Fox Nation vs. Reality: Republican vs. Democratic Billionaires

The toxic effect of the billions of dollars in special interest donations to political candidates and causes can be seen every day in the way that politicians rewards their most generous benefactors. It is not a coincidence that the first bill brought to a vote in the Republican-dominated 114th Congress was one to advance the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline favored by wealthy oil barons like the Koch brothers.

The current corrupt state of political funding was made possible by the notorious Citizen’s United decision that freed donors to make virtually unlimited contributions without disclosing their identity. Despite the fact that Republicans defend this practice, their media mouthpiece, Fox News, tries to play both sides of the debate by accusing Democrats of being equal offenders. Or, in the case of a new item posted on Fox Nation, even worse.

Fox Nation

According to Fox, “Dem Billionaires Donate More To Politicians Than Republicans.” The article that the Fox Nationalists cited as their source was originally published by Politico. Fox posted the first three paragraphs from the Politico story that said in part…

“Democrats spent much of the 2014 campaign castigating Republican big money, but, it turns out, their side actually finished ahead among the biggest donors of 2014 – at least among those whose contributions were disclosed.”

The key portion of that quote are the eight words at the end. It is impossible to do an analysis of political donations without taking into consideration the “dark money” made possible by Citizen’s United. In the beginning of Politico’s article they noted that donations attributed to Democrats from disclosed sources totaled $174 million in 2014. Donations from Republicans came to only $140 million. And from that data Fox declared that Democrats were the bigger donors.

However, in the fourth paragraph of the article, the one right after the point where Fox Nation cut off their excerpt, a far more relevant statistic was reported:

“Of course, that edge doesn’t take into account contributions to deep-pocketed non-profit groups that don’t disclose their donors. They heavily favored Republicans […] For instance, the network of mostly secret-money non-profit groups helmed by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers was on pace to spend $290 million in 2014.”

So the truth is that the Koch brothers all by themselves donated more money than all of the Democrats cited by Fox combined. It’s a fact that Fox left out of their excerpt and blatantly lied about in their headline.

To illustrate how dishonest it is to use numbers that only include disclosed donors, David and Charles Koch rank only 10th and 29th on the list of such contributions. But clearly they are number one by a wide margin if all of their donations are counted, including those from the dark money organizations they run like Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Partners, and Donors Trust. But don’t expect to learn about any of this from Fox News. Their mission is to disinform and to prop up the right-wing elitists, bankers, and captains of industry.

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See also this analysis of the stark differences between the Republican rich and the Democratic rich: What’s The Difference Between Wealthy (Koch) Republicans And (Soros) Democrats?

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6 thoughts on “Fox Nation vs. Reality: Republican vs. Democratic Billionaires

  1. Well, by the Jesus, if those consarned Democrats are givin’ too much cash to those commie sons a bitches lets get the Supremes to reverse that dad blaned citizens united !

    • But that’s not the problem, sez Shlox Snooze. After all, corporations are people, and these people give us Rethuglicans lotsa money to appoint people we feel will support impeaching Obama. Since that is the only reason we anoint senators nowadays, right?

      Of course, if the Dems start hiding their donors, why then Citizens United is an incredible threat, and how can we allow this criminal activity to be part of our democracy?

      There are times when you wish that the Dems would take advantage of the law the way the Rethuglicans do — it may be the only way to get rid of the blank check that Citizens United enabled.

      • That’s right. And make sure the President endorses it. That will ensure a rethuglican bill to counteract citizens united ready to sign in 24 hours.

        • There are advantages to FoxPods acting like pod creatures, aren’t there?

  2. begging for the benevolence of the ‘ elected officials ‘ its almost pointless…if your request isn’t written on a stack of franklins it might as well be written on toilet paper…its time to stop negotiating with economic, social, and environmental terrorists and replace them with honest people that care where our country is headed for our future generations….
    facebook.com/votepoet #votepoet
    ” no ones perfect, but anyone can be honest “

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