dinners when an employee for media matters those go home and explain to his parent what is he does for a living. i sit in front of a t and i take notes and try to bust people i don't like. then they give them the pat. >> dana: he says i have a great relationship with the director of communication at the department of justice. we talk all the time. >> andrea: that's assuming they don't live at home. i thought the media matters bloggers lived in their parent's basements. >> eric: when the depennsylvania of justice, tracy smaller says to blogger look in to this, darrell issa, what he is saying while darrell issa is investigating the department. unethical, illegal. who knows? maybe all of them? no? am i missing this? >> joe: i'm sure darrell issa will be investigating it. >> eric: we can only hope so, joe. >> joe: then i'd investigate darrell issa. >> andrea: just

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? 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

documents to media matters to place a story. and the idea that our united states department of justice is using media matters as their fronting group is absurd. and here's the real, fundamental problem, and i think it goes back to everything we've been discussing the last couple of ways on the whole way the department of justice has gone down here. when the department of justice has an issue, they need to confront it head on whichever way it comes occupant. that's the deal with integrity and its ability to defend our civil rights -- megyn: yeah. come out and talk about it. i want to talk to you more about this, in particular what, if anything, should happen to tracy and whether or not this is authorized by eric holder after the break. of hardest-working, smoothest-riding.lass it's got the most torque, the smoothest suspension, the best storage, class-leading comfort, and a revolutionary collection of versatile accessories. it's built on everything we've learned creating the world's best-selling utility side-by-sides. introducing

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

i despise media matters. i think they aremerchants and tt 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 these fast and furious is

matters is tax exempt non-profit posing media bias. in the reality, their sole mission underwritten in part by george soros is the destruction of fox news. the group started out using conventional 4-hour monitor technique but turned to cecent years to use of private detective and other message that brach himself characterized as waging of war on fox. >> utilize them as your proxy, engaging in dispute whether it's on the new black panther party and defile of the department of justice to bring civil right action against them or on the coverage of fast and furious should raise serious concerns. >> the justice department declined to comment. spokessman media matters said he could comment only if he could appear live on the network. >> bret: thank 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

we have new reports that justice department employees turned to the left-wing media site, media matters to help spin bad press plaguing attorney general eric holder and the rest of his department. the report by the conservative daily caller website reveals internal justice department e-mails showing staffers help media matters target news outlets reporting on scandals ranging from operation "fast and furious" to the new black panther party voting scandal. 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

media matters is ostensibly a tax expect nonprofit devoted to exposing media bias. but its founder 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.

matters for the depth of research on an issue. >> describe what they do. >> what media matters does or brent boozele's outfit does is they have instantly at their fingertips four or five years of mitt romney video clips and quotes and tapes of what he has said in the 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 convened a special meeting on the steering and policy committee so sandra could complain judge her catholic university georgetown should be obliged to offer free contraceptive drugs. >> in the media lately some conservative catholic organizations have been asking what did we expect when we enrolled in a catholic school? we

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matters on messaging on a weekly basis, and, of course, media matters pushes their talking point out to left-leaning web sites, mainstream web sites and msnbc and i'm not sure about cnn, but the fact is they're working together. so the idea that the justice department would be willing to, um, peddle this george soros-funded web site material to try and discredit the entire book, um, really shows what they're interested in. they're not interested in answering any questions, as usual they're handing it off to an outside organization. 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 ob

we have one email in which the writer from media matters emails someone at the justice department to say, i'm watching 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

and also media matters. media matters for america. they do all of the hard work. they do all of the research. they churn out all of the stuff. we pick it up and use it. media matters particularly with its focus on the media. and our watch dog for the media for those 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 tim

and to media matters. do we want our department of the justice going back and forth and having this tight of a relationship with an organization like that? >> that is more what i am concerned about. you expect the department of the justice to be objective arbitrator. but when they are collaborating with the press with an organization that is got a political agenda that worries me the most. >> gretchen: media matters matt to tracey smaller at the tracey of defendant. i am working on debunking a conservative myth and hoping you could help me out. that was july 8. tracey smallers. here's what i got back from budget folks. matt gertwhere. thanks for your help. here's the piece. so when you first saw the e-mails, what was your reaction? >> brian: obviously the government and media have a relationship. if you guys want to know what i am doing in my office you ask and i come back and give it to you. but going to an organization and basically helping them to spin a story is over the line certainly for the justice

