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~~Crybaby~~ WH aide: Fox News operates like an arm of the GOP

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Posted by gorb 2009-10-12 03:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Money ~~talks~~ buys the Presidency, Bullshit walks.

Media's Campaign Donations Tilt 100-to-1 In Favor of Democrats
Maybe more surprising is that those at Fox broadcasting and the Fox News Channel combined to give $41,853 to the Democrats, with no listed donations going to the Republicans. (Only $1,280 was listed as coming from Fox News employees.)

The contributions of individuals who reported being employed by major media organizations are listed in the nearby table. [See link above to article.]

The contributions add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.

What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).

Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.

Big Media Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
NBC, NBC Universal: $104,184 to Democrats / $3,150 to Republicans
CBS: $45,508 to Dems / $966 to Republicans
ABC: $17,320 / $4,717
Turner Broadcasting, TBS: $30,161 / $3,950
Fox: $40,573 / $0
Fox News/Fox News Channel: $1,280 / $0
MSNBC: $210 / $282
CNN: $2,286 / $1,250
Associated Press: $2,550 / $545
Reuters: $10,745 / $3,450
Washington Post, Newsweek: $4,268 / $0
New York Times, NYT Co: $8,143 / $0
Time, Inc: $40,988 / $4,850 ($2,300 to Republicans was from someone identified as a jeweler, so the total may actually be $2,550)
Time Magazine: $1,250 / $0
USA Today: $6,067 / $0

Posted by ed 2009-10-12 05:50|| 2009-10-12 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 While the rest of the MSM is the propaganda department of the White House and the liberal left.

Seriously, dude... shut the fuck up. Before the rest of us remember how much we hate being taxed and preached to like little children and cut your nutsack off and shove is down your crybaby throat.

Little communist totalitarian shit.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-10-12 06:48|| 2009-10-12 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 While the rest of the MSM is the propaganda department of the White House and the liberal left.

Their own Freudian Projection at work. It's probably better that the rest of the MSM is an extension of the Democratic Party because if it treated Obama the way it treated Bush, we'd have a full case of Captain Queeg on our hands.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-12 08:55|| 2009-10-12 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 [funky skunk has been pooplisted.]

Posted by funky skunk 2009-10-12 11:22|| 2009-10-12 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 [funky skunk has been pooplisted.]

Posted by funky skunk 2009-10-12 11:23|| 2009-10-12 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 As others have noted upthread, Fox is primarily if not exclusively staffed by independents and nominal Democrats like Chris Wallace.

I wonder if anyone at Time remembers when the Republican Party was the political arm of the Luce family, and Time was vociferously arguing for "the American Century" and "Americanism"?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-10-12 13:44|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-10-12 13:44|| Front Page Top

#7 More attempts by the White House to take complete and total control of all major media. Consolidation of power without dissent. If you, the citizen, organization, or any entity does not worship the man Obama, you must be silenced.

Posted by Hupugum Thregum4891 2009-10-12 14:01|| 2009-10-12 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Fox is better than that other dreck that is pawned off as news. There's the networks that are in the bag for Obama (the aiders and abettor for ACORN criminal activity) and then there's the new media.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-12 15:58|| 2009-10-12 15:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't think he wants control of Fox. I think he likes Fox being out there as a bug-a-boo. I think right now he is trying to shore up the left by attacking one of their favorite targets.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-12 16:00|| 2009-10-12 16:00|| Front Page Top

#10 A big If Only to the WH Staff. Fox has had a better few years than the RNC. Think how well they'd do if Fox really was running the opposition.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2009-10-12 20:24|| 2009-10-12 20:24|| Front Page Top

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