Porn $$$ Helps Fund Right Wing Politicians

Published on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 by ABC News

Cable Companies Provide Porn While Funding Politicians
Critics Say Politicians Morally Obligated to Refuse Donations

by Jake Tapper and Avery Miller

WASHINGTON -- While its previous owners considered adult entertainment "immoral," Adelphia Communications Corp., the country's fifth-largest cable television provider, last week became the first to offer hard-core adult films on pay-per-view to its subscribers.

"It's a very lucrative source of funds," said Dennis McAlpine, a media and entertainment industry analyst. "The cable companies and the satellite companies are programming agnostics in the sense that they don't care what the programming is. It's what the viewers want to see."

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Adelphia has given $166,000 to Republican committees, $17,000 to conservative Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., and $12,000 to Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., one of the most conservative members of the Senate.

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Santorum would not comment on Adelphia's decision.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0208-12.htm

show!

:silly:

"The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex".

I think that one suits him better than a show.

nature videos of box turtles coupling.

and watch porn all night.

I saw that on TV this morning. I'll bet they're falling all over themselves to find a way to spin out of that one!

and was about to post. Here is another link from ABC.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=478984&page=1

"While the corporations generate millions in profits from providing adult content, their political contributions are often given to those elected, in no small part, because of their stance on 'moral values.'"

Isn't that just so rich.

Hotels and other cable venues have been reaping profits based on porn pay-per-view. Certainly most i fno tall of these companies lean Republican.

SOME PROMINENT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS PROFITING FROM THE PORN INDUSTRY:

AOL Time Warner, cable networks and pay-per-view
AT&T, via phone sex, cable networks and pay-per-view
Cablevision, cable networks and pay-per-view
Comcast, cable networks and pay-per-view
General Motors, (through its ownership of DirectTV) cable networks and pay-per-view
Hilton, in-room hotel movies
Holiday Inn, in-room hotel movies
Hyatt, in-room hotel movies
Marriott, in-room hotel movies
Media One, cable networks and pay-per-view
Sheraton, in-room hotel movies

Source: http://www.courttv.com/archive/onair/shows/mugshots/indepth/hollywood/facts1.html

American Porn

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/business/mainstream.html

This site has great links to other sources, including my favorite from the NY Timea, "Wall Street Meets Pornography." "'The General Motors Corporation, the world's largest company, now sells more graphic sex films every year than does Larry Flynt, owner of the Hustler empire,' reports Timothy Egan in this October 2000 report in The New York Times. Egan dissects some of Wall Street's under-reported ties to the adult industry." (New York Times, Oct. 23, 2000)

I was glad to see it hit the nightly news. Repugs who think they have any moral superiority can think again. But they're programming agnostics? Again, making up the rules as they go along and the almighty dollar is their highest power. :eyes:

I always knew those conservatives were a bunch of freaks.

We must remember that homosexuality, porn addictions, pedophile behavior, and any other immoral act you can name are fine as long as you follow the Bush Cult and vote republican.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ashcroft himself have gotten money from the porn industry.

"Right-Wing $$$ Help Fund Porn"

it stops and ends there