Fox News and Newsmax are not regarded as credible sources of information at DU, right?

[BernieforPres2016]

But it is OK if James Murdoch, Rupert's son, and Chris Ruddy, the owner of NewsMax, are both big contributors to the cesspool called the Clinton Foundation? Why is that?

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/blog/authors/christopher-ruddy

Chris Ruddy wrote pieces on Vince Foster in the 1990's. He has pledged $1 million to the Clinton Foundation over 5 years.

But Chris says why is Fox writing pieces questioning me contributing to the Clinton Foundation when James Murdoch is big contributor to them?

Here's a list of people and businesses that have pledged/contributed from $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. See Ruddy and Murdoch listed back to back.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%241%2C000%2C001%20to%20%245%2C000%2C000&page=1

Does anybody have a reasonable explanation of why these people would be contributing to the Clinton Foundation, and why the Clinton Foundation would be taking their money?

[Renew Deal]

1. The Koch brothers are big contributors to Lincoln Center and the arts

Do you avoid going to concerts or listening to music because of that?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I do but not for that reason. My tastes are more plebeian./nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. Jazz at Lincoln Center is ... well ... was one of my favorite NPR segments ...

until my local carrier dropped it.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. JALC is housed at the Frederick P Rose Hall, south of the main LC complex

Inside Time Warner Center. At their website you can listen to the radio shows and watch webcast performances.....
http://www.jazz.org/

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Thanks.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Not an accurate statement. David Koch individually has donated a boatload to Lincoln Center not

The Koch Brothers, not Koch Industries. A Koch brother is a major donor to Lincoln Center is an accurate statement. If a person wanted to express distaste for that fact, they would simply avoid Lincoln Center events or events at David H. Koch Theater. The Koch Theater was designed for and most often presents ballet and other dance performances, it is not a concert hall so much as it is a classical dance venue. It is the home of the New York City Ballet Company.

[leftynyc]

20. I love how

just across the fountain is the David Geffen theatre. Both ends of the political spectrum on display at the prettiest plaza in NY.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. The 'arts' the Kochs donate to are for the benefit of the elite, any side-benefits are accidental.

[Renew Deal]

19. Music and dance benefits the elite?

OK. Tell that to the millions of kids currently participating in them and the thousands trying to get to Lincoln Center.

[leftynyc]

21. All ballet benefits the elite?

I'd like to hear your argument for that.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. AFAIK, they aren't funding ballet in high schools or colleges, just where the elite go.

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If plebeians get to enjoy the seats, that's a byproduct of their desire to keep high-brow arts active for their consumption.

Carnegie was the same way, he wanted to give back later on, but did so in a way that suited the wealthy more.



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[VulgarPoet]

2. Hypocrisy! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Correct

[Scuba]

5. K&R

[disillusioned73]

6. Good points.....

K&R - I have no good answer, maybe someone can chime in..

[BernieforPres2016]

7. Take a look at some of the other big contributors

Pete Peterson Foundation
Pfizer
HSBC (too big to fail bank)
Monsanto

And then there is the Lundin Group, which has given $100 million to the Clinton Foundation and has had business interests in places like the Sudan and the Republic of Congo.

Here's a llink to a 2009 piece from Slate asking why so many oligarchs, royal families and special interest groups are giving money to the Clinton Foundation:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2009/01/more_than_a_good_feeling.html

<The next question, and I must apologize in advance for once again making it an un-strenuous one, is: Who else will be approaching Bill Clinton for advice, counsel, and "input" on foreign affairs? It appears from the donor list of the Clinton Foundation that there is barely an oligarch, royal family, or special-interest group anywhere in the world that does not know how to get the former president's attention. Just in the days since the foundation agreed to some disclosure of its previously "confidential" clients—in other words, since this became a condition for Sen. Clinton's nomination to become secretary of state—we have additionally found former President Clinton in warm relationships with one very questionable businessman in Malaysia and with another, this time in Nigeria, who used to have close connections with that country's ultracorrupt military dictatorship.

The Nigerian example is an especially instructive one. Gilbert Chagoury is a major figure in land and construction in that country and has contributed between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as arranged a huge speaking fee for President Clinton at a Caribbean event and kicked in a large sum to his 1996 re-election campaign. In return for this, he has been received at the Clinton White House and more recently at Clinton-sponsored social events in New York and Paris. This may have helped to alleviate the sting of Chagoury's difficulties in Nigeria itself. As a close friend of the country's uniformed despot Gen. Sani Abacha, he benefited from some extremely profitable business arrangements during the years of dictatorship but was later compelled, after an investigation of his transactions, to return an estimated $300 million to the Nigerian treasury in exchange for a plea-bargaining arrangement by which his bank accounts could be unfrozen.>

[melman]

8. Fox and Newsmax?

I know just the person to ask.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251658816

[BernieforPres2016]

10. Yes, a perfect person to explain how you go from Clinton enemy to apologist nt

[jillan]

9. Wow! That is interesting to say the least....

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. This has to be the most ridiculous argument to date ...

Does anybody have a reasonable explanation of why these people would be contributing to the Clinton Foundation,

1) Because giving to charities helps to address societal problems
2) Because the donors get good press
3) Because the donors get tax deductions

why the Clinton Foundation would be taking their money?

Because the foundation needs money to address societal problems.

[RiverLover]

15. Repubs support repubs.

Third Way corporate Democrats are repub DINOs and they are conning US.

That's why.

[IdaBriggs]

23. Paying for access is good business. Trump has donated to them too.

It's the same sleazy stuff the Bush family used to do - bribing a sitting President (or Secretary of State) is illegal, but "invest" or "donate" to a family member, and magic happens.

Same old cronyism, same old corruption.

[BernieforPres2016]

26. Like Tom Daschle lobbies alongside Mel Martinez, former co chair of the Republican Party

http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1966784,00.html

<For more than a decade, there has been one time-tested way to end partisanship and get Washington Republicans and Democrats working together on the most pressing national issues: throw a retirement party.

It's no joke. The pattern is long established. Party leaders who lead the charge while in office — pushing for party-line votes and vocally criticizing the opposition — often become symbols of postpartisan cooperation and productivity once they leave office. The one place, it seems, where Democrats and Republicans can still get along is in retirement.

"We are all less inhibited when we are not there, when we are not elected," says Republican Pete Domenici, who retired last year after a 36-year career as a New Mexico Senator that included several important bipartisan accomplishments. He is now leading a U.S. debt-reduction task force with Alice Rivlin, a Democrat who directed the Office of Management and Budget for President Clinton.>

For those who haven't figured it out, the political establishment is really just one party, not two.

[beedle]

24. The only reason Fox and Newsmax

are not part of the Washington DNC Establishment is they support the wrong Washington Establishment Party.

The difference between Washington Post and Fox News = the difference between constipation and diarrhoea.

[Blue_Adept]

25. I also refuse to watch any shows on Fox

Or watch anything with conservative actors in it.

or read books by people with conservative leanings.

I live deep and hard in my absolutism black and white view of the world.