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Report: Obama top recipient of News Corp. donations
WWW.thehill.com ^
Political donations by News Corp., its employees and their families were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with President Obama the all-time leading recipient, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation.
The transparency watchdog noted Tuesday that Democrats received 51 percent of contributions while Republicans received 49 percent, despite the firm's highly publicized links to the GOP, such as a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association in August.
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Sunlight Foundation Muddles Facts On “News Corp.” Donations To Obama
July 20, 2011 2:05 am ET by Terry Krepel
How is it possible to claim, as a Sunlight Foundation report does, that the “biggest all-time recipient of contributions from News Corp is President Obama”? By treating the contributions of individual employees the same as corporate contributions, even though they’re not.
The Sunlight Foundation forwards that confusion. After making the claim about Obama being “the biggest all-time recipient of contributions,” it adds: “It should be noted that the totals for News Corp’s contributions also include money from employees of the organization and their family members.” But the private contributions employees make cannot be said to speak for the corporation they work for, and lumping them all together leads to false conclusions -- among them, that News Corp. made corporate contributions to Obama.
If it seems like Obama got a lot of money from News Corp. employees, that’s because he got a lot of money from a lot of people in 2008.
The Sunlight report doesn’t explain that there was a massive increase in fundraising during the 2008 campaign cycle. For instance, the Federal Election Commission noted in a June 8, 2009, press release that “[f]inancial activity of 2008 presidential candidates and national party convention committees increased 80% in receipts over the 2004 presidential election.”
Misleading claims, however, have a way of making it into the media, and that’s what has happened with Sunlight’s claims. A blog post at The Hill picking up Sunlight’s research carries the headline “Report: Obama top recipient of News Corp. donations.” Like Sunlight, The Hill lumped together corporate and individual contributions.
Such misportrayals of political contributions are all too common. Last year, during the BP oil spill, some in the media asserted that Obama was “the single largest recipient of BP’s cash” during the 2008 presidential campaign, omitting that the money came from individual employees, not the corporation itself.
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Sunlight Foundation Muddles Facts On “News Corp.” Donations To Obama
July 20, 2011 2:05 am ET by Terry Krepel
How is it possible to claim, as a Sunlight Foundation report does, that the “biggest all-time recipient of contributions from News Corp is President Obama”? By treating the contributions of individual employees the same as corporate contributions, even though they’re not.
The Sunlight Foundation forwards that confusion. After making the claim about Obama being “the biggest all-time recipient of contributions,” it adds: “It should be noted that the totals for News Corp’s contributions also include money from employees of the organization and their family members.” But the private contributions employees make cannot be said to speak for the corporation they work for, and lumping them all together leads to false conclusions -- among them, that News Corp. made corporate contributions to Obama.
If it seems like Obama got a lot of money from News Corp. employees, that’s because he got a lot of money from a lot of people in 2008.
The Sunlight report doesn’t explain that there was a massive increase in fundraising during the 2008 campaign cycle. For instance, the Federal Election Commission noted in a June 8, 2009, press release that “[f]inancial activity of 2008 presidential candidates and national party convention committees increased 80% in receipts over the 2004 presidential election.”
Misleading claims, however, have a way of making it into the media, and that’s what has happened with Sunlight’s claims. A blog post at The Hill picking up Sunlight’s research carries the headline “Report: Obama top recipient of News Corp. donations.” Like Sunlight, The Hill lumped together corporate and individual contributions.
Such misportrayals of political contributions are all too common. Last year, during the BP oil spill, some in the media asserted that Obama was “the single largest recipient of BP’s cash” during the 2008 presidential campaign, omitting that the money came from individual employees, not the corporation itself.
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So all you've done is point out that he got a lot of money from BOTH the corporation and the employees that make up the corporation.
But you've spent how many countless posts calling them a bunch of unfair neocons?
Makes total sense in lib world...I guess.
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LOL! I'm totally the getbig personification of everything you hate about obama, huh?
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LOL! I'm totally the getbig personification of everything you hate about obama, huh?
You are an obamabot who refuses to admit it.
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You are an obamabot who refuses to admit it.
when i take a cell phone pic of my 2012 ballot punched 'republican', will that change your perception?
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when i take a cell phone pic of my 2012 ballot punched 'republican', will that change your perception?
Lmao. I'm just bustin balls bro. Yu know that.
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Lmao. I'm just bustin balls bro. Yu know that.
unless palin runs. then i'm personally getting an obama tattoo.
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unless palin runs. then i'm personally getting an obama tattoo.
Shake on that? I'll pay for it.
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So all you've done is point out that he got a lot of money from BOTH the corporation and the employees that make up the corporation.
But you've spent how many countless posts calling them a bunch of unfair neocons?
Makes total sense in lib world...I guess.
20% of the employees are with the 20th Century Fox Entertainment group based in Los Angeles. It's the Hollywood liberals. ;D
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Shake on that? I'll pay for it.
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I will wire the tatoo parlor the cash for you to get an Obama tat on your ass.
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I will wire the tatoo parlor the cash for you to get an Obama tat on your ass.
could my bunghole be the big O logo? that would be classic
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could my bunghole be the big O logo? that would be classic
Yup.