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News Corporation, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, contributes money to political campaigns. That  is not particularly surprising. What does make many people believe that truth is stranger than fiction is the fact that the top recipient of News Corps' donations this political season is President Barack Obama.

Award winning OpenSecrets.org has this information available on their site. This is the chart from their News Corp: All Recipients page:

News Corporation's recipients among federal candidates, 2012

Way down the list, just above Congressman Ron Paul's name, is Mitt Romney (R)    Pres   $2,750. Over at the Politicusa news site, the speculation is that old man Murdoch knows who in the White House would be best for business, at least for four more years. 

More important is the fact that with all of the fear-mongering about the President that takes place with Fox News, especially when Glenn Beck was in their employ, clearly the boss is not so worried about the future of America with President Obama in the White House for four more years. Can you imagine seeing this ad running on Fox News in the final weeks of the campaign.

  

Rupert Murdoch supports President Obama

...with the voice over from the President: "I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message." If Obama doesn't let Fox viewers find out who their boss supports for President, it's doubtful anyone on that channel will be talking about this little bit of truth. If you think that Fox News viewers ought to find out which candidate the boss is supporting the most for President, sign the petition here. Know anyone in the media? Share this fact with them. Virtually nobody is paying attention to this bombshell of a story ... yet.

Update, 11/12/2012: No one outside of a couple of blogs covered this strange financial support of President Obama's candidacy for re-election. The chart above shows information that preceded the selection of extremist Congressman Ryan (Beck's soulmate), so you would think that the Romney/Ryan campaign ended up receiving more contributions than the President that Fox "News" demonizes. Although they did end up receiving a lot more money from News Corp, you'd be wrong. The chart below shows the contributions documented by Open Secrets after the election. Although Romney's donations had increased more than 9 fold while the President's only doubled, the Obama campaign still received more than 5 times as much from News Corp as the Romney campaign did. Also, nine of the top ten recipients were Democrats, not Republicans that Fox on-air personalities support. It really makes you wonder how much the folks at Fox believe their own rhetoric.

Update, 11/25/2012: Murdoch's support for President Obama seems to make no sense, but a story recently published on the Free Press website shines a disturbing light on these contributions. From a piece entitled "Why is the Obama FCC Plotting a Massive Giveaway to Rupert Murdoch?" is this:

Word is that Murdoch now covets the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune  — the bankrupt-but-still-dominant newspapers (and websites) in the second- and third-largest media markets, where Murdoch already owns TV stations. 

Under current media ownership limits, he can't buy them. It's illegal ... unless the Federal Communications Commission changes the rules. 

But according to numerous reports, that's exactly what FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski plans to do. He's circulating an order at the FCC to lift the longstanding ban on one company owning both daily newspapers and TV stations in any of the 20 largest media markets.

Now these contributions make sense. It also points to the corruption of our corporate bought and sold political system.

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Like Beck, Ryan is hypocrite and liar

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Previously here it was pointed out that Paul Ryan, Governor Romney's choice for vice-president on the Republican ticket, is something of a soulmate of Glenn Beck. That post, "Beck is ecstatic over Romney's choice for V-P," stressed the extremist, reactionary (19th Century) policies that Ryan and Beck support, but it did not mention any notion that Ryan had any of Beck's worst traits, namely that he's a liar and a hypocrite. It turns out, that Ryan has lied and has demonstrated hypocrisy, so perhaps Glenn Beck and Paul Ryan are more alike than what was initially considered here.

 

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The examples of Ryan's deceitfulness and hypocrisy were covered in a rather lengthy segment of The Rachel Maddow Show. Via MSNBC:

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Conservative supporters of Romney/Ryan/Beck will dismiss anything that comes from Rachel Maddow because she is gay, or progressive or works for MSNBC, or because she is not like them. However, the facts here are solid: Ryan was a hypocrite about the stimulus plan (the Recovery Act) and he lied about it to a reporter. In those regards then, Paul Ryan, extremist follower of Ayn Rand's glorification of selfishness, is much more akin to Glenn Beck than his extremist budget proposals suggest.

