Corporations like to throw $5,000 or $10,000 here and there to various candidates and groups to try to curry favor and buy votes when they need them in the future. Modern Democracy: Suck On the Fun!™ But rarely is is that a corporation donates a cool MILLION DOLLARS to a political party. Wow, they must REALLY need a law passed by that party to ensure the continued existence of their corporation! Well, not exactly. It turns out Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has given this amount of money to the Republican Governors Association this summer.
Some progressives seized on News Corporation’s contribution as evidence of bias. Media Matters for America, the liberal media monitoring organization, claimed that “this large corporate donation to the G.O.P. underscores News Corp.’s role as an appendage of the Republican Party.”
Yes, Fox News and such promote the Republican Party. But wouldn’t that make them less likely to give money to them? They don’t need to curry favor with Republican politicians. Republican politicians love News Corp! Why would they ever pass a law against its interests? This just doesn’t seem like a good investment for News Corp.
According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech, so it’s obvious what News Corp is saying. But wasn’t it obvious what they thought before, with actual speech speech? It’s all confusing.
But maybe if News Corp donates enough money to Republicans, enough Republicans will get elected that enough conservatives get on the Supreme Court that eventually not only can money be converted into speech, but speech can also be converted into money. And then News Corp will be able to turn its praise of Republicans into COLD, HARD CASH.
But it already sort of does that, only in a slightly indirect way. So yes, the only explanation is that News Corp made an unwise business decision because its BFF needed a solid. You are actually right about this conspiracy, librul watch dogs. [NYT]
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This is awesome news for Democrats. Fox prides itself on being “Fair and Balanced” so I think we can assume that they’ll be donating $1,000,000 to the DNC pretty soon, also.
Any day now.
I’m pretty sure.
Just be patient.
Two words: “Net Neutrality”. Faux has already effectively misrepresented it, to the point where all the ‘baggers have signed a petition to stop it. Rupert buys all the bandwidth and does to the interwebs wot he done to “cabal” news.
No more Wonkett. We all go the way of Wolverines.
News Corp. is not an “appendage of the Republican Party.” The Republican Party is an appendage of News Corp.
And it’s a pretty piss-poor investment.
Pffft. What’s a million bucks to Newscorp?
Wow! Slap me on the ass and call me Charley. You mean, Fox News favors Republicans? Oh my God. I have nothing to believe in any more.
Considering the source of the Fox News poll (cryptically described as “opinions”) I’m rather impressed by the resulting pie chart. I was expecting irrational numbers.
Media Matters has it backward: The Republican Party is an appendage of Fox News. The important thing from the article:
“The donation makes News Corporation the Republican group’s single “biggest corporate donor,” according to Bloomberg.”
Fox News is the RGA’s biggest sponsor. The RGA works for Fox News.
Seriously, Murdoch has been known to tip that much to a really good hooker.
Ha, awesome. Now all the Democrats have to do is paint this story everywhere and-….oh wait, the Democrats…Oh, well I guess nobody will ever find out about this outside a few liberal internet forums.
If it takes this for people to wake up to the fact that Faux Noise and the Republiklans are joined at the hip, then Idiocracy is here and now.
News Corp will donate from their candidate-buying Fund:
70% to Palin
60% to Romney
and 63% to Huckabee
If I was home-schooled I would be able to add that up all by myself.
The Repubtards are accepting monies from Oz? Murdoch became a US citizen just to meet the rule that only US citizens can own US teevee. Can’t imagine what Faux Newz would do if a naturalized muslin wrote the DeeTards a 7-figure check. But start writin’, start writin’, we can’t wait to find out.
[re=640377]slappypaddy[/re]: ” The Republican Party is an appendage of News Corp.
And it’s a pretty piss-poor investment.”
Only if you imagine that News Corp gives a shit about the country.
[re=640398]weejee[/re]: Well, now that you mention it: http://www.prwatch.org/node/8906
[re=640398]weejee[/re]: But you see Rupert is Australian (where they speak a particularly amusing version of English) and he’s rich and white which means that the Naturalization process for him was more of a revealing of his latent Americaness than the same process would be for someone of a darker complexion from a place where English isn’t the first language. For people like that “naturalization” is really a kind of tranmogrification, a sort political alchemy, which is, you know, fake science.
The Republican Governors Association?
Guys, he didn’t give it to the RNC, he doled it out to the State parties. Now either he’s expecting a wave of secessions upon Hopey getting re-elected in 2012 or he’s just written the national party off as a hopeless cluster-fuck.
Let’s not mention this to Mikey Steele, it would probably kill him….
Pravda was to the CPSU (Commie Party Soviet Union) as Faux News is to the GOP. Both were party political propaganda organizations that masqueraded as news outlets. Both have the same reputation for accuracy.
[re=640403]mcc[/re]: YIKES!!! OMFG!!! Faux Newz is run by Arabs from Tasmania!!!! Who knew. Well, mcc, obs.
[re=640427]fishskicanoe[/re]: You mean like this –
“The USSR is relocating the 11th of October Damn to more scenic location downstream of its former location on the mighty Volga, the longest river in the world. The damn is moving with aid of thousands of heroic Soviet workers who are currently enjoying restful swim in the peaceful river. The damn did not collapse due to poor construction as capitalist media reported on Monday.”
[re=640420]dijetlo[/re]: Isn’t KKKonfederate Stereotype Hayley Barbour the head of the ReThuglican Governour’s Association?
Perhaps this payment indicates that the ReThug InnerPartei-Elite and their Corporate Masters don’t regard Negro Toby Michael Steele as the legit head of the RNC, just as they don’t regard Negro Barack Obama as the legit President of the United States…. but their respective likenesses do make fine quality lawn-jockeys on offer in this year’s RNC Whites-only Christmas catalogue…
But there is no problem, because “liberal” MSNBC balances out FoxNews. Right? Surely their parent company (GE) will be donating a million bucks to the Democratic Governors Association any day now. . . . No? I’m sure the check just got lost in the mail.
Did News Corp. leave it on the dresser after fucking the Republicans all night long?
But [re=640378]Lascauxcaveman[/re] has a point. Hell, that is just the glycerin budget for Glen Beck’s tears.
And this is what’s wrong with America. Case closed.
1,000,000,000 rings of the death bell for the US of A. The only reason I’m not killing myself is because my rescued pets need me. I’m going to go take a nap with one of my cats.
Isn’t this how Berlusconi got elected?
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Am I the only one a little confused by Fox’s use of a pie chart? You’d think a simple bar graph would have made more sense. Either way, 193% of the World (Mississippi) wants the GOP to take office. That should clear up all those pesky numbers plaguing our economy.
I am still waiting for a copy of Rupert Murdock’s long form birth certificate.
mmmmmm….bullshit pie….my favorite.
I, for one, welcome our Australian overlord.
Oz, eh? News Corp. and the Republican Party are a hatful of assholes…
Wait I think I get it: 70% of the people who see nothing wrong with that pie chart support Palin.
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