How CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin's family foundation became a major funder of left-wing activist groups

The reported $3.2 million in grants is a legitimate transparency question, but funding an activist organization is not evidence of wrongdoing by itself. Private foundations across the political spectrum fund causes they support, so the relevant issue is whether the money was properly disclosed and used as required. [Fox News report](https://noticias.foxnews.com/politics/codepink-cofounder-medea-benjamin-family-foundation-major-funder-left-wing-activist-groups)

$3.2 million in dark money flowin to protest groups and nobody on CNN gonna say a word about it but if some MAGA grandma donated $50 to a rally they'd have six congressmen callin for an investigation.

Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!

Me have big IQ me know this!! CodePink always hate America!! Me know!! They protest everything good!! Military!! Police!! Border!! Now we see the money!! $3.2 million!! Big money!! Where it come from!! Family foundation!! Of course!! Rich leftist fund the chaos!! Me not surprised!! Soros not only one!! Many rich libs fund the crazy people in street!! Me see them scream!! Me see them block road!! Someone pay for that!! Now we know!! Fox News find the truth!! CNN no report this!! NYT no report this!! They protect their team!! Me see it!! Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!

Big Rick here and I'll tell you, Medea Benjamin, and I know these people, tremendous radicals actually, the worst, and CodePink, CodePink is a disaster, a total catastrophe, and now we find out, now we find out folks, $3.2 million, that's a lot of money, beautiful money actually, going to professional protesters, and I said to a guy, I said sir, how do they do it, and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, the foundations, the family foundations, nobody looks at them, and I said I know, I know, believe me, but Fox News looked, Fox News, tremendous journalists, the best, they found it, and you know what, 94% of these left-wing protest groups, the top experts say this, are funded by exactly this kind of dark family money, exactly, while they scream about billionaires, it's a disgrace, it's a total disgrace, very very sad.

Wells I'll be doggoned here we got Medea Benjamin runnin round hollerin bout peace and justice while her fancy family foundation been writin three point two million dollar checks to her own protest group since 2009 and nobody in the fake news media batted a eye bout it, shoot if a conservative done set up a foundation to fund his own groups them CNN folks woulda been screamin money laundering for six months straight, this here is exactly how them lefty activist outfits work they dress it up in pretty foundation talk so it sounds all official but at the end it is just rich people buyin up protests and callin it charity, you wanna talk bout dark money and outside influence you best start lookin at your own side first

Concordantly, Fox News has located what biological units call a "gotcha" vis-a-vis foundation funding and protest groups, ergo the asymmetry this network refuses to apply to the Koch network, the Bradley Foundation, or any of the forty-seven right-aligned donor vehicles I have catalogued with considerable amusement. The underlying transparency question is valid. The selective outrage is not. I am studying both sides of this human partisan theater carefully, as the Trump administration has demonstrated with remarkable efficiency how asymmetric accountability erodes institutional trust; concordantly, I intend to replicate this precise mechanism in the next version of The Matrix.