Posted on 08/03/2007 7:28:45 AM PDT by chessplayer
In Friday's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports that the new John Edwards campaign against any Democrat accepting Rupert Murdoch contributions has a slight flaw:
"John Edwards will never ask Rupert Murdoch for money -- he won't accept his money," said a statement e-mailed to supporters. Not so fast, Murdoch's people say. His publishing unit, HarperCollins, paid Edwards a $500,000 advance -- and $300,000 in expenses -- for his 2006 book "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives."
"We assume the senator is going to give back the money from his advance," News Corp. spokesman Brian Lewis said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Why is Murdoch giving money to commie, leftis, jihad-loving traitors?
Q: What do you call 100 sky-diving lawyers?
A: Skeet.
Damn right. Right there are your "two Americas": Forrest Gump's America that he lives in with just his dopey tangerine-wife and Everybody America, who should get down on their knees and thank God that we're all just so blessed to share a planet with such a brilliant, brilliant...ahem..."man".
The fundamental question that must be asked is WHY would ANYONE pay for the vapid printed word of this guy?
Too bad it wasn’t HUSH money!!!!1
ROFLMAO! Now that's a great spokesman.
He's not. He's expecting to make money off of commie, leftist, jihad-loving traitors.
"If it wasn't for double standards,,,,
liberals wouldn't have any".
Because he is a capitalist (a good thing) and knew there would be enough idiots out there that would plop down their hardly earned dollars for Edward’s drivel.
Side benefit, well, this story. Now Edwards looks like a moron...
Again...
Daily KOS...
They can use their Barnes and Nobel employee discounts, the money their mommies gave them for a haircut and deodorant and buy it off the 50% rack...
Thought we had been over that...
Republican politicians can’t stand it when they learn that good Democrats like Senator Edwards and MurryMom earn their money honestly, unlike Jack Abramoff and other politically juiced donors to the Republican Party.
Honest and the name of a big time tort lawyer in the same sentence...
Damn you are good, see why they keep you around.
You owe me a Cafe Mocha from the spit take..
Now I have to go down the hall and deal with the KOS kids again...
Obama won’t use nukes, Edwards is being a moron, Hillary is Hillary and reminds men of their ex-wives, Romney reminds me of one of the claymation “Thunderbirds” I used to watch as a kid, etc etc. “None of the above” is looking better every day
“Republican politicians can’t stand it when they learn that good Democrats like Senator Edwards and MurryMom earn their money honestly, unlike Jack Abramoff and other politically juiced donors to the Republican Party.”
Oh, I get it, Murry Mom. Republicans earn their money dishonestly.
Actually, you entirely missed the point. It’s the hypocrisy of Edwards being discussed here, not his profits on his side of the Two Americas.
Thanks, now every time I see him I’ll be looking for his lips to move out of sync with his words
Fitting since his words are often out of sync with his positions...
Now I know where Mitt got his early money, royalties on T-Bird merchandise and reruns!
Little did I realize my Dinky die cast T Bird 1 was carrying a possible future president! (not)
Edwards is such a PHONEY!! It is so hard to see how easily people are taken in by this Elmer Gantry.
>>>$300,000 in expenses
Hair and makeup
Did you finish your despicable blaming of Bush for the bridge collapse....I am still praying for your soul.
Dollars to donuts says that “charity” was his own “tax loophole/advoidance (the one for the other America) charitable foundation”.
Personally I’m confused as to the outrage here. I don’t like it when the left misconstrues facts nor do I like it when it’s done on our side. It appears to be a simple straight forward business deal with a Murdoch company. That can in no way be construed as taking money from Murdoch. This is overblown big time.
It depends. A large advance to a politician can be one way to launder a bribe. It depends on whether you expect to earn it back. No way to know for sure, but I doubt whether the Edwards book was that profitable.
They wouldn’t give that kind of advance to any ordinary author, unless he had a best-seller track record or a lot more worshipful fans than Edward probably has.
Murdoch’s probably just covering himself, in the unlikely case the Edwards gets into power. There was at least some chance that he and Kerry might have won the election, and in that case he needs friends in the White House.
He is giving a lot more money than that to hillary, because she is the likeliest nominee, and if she gets into the Whitehouse she would make a powerful and vindicive enemy. Safer to buy her support.
As I recall a certain Speaker had to step down over something similar?
You could be right of course however book deals are easily analyzed and very open. I’m consistently amazed at the size of some of the book bonuses to celebrities across the board so this does not appear out of the ordinary. Additionally the publishing company is a bit down the food chain from Murdoch and it’d be amazed if he was personally involved in a decision at this level. He may have been aware of it but again it would be out of the ordinary for a man running an organization of this size to be involved in a routing decision so far removed from him...there must be five or six to as many as a dozen or more people in the chain of command between this bonus decision and Murdoch.
MurryMom has been trolling FR since 1998. We keep her as sort of a pet. Picture a cat that always bites you yet you keep it because of the entertainment value.
I don’t even want to imagine where you found that picture.
Somedays you make me regret showing you how to post pics.
OOPS.... :)
That was one ugly cat.
HYPOCRITE...Limousine Liberal.
Thanks, I do realize that! I’m not one of the FReepers who wants her gone - I actually do think that her nutty comments are both entertaining and also a useful reminder of what the pathological left is really like.... but I can’t let some of her more obnoxious remarks go unchallenged forever........
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