Thanks for the thread, Fred Sanders.

sign over all their logos painted on it.

That would be more effective.

that sold a false war to a brainwashed nation?

Never again.

Corporate shucksters shilling for the corrupted establishment

billionaire types would simply be buying up the media outlets and thus just be 'paying themselves'. Pouring the money out of one pocket and into the other, really.

Yes, it is.

So basically the corps spend their money on the candidates who spend a bunch of it on media buys (while pocketing/diverting a whole lot.)

The media influences the voting public whipping them into a frenzy of "supporting the candidates" because the evil brown (or spawn-o-bush) might take over the planet. Nice little racket.

I've always wondered how much of this money (mostly from taxpayers originally) actually gets reported and has fair US tax liabilities applied against it.

My sense is that all of the major players in politics (and industry) view paying taxes as something that only the peons (their minions) do.

given to local community groups and non-PAC receiving candidates to get out their ideas and solutions.

40% ought to do it, it is the people's airwaves after all. More of a frustrated idea than a good one, in the absence of a constitutional amendment.

The thing is the incredible vacuum in election finance law left after Citizens United has created a lawless Wild West of election procedures and rules. The ultimate insult of the court ruling was not permitting the. Action time to fill in the void with new law. It was on purpose, this is the intended result, corruption of politicians, corruption of the media, corruption of reasoned debate. The next best thing to economic ruin so badly wanted by RW tall foreheads manipulating the process.

in order to finish the job of buying America.

The characters may change but money will continue to write the script.

The media can not report that someone who says completely insane stuff is completely insane. To do so would disturb the balance of the horse race. The key take-away from that is that we can't base our opinions on what is rational on whether the media portrays someone as rational.

So, don't watch the media.

Yet more media money for the media.

who believes that does not influence the news coverage of the grateful recipient of the largess?

and bought politicians at all levels.

They buy the loopholes, they buy the courts, and through their bought politicians they create their special carve outs, all the while not paying their fair share for the costs of the many wars they want to send other peoples children to fight for their right to keep the status quo.

that is why a better answer than campaign limits is free teevee.
public service and all that.

would be interesting to see where john roberts invests his money.

Main media and Hollywood are key players in the GOP crime syndicate, a.k.a the extreme right wing.

This is not the usual Grand Old Party of political theater America is used to. Today’s conservative party is not the party of the people. Anyone could fathom that too big to fail is a very fine tuned orchestrated plot that is based on war profiteering for the one percent.

The new politics is actually a well-rounded legal, business government media military banking crime syndicate. It’s an incredible hoax that seems to appear on a regular basis now since GOP with Bush and Company forged decades of profiteering and phony politics last century.

It is incredible that the Bush family avoided news and publicity to be condemned by huge conflicts of interest that are so out of line, way past the legal envelope, the fact is Bush should never be in politics let alone take a leadership position as President appointing people to political positions that are antithetical to the basic Constitution, riddling the government with lies.

It has to be the greatest story never told where the Bush family supported the rise of the Nazi party decades ago. Now as business partners with the Bin Laden family, the very important rich Arab family that supporting all kinds of crazy military actions in the Middle East, or at ground zero which is Bush treason.

Many could draw the conclusion that this GOP Bush crime syndicate that is too big to fail has a significant value. The GOP of today offers a special attraction, something unique seen every day heard over the radio and viewed over the cable. The GOP especially Fox news spews out Hate American government messages. That’s treason.

n/t