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News Corporation, the Rupert Murdoch media empire that serves as the parent corporation of Fox News and other properties, is now throwing its monetary weight around in politics with a big contribution to the Republican Governors Association.
As Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports, News Corporation donated $1 million to the RGA, which is able to take in unlimited corporate contributions.
This is, of course, in addition to the massive in-kind contributions that the company makes to the GOP on a daily basis.
(Via the Huffington Post.)
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LiberalRedneck
August 17, 2010 12:24 PM
Ah, HuffPo. The lefty version of Fox News:
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Big Democratic givers for the governors’ races include two Washington-based labor groups, the Service Employees International Union, which donated $1.1 million, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which contributed $3.3 million.
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That site is trash. I avoid it for a reason.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 12:30 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
Hardly. If that were true, HP would spend most (or some) of its space defending the president. HP is every bit as anti-Obama as Faux.
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LiberalRedneck
August 17, 2010 12:31 PM in reply to FreeRider
Okay, the lefty version of Teatards then.
I just really hate HuffPo.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 12:48 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
You're right. HP is run by firebaggers. It does as much damage to democrats as Faux.
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LiberalRedneck
August 17, 2010 12:51 PM in reply to FreeRider
They also give a platform to anti-vaxxers.
That really chaps my ass.
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Redwood Rhiadra
August 17, 2010 12:35 PM in reply to FreeRider
Not to mention HuffPo isn't a major cable news network. Seriously, it's a website, one of hundreds or thousands of news/gossip websites, and doesn't reach nearly as many people as Faux News.
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LiberalRedneck
August 17, 2010 12:37 PM in reply to Redwood Rhiadra
The point is that HuffPo is just as dishonest with their "reporting" as Fox is in order to push a particular ideological agenda.
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hunter
August 17, 2010 1:18 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
If that's the point, it's wrong. I share some of your beef with HuffPo's viewpoint. But they get the facts right. Fox just straight-up lies about the facts. Regularly. There's a huge difference.
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traitorjoe
August 17, 2010 3:31 PM in reply to hunter
Agree with Hunter. Faux News has moved the debate so far to the Right than anyone with a Centrist or slightly Left view of the news, even groups that adhere to journalistic standards of separating News from Opinion, are labeled as propagandist. HuffPo not in the same evil strata as Fox.
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FreemanW
August 17, 2010 5:59 PM in reply to hunter
Quoted for truth and justice.
FUX NEWS is the freakish malformed child of Rupert Murdoch's massive ego.
Why hold a political office and be ham-strung by other politicians? Why not just have your very own "News" empire and influence the opinion forming process of millions around the World with your blatant lies and distortions.
Rupert Murdoch, a case study in sociopathic psychopathy
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 12:50 PM in reply to Redwood Rhiadra
Here's a test: Read the headlines on HP today, then turn on MSNBC where each and every trumped-up story will be regurgitated by Ratigan, Olbermann and Schultz as proof that Obama is a traitor to the democratic party and that democrats are just as bad as republicans.
It's fucked.
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Progressive Party
August 17, 2010 2:14 PM in reply to FreeRider
you are once again wrong and pushing out bullshit...MSNBC is as bad as Fox news....not in anyway is that accurate...care to back up your horse shit!
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billybam
August 17, 2010 2:31 PM in reply to Progressive Party
I completely agree. I'm tired of this "MSNBC is as bad as FOX" horse crap.
Please provide a story that aired on Ratigan, Schultz, Olbermann, or Maddow that deliberately gave false information, and was not backed up by the reporting of others, comments of others, or simply evidence that was public for all to see.
I'm waiting.
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midnight rambler
August 17, 2010 3:08 PM in reply to billybam
The main reason being that MSNBC never actually airs any NEWS. Aside from Maddow (very good) and Olbermann (getting increasingly tiresome), the whole network is garbage. The news section, when it appears at all, is even more vapid than CNN, and most of the airtime is taken up by inane "real-life crime dramas".
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 3:19 PM in reply to midnight rambler
MSNBC only airs true crime on the weekends.
Rachel is good (but boring) and she does her homework and researches stuff very well.