The fact that Romney selected Ryan, a liar, as a running mate should not surprise readers. Governor Romney is running the most deceitful campaign in modern times. There are many examples of his lies. This is a short, incomplete list; and there is more in the update below:

1. Lying about the President's policy on welfare and Medicare
2. Romney claiming that his budget will cut the deficit
3. Romney's claims that the President went on "an apology tour"
4. Romney's claim that the stimulus did not help private sector jobs
5. When Romney has claimed Obama's deficits have doubled
6. That Obama has "steered money to friends and family – to campaign contributors"

There are actually far too many lies Romney has told on the campaign trail to list here, but examples 3-5 link to a site that contains 20 pages of lists of Romney's lies! How does Romney/Ryan think that they can get away with mendacity to get elected? Are most voters as gullible as Glenn Beck's followers? It is possible that Romney's model for using lies and deceitful propaganda to win an election comes from the way Swiftboat Veterans for Truth lied about Senator Kerry's record in Vietnam and attempted to turn the election in 2004 for George Bush.

Sadly, the 3-5 million remaining undecided voters may be as open to the lies as to the truth, and end up flipping a coin about who they will vote for. Readers (YOU!) need to help share this post about Governor Romney's mendacious nature in this campaign. What they need to ask is why Romney, a supposed man of faith, is ignoring Christ's one rule to follow and, instead, is lying about his opponent. Did Jesus advise his followers to do unto others unless you're running for public office? It's also important to consider what would happen if Romney were to pass away as president and Paul Ryan, Glenn Beck's virtual soulmate, were to become president? That is a question that middle class Americans would not like the answer to.

Update, 8/23/12: Ryan's lies are, naturally, being discusses across the media. On this clip from The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell covers, with more than a bit of snark to wade through, Congressman Ryan's votes for massive spending and deficit causing tax cuts that he now hypocritically rails against with The Nation's Ari Melber.

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On last night's show, O'Donnell covered Governor Romney's recent lies (on the stump and in advertisements) about the President during this campaign with Professor Robert Reich and Jarad Bernstein.

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Reich is right: Romney is trying to lie his way into the White House. Republican Joe Scarborough sees this; anyone, who is not blinded by ideology, can see this. If you have a neighbor, friend, colleague or relative who believes these lies about Obama, or wants to vote for the regressive/reactionary/extremist Romney/Ryan ticket, share this blog post with them.

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Beck is ecstatic over Romney's choice for VP

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Not surprisingly, Glenn Beck is very pleased with Governor Romney's choice for vice-president, Congressman Paul Ryan. This is because Ryan is something close to Glenn Beck's "soul mate." The following covers what 1) Beck said of Ryan, a libertarian extremist and follower of the writings of Ayn Rand, in 2010, 2) what Beck posted online in the aftermath of Romney's announcement, 3) commentary from a couple of talk shows, 4) a list of thirteen things that the voting public needs to know about Congressman Ryan, 5) Beck explaining why Ryan "is easy to defend," and finally a "rewrite" segment about Ryan's love affair with a woman that he now must lie about if he has any chance what so ever of winning votes from the 3-5 millions American voters who have not yet decided who they are going to vote for.

Two years ago, Congressman Ryan called into Beck's morning radio show, and after he hung up, this is what Beck had to say. Via a post on Beck's website entitled "Glenn's Soulmate?"



This video has been taken down from Beck's website. You can read the exchange if you click on "Glenn's Soulmate?"

"I think I really like him." This is not because Ryan is a conservative, as pundits and Beck himself are claiming, but because like Beck and every libertarian follower of Ayn Rand, Ryan is a reactionary. That is why he is a darling of the Tea Party. This may do well to shore up Romney's Republican base, but what will the independent, non-ideological voter think of an extremist a heartbeat away from the presidency?

Doubt that Ryan is such an extremist? There is a short video is Ryan in his own words posted on the Crooks and Liars site.

