{"id":3105,"date":"2010-10-14T01:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2010-10-14T01:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:45:34","slug":"fox-and-the-2010-election-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/fox-and-the-2010-election-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox and the 2010 Election Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The closer November 2 gets the more Fox News supports Republican candidates, not only in their role as Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, but also financially, through their parent corporation, News Corp.  Murdoch lied, when he said those donations had nothing to do with Fox.  But now that lie may have opened him up to legal trouble:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"FoxFandB\" In August, News Corporation \u2014 the media company owned by right-wing tycoon Rupert Murdoch and the operator of Fox News \u2014 gave<\/a> $1 million to the Republican Governors Association. Several weeks later, it donated another $1 million<\/a> to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. <\/p>\n

When asked about the RGA donation, Rupert Murdoch explained<\/a>: \u201cIt had nothing to do with Fox News. The RGA [gift] was actually [a result of] my friendship with John Kasich.\u201d As ThinkProgress\u2019 Ian Millhiser reported, there are laws against corporate managers treating a publicly-traded corporation as if it were their own personal bank account<\/strong>. The Supreme Court in Delaware, where News Corp. is incorporated, has made it clear that<\/a> \u201c[c]orporate officers and directors are not permitted to use their position of trust and confidence to further their private interests<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now, shareholders may be taking notice of the potential illegality outlined by Millhiser. The New York Times reported<\/a> today that The Nathan Cummings Foundation, a shareholder of News Corp., wrote a letter to the company\u2019s board objecting to the company\u2019s political donations, and warned against the use of \u201ccorporate treasury funds to further the personal political agendas of corporate management.\u201d This afternoon, Media Matters obtained<\/a> a statement from another investor, F&C Investments, which says it will oppose the re-election of the Chairman of the Audit Committee at News Corp.\u2019s annual meeting this Friday in response to the donation controversy. F&C says it, too, is concerned about shareholder money being used to further the political goals of \u201cindividuals\u201d within the company<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann discusses this, foreign funds, and other related issues with Faiz Shakir.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It seemed to me Keith was implying that Scalia\u2019s son is involved in secret corporate campaign finance.  Does anyone have more info on that?<\/font><\/p>\n

In any case, if we don\u2019t stop the Republicans now and in 2012, we may never get another chance.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The closer November 2 gets the more Fox News supports Republican candidates, not only in their role as Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, but also financially, through their parent corporation, News Corp.  Murdoch lied, when he said those donations had nothing to do with Fox.  But now that lie may have opened him up to legal […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}