Hi John,
Mark your calendar! On Tuesday, May 5, the MRC will be participating in the nonprofit event called #GivingTuesdayNOW in response to the unprecedented need to hold the media accountable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At a time when we are all directly experiencing the pandemic, generosity enables MRC supporters like you to hold the media accountable. We need to meet the historic challenges we face right now.
Never have the media failed so completely in their role of keeping the public reliably informed in times of crisis. In fact, no institution has failed the public more during this pandemic.
If you've been following the news lately, you've seen how bad it has gotten.
Leftist media figures are attending the daily White House coronavirus briefings for the single purpose of badgering President Trump and his team with “gotcha” questions.
They routinely disrespect and ridicule the healthcare experts the President has assembled to manage the crisis. They even ridiculed a business owner who transformed his factory to help meet the critical shortage of face masks. And, despite overwhelming evidence, leftist media simply refuse to blame communist China for suppressing news of the virus.
Our content and grassroots efforts reached Americans across the country before the crisis, but we've seen a MASSIVE surge in audience demand for truth in reporting, facts, and identification of bias at a time when accurate information matters the most.
The MRC staff, us included, are all working from home right now due to Virginia/Maryland/DC stay-at-home orders, but the MRC is operating at 100% and seeing incredible results. Next week, on May 5th, we’ll be personally sharing some of those really cool results with you.
BUT — because of COVID-19's impact on our fundraising, we cannot sustain our efforts without additional donor support.
Next week, we will ask you to join the MRC’s movement and give what you can on May 5th. (We wanted to give you enough advance notice so you could consider how much you are able to give.)
In fact, something that may influence your decision is the new tax benefits under the recently-passed CARES Act:
- Donors may deduct up to $300 per person ($600 per couple!) without the necessity of itemizing their contributions: Presently, only those who itemize their income tax deductions are able to make a charitable deduction of over $250. For the rest of 2020, an individual will be able to deduct up to $300, irrespective of whether they itemize their deductions.
- Increase the cap for total deductions: Under current law, an individual who itemizes contributions may deduct up to 60% of their adjusted gross income (AGI) for charitable deductions of cash. The stimulus package lifts that restriction, so that an individual can make a gift of cash (not stock) and deduct it up to 100% of their Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for the year 2020. To explain this another way, a donor who has an AGI of $100,000 for 2020 under the new change will be able to deduct the full $100,000 of income, instead of $60,000.
Please, John, set aside what funds you can donate to the MRC on May 5th.
The lefist media are weaponizing COVID-19 coverage. We must expose the media lies. Fight media dishonesty of COVID-19 coverage with us!
— April, Stephen, and Harry
The MRC Digital Communications Team
P.S. You can donate through the mail if you do not prefer to donate online. Download, print, fill out, and include this PDF form with your mail-in gift. (Be sure to write “Spring Giving Tuesday” in the “Subject of email received” field.) Then, reply to this email and let us know it’s on the way so we can keep watch. Thank you!
P.P.S. MRC President Brent Bozell will be on Mark Levin's Life, Liberty & Levin (Fox News, Sunday, 10-11 PM Eastern). They'll be discussing the media's attacks on Trump using COVID-19 coverage, and the CNN bias-by-omission non-coverage of the Tara Reade sexual assault claim against Joe Biden. In the words of The Great One himself, you won't want to miss it!
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