A handful of powerful rightwing billionaires are trying to buy Congress. Who will stop them?
A handful of powerful rightwing billionaires are trying to buy Congress. Who will stop them?
The Corporate Media won’t. The most powerful man in Corporate Media – FOX chairman Rupert Murdoch (right) – is also the most powerful rightwing billionaire. First he turned FOX into 24x7x365 rightwing Republican propaganda. Then he hired the top Republicans like Karl Rove and Sarah Palin as “analysts.” Then he used his hosts to raise millions for Republicans, both on-air and at their fundraisers. Then he gave millions directly to Republicans, both from his corporation and from his own pocket.
What about the rest of the Corporate Media? Last week ABC hired Andrew Breitbart – the video liar most infamous for the vicious Shirley Sherrod and ACORN smears – for Election Night coverage. Not one single “journalist” at ABC objected.
The only exceptions are NBC’s evening hosts – especially Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow – who are doing their best to sound the alarm. But their heroic efforts are undermined every morning by Joe Scarborough, the Republican ex-Congressman who single-handedly championed the anti-Kerry Swift Boat liars in 2004.
So if the Media won’t stop the billionaires, who will?
Look in the mirror. It’s up to us – only us – and every single one of us. And here’s what we must do.
1. Vote a Straight Democratic Ticket
If you don’t want rightwing billionaires to own our government, vote Democratic.
If you want billionaires and corporations to pay taxes, vote Democratic.
If you want a decent job with decent wages – not corporate slavery – vote Democratic.
If you want Social Security, Medicare, public education, and environmental protection to survive, vote Democratic.
If you don’t want rightwing thugs to stomp on your head at a political rally, vote Democratic.
If you don’t want a woman’s body to become the property of the Republican Paty, vote Democratic.
If you want campaign finance reform that gets billionaires and corporations out of politics altogether, vote Democratic.
If you want Truth, Justice, and the American Way, don’t wait for Superman – vote Democratic.
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Vote Feingold for Senate, on Tuesday.
I’d sell our current Congress, that’s for sure… And so would about 90% of Americans, according to polls.
I wish, it was as easy to find willing decent buyers — people, who would properly care for the property — as you allege it to be…
Sounds like propaganda to me.
You named a few of the many analysts at FOX. They have plenty that are liberal.
The democratic party is not the answer to our prayers for a better tomorrow. WE are. We need to vote for people that will do what is best for this country. All those programs that you claim are in danger are because of wasteful mismanagement not a political party.
The Republican party is not going to ban abortion. Good grief. It is a horrible practice that causes more problems than it solves.
There are plenty of democratic billionaires that you don’t want to have free reign to run things.
Grow up and look around you. There is much more important things to do right now than blame the rich.
A handful of powerful billionaires (PERIOD) are trying to buy COUNTRY. Isn’t that what you mean?
Me,,but I thought George Soros was liberal.
You mean to take Congress away from *POOR* Democrats like:
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Gates
Warren Buffett
the Kennedys
Martha Stewart
Barbra Streissand
Ted Turner
Steven Spielberg
George Soros
Charles Ergen
Vance K. Opperman
Daniel Abraham
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Robert F.X. Sillerman
George Lucas
Alice Walton
Paul Allen
Sumner Redstone
William Barron Hilton
Eric Schmidt
William Randolph Hearst III
Marc Benioff
Anthony Pritzker
Ray Milton Dolby
Charles Schwab
Robert Kraft
Gordon P. Getty II
Steven Ballmer
Ralph Lauren
Jeff Bezos
Henry Samueli
OR, maybe some of the outsiders that donated millions for the 2008 Democratic campaign:
Swiss Billionaire Donors List
Royal Family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Powerful LEFT WING BILLIONAIRES!!!
I’ve always wondered; “Why does pumping money into a campaign help your chances of winning?”
I would never vote for a Democrat, I don’t care if they spent a trillion dollars on ads.
Are there that many people in America who vote depending on the last campaign ad they saw?