matters monitors fo and the ri hosts, limbaugh, han knit, michael savidge. >> groups like media matters, they're the political police and fatsoring consves ervatiying to trip us up and get us in trouble, and they're sending it to would be dictators like pelosi, the mouse any ia 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 limbaugh. >> brent founded the media research center. bill maher has always been a favorite target of his, but especially since he made a $1 million contribution to a super-pac supporting barack obama. all it takes is whether you've got the media matters on the one hand or brent boozele's outfit on the other hand. 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'

she colludeed with media matters the left wing propaganda blog. >> bob: they attack me viciously. they're out of their mind and they hate fox 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

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

matters thank you. and speaking of subjective journalism we have a prime time case of cable t.v. news trying to get first trying to get it first with the story just about thirty minutes ago fox news covered a police chase that started phoenix the chase had lasted over an hour but the suspect jumped from the car and ran into a field with a live news chopper overhead the suspect pulled out a gun and shot himself dead live on television fox news quickly went to break and then came back with this apology really messed up. and we're all very sorry. that didn't belong on t.v. we took every precaution to have it take to keep it moving on t.v. and i personally apologize to you that that happened. so is this a case of a mainstream media being eager to break the news first rather than get it right. time will only tell will have to wait to find that one out. all right well so far in the show we have talked about two stories that may or may not affect you personally but here's one that does affect you and more impo

and later tonight, the caller, an investigative report, eric holder colewding with media matters? that and much more. and the latest out of the middle east. tçtçtçtçtç@@@@ [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessy. but say the sun rises on december 22nd, and you still need to retire. td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'll even throw in up to $600 when you open a new account or roll over an old 401(k). so who's in control now, mayans? >> the way you have to approach the job is with a keen understanding that you are out there fighting for every american, and this president's agenda has always been about building a middle class, strengthening the middle class, bringing people up into the middle class. and that's what it will be going forward. >> oh, come on. the white house's pathetic attempt to paint president obama as a leader who fights for all americans is

from media matters. i 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 g

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i understand in congress there is a movement to reexempt media -- look at media matters as tax exempt. >> steve: they are trying to make us look bad and members of congress look bad and people who work in the department of justice look bad? does that sound like justice? i don't think so. >> brian: fox news is continuing to investigation what happened in the libya assassination of our ambassador and three others. former gitmo detainee with direct ties to al-qaida and september 11 attacks likely led the deadly rampage. doug has more. >> this is big. was it a spontanous situation in libya or a planned terrorist attack. u.s. intelligence sources say that the attack on the u.s. consulate was the work of al-qaida and indicate a level of planning and they are looking at one guy. a detainee from guantanamo bay . the understanding that he would be held in libyan custody. and it doesn't work out that way. and john bolton, former u.s. ambassador of thinationination said something obviously went terribly wrong . >> i think people need to know what happened. there was a massive failure here. you c

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 their definition of what was a capital offense and so i me

she colludeed with media matters the left wing propaganda blog. >> bob: they attack me viciously. they're out of their mind and they hate fox 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. ♪ ♪ [♪...] >> announcer: with nothing but his computer, an identity thief is able to use your information to open a bank account in order to make your money his money. [whoosh, clang] you need lifelock, the only identity theft protection company that now monitors bank accounts for takeover

explosive investigation reveals that the department of justice at media matters conspired together to spin stories and try to discredit news outlets, such as fox news, for accurately reporting about eric holder and his agency. joining me now is fox news contributors. so we have benghazi, we have three days warning, the obama administration did nothing. they had no beefed-up security on the anniversary of 9/11. we have a president, according to the libyan president, that's lying to the american people about all this and whether it's preplanned. $6 trillion in debt. fewer americans working. and what and the media want to talk about? when romney speaks out about our embassybeing breached, our flag being burned and an al-qaeda flag being hung? and about what he said in may that's true that's correct half the americans don't pay taxes and there's an entitlement attitude in america? does that seem objective. >> i thought there was something about the daily caller story that you wanted to talk about. the daily caller got his hands on an explosive story. i thought, you know, because i wasn't

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. in reality 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 d

meanwhile media matters does not pay taxes nor do its donors when they contribute to media matters. it is a remarkable thing that 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 milita