Back Scratch Fever

by digby

Yesterday, Howie Klein posted this at Crooks and Liars. I was going to write something about it as well but decided this says it all, so I’m just publishing the whole thing as is:

Blue America has been asking for donations to help in our nonpartisan campaign to hold members of Congress accountable when they vote against the Constitution. For the past two weeks we’ve been running TV spots, radio spots and newspaper ads in Chris Carney’s northeast Pennsylvania congressional district to make sure his constituents know that he is behaving like a Republican rubber stamp, not like the Democrat they thought they elected in 2006. Today the ACLU, as well as Senators Chris Dodd and Russ Feingold issued strong statements showing what a complete sham the “compromise” the Republicans and a handful of reactionary Democrats have worked out. On top of that, as Glenn Greenwald explained yesterday, Comcast– Carney’s #2 campaign donor– is protecting him from his own constituents by censoring the debate and refusing to allow the Blue America ads to run (although all the radio ads, 7 full page newspaper ads and the non-Comcast TV ads have all been running). Listen to the Blue America radio ad that has been running all over Carney’s district.

I’m sure you can guess which side of this battle John W. McCain is on. If you would like to stand with Blue America, most congressional Democrats and Barack Obama in preventing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens and preventing retroactive immunity for criminal allies of the Bush Regime please consider even a $5 or $10 contribution to the Blue America vs Retroactive Immunity fund today.

What a nice little racket these media/communications giants and politicians have going. They aren’t just scratching each others backs. They’re giving each other full body massages, complete with happy endings. It’s a bad deal for everyone else. If you feel like spending a couple of bucks to defend your right to criticize the media without having to “love them long time,” click the link.

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