Look behind the bylines for The New York Times front page
story about how some large corporations donated to tax-exempt groups and
there’s another name – George Soros. The liberal investor is one of the richest
people in the world and has given at least $550 million to help fund left-wing
organizations.
The Times’ July 7 story relied on information from the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Responsive Politics and the Center for Political Accountability. All three organizations have received money from Soros’s Open Society Foundations – nearly $3.8 million in total. And yet, ironically, the Times referred to these heavily Soros-funded groups while they called out conservative groups for their political spending.
As Times staffers Mike McIntire and Nicholas Confessore rightly pointed out, the weakness of Super PACs is that they are legally required to disclose donation amounts. In order to avoid unnecessary bad publicity, some organizations instead have donated money to tax-exempt organizations, which are not required to reveal donors.
This is not the first of this type of article for Times investigative reporter McIntire. He has a history of targeting conservative donors. McIntire even ran a remarkably similar piece on October 13, 2010, entitled “Offering Donors Secrecy and Going On Attack” targeting such Republican friendly groups as the American Future Fund and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS.
Read more: http://www.mrc.org/articles/more-soros-funded-criticism-right
The Times’ July 7 story relied on information from the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Responsive Politics and the Center for Political Accountability. All three organizations have received money from Soros’s Open Society Foundations – nearly $3.8 million in total. And yet, ironically, the Times referred to these heavily Soros-funded groups while they called out conservative groups for their political spending.
As Times staffers Mike McIntire and Nicholas Confessore rightly pointed out, the weakness of Super PACs is that they are legally required to disclose donation amounts. In order to avoid unnecessary bad publicity, some organizations instead have donated money to tax-exempt organizations, which are not required to reveal donors.
This is not the first of this type of article for Times investigative reporter McIntire. He has a history of targeting conservative donors. McIntire even ran a remarkably similar piece on October 13, 2010, entitled “Offering Donors Secrecy and Going On Attack” targeting such Republican friendly groups as the American Future Fund and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS.
Read more: http://www.mrc.org/articles/more-soros-funded-criticism-right
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