“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: They’re shills for big business.”

So what else is new, that is like saying the DNC are shills for Democrats. As things are falling apart, the Democrats are hoping for anything that will stick. They are desperately looking for someone to demonize in order to energize the Liberal voters.

Well that’s just freaking great.

Let’s deal with fear mongers by becoming fear mongers ourselves. Let’s make a point to appeal to the worst of our human nature rather than try to be real leaders and lift society up. That’s pretty dam discouraging.

The no class Organizer sure is desperate , ain’t he ?

CosmosDan said:
Well that’s just freaking great.

Let’s deal with fear mongers by becoming fear mongers ourselves. Let’s make a point to appeal to the worst of our human nature rather than try to be real leaders and lift society up. That’s pretty dam discouraging.

I’m disappointed in the ad as well. I don’t like adding more fear mongering. The Republicant’s do enough for both parties.

Memo to the left, we are a Republic, not a Democracy.

Funny, I didn’t see a DNC ad when Obama was verifying all those credit card donations during his billion dollar money grab at election time. Typical tactic. Still wont’ work

LOL

The Dems control both Congress and the executive branch but it is the Repubs who control the country.

You libs are a laugh riot!

There was silence in the media on the number of anonymous donations (mostly from foreigners from the research that was done and ignored by the likes of Glynnis) that hehimself got. He is just jealous that others are now donating to causes other than hehimself.

Manchild speaks, media jumps right into his camp. How typical.

Wow…..that sure takes a lot of balls for the DNC to complain about “secret foreign money” after the way Barack Obama financed his election.
Also I think showing piles of Chinese yen may not be such a good idea since no one has borrowed more than Obama. Billions of that Chinese cash were given to labor unions who in turn laundered returned it right back to Democrats and the DNC in the form of campaign contributions.
Democrats feed off of Chinese cash.
Do I even have to bring up the illegal money bundling that was done for Hillary Clinton by Norman Hsu…?
How about her husband and a supposed $ 3 million dollars worth of Chinese contributions….?
Al Gore….? Buddhist Temple anyone…?

They got nothing left and they know it.

The DNC has released a new attack ad that one might describe as being almost Rovian. The ad accuses Karl Rove and former RNC head Ed Gillespie (Rachel Maddow thinks he’s still running the RNC) of “stealing our democracy.”

We are a Republic you Morons….. LOL

This is a very foolish ad. By making foreign donations an issue, it allows the Republicans to note (quite honestly) that President Obama and the Democratic party are owned, lock, stock and barrel by foreign interests, including George Soros and China.

Someone once said something about people in glass houses not throwing stones ….

Marla Louise said:
I’m disappointed in the ad as well. I don’t like adding more fear mongering. The Republicant’s do enough for both parties.

Both parties are corrupt, bought and paid for. It really is a lesser of two evils choice until conservatives and liberals in the middle class come together to insist on radical campaign finance reform. Instead we argue over trivial BS while the money changers continue to claim more and more of the temple.

Burnnotice said:
The DNC has released a new attack ad that one might describe as being almost Rovian. The ad accuses Karl Rove and former RNC head Ed Gillespie (Rachel Maddow thinks he’s still running the RNC) of “stealing our democracy.”

We are a Republic you Morons….. LOL

well there, you win. I guess you showed them. Maybe along with the very crucial thumbs up and down options Mediaite can establish a system where you earn something akin to the stickers on your paper we got in the third grade, A little gold star or smiley face, something cool like that.

NeoKong: you cannot just go around making charges like that against Al Gore. Remember, there was no controlling legal authority — so everything he did was okay. Quasi-legal, because Janet Reno refused to say it was not.

They keep throwing Ms.Madd-cow against the wall to see if anything will stick but, so far, nothing. She, (I think) and her cronies are desperate to find something. Watching that gentleman from Oregon on her show the other night that made her eat her own style of “gotcha-journalism”, really gave everyone an insight into the sophistry people like Ms.Madd-cow use.

THE DNC is calling a spade a spade. They are up against Foreign influences in the Fox Media considering that Murdoch is an Aussie (really) and the Saudi Prince run things. Then there is the US Chamber of Commerce which is an exempt trade association representing global businesses at a cost to american business and labor. And then of course, the SCOTUS which gave us Citizens United which allows any one with lots of money dump their millions and billions into elections without “accountabillity” . So much for republican values. Our nation is a republic but then so is the Republic of China, or perhaps the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia. There is a difference in the way in which a society chooses to BUILD its republic. We have chosen a “democracy” which is Of , by and FOR the people. It is not by, of and for the rich, the global economy, the powerful, the gluttons. It is FOR the people. All 300 million of them in the US.
The dems are revealing what FREE PRESS in unable to. Because in this country, in this day and time, money controls much of the media and the masses. GO DEMS, the enemy is from within and it is time the s–t rose to the top for all to see.

