Accepting Public Financing Favors McCain, Because CBS, NBC and FOX, Tribune Co, WaPo Favor him

[McCamy Taylor]

That means he gets a lot of free publicity from those three news networks which all either want a Republican FCC (NewsCorp-Fox, Viacom-CBS) to protect their media empires or to do the bidding of their biggest contractor the Pentagon in the case of General Electric/NBC. That does not even count the Neo-Cons at the Washington Post and the Neo-Con group at the NYT's and the Tribune Co. now owned by Sam Zell which must write propaganda for the RNC in order to keep its FCC exemption (see my journals for how it all works) even if Zell was not already a Republican.

That leaves Disney/ABC and AOl-Time/Warner/CNN with soft support for the Democrat because of cable issues that the FCC could easily remedy, winning them back into the Republican fold at any point between now and this fall.

And McClatchy, always a voice of honest journalism.

So, yes, McCain would just looooove to see the Democrats accept public financing so that he can get all that free corporate media publicity while Dems can not retaliate.

Be very careful. The Federal Election Commission has posted a Closed sign this year. Anything goes. Bush and Cheney do not intend to be indicted for war crimes by the next Democratic president, so they will use any dirty trick to force John McCain on us.


Oh, and I think the Democratic nominee should come right and say that he (or she) can not accept public financing, because the corporate media unfairly favors the Republican candidate and therefore he is counting on the support of the American voter who is fed up with the biased media to help him get his message out. He can cite what was done in the lead up to the Iraq War and to Al Gore and the John Kerry and to the John Edwards campaign. That ought to put the MSM in the spotlight and force them to at least pretend to play fair.

[babylonsister]

1. Great post, and don't forget Freedom Watch:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4627591

[pnwmom]

13. I agree, absolutely, if Obama's the nominee he should fund his own campaign

and not accept federal funds unless he has to.

I do not want either Obama or Clinton to pull any punches in this campaign -- and I don't care what sort of promises people think Obama may have made in the past. This is too important.

[lapfog_1]

2. I don't think it will matter

Obama should go ahead and do it.

And keep the money piling in at $1M a day and hand it all out to democratic candidates in Senate and House races (if that is legal?).

OBama still crushes McCain in November and has long coattails to boot.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. It matters if the MSM is blizting him in Tribune Co. newspapers and TV stations around the country

with ads targeting voters state by state on local issues and he is not allowed by law to spend enough of the cash he could raise to run ads in each and every state debunking Sam Zell's Tribune Co. propaganda.

Obama is going to need to run a very expensive national campaign to keep up with the bottomless purse media campaign that McCain will have thanks to all of the corporate media outlets that will be giving him around the clock publicity.

There will be no more coverage of Obama speeches on the news. The nation will never see him deliver a stirring message again after the convention---unless he does it in person or it is on YouTube or he pays to put it on TV. It will be exactly like the way they shut out Edwards. If questioned, the news will say that Obama's rhetoric gives him an unfair advantage and so they are not showing either candidate---never mind that McCain speaking is his own worst enemy.

[lapfog_1]

11. Hmmm... yeah they did a job on Edwards.

maybe they will on Obama, too. I think they USED to be in love with the McCain straight talk express and crap, but now the late night comics are lampooning John as the "hey you kids, get off my lawn!" grumpy old white guy and he has lost his "cool" factor (the repuke that wouldn't just give you the talking points).

I think Obama, if he can win the nomination, steamrolls McCain, but...

I don't care if he keeps or breaks the promise to only do public funding for the GE. I wish Hillary would shut up about this issue.

[jackson_dem]

3. I thought the msm "changed" and is now progressive because of Obama?

The same corporate media is supporting Obama...we are told it is because the msm has seen the light!

[McCamy Taylor]

5. rofl, You are so cute! Seriously now, we have to get ready for the drought in coverage.

The time after the convention when the public will ask "Wasn't that Obama supposed to be a good speaker? We never hear him speak." Or "I heard Hillary could really light up an audience. How come we only ever see her being interviewed by Dick Morris asking to suck her toes?"

