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Media Matters enjoyed fundraising surge at start of Obama administration

Media Matters enjoyed a surge in fundraising after the start of the Obama administration -- nearly doubling its revenues in the first two years of the president's administration, according to tax returns obtained by The Daily Caller.

The Daily Caller found that Media Matters and its lobbying arm Media Matters Action Network raked in $14.6 million in 2010, compared with $8.1 million in 2009.

Hey, what's a $6.5 million increase in one year along friends, right? I'm sure this is mere coincidence, nothing untoward, certainly not like that evil Dick Cheney making million$ off his Halliburton stock while they rewarded Halliburton company. Oh, sure, they tried to point out that Cheney's stock options were set long before Halliburton even bid, but that's just evil Chimpy McBushhitler and his evil plan.

What got me most of all was this:

The 2010 returns, The Daily Caller reported, also showed founder David Brock was paid about $300,000. Seven staff members earned more than $100,000, with one blogger making more than $119,000.

Emphasis mine.

What in blue blazes am I doing wrong? Here I am doing this for free and some Media Matters blogger is making six figures? I am in the wrong business, I guess - nothing but my wheelbarrows of cash from the NRA... It's interesting to note that Media Matters is awash in cash in this time of rough economy - apparently fatcat Demo donors are unaffected by the downturn...

No, wait, I take that back. What really got me most of all was this:

Incidentally, the Daily Caller reported earlier in the week that Brock's assistant sometimes carried a gun to events to protect his boss despite laws in Washington, D.C., prohibiting concealed carry.

Yep. Another liberal hypocrite. These people would like nothing better than to see the Second Amendment repealed and all guns collected up and destroyed - except for the guns their bodyguards carry, that is. Liberal lion Ted Kennedy tried to ban .30-30 ammunition because it could defeat body armor - yet never refused his Secret Service detail. Rosie O'Donnell thinks that gun owners have a mental illness - oh, except for her armed bodyguards that she wants to be able to carry their guns into her kids' school. And now David Brock's assistant is carrying a firearm illegally into DC, the very heart of the gun control beast.

Again, all animals are equal - but liberals think they're more equal than the rest of us.

That is all.