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Kola isn't the only "closet" conservative lately.

Steve

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Kola isn't the only "closet" conservative lately. :shock:

Right-Wing Google?

According to an article published in PR Watch, Google is giving “substantial” grants to some high-profile right-wing political groups.

Corporations are not required to post details concerning their grants and subsidies, but Google decided in 2010 to start voluntarily posting a selection from their grant budget. The figures are interesting, to say the least. Some of the names that appear as “significant” benefactors receiving “substantial” funding from Google were Heritage Action (which led the charge to defund the Affordable Care Act), Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, and the American Conservative Union.

This story is very curious to me. Of course, the liberal author over at PR Watch is extremely concerned and appalled at this trend. I’m frankly just surprised. In a world where mainstream media giants tend to be staunchly anti-conservative by and large, it is really surprising to see one of the largest media giants starting (apparently) to lean right.

According to the PR Watch article:

Google has a distinctively progressive image, but in March 2012 it hired former Republican member of the House of Representatives, Susan Molinari as its Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations. According to the New York Times, Molinari is being “paid handsomely to broaden the tech giant’s support beyond Silicon Valley Democrats and to lavish money and attention on selected Republicans.”

When I first heard about Google’s recent activities, I figured conservative politics was the pet project of a few, select, overzealous people within Google who would soon be canned for their political activism.

But recent evidence would suggest that the guiding top-down vision for Google is starting to navigate right—that Google’s puzzling right-wing advocacy is not the work of a rogue element in the company, but a designed shift of political emphasis. Strange indeed.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12319/google-funding-grover-norquist-heritage-action-alec-and-more

The Googlization of the Far Right: Why is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?

New "Substantial" Right-Wing Google Grants in Past Year

CMD examined the information released by Google for the years 2010 to 2013. The voluntary disclosures indicate that the following groups are either new grantees of Google since September 2012, or have been listed as having received a “substantial” Google grant for the first time:

American Conservative Union
Americans for Tax Reform
CATO Institute
Federalist Society
George Mason University Law School Law and Economics Center
Heritage Action
Mercatus Center
National Taxpayers Union
R Street Institute
Texas Public Policy Foundation


Google Funding for Anti-Government Groups

Heritage Action, the tea-party styled political advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, is perhaps the most surprising recipient of Google’s largesse.

More than any other group working to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Heritage Action pushed for a sustained government shutdown in the fall of 2013, taking the country to the brink of a potentially catastrophic debt default.

For Cruz, increasingly spoken of as a 2016 Presidential candidate, the government shutdown helped raise his profile and build his supporter -- and donor -- base.

Notably, Heritage Action received $500,000 from the Koch-funded and Koch-operative staffed Freedom Partners in 2012. It is not yet known how much Heritage Action received in 2013 from sources other than Google.

Perhaps surprisingly, Google has a history of supporting Cruz. Via its Political Action Committee – Google Inc. Net PAC – the PAC provided the “Ted Cruz for Senate” campaign with a $10,000 contribution in 2012. Additionally, despite being five years out from the freshman Senator's next election, Google's PAC has already made a $2,500 contribution to the Cruz reelection campaign for 2018, the largest amount that the PAC has given so far to any Senate candidate running that election year according to disclosures made by Google.

no need to google it.. here is the link...

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/11/12319/google-funding-grover-norquist-heritage-action-alec-and-more
 

Steve

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but it gets worse.. the once liberal icon...

Google Sponsor Event Honoring Justice Thomas

Google also recently sponsored a gala fundraiser in Washington DC for the Federalist Society, a network of right-wing judges and lawyers that includes Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas was the guest of honor at that event, for which Google was listed as a top-tier “gold” sponsor. Google names the Federalist Society on its list of groups receiving its most substantial grants in 2013.

that's enough to get a liberal to spit up his latte.. :shock: :? :lol:
 

kolanuraven

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Oh, I'm not what YOU would call a conservative, not by any measure.

I'm just smart enough NOT to follow a brand off the edge of the cliff like some do on this forum.

Just because they are Rep or Dem DOES NOT mean they are perfect and their word golden.


I know what I like and don't like and speak my mind.
 

Tam

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Funny how when a Obama defender finally sees the light at the end of the Democrat gravy Train tunnel they claim they don't follow a brand off the edge of the cliff like some do on this forum. :roll: :lol:

BTW Kola, by "like some do on this forum" do you mean the rest of the Liberal lurkers that plainly left the forum due to their inability to defend their voting history under current circumstance IE Obama/Dems shoving the US economy over that cliff, you will not personally follow him over. Or is it pointed at Conservatives/Republicans that have on more occasions that can be counted spoke up about what their party is NOT DOING right? Just wondering. :wink:
 

hopalong

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kolanuraven said:
Oh, I'm not what YOU would call a conservative, not by any measure.

I'm just smart enough NOT to follow a brand off the edge of the cliff like some do on this forum.

Just because they are Rep or Dem DOES NOT mean they are perfect and their word golden.


I know what I like and don't like and speak my mind.

Wouldn't you need a MIND to do that???????
 

Larrry

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When someone tells you they dont ride for the brand andthen you evaluate their stance on the issues......they are almost always locked up hook line and sinker.
Just look at a former poster he always claimed that. But his head was so far up he could see what the leftwingernuts were eating
 

gmacbeef

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kolanuraven said:
Oh, I'm not what YOU would call a conservative, not by any measure.

I'm just smart enough NOT to follow a brand off the edge of the cliff like some do on this forum.

Just because they are Rep or Dem DOES NOT mean they are perfect and their word golden.


I know what I like and don't like and speak my mind.


I call BULLCRAP on that stement !
 

kolanuraven

Well-known member
gmacbeef said:
kolanuraven said:
Oh, I'm not what YOU would call a conservative, not by any measure.

I'm just smart enough NOT to follow a brand off the edge of the cliff like some do on this forum.

Just because they are Rep or Dem DOES NOT mean they are perfect and their word golden.


I know what I like and don't like and speak my mind.


I call BULLCRAP on that stement !



LOL!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

jigs

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to read your posts, Kola...I often wonder if you suffer so much from Penis envy, that you are secretly trying to grow your own.....

such rampant feminist outbursts......
 

Steve

Well-known member
KolanuRaven said:
I'm just smart enough NOT to follow a brand off the edge of the cliff like some do on this forum.

the guys need to give you a bit of credit when a person stops before jumping into someone else's grave.. after all the liberal grave is getting a bit crowded these days..

not many self proclaimed liberals can admit that they agree with conservative values these days,.. most just leave,.. claim to have somewhere else to be or make up some imaginary scandal and leave in a blaze of insults.

so not following the Brand off the cliff shouldn't be met with ridicule.. she should be complimented in making a step towards reality and like an addict recovering from a damaging addiction she should be encouraged and we should let her know there is help available for the other problems she still has..

liberalism is a nasty debilitating disease and we shouldn't mock those miserable folk who suffer from it..

Have a nice Sunday...
 
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