Fox News provides MA Sen. candidate Brown a forum to raise funds and misinform
In recent days, Scott Brown, the Republican nominee in the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, has made numerous appearances on Fox News to raise funds for his campaign, solicit volunteers, and peddle misinformation. In the wake of the November 2009 elections, Fox News provided airtime to GOP and conservative candidates, and its on-air personalities celebrated and shilled for them.What Fox is doing is unethical if not in outright violation of campaign finance laws. Brown needs the media welfare to overwhelm voters with lies to win and in typical Republican noise machine fashion, Fox is happy to play pimp.
Editor suggests group Liz Cheney fronts is bogus
The editor of a prominent progressive magazine has suggested that Liz Cheney's political pressure group may be a bogus front that gives news networks an excuse to put the younger Cheney on TV.M's Cheney is not expert on anything, nor has she ever held public office yet the "liberal" media takes down everything she says and reports it as news like good little stenographers.
The only reason that Liz Cheney makes it on the news talk show rounds is that "she's Dick Cheney's daughter," and her political pressure group is little more than an excuse "so that there is some putative reason, other than being Dick Cheney's daughter, to put her on the TV," Nation Washington editor Chris Hayes told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
"There is no earthly reason that anyone should be listening to Liz Cheney on anything, other than the fact that she is the progeny of an alleged war criminal," Hayes told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Monday night.
Hayes said it's virtually impossible to track down what the younger Cheney's political pressure group, KeepAmericaSafe.com, has been doing and spending.
"I‘m trying to find on the Internet if there is any tabulation of actually how many points ... they‘ve purchased of advertising, because it‘s very unclear how much they‘ve actually spent and where. And that‘s incredibly hard to come by. I couldn‘t find it anywhere," Hayes said.
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This isn't the first time that Cheney's group has been accused of being a fraud. In October, radio host Bill Press said that the group is "a total media creation."
