You think the Great Media Blackout of '07-'08 isn't real? Read this and THEN tell me.
http://www.latimes.com/...
From Tom Hamburger in today's Los Angeles Times - a CONSERVATIVE paper, no less! - "Chamber of Commerce Vows to Punish Anti-Business Candidates".
This is the US Chamber of Commerce, the nation's "largest trade association."
I will post a little bit from the article but I suggest you read more, then draw your own conclusions.
All I can say is, Wow.
The group indicates it will spend in excess of the approximately $60 million it put out in the last presidential cycle.
Washington - Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is set to issue a fiery promise to spend millions of dollars to defeat candidates deemed to be anti-business.
"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed," chamber President Tom Donohue said.
and this (my bolding)...
The warning from the nation's largest trade association came against a background of mounting popular concern over the condition of the economy. A weak record of job creation, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, declining home values and other problems have all helped make the economy a major campaign issue.
Presidential candidates in particular have responded to the public concern. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina has been the bluntest populist voice, but other front-running Democrats, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, have also called for change on behalf of middle-class voters.
The article also says that the Chamber of Commerce has run political advertising known as "issue ads," heavily funded by soaring business contributions - ads which are exempt from many of the Federal Election Commission limits.
There is much to digest here. Read the whole thing. You will be amazed, and concerned.
http://www.latimes.com/...