Hey Carmank: I thought with the Dems in control of the legislature and most of the media that the s%#t was already at the top.

KARL ROVE is a hurting the GOP Baggers…the republican party of no need new faces representing them….not has been losers like ROWE or Gringrich……whats their new ad campaign: OUT WITH OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW? yea right!!!!

Nice try Mediaite, there’s plenty of evidence that Rove and the Chamber of Commerce are laundering foreign money. They have not provided any evidence that disproves it. All they’ve given is word that they have “a system” for keeping the money separate.

People may support this because it’s being done by “their team,” but if the situation were reversed and Democratic candidates were benefiting from foreign billions, it would be considered on par with treason.

If you don’t think massive anonymous donations to ANY politician or political party is a threat to democracy, then you are naive.

Now, I’ve seen more than a few political commercials, but I noticed something quite interesting about that one as opposed to just about every other one: references. There are no references made in the video. These people would sell their mothers(Or white grandmas for that matter) down the river just to retain political positions of power.

whytee said:
If you don’t think massive anonymous donations to ANY politician or political party is a threat to democracy, then you are naive.

I agree. I’ll go step further and say our campaign finance system is an insult to our founding principles. Huge piles of money being channeled from businesses or unions or PACs that don’t need to reveal funding sources, are all a serious threat and have been for some time. Now the problem is more obvious than ever before. Will we do anything about it?

Crossroads GPS is pouring tons of money into Illinois, misleading on Alexi…

Quite an organization he has…
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/08/misdirection-from-crossroads-gps/

WHY does anyone even listen to that lesbian? She should not be on TV. When she can’t dig up something about a person (Republican), she just makes it up in order to keep her job. Of course that station just eats up what she says, not even knowing she lies a lot. MSNBC=the media that just makes up anything and everything to keep these stoolies on TV.

Actually Rove and Gillespie are taking back the democracy that the Demonrat Party stole in 2008 and tried to spend out of business….! The DNC cabal wants to keep the USA as a debtor nation to Communist China until we Americans succumb to socialism… then the Commies will forgive our debts!

The USA is a Republic, not a democracy. Something the left doesn’t want understood and their demon teachers’ uniions make sure is not taught in public schools.

The DNC is running an ad about Rove and Gillespie ?… Why ?… Are they running for anything ?… No ?… Perfect !!…

It’s NOT a Democracy, it’s a REPUBLIC.

David Mangan said:
The USA is a Republic, not a democracy. Something the left doesn’t want understood and their demon teachers’ uniions make sure is not taught in public schools.

Sorry David, I did not see your remarks.

CarmanK said:
THE DNC is calling a spade a spade.

Which PROVES they are racists.

exiledtruther said:
Memo to the left, we are a Republic, not a Democracy.

Incorrect. We are a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic

notsobright said:
LOL

The Dems control both Congress and the executive branch but it is the Repubs who control the country.

You libs are a laugh riot!

The Republicants block all meaningful legislation – unless it serves their corporate masters. There is no reason to LOL about that.

“Billions of that Chinese cash were given to labor unions”

Ridiculous.

George Soros is not a ‘foreign interest.” He is a citizen whose philanthropic and political donations are a matter of record – unlike the sleazy Koch brothers, Richard Mellon Scaife, Pete Peterson and a host of other multibillionaires who are subverting our DEMOCRACY by trying to buy it under the guise of Astroturf groups run by Rove, et al.

“that gentleman from Oregon ” – Art Robinson – is either a raving lunatic or a boorish con man. I suspect the latter, since his “Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine” has eight faculty members – two of them DEAD – and no classrooms or students.

“Dems in control of the legislature and most of the media”

Conservative-leaning corporations own almost all of the media. What little independent media remains will be snuffed out if net neutrality isn’t made a matter of law.

“if the situation were reversed and Democratic candidates were benefiting from foreign billions, it would be considered on par with treason.”

Dems are already considered treasonous by the extreme right – despite lack of evidence. It saves time to jump right to conclusions.