  

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After Gov. Romney's announcement last Saturday, Beck had this to say on his Monday radio show. Via a post entitled "Paul Ryan pick shows Romney serious about fixing economy, shrinking government:"



"Mitt Romney has picked a solid, smart conservative," Beck distorts. Conservatives want to largely conserve the status quo; reactionaries, like Beck and Ryan, want to return government and public policy to some earlier time, the 19th Century in this case. Of course, Beck never describes himself as a reactionary; that is the job of the critic.

On The Last Word last night, Lawrence O'Donnell discussed Romney selection of Ryan with policy wonk Ezra Klein and former Reagan adviser, Bruce Bartlett:

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One has to wonder why Romney would choose a Tea Party extremist from the most unpopular Congresses of all time. Rachel Maddow addressed this on her program, also from last night:

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So Paul Ryan is an August V-P pick. Romney is trying to appeal to the Tea Party section of the Republican base. However, when "Glenn Beck praises you as a political genius, you’re f**ked." So any supporters of Ryan or Beck will not read this post and be impressed. They have been convinced by the right-wing echo chamber that Maddow alluded to that MSNBC is "propaganda" and "liars," ironically enough. Ryan is an August pick, and Florida is now Obama's state to lose.

Thirteen things that independent voters need to know about the man who wants to be a heartbeat from the presidency. The first point has already been stated, and the other twelve come in great detail from The Progress Report: You can read those details by clicking on that link.

1. Glenn Beck "really likes" Congressman Ryan. Beck is an extremist, a far-right reactionary.
2. Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand.
3. Ryan wants to raises taxes on the middle class, cut them for millionaires.
4. Ryan wants to end Medicare, replace it with a voucher system.
5. Ryan thinks Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme.”
6. Ryan’s budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in 2 years. 
7. Ryan wants to eliminate Pell Grants for more more than 1 million students.
8. Ryan supports $40 billion in subsides for big oil.
9. Ryan has ownership stakes in companies that benefit from oil subsidies .
10.  Ryan claimed Romneycare has led to “rationing and benefit cuts.”
11.  Ryan believes that Romneycare is “not that dissimilar to Obamacare.”
12. Ryan accused generals of lying about their support for Obama’s military budget.
13. Ryan co-sponsored a “personhood” amendment, an extreme anti-abortion measure.

This election will be a simple choice for American voters: Depending upon who wins in November, we will either move slightly forward toward a more perfect nation or we will regress backward toward a version of 19th Century liberalism, what Ryan calls "classical liberalism." 

On his Internet program, Beck explains why it's "easy to defend" Congressman Ryan. See how many times Beck mentions Ryan's love of Ayn Rand (zero) and how many of Beck's points actually overlap with the points listed above (#13 in particular which Beck lies about). The embed code from Beck's video clip is not functioning, so you will have to watch Beck explain that the Ryan budget is "extreme" on GBTV. (He does not explain that cutting $5 trillion from the budget in weak economic times would result in job lose (#4 above). Ryan is easy for reactionary liars to defend and easy for progressives to expose as precisely what Beck agrees with, i,e, "extreme."

On The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell did describe Ryan's love of Ayn Rand in a typically biting expose. From MSNBC.com:

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Can you imagine how Glenn Beck would deal with the President if Obama has expressed support for the writings of an atheist, European author?

Update, 9/08/2012: Glenn Beck is not the only person happy with Gov. Romney's choice for a running mate.

When you vote in November, do you really want to put Glenn Beck's soulmate and someone that V-P Cheney admires a heartbeat from the presidency? To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, "well, do ya voter?"

Update, 9/22/2012: A piece in the New York Times points out that Ryan has maintained close ties to the reactionary, Tea-Party funding Koch brothers. They wrote that "Mr. Ryan is one of a very few elected officials who have attended the Kochs’ biannual conferences, where wealthy donors sit in on seminars on runaway government spending and the myths of climate change." Is that the guy you want a heartbeat from the presidency? 

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