CNN & MSNBC lobbyists are raising money for Clinton.

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Television News Network Lobbyists Are Fundraising for Hillary Clinton

By Lee Fang
Oct. 29 2015, 12:51 p.m.

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The top fundraisers for Clinton include lobbyists who serve the parent companies of CNN and MSNBC.

The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group that represents the television station industry, has lobbyists who are fundraising for both Clinton and Republican candidate Marco Rubio.

Presidential campaigns are obligated by law to send the Federal Election Commission a list of lobbyists who serve as “bundlers,” collecting hundreds of individual checks on behalf of a candidate’s campaign.

CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as “one of Washington’s top lobbyists.” He’s lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy...


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https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/media-fundraisers-presidential/

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1. October 2015? Try to find some new smears.

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3. These are facts. Don't get confused now....

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4. Nobody cared last year, nobody cares now. Bernie's getting his clock cleaned, even with the smears.

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5. Facts are real smears are not. Please explain how stating the unvarnished truth is a smear.

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6. What do you think smearing Hillary with half-truths is going to accomplish?

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8. Go on. What is the half truth in stating that these lobbyists are raising money for Hillary?

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9. You first. What are you trying to accomplish? Think anyone cares about this crap who didn't before?

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11. Major corporate news organization lobbyists raise funds for a candidate. Explain your claim

Of me presenting this information is a half truth since you are adamant that this information is a smear.

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13. You first. What are you hoping to accomplish with these half-truths and smears?

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16. I stated my claim quite clearly. Where is the the half truth you are accusing me of?

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17. Answer please. What are you trying to accomplish with these recycled smears?

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19. I posted a factual account about lobbyists from corporate news organizations raising money

For Hillary.

You're the one making a claim that this is somehow a half truth. Is it wrong to let people know the major news outlets have their lobbyists raising money for Hillary? Should that be kept secret form the public?

Now please show me where I have made any kind of half truth. I've answered your question 3 times. You're refused to back you claim repeatedly.

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21. So you won't answer. You can't answer. What are you trying to accomplish?

The half-truths didn't work last time, and won't work this time either. You lost, and Hillary won.

These are individuals contributing to whoever they want on their own volition, not at the behest of any company. That would be illegal, and the only person in this race with hundreds of pages of fundraising violations is Bernie.

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23. I posted my answer. I want people to know who is raising money for Hillary.

Now quit being a condescending jerk and show me where the half truth is in my posting of these facts.

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24. People already know that this is a half-truth. That's why it didn't work the first time.

These people are individuals, they are not fundraising on behalf of any company. That would be against the law, and only Bernie has hundreds of pages of FEC violations, not Hillary. If you're upset about illegal fundraising, take it up with Bernie the illegal fundraiser.

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28. There is no half truth here. These people are the lobbyists for those corporations

They are indeed raising money for Clinton. Those are facts.

That is in no way a lie. Sorry you hate the truth.

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29. Where are the FEC violations? Why does Bernie have hundreds of pages of them, not Hillary?

Raising money on behalf of a corporation is against the law.

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33. Can't show any half truths so change the subject. Strawman 101.

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34. Ahh, you're dodging. Did you even know what you are alleging is illegal? Probably not.

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36. People have every right to know who is raising money for Hillary and what they do for work

There is nothing dishonest about telling the truth.

These people are lobbyists for these news organizations. They are raising money for Hillary. How is letting people know this a lie?

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37. Sure, and they also have a right to know about Bernie's hundreds of pages of FEC violations.

But if you're accusing anyone raising money for Hillary of doing so at the behest of a corporation, you're simply lying. That's illegal, and it didn't happen.

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41. What? Are these people NOT lobbyists for these companies? Is that what you are claiming?

Good luck with that....

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44. So if a gas station worker contributes to Bernie, he's a tool of Big Oil? By your logic.

These people are individuals, donating their own money and their own time to whoever they want. They're not getting paid by any corporation to fundraise, that's illegal.

I see you keep ignoring the hundreds of pages of Bernie FEC violations. I wonder why? Maybe I've been too subtle. Let's try this.

BERNIE, AND ONLY BERNIE, HAS HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF FEC VIOLATIONS. DO YOU CARE TO COMMENT ON THAT?

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47. Ya. I see lots of gas station workers as top fund raisers for Bernie

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48. I don't know who the hundreds of pages of illegal contributors are. Have you looked?

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45. Please explain how it is a "half truth"

Elmadorf has a firm that shapes policy and public opinion for clients such as Time Warner.