[AndyTiedye]

6. Some Numbers

Let's say a network runs just one hour a day of pro-Bush** propaganda with nothing to balance it from the other side, and they do it every day from now until the election.
270 days * 60 minutes in an hour. 16200 minutes. Network advertising costs up to a million dollars a minute. Let's say half that, since the time they get is usually a bit less than prime.

That's $8,100,000,000. Over 8 billion dollars. Just to match them on ONE network. And the Repiggies don't have to spend a dime.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Man, Tweety is worth his weight in platinum to John McCain, isn't he?

With all his "mavericks" and "truth tellers" and "independents".

[MADem]

8. ABC? They're hacks, too- remember, they're the ones who came down on

Bill Maher like a ton of bricks for making an honest observation. Off with his head, and his "Politically Incorrect" tee vee show...

[McCamy Taylor]

10. Times have changed. The Republicans have threatened Disney's Empire with A La Carte Cable

something that John McCain personally backed.

Recall that ABC deliberately botched "The Path to 9/11" creating the Hindenberg of Propaganda films, something so ludicrous and accompanied by so much political hysteria over the way that ABC openly screened it for conservatives in advance and openly rewrote history that it backfired, creating a wave of sympathy for the Clintons and antipathy for Bush.

I suspect that ABC cut the deal to start production on the film in the spring of 2005 in exchange for FCC Chairman Martin's promise to advise Congress to forget about A La Carte cable. Since Democrats hate A La Carte cable, which is bad for women's and minority programs (as well as for the Mouse), I also believe that ABC deliberately outed Rep Foley in late Sept. 2006 knowing that this would nail the coffin in the Republican's chances of keeping control of Congress.

With Democrats in control, Disney's cable was safe.

Now, the FCC has made a new mad power grab at cable, attempting once again to force A La carte on cable operators so that Chairman Martin can use this issue to promote his (pathetic) political career as a values conservative in the south after the Bush administration. The FCC is also trying to give some of AOL-Time/Warners lucrative cable business to AT&T as a reward for domestic spying.

This is why CNN and ABC are currently looking for Democratic control of the FCC. I suspect that nothing the administration does at this point will undo Martin's screw ups with cable in regard to these two media giants, but I am sure that Karl Rove is trying to mend the rifts and get his media monopoly back together.

[MADem]

16. I seem to remember that idiotic film getting a lot of thumbs-up play by the wingnuts

They acted like they edited it because "meanie lefties" had them on the ropes. And Max Blumenthal's judgment of that whole imbroglio, I believe, http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/64/22389 is right on the mark.

I also don't think ABC outed Mark Foley, either. I think Mark Foley outed Mark Foley with his intemperate behavior.

And wasn't it ABC who got the DC madame's list and failed to tell us that David Vitter was on it?

ABC is the home of the biggest rightwing asswipe on the air, that mustachioed nitwit John Stossel, too.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

9. McCain is at a disadvantage big time money wise

I think the GOP knows they can't win this time,
are giving McCain one last time to run and at least have the GOP nomination,
and there isn't going to be any funding.

The GOP party is trying to find itself right now.

It is broken.

All of the "page" scandals and bathroom sex stings have taken their toll.

For sure if Obama gets the Dem nod, McCain doesn't have a chance of a snow ball in hell.
The McCain of today is not the one we knew in 2000.

Its harder to hate Obama, but many dislike Hillary. Its a bi partisan dislike,
stemming from being pummeled with scandals day in and day out.

[Window]

15. So true...*sigh*

They not only want to pick our candidates, but tell us how to run the eventual nominee's campaign. Puleeze.




Peace:thumbsup:

[Tatiana]

12. Hate to say it, but we'll need a few 527's. n/t

[Window]

14. Great post.

I especially agree with the following:

“One of the most important things that we need to know about the next president of the United States is, is he somebody that shares our values? Is he somebody that respects family? Is a good and decent person? So our view was that, if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House. So, so we’ve adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he’s traveling around, I do day trips. That means I get up in the morning, I get the girls ready, I get them off, I go and do trips, I’m home before bedtime. So the girls know that I was gone somewhere, but they don’t care. They just know that I was at home to tuck them in at night, and it keeps them grounded, and, and children, the children in our country have to know that they come first. And our girls do and that’s why we’re doing this. We’re in this race for not just our children, but all of our children.”


Peace:thumbsup: