Media Matters working with White House-if 501c4, is still tax exempt!

• Who's watching the alleged 'watchdogs?'
  
• Working with White House reference is last sentence of the article...
  

Media Matters Action Network formed Progressive Media with CAP personnel and others.

• The Plum Line: "The Center for American Progress — which has emerged as perhaps Washington’s most influential idea factory in the age of Obama — is launching a major new war room, to be staffed by nearly a dozen people, that

• will focus on driving the White House’s message and agenda, I’m told.

The Democratic operatives running the project are already holding a daily early morning call with dozens of operatives from liberal groups — labor, health care, the environment — to coordinate messaging and to deliver usable talking points for the day, according to liberal operative Jennifer Palmieri, who’s the project’s communications director.

• The new war room — which is called Progressive Media — represents a serious ratcheting up of efforts to present a united liberal front in the coming policy wars. The goal of the war room will be to do hard-hitting research that boils down complex policy questions into usable talking points and
  

• narratives that play well in the media and build public support for the White House’s policy goals....

The war room — a joint project of CAP Action Fund and

• Media Matters Action Network —
  

• will be headed by well-known liberal operative Tara McGuinness, who worked on John Kerry’s presidential campaign and was a major player in the
  
• anti-war movement during the Bush years.

The morning calls are key to the effort to present a united liberal front — something that the Obama White House had already been working to build among outside groups.

“We do a coordination call to get our content out and to coordinate people so they can fire up for the day,” Palmieri says, adding that

• the group will work with the White House “only informally.”"
  

3/10/09, Sargent, Plumline blog, "Center for American Progress Launching Big War Room to Drive Obama Agenda," a Washington Post blog.

• It's a short walk from a 501c3 to a 501c4--both tax exempt!!!--but the latter is apparently ok to
  
• lobby and engage in political campaigning!!!