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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Wed May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM May 2013

Papantonio: The Conservative Media Takeover

From Ring of Fire.

The following interview is from the May 5th episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The billionaire Koch Brothers — the geniuses who helped bankroll the Tea Party movement — are trying to buy up media outlets across the country. If they’re successful, they’ll be able to spread their anti-consumer lies to millions of Americans. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks to attorneys Howard Nations and Mike Burg about the conservative takeover of the media.

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blm

(113,101 posts)
1. There is nothing conservative about it - they are FASCISTS not conservatives.
Wed May 8, 2013, 10:26 AM
May 2013

Democrats and the left LOSE voters when they call their opponents 'conservatives' - dare to call them what they are - radical fascists who want to replace this nation's democratic republic form of governance with global fascism ruled by corporate empires.

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LaPera

(6,486 posts)
5. The Koch brother are indeed 'conservatives'........
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:58 PM
May 2013

They vote only for regressive intolerant conservative ideology....

The Koch brothers only vote republican, the party of exclusion that represents and ONLY caters to the rich and their corporations -

While the racist homophobic misogynist hatred of the poor & working people.....the republican party does all they can to take from working people, their tax dollars (via corporate subsidies, military contracts, tax loop-holes, through their teams of lobbyist & lawyers) aimed at destroying the people's social programs, unions, wages & salaries, health care and their basic needs in order to finance their gigantic military for the their corporate imperialism that benefits only themselves as soldiers and peons die around the world for their profit.

Yes, the Koch brothers are absolutely fascist as the word is defined absolute and total fascist....They vote republican. - The republican party is the party of fascism.

Filthy Slimy Corporate Conservative Republican Fascist!

GreenTea

(5,154 posts)
6. Sadly, the Koch bros. & republicans see "Corporate Conservative Republican Fascist" as a good thing.
Wed May 8, 2013, 02:02 PM
May 2013

blm

(113,101 posts)
7. Not in the traditional, political sense of the word conservative. THOSE conservatives would be
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:31 PM
May 2013

considered political moderates these days.

Dustlawyer

(10,497 posts)
2. Rome is burning! These are our airwaves supposedly regulated (ha, ha) by the FCC!
Wed May 8, 2013, 11:21 AM
May 2013

COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!!!

Cyrano

(15,063 posts)
3. With the exception of MSNBC and
Wed May 8, 2013, 01:52 PM
May 2013

a few other media outlets, there's not much that's not already owned, or heavily influenced, by conservatives. Witness the current media coverage of Benghazi when there's no there there.

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