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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 08:25 AM
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F*x Noose Corprat Parent Gave Repugnant Gov Assn. $1 M
Thanks Crap Clown Corprat Court. :mad:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008160046

August 16, 2010 5:52 pm ET by Matt Gertz

Bloomberg News reports today (h/t Daily Kos' KingOneEye) that News Corp. -- the media giant which owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal -- has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, the GOP organization that helps coordinate Republican gubernatorial campaigns and pays for independent ads in support of their candidates.

Media Matters has confirmed Bloomberg's report using publicly available IRS filings. We also found no evidence of corresponding donations to the Democratic Governors Association in the current political cycle. News Corp. wants Republicans elected to office, and they're willing to spend money to make it happen.

According to the article, News Corp. is actually the RGA's "biggest corporate donor." Bloomberg suggests that News Corp. has made these donations due to their opposition to "proposed federal rule changes that would weaken the position of its Fox network in negotiations with cable companies," stating that "Governors may have a stake in the issue."

Whether or not that is the case, this large corporate donation to the GOP underscores News Corp.'s role as an appendage of the Republican Party.

"They're not trying to hide it anymore. As the coverage of its media outlets indicates, News Corp. supports the Republican Party's platform. It's just now started putting its money where its mouth has long been."

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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 08:27 AM
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1. you get the award for "most goofy made up DU terms in one title"
Edited on Tue Aug-17-10 08:28 AM by cbdo2007
Congrats.
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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 08:28 AM
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2. thankyouverymuch.
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