Yeh, shave! That's Citizens United v FEC in 2010, in which the courts basically decided that corporations are people, and so they have the right to free speech, etc. Since the courts have also said that money = speech, corporations are now virtually unlimited in their ability to donate to (or "buy," in my opinion) candidates. It opened the floodgates to superPACs, as well, so they can even donate that unlimited amount of money secretly, so the public can't even see who owns their candidates.
It should scare the living daylights out of any American who wants our elections to mean anything.
As should the fact that media outlets endorse candidates, Lorelei! Heh, I'd never really thought about it before, because I don't pay much attention to newspapers or networks that do regularly endorse candidates, but it is really odd. How CAN they claim a lack of bias and then turn around and favor one side? Do they really
Shoot, I forgot to mention a bumper sticker that I saw related to Citizens United: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
I almost had to pull over; I couldn't see through the tears of laughter.
Hoppy,
I remember when I was a newspaper reporter. I covered the election in the year that Ross Perot ran for President. I remember sitting at a news meeting discussing election coverage that year. I was originally assigned republican headquarters. Everyone in the room was sympathetic towards me for having to cover the Republican campaign that night, because the paper where I worked always endorsed the Democratic party. I was thrilled, because I am Republican. ha ha ha Oh there is definite bias in new coverage. You can write a story, but depending on how you slant it depends on how people will receive it.
oh Heak yea that is scary!, that basically means we have no say in who gets elected. and as you pointed out, how do you fight an unidentifiable enemy? its our freedom of press laws that basically protected our democracy, and if those are infiltrated I fear our democracy is no longer a real one.
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Dimitri Mendelev
All worlds
i think super pacs corporate and even individual funding of canidates is a threat to democracy and i dont see how you can argue otherwise unless your one of the elites
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Dimitri Mendelev
All worlds
"Dear Ihop,
Wow. Your post was not received well by me at all. Why are you coming across so "attacking"? There is no need for that.
I ask you respectfully to please not discourage what anyone posts here, especially since I am the one who created the thread, and I don't hold people to ALWAYS stay on topic. If I wish to turn the discussion to end of times Bible prophecy, I shall, and it was only mentioned in fleeting. If Shave wishes to respond to my post, that is his given right. Why do you attack Shave when it was I that turned the discussion? He merely agreed with what I said.
Are you going to stop taking me serious, because you disagree with something I post??? I'm sorry, but I see nothing offensive in what Shave posted in response to my post that would bring about such a response from you.
Wow is all I can say. *shakes head
This totally undermines what I've been trying to acco
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Dimitri Mendelev
All worlds
"Very well put, Shave.
You want to know what amused me greatly last night. I tend to watch Fox News. While it leans more to the Right, they do report the opposite side. What I flipped over to on the other channels was some of the most far left reporting I have ever listened to. They did not report comments from both sides as Fox News did. I just shook my head and thought, what has happened to fair, unbiased journalism and news reporting????lol I was a newspaper reporter for 7 years and while certain media put certain spins on things, I was always taught to always put both sides in a news report. Now I know why most of the American people are so easily fooled by Obama, if you believe in what you hear from your biased news reports. The media is very powerful and most decidedly sways public opinion."
fox news is just as biased your just saying its not because your biased
i love flipping back and forth from CNN to FOX i
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Dimitri Mendelev
All worlds
i get my news from facebook
Dimitri, dun make me slap you, cuz I will. You've just been added to MY list!!!!! ha ha ha