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- Evidence for foreign manipulation of the U.S. media is even more extensive than with the Chamber of Commerce... For example: "Former Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Norman Pearlstine is to join elite private equity firm the Carlyle Group as a senior advisor, reports Keith Kelly. He will leave his current position as senior adviser to Time Warner to which he ascended after leaving the executive editorship of Time Inc." "A Carlyle spokesman said that the hire "does not presage an existing deal." It does, however, presage greater involvment by Carlyle in deals involving publishing and media." Carlyle is very pro-Republican, pro-corporate, pro-war - and with a large Saudi ownership contingent. Add in Saudi ownership of FOX News and you see the scale of the problem with corporate media conglomerates - but it is weird that they support anti-Islamic hatred with Saudi support - just a puppet show, however, with Beck & Hannity as star performers. For more on Carlyle: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/23/emailing_banker_bonks_his_korean/ Antitrust reform for corporate media is a real necessity.... and more transparency at the Chamber wouldn't hurt either.
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- Is that foreign money like whe Gore was to\ied to the Chinese fundraising scandal in 2000 or when Soros tried to buy the election in 2008 or when the unions raise big money overseas, or when the Dems had fundraisers in London for Obama. Foreign money like that? So tell me who funds the likes of MoveOn (Soros), or MSNBC, the left wing cable company? If you're going to dig, dig fairly and I'm sure you can find backing of many donations to Democrat candidates. THe whole concept is totally laughable that the Dems are clean.
- by curse914 October 11, 2010 7:42 PM EDT------"I had not made that connect, but it is very astute. Is it coincidental that Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission came to the fore after the 2008 election?" ############################################################################ The timing of the rightwing robert's SCOTUS ruling on the 'Citizen's United' case certainly is suspect, but it also goes along with their conservative ideology and rulings for multi-national corporations and corporate America in 97% of all their decisions, over the average citizen in the middle and working class! We're totally screwed!
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- What a terribly misleading headline. There is no proof of any of the charges leveled by the President and his lacky. What ever happened to journalism in this country?
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- Journalism ended when Obama ran for Senate. No investigative journalism was ever done or else the community organizer would never have gotten this far. The "journalists" adided and abetted his election as the most inexperienced President in over 6o years.
- Oh get over it, and stop parroting the usual fox political network propaganda, since it's a common FACT that the 2010 campaign cycle is being vastly funded by texass billionaires and multi-national corporations!
- There is just no comparison between the small donations to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign and the huge texass billionaire and multi-national corporation donations funding the 2010 GOP vicious attacks by KKKarl rove's 'crossroad's' PAC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We have seen bi-partisan campaign finance reform by mccain-feingold go right down the toilet, ushering-in a new and very scary revolution in unlimited funding and buying of candidates!
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- Soros backed Obama or did he just give him $100? Come on the Dems are just as guilty of this practice.
- Hey smitty, I already posted a website for ALL of George Soros's campaign contributions, and he only contributed $2,100 directly to Obama in early 2007, and nothing directly to him in 2008! Your fox political network propaganda is horrendous and just proves you have NOTHING but LIES!
- delusion, November is going to be painful for you is it not? I think the point is Barack has selected his last Supreme Court Judge and Barack has also spent the last taxpayer dime. So delusion, Obama will simply veto himself into retirement and do us all the favor until we get a leader who has some semblance of economic chops. This man and his far left loons have no clue what awaits them when 19 short months ago all were giddy about being able to lead this great country for the next 25 or so years. Well how'd that work out for us and one has to look no further than the inept way Obama went about his job. Until November delusion and there isn?t a thing you can do about it.
- Is that foreign money like whe Gore was to\ied to the Chinese fundraising scandal in 2000 or when Soros tried to buy the election in 2008 or when the unions raise big money overseas, or when the Dems had fundraisers in London for Obama. Foreign money like that?
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- curse- resorting to name calling like your typical left wing brethern? Yes finance reform is needed but the point is the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans when it comes to out spending the other guy and it is totally laughable the Dems are trying to make this an issue when they are so guilty of it themseleves. The really must think the voters are morons.
