Everyone's disintermediating the gateway media now

"With the news that George Soros is buying one hundred political 'reporters' for National Public Radio (NPR), one waits with bated breath for the left to decry the fact that a famous anti-American leftist is buying and influencing the 'news,'" writes Warner Todd Huston at Big Journalism.

"The event is an "illegal coordinate campaign expenditure," assert Connecticut Democrats in a shocked, shocked letter to the FEC calling for immediate investigation of World Wresting Entertainment's "involvement with Linda McMahon's Senate campaign. We're talking here about an electoral battle of the titans to restore the heretofore hereditary "Dodd Seat" to the people of the Nutmeg State as Republican McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal get down and dirty in the final throes. You may recall that the scandal-plagued Senator Dodd announced last January he would not run for reelection when word got out about Countrywide Financial's giving him two sweetheart deals on mortgages." Back to the CT Dems' outraged letter to the FEC:

They say the wrestling promoter scheduled two major events in the state to affect voter turnout – a large-scale “Fan Appreciation Day” three days before Election Day in Hartford, and a taping of “Smackdown” in Democratic-heavy Bridgeport on the day voters head to the polls

As Michelle Malkin might say, big, "boo freakin' hoo." Same old same old. What's good for the goose and all that. How 'bout Oprah's and Arianna's and Jon's and Stephen's and Barack's forthcoming lovefest on and off the Mall? Everyone, on both sides of the aisle, is disintermediating the gateway media this election season. Transparency's the thing. Even George "Avalanche" Soros has gotten with the program, coming out of the closet with a million dollars for Media Matters to try to topple the people's choice at Fox News (good luck, losers!) and millions more to buy "political reporters" for NPR. Down with Soros-seeded McCain-Feingold, up with the Supreme Court's Citizens United, and may the best women and men win!

Update: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!

Update II: Doug Ross Journal links!

Update III: Cubachi links!

Update IV: Instalanche!

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[Lane]

This will be a moot issue once the new Congress defunds NPR and PBS. Hey, I can dream, can't I?...

[Gayle Miller]

Lane - from your mouth to you-know-who's ear!

[Dolly]

I am still convinced that Soros created the electronic economic meltdown of September '08, in order to hand the election to Obama. McCain/Palin's numbers were topping Obama's and suddenly the world economy was in a meltdown! Obama stayed silent, and got elected, because staying silent was safe. Nothing McCain said or did would have been taken well under the circs. Someone told him, "you just be quiet, and this will play itself out in November."

[TC@LeatherPenguin]

Dolly, once I would tell you that idea was up there with black helicopters, but a lot of people I worked with that are still in the trading pits said it reeked of manipulation, and almost all of them pointed at Soros as the logical candidate to pull it off.

[JAL]

I am not sure how Soros is buying the reporters' positions at NPR ...

Is NPR a 501(c)3? It is illegal for a donor illegal to target donations except in a very general way to a 501(c)3.

How can it be legal for a donor to target donations to a government funded entity?

[Kurt]

JAL--At any nonprofit, a donor can stipulate what he wants the money to be used for. For instance, donors to universities can designate that they want the money to go for scholarships or faculty support or the library. It works the same way at NPR: a donor can say, "this money is to expand coverage of issues X, Y or Z." If you listen to NPR with any regularity, from time to time you'll hear them credit certain foundations who give money to advance coverage of certain causes. (Although you might not like NPR, I do recommend listening on a regular basis just to know what the liberal talking points of the day are likely to be.)