Jon Stewart: "Is FOX News is a terrorist command center?"

[LLStarks]

Just on Comedy Central.

Most brilliant thing he's said in weeks.

[lob1]

1. Actually, I think he proved they are. Ha!

[AnArmyVeteran]

2. If democratic leaders hired Stewart's writers they'd kick republican's asses in November.

Sadly, the democratic party leaders are horrible at crafting a meaningful message. It's been one blunder after another. They need CREATIVE people instead of tired, boring party hacks to craft their messages. Hey Kaine, are you listening?

[KT2000]

3. Wow! - that is a great suggestion

senority may be good for some things but having the ability to be in touch with the people is not one of them. Obama went outside the box and won. Now, for some reason they believe that reinforcing the box is how we are going to win the next election.
People and power makes for a lot of nonsense.

[alfredo]

4. Are they laundering foreign campaign contributions by

Al-Waleed bin Talal, the big investor in Neuz Corp?

[starroute]

5. You think he could have been the source of that million?

It's certainly not impossible -- and campaign donations by non-citizens were declared illegal in the late 90's.

Come to think of it, the Republican Governors Association which received the Fox money is currently chaired by Haley Barbour, who was running the RNC in the 90's when some of the worst of the campaign donation abuses occurred.

Just google on the National Policy Forum and Ambrous Tung Young -- a money-laundering scandal that was central to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 but which Barbour managed to evade responsibility for by claiming that the idea that the money in question came from Hong Kong "never entered my mind."

Yes, it does look very much like Barbour is trying to make history repeated itself -- and this time round, Al-Waleed could easily be the deep-pocketed foreign donor.

[alfredo]

7. I think we need to ask our lawmakers about this.

[starroute]

9. There are some other odd things about that donation

It's listed in the RGA disclosure as coming from News America Inc. (which is the parent company of News Corp.)

The original story on it -- I think at Bloomberg -- said the money came from News America PAC / FoxPAC, but it didn't. The PAC's own reports are online, and it only gave out about $100,000 in the first half of 2010. So it must have been a direct corporate donation by News America.

That makes it harder to trace, of course, since the parent company isn't required to make the same sort of disclosures as the PAC. But it does make it look even more questionable.

[alfredo]

10. We could play the guilt by insinuation game the GOP plays.

[Mimosa]

6. I hope that will be investigated

I remember in the 90s Clinton took some funny money from Chinese/Indonesian sources (the Riady (sp?) family). Gore also took some funny money (the buddhit temple scandal). I hope the Dems are as good at investigating as the Republicans were.

[alfredo]

8. If the reps win congress, there won't be an investigation.

[Supersedeas]

11. Eternal War is not only a campaign slogan--it is also profitable

[alfredo]

12. It's also the Neo Cons vision for America.

The rich start the wars and we pay with lives and treasure.