Rupert to Investors: Go Fox Yourselves!

When Rupert Murdoch met with Newscorp investors, they grilled him on the fair and balances donations to the RGA and the US Chamber of Outsourcing for attack ads against Democrats.  When they asked for input, he told them, in effect, to go Fox themselves.  As frustrating as this situation is, there may yet be a silver lining.

In June, Fox News’ parent company News Corporation gave a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association. This evening, IRS disclosures reveal that News Corporation gave another check, time for $250,000, bringing his total donation amount to $1,250,000. Other donors include Bill Koch, who donated $100,000, Swift Boat-funder Bob Perry, who gave $3.5 million, and right-wing casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who gave $1 million to the Republican campaign group.

News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch recently stated that he directed his company’s donation in order to help his friend John Kasich, the Republican nominee for governor in Ohio… [emphasis added]

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Keith Olbermann covered the story with Chris Hayes.

This demonstrates even more that Faux Noise is nothing but the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda.  Our best course of action is to Turn Off Fox News.  I won’t do that completely, because I use it for enemy research and for listing advertisers, which I call and object to their supporting Fox with their advertising.  But I did get Fox News turned off in the lobby/dining area of a motel, where I recently stayed.

Cenk Ugyur wrote an editorial on the upside to all this corporate support for Republicans.

In the past, corporations and rich donors were savvy enough to split their giving to both political parties so that both sides would have a financial incentive to protect them. Yes, they might lean more to the Republican side, but they gave enough to the Democrats to get them properly motivated to look out for corporate interests.

This is what has led to the two parties playing good cop-bad cop with us for the past 30 years. Republicans are the bad cops who rough up the middle class and the Democrats come in to sooth you over as they pretty much go along with very similar "pro-business" policies.

But now there is an important change in that dynamic. Multinational corporations seem to have pushed their chips all in on the Republican side. The Chamber of Commerce is planning to spend $75 million in these elections and 85% of it will go to Republicans.

Of course, there is a huge downside to this for the average American. The Republicans have an enormous financial advantage because of this and many other "independent" groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS piling on money collected from some of the richest people in the country. This is their class warfare to make sure the top 1% and their tax cuts are protected. And they seem to have chosen a very good time with the anti-incumbent feeling in the air so strong and the economy hurting so much.

So, what’s the upside? Well, they’ve given Democrats no incentive not to fight back (which is their usual M.O. in the good cop-bad cop games they’ve been playing until now). Now that the Democrats feel significantly endangered and there is no good argument for holding back, it’s game on.

If the Democrats manage to hold on, for the first time in a long time they would have an incentive to fight back against a system that is rigged in favor of the rich and the powerful. Because those same folks just declared war on them. If they don’t join the battle soon, they are going to get wiped out in 2012. If you thought business interests spent a lot of money in this election, wait till you get a load of 2012.

To be clear, of course not all business interests are nefarious. They are a very legitimate constituency to consider when making policy. But when corporations use their power to kill a bill that would have stopped subsidies for offshoring jobs, then that is exactly the kind of abuse of power that is hurting this country. And that just happened last month… [emphasis added]

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Cenk has made a great point here.  I’m sure that some DINOs are too set in their ways to change, like the Nevada Leg Hound.  Harry Reid will hump Republican legs, until they pry him off the last one to put him in his casket.  But now we have a fantastic argument to get support from our Representatives and Senators for progressive issues.  They may be all we have, but we are the only thing that can keep them in their jobs.