Olbermann is as one-note as Cindy Sheehan and Ed Schultz is just a fucking clown with his screaming and faux outrage. He's the worst host because it's clear that he's not even listening to what his guests have to say. He cuts them off in mid-sentence to ask the same question they just answered. Idiot.
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midnight rambler
August 17, 2010 5:37 PM in reply to FreeRider
They must also air it at night and not correct for western time, because it's all I see here.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 3:15 PM in reply to billybam
I have never said MSNBC is as bad as Fox because it's not. But Ed Schultz is as bad as O'Reilly.
Schultz is a dumb as dirt demagogue and doesn't give a shit about facts. He routinely twists words to suit his own purpose and invents his own facts.
Example: He ranted that Rahm called liberals "fucking retarded" "because they wanted a public option." What utter horseshit. Rahm was asked "what do you think about democrats running attack ads against other democrats over their stance on healthcare?" and he answered "it's fucking retarded." Which it was since they spent millions and didn't move a damn vote.
Example: Schultz gave a thirty minute speech to the Netroot convention attacking the White House, saying they were all a bunch of pussies who catered to the right wing. He said "democrats can find another candidate instead of Obama."
Then the self-righteous prick had a fucking meltdown when Gibbs hit back saying "You're attacking the president's biggest supporters."
EXAMPLE: Schultz spent months trashing the HCR bill and screaming "kill this bill", saying it was a giveaway to insurance companies. But as soon as Scott Brown was elected, he started pushing "just pass the bill."
EXAMPLE: Schultz spent months pushing Halter as a "progressive" when he was nothing of sort. Halter is every bit as conservative as Lincoln.
EXAMPLE: Schultz spent months pushing Romanoff as a progressive. LMAO. Romanoff was chair of the CO DLC for more than a decade and one of the few democrats to vote to privatize social security.
What a fucking dumbass blowhard.
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expat46
August 17, 2010 6:24 PM in reply to FreeRider
Ratigan had Greenwald and Hamsher on his show the day after the 'professional left' story broke.
Watching those three smirking assholes sucking each others dicks was enough to make me throw up in my hands.
It's a perfect example of exactly what Gibbs was talking about when he made the comment in the first place, complete with Jane Hamsher's 'professional left' card. Get it? She's a card carrying member of the 'professional left'. She was giddy with herself. I hear that her readers are asking her to make up T-shirts so they can buy them.
I'm sure the video is still online in case you haven't seen it. Take a look if you have the stomach for it.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 6:35 PM in reply to expat46
Thanks, but no thanks. I don't have the stomach for those assholes.
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chameleon
August 17, 2010 7:10 PM in reply to expat46
I had to turn it off. I can't stand Greenwald, Hamsher or Ratigan. I am sick of the whole lot.
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August 17, 2010 7:54 PM in reply to FreeRider
The main distinction between FOXenophobia and MSNBC is that MSNBC delineates news from opinion. When you watch Ratigan, Schultz, Matthews, Olbermann, and Maddow, you know that you are getting their opinions. Ditto for Scarborough, et al. However, the 9 a.m.-3 p.m. slot is about news, and the anchors at least attempt to deliver it straight.
With the exception of Shepard Smith, NO ONE—not even the supposed "news" anchors, makes any attempt at objectivity.
Furthermore, MSNBC does not donate money to the Democratic Party; it does not sponsor and promote rallies.
I quite agree that the editorial commentators on MSNBC are the left-wing equivalent of Fox. However, MSNBC does not drive the Democratic Party, nor is it driven by them.
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August 17, 2010 7:56 PM in reply to Ortho
Oops, make that "at Fox no one attempts to maintain objectivity."
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 2:59 PM in reply to Progressive Party
Well, since I never said MSNBC was as bad as Faux News, the only thing that needs to be backed up is your claim that you're not a fucking retard.
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Hobbes83
August 17, 2010 10:53 PM in reply to FreeRider
Fuck you, you Faux Noise bigot!(Sorry, I saw that guy doing it to you yesterday and I couldn't resist). Take it easy FR.
