The Truth About Kos (DailyKos): Billionaire Republican Campaign Donor Buys "Now Public" "Crowd Powered Media" Online Newspaper

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Billionaire Republican Campaign Donor Buys "Now Public" "Crowd Powered Media" Online Newspaper

Cross-posted at Now Public.

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September 2, 2009

Phillip Anschutz, the new owner of the Now Public "crowd powered" liberal news site online, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republicans and Republican causes, including $3,000 to Senator John McCain and the Colorado Republican Party, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Phillip Anschutz has made contributions to Republican Party state branches in including $3,000 to Senator John McCain and the Colorado Republican Party, The "Now Public" blog site, where members of the general public post news stories, bills itself as a "Crowd Powered Media" website.

Phillip Anschutz, the world's 89th wealthiest billionaire, according to Forbes, has been a consistent giver to Republican candidates and causes since at least 1999. The FEC Contributions to Political Committees report says that Phillip Anschutz of Denver, Colorado gave:

$58,900 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee between 2008 and 2009;
$1,000 to John D. Ashcroft, who was President George W. Bush's Attorney General from 2001 until 2005 and was a fiercely anti-abortion Republican Senator;
$10,000 dollars to the Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania;
$1,000 to Larry E. Craig for US Senate (who subsequently left the US Senate after confessing to committing a sex crime in an airport bathroom);
$1,000 to Elizabeth Dole
$5,000 to the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PAC (US CHAMBER PAC);
$1,000 to Friends of Sam Brownback, "the evangelical-turned-Catholic religious conservative who endorsed McCain shortly after ending his own presidential campaign in October [in 2007]. http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2007/12/with-help-from-brownback-mccai.html
And other Republicans listed in the Federal Election Commission's Contributions to Political Committees Report

Billionaire Republican donor Phillip Anschutz's twenty-five million dollar purchase of Now Public leaves the site's future editorial policies in doubt. Upon hearing the news, one Now Public blog site contributor, "Rev. Jermano" said,

"Pitiful shame to hear that. Now we have to start another News Outlet to carry on Now Public original traditions."

The DailyKos "liberal" blog is owned by Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga ("Kos), who says he started DailyKos during a two year training period with the CIA, after he worked for the election of Republican Congressman Henry Hyde, chief prosecutor in the House of Representatives for President Bill Clinton's impeachment.

With Now Public owned by multi-billionaire Phillip Anschutz, who has been a consistent supporter and substantial contributor to Republican candidates and causes, many liberals who want to publish news and opinions online for large audiences may find themselves increasingly squeezed out.

The FEC also lists Anschutz contributions' to at least ten state Republican Party entities:

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
	12/30/1999	621.00	20036134782

MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY
	12/30/1999	513.00	20036190432

NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE
	12/30/1999	423.00	20036133646

NEW YORK REPUBLICAN FEDERAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
	12/30/1999	927.00	20036190854

OHIO REPUBLICAN PARTY STATE CENTRAL & EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
	12/30/1999	594.00	20036213059

REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA
	12/30/1999	657.00	20036161321

REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA
	12/30/1999	711.00	21037034107

REPUBLICAN PARTY OF KENTUCKY
	12/30/1999	225.00	20036192419

REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA INC
	12/30/1999	369.00	20036254141

WASHINGTON STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY
	12/30/1999	315.00	20036351456

Recipient Total: 5580.00

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References:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/DSAK.html

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qindcont/2/%28lname|MATCHES|:ANSCHUTZ*:%29|AND|%28fname|MATCHES|:PHILIP*:%29

http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2007/12/with-help-from-brownback-mccai.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Markos_Moulitsas_Z%C3%BAniga

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11410

http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2009/09/billionare-republican-campaign.html

http://my.nowpublic.com/world/billionaire-republican-campaign-donor-buys-now-public-site

2 comments:

