For Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, it seemingly doesn’t get any worse than this.

In his role overseeing a “progressive” organization that is at the center of nearly every take-down of conservative and moderate commentators, you’d think Carsuone’s own words would be carefully considered.

Instead, his past writings are overtly racist, anti-Semitic and (oddly) anti-gay.

As an investigation by the Daily Caller reveals, a “top executive at Media Matters for America and the principal activist in the ‘Stop Rush’ campaign made racist and anti-Semitic comments and disparaged ‘trannies’ on a dormant blog that he wrote just several years prior to his prominent liberal activism career.”

In past entries, Carusone made derogatory remarks about ethnic groups and used language to insult “trannies” and ugly “gays” that would almost certainly be considered hate speech by his own organization.

In another Oct. 20, 2005 post, Carusone made an overtly anti-Semitic remark:

“Thanks to my adorable boyfriend (come on, despite his jewry, you KNOW he’s adorable), my interest in Comedy Central’s hit TV show South Park has begun to pick up (again),” Carusone wrote.’

“Follow the money”: As they pursued the leads and leaks generated during Watergate that nearly resulted in an impeachment hearing in 1974, it’s the first thing Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee taught a young Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

To learn how this mysterious organization generates its massive war chest and ability to weaponize information for the personal destruction against those in the public arena, in 2017, Media Equalizer is following the same trail of bread crumbs.

Media Matters for America: The Money Trail

According to the New Republic, Media Matters attacks conservative media, while protecting Bill and Hillary Clinton. In Chairman David Brock’s ability to raise money for his network of organizations, the latter has been instrumental. His empire of smear also includes the website Shareblue (formerly Blue Nation Review) and super PACs Correct the Record and American Bridge.

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Relying on tax returns and websites of wealthy U.S. foundations, a Daily Caller investigation has revealed the sources of more than $28.8 million in funding collected by the liberal organization since 2003, the year before its formal incorporation. The figures show a principally foundation-driven, not citizen-supported, activist group.

Who are these people?

“The list of its foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left Tides Foundation ($4,384,702), George Soros’ (below image) Open Society Institutes ($1,075,000), the Ford Foundation ($966,466), Sandler Foundation ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled [since defunct] ACORN organization — and the Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.”

They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization MoveOn.org ($50,000), the Barbra Streisand Foundation ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered Stride Rite Charitable Foundation ($25,000), the Lear Family Foundation ($55,000) — endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear — and the Joyce Foundation ($400,000), whose board of directors included Barack Obama from 1994 to 2002.

Their investigation also revealed that the ARCA Foundation, a Democratic-aligned group, made a $50,000 grant to Media Matters in 2006 for the specific purpose of “fact checking” religious broadcasters.

Previously, ARCA had given Media Matters an additional $100,000 in startup funding. But in the larger context of the $53.4 million the organization has raised since 2003, $150,000 is a drop in the proverbial bucket.

Tomorrow on Media Equalizer: How much money has David Brock hidden from the IRS? The shocking details on some seemingly-shady dealings.

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