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FreeRider
August 18, 2010 3:31 AM in reply to Hobbes83
Hey, Hobbes! Nice to see you. I'm a celebrity, complete with lunatic stalker!
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Hobbes83
August 18, 2010 3:50 PM in reply to FreeRider
How the hell did that start anyways. I couldn't about three stories that that troll followed you to.
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FreeRider
August 18, 2010 5:09 PM in reply to Hobbes83
Oh, he posted the usual firebagger shit "Obama is a dehumanizing traitor who has sold progressives down the river, blah, blah, blah." To which I replied, fuck off you whining prick.
Of course, that proved to this loon that I was a bigoted gay-hater, who was attacking him because he's gay (like I knew he was a he or he was gay.)
*yawn*
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Hobbes83
August 18, 2010 7:26 PM in reply to FreeRider
Yeah, he's definitely a newbie. 'Prick' is a mainstay in your arsenal.LOL
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xargaw
August 17, 2010 10:37 PM in reply to Redwood Rhiadra
That's the whole point. FOX News IS NOT a News site. It is a political action committee for the Republican Party. They have not formally admitted what we have all known for a long time. But in admitting they are not a News outlet, but a political action outlet, they should forfeit their News creditials in the White House Press Corp and their press passes in other venues.
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Misty Knight
August 17, 2010 5:54 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
I didn't realize so many people hated Huffington Post. Gee, I can't go one day without visiting and commenting on that site. It probably has the most logical and reasonable people on the web.
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Scheherazade
August 18, 2010 2:09 AM in reply to LiberalRedneck
I used to frequent HuffPo all the time. Now I never go there - ever! I miss my friends their dearly. In fact I sometimes even shed a tear when I think of them. I try to keep up with a few via email when I can; my life has gotten rather hectic so hard to be as social as I want now. : ( I'm a very proud liberal, and love reading what others who share similar views have to say. That goes for all of you (on TPM) too btw. : )
That said, HuffPo doesn't treat the people who post there with any decency. I've seen many people get banned from that site for standing up to reich wingers. In fact I've seen people who say nothing controversial get banned 4 times in one day. It's ludicrous. There is a guy that handles all that named Rob S. who loves to send high handed emails to people by the dozen in order to scold them with sarcastic disdain. Worse still is that I occasionally look on the site to see who is still there, and I see the same reich wingers who have quite literally threatened people, given out their personal information (no idea how they got it), accused them of acts as heinous as rape and molestation and generally drag the discourse down to the level of a middle school playground cut-down war. It's pathetic.
What's more, HuffPo recycles news that's days - sometimes weeks - old in order to further take aim at people with whom they've an axe to grind in the current administration. They present economic polices with blatant mischaracterizations. They continually give voice to tabloid content in order to generate more clicks on the site. Even the people who are their "pro bloggers" have spoken out in anger about the way in which they don't seem to care about anything except promoting Arianna's personal gripes.
This is all coming from a site that is suppose to giving a voice to the left. Instead it unabashedly gives a voice to the extreme right while constantly promoting derisive infighting amongst the left in order to keep the hedge fund that keeps them going happy.
Yes, I have very strong feelings about that website, and refuse to have anything more to do with it. That said, the above article addresses a legitimate issue. Moreover, I find the idea that MSNBC parrots Scarianna's website to be disingenuous at best. I visit every left-leaning website that I know of each day (tpm.com, KOS, FDL, C&L, Salon, Think Progress, MotherJones, etc etc), and I find that if you take in what is being addressed by each of them that you'll see that HuffPo does little more than rip off the other sites. I see KO, Rachel, et al addressing issues that are dealt with in many places and not just Scarianna's tabloid freak show.
Anyway, that's for letting me get that all off my chest. ; )
Sorry if I stepped on any toes.
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August 18, 2010 10:05 AM in reply to LiberalRedneck
Hardly...HuffPost does not broadcast bias and distortion over public airwaves as a "news" organization subject to FCC regulations.
It is illegal to broadcast lies, bias and distortion using public frequencies while claiming to be news.
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Red XIV
August 18, 2010 3:23 PM in reply to Paul
Sadly, that's not the case.