Tokyo Shemp said...: The internet is a scam. It's full of conformity and reeks of special interests. It also reeks of psychological operations. That's not tinfoil. It's the truth. No true lefty would ever support the CIA. Your comments on the other thread are correct, Francis. I am not surprised this Now Public has turned out to be a joke. I have been burned so often, I am rather cynical about the internet, of nearly all of it. But you keep doing what you're doing. The few of us will keep on keeping on. It would have been foolish of us to think this would be an easy victory. But we can be like Nelson Mandela and stand firm to principles. Hey, I realise neither of us is suffering like he did, and I mean no offense by it. I just continue to think of pockets of awareness and enabling newbies and fence-sitters to think for themselves. But they are gonna have to do some heavy critical thinking and seek beneath the surface, for the net is clearly contaminated with status quo rubbish and strawman disinformation.; September 4, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Francis Holland said...: Well, as a means of transmitting information to thousands of people, the Internet beats phone lists. (Remember those?)

The key is to create "sticky" information that people will carry elsewhere and drop like viral messaging.

H1N1 started with one person.

I'm sick of NowPublic anyway, because I'm tired of getting "helpful" messages about how to format my messages for their site. My account is temporarily blocked for that reason (and because I pointed out that the new owner is a billionaire contributor to Republican "wide-stances."

Screw 'em.; September 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM

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"When they 'crash the gates', will they take our cross?"

If a Link Here Doesn't Work . . .

If a link doesn't work, be patient. Look for an updated link in the articles below, use the search function in the top left, and/or look to this list of all but one of the articles written by Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) when he was at Northern Illinois University (NIU), writing extreme right-wing letters to the editor. Interestingly, the one known missing article still is not in the archives although it was faxed to me by Northern Star staff and republished here. That article was the first in a series of five articles about "racism", four of which were assigned tasks and described the "racism" and religious persecution problems on campus based on interviews.

In the fifth article, which was not commissioned, MAMZ declared that, having completed the obligatory four articles, the fifth article would announced his intention to withdraw again into "detached selfishness", grateful that he was not one of "them", "whose skin color or religious persuassion (sic) made them the target of bigotry and discrimination. They would never be able to escape who they were."

This is MAMZ announcement that he is NOT a Latino, but is a white man, and he underlines this today by insisting that it is improper to address him using his mother's Latino name, "Zúñiga".

In looking for the MAMZ's student newspaper articles, remember that the NIU student newspaper, the Northern Star, has changed the Internet addresses of these articles three times [now four times as of 9/2010] in last 30 months, making all old links obsolete and sometimes making all of the articles temporarily unavailable.

Atty. Francis L. Holland in the Media

Washington Post quotes
Francis L. Holland slamming DNCC for all-white state blogs corps:
"Francis L. Holland, one of the vocal black bloggers, sent e-mails to DNC officials asking that 15 black-operated blogs be added to the State Corps. "There is nothing 'Democratic' about an all-white Democratic National Convention floor blogging corps," he wrote in an e-mail. Holland is also asking for the inclusion of 15 Latino-operated blogs."
Slate.com quotes Francis L. Holland regarding John Edwards' decision to endorse Senator Barack Obama for President:
"Or, as Obama supporter Francis L. Holland puts it: "So, it shows tremendous courage, foresight and solidarity that Edwards has endorsed Obama after the media declared Hillary's campaign to be as good as dead, right? Oh, well! Better late than never!"
BlackEnterprise.Com quotes Francis L. Holland:
"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present,” says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee’s home state, which is 15% black, will be left out.”
Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism cites Francis L. Holland:

