RNC Votes to Ban NBC and CNN But Fox News Donates More to Democrats

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To demonstrate how big of a sham the RNC vote to ban CNN and NBC from their primary debates really is, consider that NewsCorp’s PAC as donated more money to Democrats than Republicans.

After the RNC voted to ban NBC and CNN if they air they respectively air a miniseries and documentary about Hillary Clinton, RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, a man who ironically can neither spell nor communicate, tweeted:

not that it mattered but bye bye @NBCNews talking point:Fox TV Studios Won't Produce NBC Hillary Clinton Miniseries http://t.co/uYyKiGhA2X

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) August 16, 2013

The RNC is so worried about the “bias” at NBC and CNN, but yet they have given Fox News a free pass. You are probably thinking to yourself well, Fox News is pro-Republican, so of course they gave them a free pass. But Fox News and their parent company NewsCorp aren’t so Republican when it comes to campaign donations.

News America-Fox Pol Action Committee has been donating heavily to Democrats over the past three election cycles. In 2012, the PAC representing Fox News donated more money to Democrats by a 53%-47% margin. While NBC’s owner Comcast donated more money to Republicans by a margin of 51%-48%. CNN’s parent company AOL Time Warner’s PAC gave 58% of their donations to Republicans in 2012.

2012 was a significant year because it was the first election cycle where Republicans controlled the House of Representatives.

During the 2010 cycle, all three PACs donated to Democrats more than Republicans, however the News America PAC donated a higher percentage to Democrats (58%) than AOL Time Warner (53%), and Comcast (53%). With Democrats firmly in control of the Congress in 2008 all three PACs donated heavily to Democratic candidates.

The RNC’s claim of some sort of bias is pure and total bulls**t. The RNC is trying to bail on the presidential debates, because Chairman Priebus wants to hide his freak show of a nominating process from the voters. Priebus believes that if his candidates can avoid answering questions, the Republican Party stands a better chance of winning in November. This is why the plan to have people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh moderate the debates is being openly floating among Republicans.

I suspect that what the RNC really wants to do is move these debates off of all television with the exception of Fox News. Priebus is really angling to have these debates hosted on Republican controlled media. It is very easy to imagine the 2016 Republican primary field debating on Hannity’s radio show, or Glenn Beck’s The Blaze TV. The mantra that the RNC has adopted is Republican debates for Republicans, which means that they want their debates off of any media that they don’t consider to be Republican.

It is an interesting and amusing question to ponder whether or not Fox News is really just an elaborate plot to sink the Republican Party, but the reality is that if the RNC was really interested in eliminating bias, they would turn their gaze towards the heavily Democratic donating NewsCorp and Fox News.

Everything coming out of the RNC is just worthless hot air designed to hide their true intentions for 2016.

All PAC donation data can be found at OpenSecrets.orgThe numbers above are for congressional candidates only, because President Obama took zero dollars from PAC’s thus making a relative comparison of PAC donations impossible.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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