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/
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RustyCannon
August 23, 2010 3:07 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
Sure, attack the messenger when you can't defend the policy. Fair and balanced? Newscorp not only gave the $1 million but daily contributes megabucks as "in kind" contributions to Republicans. No mention of anything to the Democratic party. Like Jon Stewart said, the Republican'ts should be paying FOX snooze millions of dollars. MSNBC, FOX's nearest competition, on the other hand, doesn't contribute to political parties... which would be appropriate behavior for a news organization.
As far as comparing a "news" organization to a union in making political contributions, that's comparing coal to oranges. News organizations are supposed to be impartial if they are serving the public. Newscorp is a corporation and a dictatorship. Rupert calls the shots and does whatever he wants. The unions, on the other hand, are democratic organizations where the members choose their leaders and the members pay their dues out of their paychecks. Rupert just decides how much to spend and whatever he spends on political contributions doesn't become dividends for the other investors - such as the Saudi Prince who supports the Imam in NY who wants to build the community center there.
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mcc
August 17, 2010 12:25 PM
Steve Benen points out the really interesting bit in that article:
"Indeed, the RGA's "biggest corporate donor" happens to be Fox News' corporate parent."
Fox news doesn't work for the Republicans; it's the other way around. News Corp *employs* the RGA.
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traitorjoe
August 17, 2010 1:23 PM in reply to mcc
Brilliant!
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madmatt
August 17, 2010 12:34 PM
Any dem who goes on fox after this payoff to the GOP should be stripped of leadership roles and primaried.
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ClosetLuddite
August 17, 2010 12:38 PM in reply to madmatt
You're an idiot.
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condew
August 17, 2010 4:06 PM in reply to madmatt
There's some merit to that arguement. Dems appearing on FOX don't get fair treatment, they don't get access to an audience that is open to their arguements, but they do give FOX the appearance of being a news organization and the appearence of being "fair and balenced". Dems on FOX hurt their own cause and stengthen the Republican propaganda network.
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Hobbes83
August 18, 2010 12:18 AM in reply to condew
I agree in practice with you on that, but in reality, you couldn't do that because all Fox would do is fall on the sword and make the Democrats look like they were being "too sensitive." Their viewers would eat it up and make the political landscape even more polarized. The strategy would eventually work against the Dems at the end of the day.
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Scheherazade
August 18, 2010 8:20 AM in reply to Hobbes83
Not sure that you can really get around the outcome regardless of what Dems do. Personally I'm all in favor of everyone on the left boycotting FNC in every way - including a refusal to appear on it. We all know it's Roger Ailes' playing propaganda games. So, why give his putrid channel the time of day? They'll use whatever they can against Dems anyway. So, to hell with them.
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Hobbes83
August 18, 2010 4:04 PM in reply to Scheherazade
I understand where you're coming from, but the thing about Conservatives is that they get power from playing the victim. Beck does it, Coulter does it VERY well, along with Rush and othre talking heads. They'll trot out the whole "we're being persecuted by a weakling political party and a whiny little kid for a president," like they did last year, and the press will feel compelled to report on it because they don't want to be labeled as the big, bad "librul media."
After that, the scores of clueless Americans will eat it up and the Democrats will be worse for wear in the PR field. You need to understand that most Americans are stupid, or ignorant, or lazy(sometimes all three), and the smaller the soundbite, the scarier the talking-point, the easier it is to broadcast. I hate to label my country-men in such a way, but it's the truth.
You have to give it to Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. While they are some of the most disgusting and vile people I have ever seen, they know how to run propaganda without their consumers knowing it. They would make Goebbels proud. Anyways, I've heard your name mentioned by a few trolls around here, so you're cool in my book. Take it easy.
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Scheherazade
August 19, 2010 7:43 AM in reply to Hobbes83
Point taken.
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ahumbleopinion
August 17, 2010 12:41 PM
Prominent conservative David Frum, former speechwriter to President George W. Bush hit the nail on the head when he said: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.“ And what will they be doing for their Fox employers? Pushing a pro corporate and especially a pro oil company agenda at all levels of government. Citizens beware.
