Posted on 08/03/2007 7:28:45 AM PDT by chessplayer
>>>$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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