President of ABC/DISNEY is a Bush campaign contributor.

[gully]

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=sweeney&first=anne

http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/bios/anne_sweeney.html

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/050912/12sweeney.htm

Hugh Hewitt once again talks out is ass.

The execs and studio bosses are dyed in the wool liberals and huge supporters of Clinton and the Democratic Party in general. They had no idea any of this could happen. As I understand this, the lawyers and production team spent literally months corroborating every story point down to the sentence. The fact that they were the attacked and vilified by their "own team" took them completely by surprise; this is the first time they've been labeled right-wing, conservative conspiracists.

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/9367b3cd-be2a-40a3-b927-1854a0115108

[Selatius]

1. Fortune 500 company CEOs/execs generally are Republican

Afterall, they want low taxes on their dividends and capital gains. Bush serves them.

[gully]

2. What about the "liberal media" Mr. Hewitt claims is in charge of ABC?

fools.

[NCSTATER3]

14. Repukeblicans

are typically in the high powered positions and it stinks.

[Beaverhausen]

3. Studio Execs do tend to be liberal - it's the CEO's of the owner corps...

...who are the repubs.

One example - head of TIme Warner is a repuke, the heads of Warner Bros. Studios are big democrats.

[gully]

4. Not in this case.

eom

[gully]

5. Alan Braveman also contributed the max to Bush/Cheney

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=braverman&first=alan

[gully]

6. Christine McCarthy is also a Republican campaign contributor

Not slamming you, just adding the info:

MCCARTHY, CHRISTINE M MS.
Pasadena, CA 91105
Walt Disney/Svp & Treasurer
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $1,000
primary

[Beaverhausen]

11. But the other studios in town tend to be run by democrats

Yes, ABC tends toward the repubs. I agree with you there.

Disclaimer - I work at a studio.

[gully]

13. Someone inform Hugh Hewitt!

:hi:

EVERY exec I've checked out has been a partisian Republican. Hewitt claimed they were "died in the wool Democrats."

[Beaverhausen]

18. check your PMs

I gave you some exec names to research.

[gully]

19. Okey dokey.

Thanks

I guess I'll await the ABC announcement on MSNBC before I plod along any further.

:hi:

[gully]

10. Zenia Mucha

Mucha, Zenia B Ms.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
The Walt Disney Co./Communications
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R)
$1000

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=mucha&first=zenia

[gully]

12. Preston Padden

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=DC&last=padden&first=PRESTON

Padden, Preston Mr.
Washington, DC 20036
The Walt Disney Co./Executive
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $500
primary

Trent Lott
$1000

By the way, I'm getting the names here:
http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/management_team.html

[gully]

16. Adding more names, ignore the replies to you specifically.

STAGGS, THOMAS O MR.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY/S.E.V.P. & BUSH, GEORGE W (R)
President
BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC $2,000
primary

I'll check out more names later. Amazing. Some of them "cover" by contributing to Democrats who can't lose, but they have not contributed to Kerry or Gore.

[Beaverhausen]

22. Disney employs thousands of people

When I make a contribution online to the dems, I put in my employer. It doesn't mean that I am contributing for the studio I work for.

You can do this all day for any studio and you will find people who contribute to both sides.

[gully]

23. I'm looking at the list of decision makers. EXECS from ABC

I'm not examining each employee or "PAC" money.

[NashVegas]

7. Yet She Also Likes Pat Leahy ...

She must have a summer home in VT.

[leveymg]

8. Disney Directors interlock w/Halliburton, Boeing, Edison Elect, etc.

Not surprising.

[LaPera]

9. Disney-ABC is a huge contributor to the republican party as Viacom-CBS

Time-Warner-CNN Murdoch-Fox General Electric-NBC

[onenote]

15. actually, Disney gives more to Democrats than to repubs

Gap has narrowed somewhat, but in 2004 it was 70 percent D and only 30 percent R.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000128&Name=Walt+Disney+Co

(Also, Time Warner gives more to Democrats that to repubs as well)

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000094&Name=Time+Warner

[gully]

17. Not in 2006

Also, "Disney" as a pac is not the execs at Disney.

Also note: http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/category.asp?txt=C2100&cycle=2006

[onenote]

20. Disney PAC not nearly as one sided as Viacom

Focusing on PAC contributions, I take your point that Disney has leaned toward repubs in recent years. But I wouldn't put them in the same league as Viacom, which bends over for the repubs. For example, in 2006, Disney's PAC has donated $80,000 to House repub candidates and $75,500 to Democratic candidates, a 51.4/48.6 percent split. Compare that to Viacom, whose PAC has donated $60,500 to repubs House candidates, and only $19,500 to Democratic House candidates (a 75.6/24.4 percent split)

[gully]

21. Good to know.

I don't know how anyone can claim "liberal" media with a straight face.