- If you look at the Democratic/Obama Internet fund raising machine, every donation was anonymous and broken down, every person in the USA donated $20. Yeah right. Don't kid yourselves for a moment about foreign $$ flowing in to get the right person for the job. Just because the Dems do it as a rule, it doesn't mean everyone else does. You want fair, then make it fair. There should $0 of personal, private, union, foreign or any other money for any person running for public office. There should be a political election fund and ANY person who gets enough votes to get on any ballot should split those funds equally. I don't care if its, DEMS Reps, or the Communist party. All people should have the same access to the same funds equally. If Private industry wants to donate to the political fund let them, but no individual should get money from anyone. Will any of these crimminals in office vote for this? Heck no how could they get bribes doing that?
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- Where is the Media Investigative reports on where Obama got all his campaign funds from? Typical party of bed wetters no proof just lies and inuendos.
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- by think888 October 11, 2010 6:56 PM EDT-----"What people have failed to connect to is the fact that big money power brokers truly saw the potential of how Obama`s crowd out raised the contributions of the big dollar power brokers with contributions from ordinary people in the 2008 presidential election. This was a truly ominous sign for them. They were terrified at the threat that ordinary people might actually gain control of the electoral process. They swiftly went to a friendly court to gain a decision that effectively nullified the threat to their control. Unlimited cotributions from contributors who remain anonymous. Orwellian! Excuse me. I forgot they have the right to anonymity." ######################################################################### Truly a black day when the rightwing robert's SCOTUS shot an arrow through the heart of true campaign finance reform, allowing multi-national corporations to buy candidates and install them. Even George Soros Soros supported the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which many hoped would end "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns. Now, with the SCOTUS 'Citizen's United' ruling, ordinary citizens have no need to donate to campaigns because of the unlimited amounts by multi-national corporations!
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- I had not made that connect, but it is very astute. Is it coincidental that Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission came to the fore after the 2008 election...
- We don't know where Obama's campaign money came from now he is worried about someone else's. Whay a frickin Hypocrite. No Proof just lies and inuendo's as usual from the bed wetters.
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- Who is protecting the laws that keep it secret? Who increased the amount that could be pumped into campaign coffers? I think you are little confused there, genius. Maybe your "superior" genetics are just too superior...88/14.
- Hey mr. fox political network parrot, WE certainly know where every dime came from in the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, and the vast majority came from ordinary citizens in small amounts below $200 -- just the opposite in the 2010 election cycle where the vast majority is coming from multi-national corporations and texass billionaires!
- Sept 20, 2010: Billionaires give 91 percent of funds for Rove-tied group The latest fundraising numbers from the conservative American Crossroads show the super-rich continue to pony up--------------------------------- New FEC filings show that American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-backed group that is pouring money into attack ads targeting Democrats around the country, continues to be funded virtually entirely by billionaires. In August, American Crossroads raised $2,639,052. Fully $2.4 million of that -- or 91 percent -- came in the form of gifts from just three billionaires. We've previously reported that the group is getting a staggering amount of support from billionaires, several of whom made their fortune in the energy industry and live in Texas. Last month Trevor Rees-Jones, president of Dallas-based Chief Oil and Gas, contributed another $1 million to American Crossroads, on top of the $1 million he gave earlier this year. Fellow billionaire Robert Rowling, CEO of the company TRT Holdings, also gave Crossroads his second $1 million donation in August. The only new name on the list is American Financial Group, a Cincinnati-based firm owned by nonagenerian Carl Linder. Forbes put Linder's net worth at $1.7 billion this year, a fortune built up through the growth of United Dairy Farmers. He previously owned Chiquita and currently owns a stake in the Cincinnati Reds. American Financial Group gave American Crossroads $400,000 last month. Another new billionaire to add to the list of Crossroads backers is Jerry Perenchio of Bel Air. He is worth $2.1 billion, the bulk of which was made off the sale of Spanish language TV station Univision, according to Forbes. He is a major Republican donor who was co-chair of John McCain's national finance committee. Perenchio gave American Crossroads $1 million in July. One key thing to note here is that American Crossroads has a partner group, American Crossroads GPS, that is organized under a section of the tax code that does not require disclosure of donors (though it also imposes some spending restrictions). American Crossroads GPS is raising millions of dollars, the group told Politico, but we'll probably never know from whom.
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