Well, we have a dilemma. Mrs. Bill Clinton says she started Media Matters. Media Matters sent a spokesman out yesterday and said it was started by David Brock. The spokesman said that Mrs. Clinton had no input in starting Media Matters. Now which is it? Did Mrs. Clinton start Media Matters like she said? Or did she have no role in starting Media Matters like Media Matters said?

My personal opinion is that Mrs. Clinton did have the leading role in starting Media Matters and put David Brock as the front person. It would have to be something like that. When you look at who has written articles on the “phony soldiers” situation, it reads like a veritable Clinton White House operation. Either Media Matters coincidentally hired former Clinton White House operatives or they were ordered to Media Matters by the Clinton election team. The latter scenario seems likely as that is the way the Clinton’s operate. They leave nothing to chance. They will want to control all sides of the debate.

Media Matters is a 501C3 operation. That means they are a non-profit organization that cannot have any political operation. I ran 501C3 organizations for about 10 years and know the law. Even lobbying for projects you like can get you in trouble with legislators and then the IRS. The advantage of being a 501C3 is that you can accept donations and the donations are tax deductible for the person that donates. To lose that designation would dramatically reduce their ability to raise funds. They have to be very careful about any official contact with the Mrs. Clinton for President Team.

The spokesman had to say that Mrs. Clinton had no connection with Media Matters. If she had started Media Matters, the IRS would have investigated and most likely pulled their 501C3 designation. They could be a 501C4 organization and have political connections, but then the donations are not tax deductible.

When Mrs. Clinton said that she started Media Matters at the Daily Kos convention on August 4, 2007, she created a problem for Media Matters. Had Media Matters kept to what they had been doing, they probably would have gotten away from the scrutiny. But, when they decided to go after Rush Limbaugh, they came under the microscope. It did not take long to find the quote at the Daily Kos convention and fur started to fly.

We now return to the central question in this post, did Mrs. Clinton start Media Matters or did she have no role at all? Media Matters has to take the position they have taken. They have to say that they were started by David Brock and that Mrs. Clinton had no role in the founding of Media Matters. The paperwork probably would back up this position. If the paperwork had Mrs. Clinton’s fingerprints on it I would be extremely surprised. She does not work that way. She tells other people to do things and they do it.

Here is how I think Media Matters started. Mrs. Clinton said she needed a group to control the media and the message. She also said that this group has to have no connection to the campaign to give it credibility. Her think tank goes to work and comes up with the plan that is Media Matters. They enlist David Brock to be the front person for the organization. They hand him all the completed paperwork, all he has to do is sign. They then fill the organization with operatives that are loyal to the Mrs. Clinton for President Campaign. The campaign then makes sure that Media Matters only responds to issues of importance to the Mrs. Clinton for President Campaign. The control is not overt in that they do not send a fax over to Media Matters. They most likely call someone, who calls someone, who calls Media Matters on what to do. That way the campaign does not have anyone phoning Media Matters directly. There is no paper trail. Everyone is sworn to secrecy so the word will not get out. They cannot have their role in controlling Media Matters get out and spoil this arrangement.

Is Media Matters the only Democrat group controlled by the Mrs. Clinton for President Campaign? No, that would be absurd to think that this was the only one. My guess is that 75-90% of the Democrat leaning front groups is, in some way, controlled by the Mrs. Clinton for President Campaign. That is the only way I can explain the coordinated attacks that come from the Democrat media every day. Conservative media is not coordinated in any way. That is obvious in the way they respond to any issue. Democrat media is monolithic. Conservative media is scattered and all over the place.

Democrats always accuse the Republicans of doing things like the Democrats actually do them. The Republicans gape in amazement that anyone could even conceive of doing something so underhanded. Democrats are then convinced that the Republicans are not telling the truth about the Democrat accusation. Republicans are left standing in utter amazement that such thoughts could be applied to politics. Democrats then redouble their efforts to outdo the Republicans in what the Republicans cannot conceive of doing. Republicans work to try to eliminate any possibility that they could ever be accused of such a dastardly thing again. Then the process goes on and on with the Democrats convinced that the Republicans are completely underhanded and the Republicans lost in amazement without a clue. That is the state of American politics today. The Democrat party convinced the Republicans are working night and day to be underhanded, so they work night and day to outdo the underhanded Republicans. The Republicans are confused and bewildered that anyone could accuse them of being underhanded. Republicans then work to eliminate the possibility of any underhandedness in the party.

If the Republicans did half of what the Democrats accused them of doing, the Democrat party would not stand a chance of holding any offices. I am glad to belong to a party that is generally not doing underhanded things. Individuals may be doing things illegal, but as a party we are not. Democrats on the other hand do illegal things until they get caught. They then claim they are just doing what the Republicans are doing and blame the Republicans. Everyone jumps on the Republicans for doing what the Democrats say the Republicans are doing.