Can You Buy Your Way To American Presidency - Rich Boy Romney Is Trying

How many "conservative" talking heads are employed and/or syndicated on "Clear Channel"?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/14/romneys-bain-capital-buys_n_76801.html




Romney's Bain Capital Buys Clear Channel Communications


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What would it cost to buy the support of just about every nationally-syndicated neocon talk show host in America? About $19.5 Billion, which is what Mitt Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, and Thomas H. Lee Partners have agreed to pay in a leveraged buyout agreement with Clear Channel Commu...

Anthony Davar


Programs that appear on many Clear Channel talk stations include the Glenn Beck Program -- getting his talk show start at Clear Channel owned WFLA (AM) in Tampa, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, America Now with Andy Dean and Coast to Coast AM, all of which are affiliated with Premiere Radio Networks in some fashion. The Savage Nation (which was until September 2009 flagshipped at Clear Channel's KNEW-910), The Mark Levin Show and The Dave Ramsey Show are non-Premiere shows who air on many (if not most) Clear Channel stations.

Limbaugh is almost universally carried on Clear Channel stations in markets where the company has a news talk station, with the exception of markets such as Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA, where ABC Radio (which previously was Limbaugh's home network) has a news talk station in the market.

New Clear Channel talk radio stations have typically been using the branding "Rush Radio," while most older ones use a more generic "News Radio" or "News Talk."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications




‎"The buyout finally closed in July 2008. Romney is now a "silent" partner of Bain. The company, which has laid off thousands of employees in recent years, announced that it would move to more centralized programming and lay off 1,500 employees, or approximately 7% of its workforce, on January 20, 2009. Later on January 20, the company said that the total count of employees to be terminated would be 1,850, or 9%.
Between January and May 2009 Clear Channel eliminated 2,440 positions"




Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC and its affiliates states have lavished close to $1.3 million in campaign donations to federal, state and local GOP politicians, almost all since 2010. His recipients include officials in the major upcoming primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in three southern Super Tuesday states where he was trounced four years ago.

In New Hampshire, a U.S. senator, a congressman, 10 state senators and three executive councilors shared $26,000 in donations from Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC in 2010 and 2011 combined. All 15 have showered Romney with endorsements leading up to Tuesday’s primary

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came out for Romney last month – a year after his Free and Strong America PACs put $36,000 to her 2010 election bid.

And 19 state and Washington, D.C., lawmakers in three Super Tuesday states – Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia — are backing Romney after his PAC poured a total of $125,500 into their coffers for elections held in 2009 and 2010.

hate the source, but the facts match up with what we are finding unfortunately, since so many who we thought were conservatives, endorse an obvious rino :-( http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/35_romney_endorsers_received_contributions_first/singleton/






35 Romney endorsers received contributions first

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Mitt takes the endorsement game "to a whole new level"

• • No Wonder Newt Gingrich recently said that he thought Mitt Romney would buy the election if he could. Looks like he is doing a pretty good job of it!

For those criticizing the super-pac that is exposing Mitt Romney's predatory corporate-raider practices, claiming that Newt Gingrich's stand vis a vis the same is 'anti-capitalism' I would remind you of two things.

(1)For Capitalism to work it has to have a moral basis. It has to provide goods and services, expand the business base thus create jobs. People like Mitt Romney have operated an amoral Capitalism, spent two generations taking down the structure of American Capitalism by buying companies and cannibalizing them, selling off the assets, laying off workers, moving production over seas, using slave labor. Is this REALLY who we want to be our president?

(2) Laissez-faire capitalism was NEVER envisioned to be "international." It was a system for inside the country, where the government didn't interfere in the economic affairs of the "country", but allowed people to carry on their business, trade, etc., as they saw fit. But government DID interfere. Exposing American business to massive amounts of foreign capital and slave labor (and near slave labor) markets. The brain dead "maybe" thought that it would mean "investment" in American business, but what it created was a feeding frenzy ON American businesses, not investment IN American business. Romney took foreign capital and started feeding on established American businesses. He can say, "Well these business were in distress." If so it was caused by the sudden exposure to massive foreign capital and slave labor competition, against which American business that respected its workers, were not prepared and could not compete. The cooperation of foreign capital and American government action, disregarding the interest of domestic business IS international fascism. We have the New World Order-Progressivists to thank for this. AND that is what Mitt Romney IS, a New World Order Progressivist - parading as a conservative, per chance he might be elected president. - God help what is left of American Business were that to happen.