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The 'knives of class warfare' aren't coming out because FWD.us supports a certain variety of immigration reform or because technology disappears jobs. The knive
by gyardley 13y ago
The 'knives of class warfare' aren't coming out because FWD.us supports a certain variety of immigration reform or because technology disappears jobs. The knives are coming out because as part of its lobbying, FWD.us supported some more traditionally conservative causes through two subsidiaries, Americans for Conservative Action and the Council for American Job Growth. Through these subsidiaries they did some television advertising criticizing Obama's health policy and supporting the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (I assume this political advertising was part of some sort of quid pro quo.)
You can be rich as you like as long as you don't go off the ideological reservation - for example, look at the entertainment industry, which outsources overseas as much as it can but consistently supports the right causes and donates to the right people. But support a conservative cause, for whatever the reason, and a lot of the press will try to make you as hated as Donald Trump or the Koch brothers.
The Daily Beast article was just a warning shot - I'm sure FWD.us got the message and won't do it again. If not, there's almost certainly more to come.
- Zimahl 13y agoDonald Trump is hated because he's a pompous ass. He's got a loud mouth and is just about as crazy as Michelle Bachmann. Now, if he'd let his businesses do the talking for him he would simply be another conservative rich guy. The liberal media hates the Koch brothers not the masses. If you said 'Koch' to the masses they'd say they preferred 'Classic' over 'Diet'.
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- rhizome 13y agoThe media conspires to take attention off the electeds who execute the Koch/Soros/untouchable's strategies.
- r00fus 13y ago> FWD.us supported some more traditionally conservative causes through two subsidiaries... Traditionally conservative? Try corruption-mongering and off-message. If someone supports immigration reform, why should that money be used to fund support of an Oil pipeline? There's no way this looks good for FWD.us. It's not a warning shot, FWD.us shot itself in the foot, and is currently bleeding to death.
- gyardley 13y agoI think you could argue that both initiatives will lead to job creation. But since this link wasn't at all mentioned in any of the advertisements I saw, I agree - it felt odd. That's why I can only make sense of them as a quid pro quo. However, I don't think the attacks on FWD.us are because they were simply 'off-message' - I think it's because of the content of that message. A different, less-objectionable 'off-message' would've passed by comparatively unremarked.