How GOP SuperPACKs Are Buying Their Way Into Fox Debates

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How GOP SuperPACKs Are Buying Their Way Into Fox Debates

By Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/how-gop-superpacs-are-buying-their-way-fox

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There's always been some variation on this game, because media companies (including newspapers) have higher rates for campaign ads. (Why? Because they can!) But in this particular election cycle, what Fox News is doing is outrageous:


Super PACs supporting Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Marco Rubio have purchased millions of dollars of ad time on Fox News, according to data obtained by Media Matters from a media buying source. An adviser to super PACs backing Perry reportedly admitted the spending is intended to raise his profile to help him qualify for the upcoming Fox News primary debate.

Ever since Fox declared that its August 6 debate would only include candidates "in the top 10 of an average of the five most recent national polls," the 15 Republicans currently running (with more potentially entering the race soon) have scrambled to gain the exposure necessary to make the cut, with some super PACs reportedly changing their entire campaign strategies.

In response to the debate rules announcement, Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus argued that Roger Ailes "will decide which candidates can compete in Republican presidential primaries next year." The debate rules are already having a tangible impact on the campaign.



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1. And people wonder why Fox leans so far right

Because there's serious money to be made in being batshit crazy.

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2. Donald Trump Is the Frankenstein's Monster on the Right Created By Citizens United,

Whereas Bernie Sanders is the Wild Card on the Left. Both are throwing a monkey wrench into the carefully laid plans that the Koch brothers and other proponents / architects of the plutocratic Citizens United Supreme Court decision had for the political future of our country.

Donald Trump throws a monkey wrench by riding his own tidal wave of unlimited cash, and being a loose nut that is beholden to no one, and therefore sublimely free to be a one man wrecking crew for the Republican brand in the eyes of the voting public in the general election - which would wind up being a disaster for the party of the billionaires.

Bernie Sanders throws a monkey wrench in from the left by speaking passionately from the heart on issues Americans are really concerned about, tapping into a raw nerve of voter indignation with the status quo, and thereby creating a populist groundswell against the corporate money machine. Nothing succeeds like genuineness and sincerity, and all the political cash in the world can't buy that.

Perhaps the way these two monkey wrenches - one from the left, and the other from the right - play out in this coming presidential race will open the eyes of Americans to other new and unanticipated reasons why the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision is seriously flawed, and therefore should not be allowed to stand. And maybe these newly discovered flaws and drawbacks will increase or broaden the political spectrum of those wanting to have a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. And that can only be a good thing for America's political future.