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August 17, 2010 12:56 PM
Can you imagine the hue and cry on the Right if NBC donated money to Dem campaigns?
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traitorjoe
August 17, 2010 3:25 PM in reply to Ortho
Fox News says "We're on your side" when a republican appears and they kiss his or her ass, they cry "We're fair and balanced" when leveling accusations and tossing smears at Democrats when they show up on Fox.
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jalbert
August 17, 2010 1:35 PM
When will the media point out that 7% of that Fox/News Corp $1m donation comes from a Saudi prince who's $10M donation to NYC was famously rejected by Giuliani?
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kasinca
August 17, 2010 2:37 PM
Fauxtoid defenders will never open their minds to the facts but I am pssting a link to OutFoxed one more time.
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=43
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verite
August 17, 2010 2:52 PM
Shouldn't that disqualify them from being consider a news source? They have a vested interest in the outcome of races. Perhaps their seats in the White House Press Room should be revoked.
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cosliberal
August 17, 2010 3:18 PM
This is absolute proof that FOX is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party (interesting, typical dumb ass republicans, they pay to get owned!!!!)
Seems like it's time to call a spade a spade and force them to give up their position in the White House Press Room. Only news organizations need be present.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 3:21 PM in reply to cosliberal
Then HuffingtonPost, TPM would get kicked out, too. Are you OK with that?
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mcc
August 17, 2010 3:25 PM in reply to FreeRider
That's not fair. TPM is a legitimate news organization.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 3:30 PM in reply to mcc
C'mon. TPM is a LIBERAL blog that added on a reporting arm. Like Faux, it has an editorial view and is not even remotely "balanced." Ask Josh and company how much money they've given to Republican candidates.
Same thing for HP, except HP isn't really a liberal site; it's an anti-establishment site, which means they trash Obama as much as they trashed Bush.
But I bet you can't find a single HP employee who has donated a dime to a republican in the last 5 years.
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kenga
August 17, 2010 6:17 PM in reply to FreeRider
LOL. Your hyperbole is showing.
Try this:
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=Huffington&state=CA&zip=&employ=&cand=&old=Y&sort=N&capcode=3zbgz&submit=Submit (For Arianna Huffington, co-Founder of Huffington Post)
See, it's funny because every single listed donation for her on the first page of results is to a Republican candidate or a Republican organization. Not just many, or most of them.
Every. Single. One.
Oh - by the way, TPM has been doing journalism since day one - political journalism to be sure, and with a clear editorial viewpoint, but journalism and news nonetheless.
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FreeRider
August 17, 2010 6:42 PM in reply to kenga
WTF are you talking about? Did you even look at the link you posted?
There are no donations listed for Arianna since 1993. Yes, they were all to Republicans since she was a Republican then! The rest of the donations are for Michael Huffington.
My post clearly says "in the last 5 years."
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Hobbes83
August 17, 2010 10:57 PM in reply to kenga
Your research skills are lacking my friend. TPM was a started as a liberal blog in 04 and made additions later on. You must be thinking about...hell, I don't know what you were thinking.
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Ironcomments
August 17, 2010 3:37 PM
.... and water is wet. Thanks supreme court.
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31tudor
August 17, 2010 3:49 PM
I Faux was "fair and balanced" it would contribute the same amount of money to the Dems. Do you think Faux will?
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stillidealistic
August 17, 2010 3:52 PM
This is wrong on so many levels...but not surprising.
Interesting...on the mosque situation it is, "it's legal, but is it right?" Wouldn't the same question hold here? "It's legal, but is it right?"
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An Outhouse
August 17, 2010 3:59 PM
Faux's journalistic integrity should really be rewarded with a front row seat in the White House press room.
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jeffgee
August 17, 2010 4:58 PM
He already owns the GOP
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August 17, 2010 6:50 PM
I will preface this by saying that I am not a tinfoil-hat -wearing conspiracy theorist. However...
In addition to FOXenophobia News, NewsCorp owns the Fox Business Channel, Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Market Watch, Smart Money, and Barron's.