Do you think he wants to see Clinton elected because he wants to protect Net Neutrality, or prevent monopolistic mergers such as the one that Time Warner and Comast tried to pull off?

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46. And he's an individual just like the people donating to Bernie. Only Bernie has hundreds of pages

of FEC violations. Any individual is allowed to donate to campaigns, even if you don't like their job.

[Armstead]

51. Hey there's a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you cheap

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52. You should target Bernie supporters with that offer. I hear they're still flushing their money away

And according to the FEC, some of them hate their money so much they are throwing it away illegally.

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12. You're right. And you're wrong.

Hillary supporters didn't care then and don't care now. So, you're right about that. Bias appears to be fine with them, so long as it's in their favor. But Bernie supporters do care then and still care. Why? Because it's simply unfair and leads to bias in the media.

Can the media bias be proven? (other than the ratio of coverage given to the candidates, the inclusion of super delegates in the vote totals, or the claims of violence by Sanders supporters in NV, when in fact there was blatant fraud, etc) Nope. Not any more than we can prove that Hillary's speeches for hundreds of thousand to Wall Street will lead her to give them any breaks. Or that her use of funds via Citizens United will lead her to give the corporations and special interests behind that money and special favors. But then again, if she says she wants to end Citizens because it's a form of legal bribery...guess only she is above that, right?

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14. What bias? These are a few people donating to Hillary.

You don't really believe the conspiracy theory that the media is conspiring against Bernie?

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27. Does it matter what I believe?

I suspect that you've made up your mind, just as I've made up mine. I've cited a few specific examples already regarding media bias. In the end it won't matter to Hillary supporters. What should concern them is that Bernie supporters are aware of a bias in the media and from the DNC. If you'd like me to cite more examples let me know, though I don't imagine any amount of examples would change your mind.

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32. Lol. Yeah, the WaPo publishing 16 strongly negative pieces on bernie

in a 24 period isn't an indication of bias. Of course, there's bias. Bias is not synonymous with conspiracy theory.

This isn't exactly shocking news.

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39. Bernie people think it's "bias" when the death threats and sexist slurs are reported.

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50. Non-response. Poor deflection.

Lame. Critical thinking skills would help you.

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25. How is that a smear? It is not. Learn to use words accurately.

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42. Hey, nobody's gittin' paid for accuracy here!

Or for fact-checking!

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53. Do facts have an expiration date?

Guess we can forget about learning history because you think old facts should be forgotten.

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2. Good. We need it. nt

[TrueDemVA]

7. Crap like this

Is one of the reasons I continue to not get cable again. I stream everything. These news CORPORATIONS are scum.

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10. It's sad that some accept these mega corporations as unbiased news organizations

When their main concern is profits and controlling the narrative...

[TrueDemVA]

18. This party needs a wake up call

They are headed towards a revolt. So many are leaving the party after this primary, b/c the party leadership as sold us out.

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22. I hope a wake up call will work. It seems that the corporations already have their stamp on it.

They will fight tooth and nail to keep their control of it...

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31. They only accept them as unbiased when those corporate interests are shilling for their coporatist

friendly candidate.

[JoePhilly]

15. Recycling old outrages.

Must be a slow day at the outrage factory.

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20. I post for persons who don't know the major TV news media lobbyists are raising funds for

Hillary. I'm sure most average voters have no idea this is happening.

Sorry it bothers you to let people know this....

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30. Thanks, think. I missed it the first time around. It's been kind of obvious that

MSNBC has been acting as her propaganda arm. I don't watch CNN much.

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55. Thank you as well :)

[Kittycat]

54. I wasn't aware of this one either. Thanks

I knew the owners had a general interest in her as the corporate candidate, and they had donated heavily. I wasn't aware they were bundling.

That's just disgusting.

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49. An old outtrage is still relevant if it's true and ongoing

Do you really think the reps of the Media Monopolies are supporting Clinton because they want to preserve Net Neutrality, or stop future mergers like the horrible one attempted by Time Warner and Comast?

(Fortunately the Obama administration blocked that due to intense public pressure. But what will happen in the future if a candidate backed by those corporations gets into the WH, and goes along with the advice of her backers?

This stuff DOES matter.

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26. How cosy!

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35. Democrats know how the rules work, and we play to win. nt

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38. Hillary knows her loopholes. Congratz....

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40. Stand back with your sensibilities intact, Politics may be too rough for you. nt

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43. Save your intimidation for someone else. Thank you.