{"id":24434,"date":"2015-01-11T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24434"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:42:18","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-republican-vs-democratic-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24434","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Republican vs. Democratic Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

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

“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 \u2013 at least among those whose contributions were disclosed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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”<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

“Of course, that edge doesn\u2019t take into account contributions to deep-pocketed non-profit groups that don\u2019t 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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For More Blatant Lies by Fox, Get the ALL NEW 2nd volume of
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/strong> this analysis of the stark differences between the Republican rich and the Democratic rich: What\u2019s The Difference Between Wealthy (Koch) Republicans And (Soros) Democrats?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Republican vs. Democratic Billionaires","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[1140,527,301],"class_list":["post-24434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-election","tag-fox-nation","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-billionaire-donors.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-6m6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10809,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10809","url_meta":{"origin":24434,"position":0},"title":"Breaking Up With Fox News: Guess Who’s Dumping The Network Now?","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/31\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The YouGov survey group does periodic studies on the reputation and appeal of major businesses and services. 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