Considering that NC has a virtual corner on the market of media related to finance, is it any wonder that investors are so nervous to take risks, that businesses are reluctant to hire, that banks are squeamish to lend. In short, is it any wonder why the economy has stalled?
It does not seem to be an absurd leap of logic to suggest that Murdoch and his cronies are intent upon sinking this Administration (as evidenced by the donation to the RGA) that they use the full weight of NewsCorp's virtual monopoly on business publications to disseminate misinformation and fear.
We regular TPH posters tend to be like-minded, so if I am being paranoid, tell me. It just does not seem all that far-fetched to me.
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Altbob
August 18, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to Ortho
You hit the nail on the head perfectly.
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arimartinez
August 17, 2010 8:17 PM
Ω
I tell you that these criminals of yesteryears are walking in
the funeral of an era of treachery created by themselves…
I despiteful denounce the News Corporation, as the worst
corporate company in the entire world, particularly in the
U.S. The parent company of Fox News Channel (FNC), or
commonly referred to as Fox News, and its 36 Tv stations
that are broadcasting garbage, paid by advertising consumer
dollars. In addition, to the Wall Street Journal, New York Post,
Vanity Fair and or sports channels... they own Sky News an international satellite television broadcaster a 24-hour based
in London with emphasis on the international pacific ring
market, which are including versions of the channel in Australia
and in the New Zealand.
These propaganda channels were created by Australian expatriate, corrupted media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who at the time influenced Ronald Regan to deregulate television broadcasting… Do your research, to find that the fourth largest voting shareholder in the News Corp., are the SAUDIS… http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2005/12/15/saudi-control-on-fox-news-coverage/
The same folks that gave us Sept 11, capitalizing with more
deceit on a fictitious treat, as an excuse for war to control oil. Now throwing its monetary weight around in politics with very big contribution to the Republican Governors Association. Write your congressmen to investigate Fox cronies, and close down its deceptive, and or distorted misinformation operations…
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labman57
August 17, 2010 8:40 PM
Hey, it's FOX PAC -- what did you expect, impartial journalism?
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JimmyBobby
August 17, 2010 9:10 PM
I don't know why he'd bother giving Republicans money -- his so-called news channel is already the biggest and best source for spreading their lies over the nation.
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August 18, 2010 9:48 AM
At least he came out of the closet and proved what everyone already knew. Murdoch and his wealthy Saudi Price back the Republicans. I can't help wonder how much more influence this Saudi Muslim will have over American Media now that he and Rupert are purchasing influence with the Republicans.
http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/media/view/20100117saudi_billionaire_eyes_new_links_with_news_corp/format=comments&srvc=home&position=also
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August 18, 2010 11:46 AM
Rupert Murdoch, is a Bilderberger elitist and part of the problem - he is a lord of the MSM and only allows his news media to tell us Americans and the world what the Globalists will allow us to hear!
The widows and widowers and families of fallen military KIA,are having their insurance stolen from them by the American Government & Insurance companies!
Out with the Global Elite and the Criminal Government - That Has Performed A Hostile Corporate Take Over of America!
The Government that has taken over America, is not American! Outsiders are running our country!
The reasons why, we must vote out, Establishment Government Representatives, whether they are Left or Right - Incumbent or Candidate!
Make sure they do not belong to any of the Global Elitist Organizations: Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Club of Rome, Skull and Bones, Canadian Council of Chief Executives,
Harvard Elite Players, Goldman Sachs, International Monetary Fund, The United Nations, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization.
The reason we must vote out Establishment Government Representatives whether they are Left or Right, Incumbent or Candidate is explained on this 2 minute News Clip below:
TWO Party Paradyne System News clip:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2824363/the_obama_deception_extra_part_2/
We Americans, who wish to stop the thieving and robbing, of your income and resources in your country, by the Globalist Banksters need to, "End the Fed"! Help Ron Paul out on this one folks! There in lays our freedom!
PS: Please pass this information on to your friends - as - time is getting short, Obama and the Elites are pushing hard to start a III World war with Iran, a distraction to save Obama's failing presidency, in an effort to get the sheep rallying around Obama!
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