In 2008, the Democratic "party came under fire from African American bloggers. Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition, complained to Black Enterprise magazine that black blogs only made up slightly more than 7% of the bloggers credentialed for the convention."
Francis L. Holland Blog in the
Washington Post:
"We are tired of Hillary Clinton telling America that we are less than American simply because we refuse to vote for her," said Francis L. Holland, an African American blogger." Ironically, the Clintons embraced us, and even embraced Pastor Jeremiah Wright for support during their impeachment scandal." Holland was speaking of the congressional trial that followed former president Bill Clinton's liaison with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "She has forfeited the black vote for the foreseeable future with her color aroused appeals."
Francis L. Holland Blog in Dallas Morning News:
“November’s voter turnout depends on August’s blogger outreach,” said Mr. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition., a member of a national and international black bloggers’ coalition called “The AfroSpear.” “Blogs address constituencies, and it simply is not possible for blogs that are all-white to effectively reach diverse Democratic constituencies.”
Francis L. Holland Blog in Black Enterprise Magazine:
"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present," says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee's home state, which is 15% black, will be left out."
Pacifica Radio's Election Unspun June 23: Black Bloggers and Black Power, interviews Francis L. Holland:

"Francis Holland is a blogger from Afrospear, a national group of bloggers that advocates for African-Americans. When he looked at the list of State Bloggers, he saw no black blogs among them. Holland explains that the process the Democratic Convention planners used to choose the State Blogger Corps was bound to lead to this result. And he argues that the Democratic Party can scarcely afford to alienate black voters in this election year." (The original link no longer works, which is becoming a growing documentation problem on the Internet.)
The American Prospect quoted Francis L. Holland explaining why Blacks and women would not support John Edwards in 2008:
"Electing Edwards to challenge the status quo is like supporting a queen to challenge the monarchy or integrating an all-white club by adding more all-white club members. It is possible that electing yet another white man to the Presidency will end the poverty of the historically disenfranchised, with John Edwards serving as a "pass through" for those who have historically been disincluded legally and by custom. But this is a very convoluted way of achieving what could be achieved much more directly by electing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. ..."
Huffington Post published Francis L. Holland's articles.
Columbia Journalism Review quotes Francis L. Holland Blog.

Disclaimer: Although I am a trained attorney, I am retired and am not an active member of any state Bar. Therefore, I advocate in all matters on my own behalf and not as the legal representative of any person, group or organization.

The Truth About Kos (DailyKos)

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Billionaire Republican Campaign Donor Buys "Now Public" "Crowd Powered Media" Online Newspaper

2 comments:

Once CIA, Always CIA?

MAMZ Denies Being Latino in Spite of "ZÚÑIGA" Maternal Surname:

In Audiotape (Below)
MAMZ Confesses 2-YRS CIA
"Clandestine Services" Training

Audiotape of MAMZ Confession to 2 YRS at CIA
Transcript of MAMZ's Confession to 2 YRS at CIA

"When they 'crash the gates', will they take our cross?"

MAMZ Proclaims His Atheism

DailyKos' Demographics

If a Link Here Doesn't Work . . .

Moulitsas Says His Attitude Toward Latinos and Hispanics is "detached selfishness".

Atty. Francis L. Holland in the Media

Blogs Reporting "The Truth About Kos":

Blog Archive

The Truth About Kos (DailyKos)

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Billionaire Republican Campaign Donor Buys "Now Public" "Crowd Powered Media" Online Newspaper

2 comments:

Once CIA, Always CIA?

MAMZ Denies Being Latino in Spite of "ZÚÑIGA" Maternal Surname:

In Audiotape (Below)MAMZ Confesses 2-YRS CIA"Clandestine Services" Training

Audiotape of MAMZ Confession to 2 YRS at CIATranscript of MAMZ's Confession to 2 YRS at CIA

"When they 'crash the gates', will they take our cross?"

MAMZ Proclaims His Atheism

DailyKos' Demographics

If a Link Here Doesn't Work . . .

Moulitsas Says His Attitude Toward Latinos and Hispanics is "detached selfishness".

Atty. Francis L. Holland in the Media

Blogs Reporting "The Truth About Kos":

Blog Archive

In Audiotape (Below)
MAMZ Confesses 2-YRS CIA
"Clandestine Services" Training

Audiotape of MAMZ Confession to 2 YRS at CIA
Transcript of MAMZ's Confession to 2 YRS at CIA