No wonder the news is so biased...

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

I don't see the connection between New York donations for the 2003-2004 Senate election cycle and the current political slant of news outlets....

Cablecom, Times, etc. ring a bell? Follow the links, it gets better.

-S

PS. Nice Avatar

[Tchocky]

There's a definite correlation, it comes with the territory. Money talks in American politics, and the more you have, the more influence you can buy. Political positions can be bought and sold, just like real estate or a new car. Example would be Inhofe, he's the leading global warming sceptic in the House, and he's also received more money than anyone else from oil&gas companies. The whole setup is rotten, be it TV, oil, or GM.
It doesnt get better, it gets more depressing. Any group on that list could have multiple motives, securities and investments may think she'll have a steadier economic policy than whoever ran against her in NY, I don't know. Also, the HQ's of a lot of entertainment companies are in NY, so this kind of distribution may not be repeated on a national scale

[Heibges]

Most of these big companies contribute to mulitple candidates to hedge their bets.

It's funny to see who is in bed with who sometimes.

Willie Brown, our former mayor in San Francisco, took more contributions from Big Tobacco than any other politician in America, including Jessie Helms.

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

There's a definite correlation, it comes with the territory. Money talks in American politics, and the more you have, the more influence you can buy. Political positions can be bought and sold, just like real estate or a new car. Example would be Inhofe, he's the leading global warming sceptic in the House, and he's also received more money than anyone else from oil&gas companies. The whole setup is rotten, be it TV, oil, or GM.
It doesnt get better, it gets more depressing. Any group on that list could have multiple motives, securities and investments may think she'll have a steadier economic policy than whoever ran against her in NY, I don't know. Also, the HQ's of a lot of entertainment companies are in NY, so this kind of distribution may not be repeated on a national scale

So true

Nice to see you changed your Avatar too. SOme Bangkok thing.

-S

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How does she continue getting money when she talks like this though? I'd be scared of her if I were a corp -

The Socialist / Communist junkies will like that talk though.

-S

[Polak]

Why is the whole world turning left?! I am tired of all "comrades", and all the leftwing propaganda produced by the media, the Polish government that is on the right side of the political slider is attacked daily in domestic and foreign media! It's critiziesed almost every week by other members of the demoliberal European Union, where the majority of countries are leftwinged. When will all this change?!
Hillary is still not that bad, compared to Swedish politcians, in example she would still be considered as a righwinged politician in Sweden, far right on the scale.

[moose1am]

Inhofe sure made an ass of himself the other day when he questioned the former Vice President of the United States. It makes sense now why Inhofe was so rude. He was paid by EXON to be rude and crude. LOL

Today in our local news paper the leader of ALCOA stated that ALCOA needs to do more to control its carbon emissions. GE is also leading the way in trying to control it's carbon emissions. These large corporations are not fighting the truth and are trying to do something positive to help stop global warming.

Inhofe didn't make a good impression. Every other Senator (both sides) treated the VP with respect and dignity.

Originally Posted by Tchocky

There's a definite correlation, it comes with the territory. Money talks in American politics, and the more you have, the more influence you can buy. Political positions can be bought and sold, just like real estate or a new car. Example would be Inhofe, he's the leading global warming sceptic in the House, and he's also received more money than anyone else from oil&gas companies. The whole setup is rotten, be it TV, oil, or GM.
It doesn't get better, it gets more depressing. Any group on that list could have multiple motives, securities and investments may think she'll have a steadier economic policy than whoever ran against her in NY, I don't know. Also, the HQ's of a lot of entertainment companies are in NY, so this kind of distribution may not be repeated on a national scale