“These people would sell their mothers(Or white grandmas for that matter)”

Why mention grandmas race, “Snowjob”?

“WHY does anyone even listen to that lesbian?”

WHY does her sexual orientation matter? Feeling unsure about your own?

“MSNBC=the media that just makes up anything and everything to keep these stoolies on TV.”

Accusations. No proof. No surprise.

“The DNC cabal wants to keep the USA as a debtor nation to Communist China until we Americans succumb to socialism… ”

They’re too late. Bush and the Republicans already sold us out to their corporate masters, who sold us out to China.

How come it was never “Communist” China while Bush was in office? Right-wing hypocrisy is still running full-tilt around here.

“The DNC is running an ad about Rove and Gillespie ?… Why ?”

Because they are undermining our DEMOCRACY and the Dems thought folks might want to know. You’re welcome.

pyrope said:
Which PROVES they are racists.

Which PROVES you yourself are so racist you can’t differentiate between a cliche and a slur . . . jeenyus.

Boo-hoo! The Demmies can’t run in their Congressional record. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbies for business. The Democrats are anti-business. What do they expect? Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie are pro-Republican. Stop the presses! Maddow thinks. Since when?

“The Democrats are anti-business.”

They got aid for small businesses despite “pro-business” Republicant resistance.

“Maddow thinks. Since when?”

Someone has to do it. YOU aren’t.

CosmosDan said:
I agree. I’ll go step further and say our campaign finance system is an insult to our founding principles. Huge piles of money being channeled from businesses or unions or PACs that don’t need to reveal funding sources, are all a serious threat and have been for some time. Now the problem is more obvious than ever before. Will we do anything about it?

The only way we can even hope to do anything about it is to elect Democrats and then pressure them to enact real campaign finance reform. The Republicans are happy as clams with all the money waterfalling in from Bahrain, Communist China and Saudi Arabia to buy them their seats.

Since when did the burden of proof fall on the accused? I am sorry but I was under the impression that it was the accuser that had to prove what he was saying was true. Why should the Chamber of Commerce have to proove their not breaking any laws. (Which they arent because its not illegal to take contributions from foreign corporations… seriously people some of you should at least learn the laws of the land before trying to sound smart. You just make youself sound like a moron.) I think it is in the worst taste possible to try and win votes by instilling fear into people. If the politicians would get off their lazy butts and actually do their jobs instead of running around the country trying to get re-elected maybe, just maybe, we could start to see an improvement in this joke we call an economy.

Think about what you’re defending. You’re not even going to look into it yourself because it’s happening “on your side.” But think for a minute if this weren’t happening on “your side” but on the “other side” — would you still defend these groups for taking money from foreign corporations and business groups, and then laundering that money into negative ads against “your side”? Be honest.

I think you’re really naive to think that the current slate of Republicans have any interest in improving the economy. Here’s a math problem: the more wealth gets pumped into the Main Street economy, the less profit the big corporations can suck out of the people. Make no mistake: what they want is profits and that’s it. They don’t give a damn about the US economy. They know the new consumer base is China and India. We’re not even good for that anymore.

That’s why these groups lobbied with all their billions against the bill that would modestly fight off-shoring by ending tax giveaways to companies that off-shore and giving payroll tax holidays to companies that hire Americans right here in the USA. Their money paid off: virtually all Republicans and a handful of “conservadems” filibustered it.

The groups also lobbied against the Disclose Act, which would go partway to forcing them to disclose who was writing these big checks to them, whether it was Bahrain or India or China (which stand to gain much from off-shoring, don’t forget).

But go ahead and keep defending these shadowy groups doing the bidding of corporations who don’t give a damn about America.

jrcmi said:
Which PROVES you yourself are so racist you can’t differentiate between a cliche and a slur . . . jeenyus.

Which proves they are stupid if they do not know the form of government in the United States and that you’re stupid for allying yourself with them. MORON!

exiledtruther said:
Memo to the left, we are a Republic, not a Democracy.

Where were you to hand out this memo when everybody from the right on this board was blasting the trial judge who ruled against Prop 8 as having ‘overruled our votes’?

But sophisms are indeed awesome. Say, did you know that a representative constitutional republic is, factually, a type of liberal democracy? You constitutional scholars can go ahead and chew on that for 10 minutes, and reconcile that with the Jefferson quote you always keep citing out of context.

Or, you know, go ahead and call me names instead, which is what I should deserve for countering simplistic bumper-sticker talk with a half-ounce of actual thought.