Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Buying silence

Does money have anything to do with the media's failure to take a watchdog role with Obama? How much money did the Obama campaign spend on media ads in 2008? $427,000,000! This year the expectation is that the total amount spent by candidates will more than double what was spent in 2008. Read more here: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_19761296?source=rss
On a related note: 
Then, there is the matter of the timing of Congressional stock trades: http://biggovernment.com/whall/2011/11/18/exclusive-documents-the-kerrys-curious-stock-trades/

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