Fox News cited CMFA is anything but an objective organization.

[underpants]

VIDEO here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=227327&mesg_id=227327

Okay so one of the surveys that the Fox blonde had at the ready was the Center for Media and Public Affairs.

The CMPA is largely funded by the Four Sisters -the funding foundation of the modern conservative movement.

Informative links about each of the Four Sisters is at the Wikipedia link that follows

Media Transparency documents that between 1986 and 2005 CMPA received 55 grants totaling $2,960,916 (unadjusted for inflation).<6> The data reveals that the overwhelming proportion of CMPA's funding comes from conservative foundations.

The funding information, covering 1986-2005, lists the following donors (note: all figures are unadjusted for inflation):

* Carthage Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $512,000 from 8 donations
* the Earhart Foundation contributed $120,000 in six grants between 1999 and 2003;
* John M. Olin Foundation - $730,000 from 15 donations between 1986 and 2001;
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation - $250,000 nine grants over the period between 1989 and 1995;
* Sarah Scaife Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $760,000 from 9 donations spanning the period between 1991 and 2003; and
* Smith Richardson Foundation - $416,916 from 3 donations between 1998 and 2001;

Thus, out of the total of $2,960,916 in foundation grants, nearly all of it ($2,668,916) came from just four sources: the John M. Olin, Scaife, and Smith Richardson foundations. In other words, CMPA received 86% of its foundation funding from those four donors. Here is a sample of other right-wing causes funded by these 3 donors, as listed by their respective SourceWatch articles:

* John M. Olin Foundation - American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century
* Scaife Foundations - American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation
* Smith Richardson Foundation - American Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute

According to Salon journalist Joe Conason, the availability of this information does not indicate an openness on the part of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. In a Jan 2003 exchange of views with Lichter, Conason said "The IRS form 990 returns filed by center redacts the names of all the individuals and organizations that contribute to it, thereby concealing them from public scrutiny. But the watchdogs at Media Transparency have collated the 990 returns filed by the conservative foundations, which disclose their contributions to Lichter's outfit."<3>

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Media_and_Public_Affairs

[Orrex]

1. Just saw this now--excellent post

Wish I could recommend at this late date, but I'll just have to settle for a kick.


Thanks!

[JohnWxy]

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