Reply #22: Here are the two things I took from this story

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1. Fox News has been getting away with so much obvious indoctrination under the guise of "news" and the rest of the media is so irresponsible that they think they can just give money to the Republican Party directly and still get away with calling themselves "fair and balanced", and continue to control the national dialogue. And unfortunately, they're probably right, but in the end the people will stop watching the mainstream news at all.

2. The Republican Party has no connection with the people (except the fascist fringe) and they are so reliant on outspending the opposition that not even lavish corporate donations are enough, they have to turn to their own propaganda wing for funding. Unless Fox is doing this because the fascist fringe is going so crazy and so far to the right that they don't even trust Fox News anymore (I've heard more than one say that even Fox is "leftist").

K&R