Media Matters admits defending Hillary

Hillary Clinton

The founder of the 501(c)3 Media Matters for America, David Brock, made a bold admission in a recent op-ed about the group's association with Sidney Blumenthal, sliding in a claim that seems to fly in the face of IRS rules regarding nonprofits and writing: Yes, we defended former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from political fury, he said.

The IRS rule regarding 501(c)3 organizations is clear, as the Daily Caller reported: "Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)3 organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes."

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But Brock pretty much admitted in a piece posted on the Media Matters blog that his group has done just that.

Brock, in his op-ed, was discussing the recent congressional testimony of former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal, who consulted with the politico while she was secretary of state and while he was working as a paid Media Matters consultant, the Daily Caller said. Republicans have criticized the close association, more details of which were discussed during a recent House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi.

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Brock wrote of that hearing on his nonprofit's blog: "By refusing to release the transcript [of the hearing], Republicans want to hide the true nature of the Blumenthal deposition: Their partisan attempt to both chill Blumenthals' right to freely express his own political views and more broadly to intimidate our organizations – organizations that have led the way in exposing the fraudulence of the Benghazi investigation itself. (Not to mention our role in specifically defending Hillary Clinton from the Republicans' unfair attacks on the subject)."

Clinton's presidential campaign has been marked by repeated refusals to take questions from the press, or address Republican queries on Benghazi.