Ed Morrissey:
Let’s do a thought experiment. If Charles or David Koch got invited onto NBC’s Today show to talk about their efforts to advance their political agenda, would either or both get partnered with Savannah Guthrie for a softball interview? Would their interview include suggestions that one of them should run for President? Kyle Drennen at Newsbusters notes that two weeks prior to Michael Bloomberg’s appearance on Today, the network took a much different approach to money in politics:
Only two weeks earlier, NBC was wringing its hands over a Supreme Court ruling loosening campaign finance restrictions. On the April 3 Today, White House correspondent Peter Alexander proclaimed: “And you thought there was already too much money in politics. Fasten your seat belts. From now on, there’s gonna be a whole lot more.”
Suddenly, though, NBC has nothing but warm fuzzies for multi-billionaires pouring money into electoral politics:
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The clip just provides the highlights. Newsbusters has the whole transcript up, but let me just note the tough questions asked by Guthrie in this interview:
This is where the Collective should be lecturing thinking people about buying democracy or something.
@Kraken: The left is all for buying it. They only object to competitive bidders.