Media Matters Tied to MoveOn and ACORN – Funded By Tides Foundation

Last year it was revealed that the Tides Foundation and George Soros were tied to the #Occupy criminal movement and Indymedia.

The Tides Foundation is also tied to the radical MoveOn organization and ACORN.
WND reported:

One of the single largest donors to the embattled Media Matters for America is a controversial far-left clearinghouse that funds groups like MoveOn.org, ACORN and a litany of antiwar organizations, KleinOnline has learned.

The organization in question, the Tides Foundation, is funded in part by billionaire George Soros, himself a prominent Media Matters donor.

Tides functions as a money tunnel where major leftist donors provide large sums that are channeled to hundreds of radical groups.

Tides documentation reviewed by KleinOnline shows the group provided a total of $4,099,935.62 to Media Matters during the fiscal years of 2004-2009.

During that same time period, Tides provided an additional $110,000 to the Media Matters Action Network, the group’s affiliated progressive lobby.

The Tides Foundation funding to Media Matters was most significant during the progressive news organization’s startup year in 2004, when Tides granted it $2,165,496.62.

In 2005, Tides sent another $1,074,453.76 to Media Matters.

The years 2006 and 2007 saw smaller Tides donations of $56,223.00 and $38,225.00 respectively.

In 2008, a significant Tides donation of $659,500.00 came in to Media Matters, with another $ 106,038.00 in 2009.

In 2010, the Tides Center expressed public support for Media Matters when the media group stepped up its activism against Fox News by posting a Web page dedicated to anti-Fox material along with an online petition that asks Fox’s advertisers to “Drop Fox.” At the time Tides chief executive and founder, Drummond Pike, endorsed Media Matters’ campaign.

Media Matters already admitted to taking $1 million directly from Soros. The billionaire has donated over $7 million to Tides over the years.

#1 February 17, 2012 at 9:43 am
katy commented:

Yah….Grassroots all the way.

Beck told us about the Tides Foundation, Soros, and the book The Coming Insurrection and the plan to create chaos….years ago and he was ridiculed. Now that we are seeing his predictions come to pass, wonder what the naysayers are doing about it?
#2 February 17, 2012 at 9:55 am
nano commented:

Daily Caller has an excellent article on this today which links to a spreadsheet of a number of foundations which have funded Media Matters.

It reads like a who’s who of far left funders.
#3 February 17, 2012 at 10:01 am
dwd commented:

Liberals like to scream “Koch brothers” for some reason… but look at the network of horrible people and organizations scheming to advance the liberal agenda. A tangled web indeed
#4 February 17, 2012 at 10:03 am
Adi commented:

The non-profit organization who is leading campaigns against tax-evaders and giving a voice to the 99%-ers?

Surely you jest.
#5 February 17, 2012 at 10:03 am
joyo commented:

George Soros seems to be fully or partially funding almost all of the entities that want to “fundamentally transform America.” into a Socialist /Communist nation. He provides funds for the lame stream media, the Center for American Progress, Tides Foundation, Acorn, and INHO he is the puppeteer behind the Obama Administration…all is being done to enhance HIS power — nothing is being done to truly benefit the American people. He is an evil man bent on the distruction of our country.
#6 February 17, 2012 at 10:17 am
feduptoo commented:

And….Mrs. John (Heinz) Kerry!

Only was to do this is start fighting back….start doing what they do….contact sponsors, CEO’s and threaten them as these groups do others!

Oh, you say we cannot lower ourselves to their level? They are winning now, what else can we do?
#7 February 17, 2012 at 10:23 am
cal rifkin commented:

Sure miss Beck’s leading the way on these things…turns out he was right about all this stuff!!
#8 February 17, 2012 at 10:31 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

7 1/2 months left to plot the illegal vote getting and strategy to ensure the mooslime can continue the destruction of america…and the lamestream media is WHERE??????
#9 February 17, 2012 at 10:49 am
saveus commented:

Don’t forget obama’s connection to Tides and Ayers.
#10 February 17, 2012 at 11:32 am
bg commented:

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don’t forget the Columbia & Joyce Foundations.. gah!!

more via GP here & here, in connecting links & threads..

oh yeah, Obama, Paul, and Dodd et al pal..

“Yes, I do have a foreign policy…my goal
is to become the conscience of the world.”‘

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#11 February 17, 2012 at 12:05 pm
owl commented:

My theory is that David Axelrod left to implement several attacks. They had about 6 years to study Romney and I think Occupy is the attack plan. Meet Mr 1% Romney.

They have so many destructive plans in the works that if you ain’t scared, you should be. They are going to put pure violence on the streets and if they can not win with their army of Pooper Scoopers, they have a dozen other ways planned.

That new Immigration Czar is busy gathering names. Names are votes and put a guy with a bullystick outside the voter places, or just mail them in.

Oh, the Pooper Scoopers are hot and heavy about FOX. They are scooping in the background to cover it until it breaks. I expect to see criminal charges filed in the US because of what they are doing overseas. These people play for keeps and we do not have one thing standing in their path, that I can see. The Professional MSM Pooper Scoopers intend to kill FOX, the only stumbling block in their way.
#12 February 17, 2012 at 12:09 pm
MustComment commented:

A Beck viewer already knows this. All funded by Soros and his dirty money…
#13 February 17, 2012 at 12:13 pm
bg commented:

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owl #11 February 17, 2012 at 12:05 pm

re: [Meet Mr 1% Romney.]

re: ‘The One’ (Percent)

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#14 February 17, 2012 at 12:25 pm
owl commented:

Yep bg. You must admit that this was a very inventive way of calling out violent union mobs to the street when needed. They already practiced the teen flashmobs.
#16 February 17, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Jaimo commented:

Yea, telling us something we don’t know.
#21 February 17, 2012 at 6:33 pm
ogee commented:

Great find. Send this one viral.
#22 February 17, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Freeman Poncedeleon commented:

Thanks for your outline. I love to read it Marcy
#24 February 18, 2012 at 7:05 am
AuntieMadder commented:

I’ve known this for years and have tried numerous times to bring it to the attention of other voters without success. Apparently, the Great and Powerful Oz or some other powers that be decide for us what information is important and when information is news and worth reporting.