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Comcast Spends $110k On Award Dinner For FCC Commissioner
Consumerist ^ | 12 August 2014 | Kate Cox

Posted on 08/12/2014 7:14:40 PM PDT by Lorianne

Full title: Comcast Spends $110k On Award Dinner For FCC Commissioner, Doesn’t See Why Anyone Thinks That’s A Problem

Comcast really wants to buy Time Warner Cable. Really really. And they have no shortage of ways, both subtle and obvious, to try to push the odds farther in their favor. Targeted philanthropy and sponsorships are definitely a part of that, and Comcast is usually happy to take the credit. So while spending six figures to sponsor an event honoring a sitting FCC commissioner who gets to make decisions about things like media mergers might seem a little out of bounds to the likes of you and me, Comcast is shocked, shocked that we would think they could possibly have an ulterior motive.

Politico reports that Comcast and Time Warner Cable have together contributed $132,000 ($110k from Comcast, $22k from TWC) this year to sponsor the Walter Kaitz Foundation’s annual dinner in September. The companies, along with others in the industry, have a long relationship with the Kaitz Foundation, which promotes diversity in the cable industry. But this year’s honoree is FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn, so the timing has raised more than a few eyebrows.

Carrie Levine, research director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, wrote in a blog post that “the timing is curious.” Levine added, “They’re honoring an FCC commissioner at the exact same time they’re trying to get approval for a merger. And that doesn’t look so good.”

No, Comcast, it does not look good. In fact, it looks even worse than the event Comcast tried to throw at the home of an anti-municipal broadband state senator in Kansas last month.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; fcc
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1 posted on 08/12/2014 7:14:40 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

I HATE comcast. Unfortunately in my neighborhood a dish won’t work. I can’t unplug the TV because my husband likes the golf channel. UGH!


2 posted on 08/12/2014 7:19:36 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: Lorianne

It makes me so proud to contribute $180 @ month to this monopoly so they can afford to ingratiate themselves with their regulators. //sarcasm


3 posted on 08/12/2014 7:19:43 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Lorianne

Pay to play.


4 posted on 08/12/2014 7:20:50 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

I just call it Fascism.


5 posted on 08/12/2014 7:21:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

Mignon Clyburn, if she had any integrity, would decline.

What’s Net Nuetrality anyway.

And don’t think that’s not in play here as well.


6 posted on 08/12/2014 7:23:40 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Lorianne

The best government money can buy.


7 posted on 08/12/2014 7:24:13 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Lorianne
Something must be important for Comcast to have spent that much money. Someone’s decision needs “pampering.” I should not have commented, I do not own a TV. OK, say wht you want.
8 posted on 08/12/2014 7:24:36 PM PDT by Fungi (Read this post only if you are willing to accept the following: John:8:32.)
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To: Fungi

They’re all whores.


9 posted on 08/12/2014 7:26:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Crony Facism! in fact


10 posted on 08/12/2014 7:32:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Lorianne

We told Comcast to cancel our cable and we’d keep the internet in the middle of July. We told the guy to cancel the cable at the end of the billing cycle which was July 27th. On that day I turned in all the remotes and boxes. Guess what. The cable hadn’t been stopped and I got a bill for the month of August. I wrote them a letter. No response. Today we called them and were told the cable was cancelled but “billing” wasn’t notified. They’ll do anything they can to keep you from cancelling. I’m now searching for an internet provider.

These damned crooks have bought way too many politicians and damn to hell the politicians who took their money.


11 posted on 08/12/2014 7:34:36 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Lorianne

“Information” is now controlled by about six people. And all of them are pro state.


12 posted on 08/12/2014 7:36:15 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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!...the Kaitz Foundation, which promotes diversity in the cable industry...!

There’s the corruption that sticks out in this article.
Legally coerced tax-deductible bribes from internet users to the race pimps.
And it flies right over the author’s head...


13 posted on 08/12/2014 7:37:43 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Lorianne

Of course none of the media outlets have any interest in reporting this blatant bribery. Either they are already owned by Comcast (NBC and affiliates) or they wouldn’t mind being bought for big $ someday.


14 posted on 08/12/2014 7:40:06 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Lorianne
On May 20, 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama as Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission. Commissioner Clyburn is the daughter of U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn and a member of the Federal Communications Commission.

Representative Jim Clyburn is that nasty black racist hack and House Assistant Democratic Leader
Mignon is his useless daughter

15 posted on 08/12/2014 7:42:05 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Lorianne

Slouching towards a banana republic.


16 posted on 08/12/2014 7:43:05 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Fungi

I’d say you’re pretty smart.


17 posted on 08/12/2014 7:45:06 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: Lorianne

Have to bribe the government to do business in this banana republic. Those Central Americans feel right at home.


18 posted on 08/12/2014 7:45:48 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Aria
I HATE comcast. Unfortunately in my neighborhood a dish won’t work. I can’t unplug the TV because my husband likes the golf channel. UGH!

Why does he enjoy watching Obama?
That's one heck of a masochistic streak…

19 posted on 08/12/2014 7:49:28 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
Today we called them and were told the cable was cancelled but “billing” wasn’t notified. They’ll do anything they can to keep you from cancelling. I’m now searching for an internet provider.

What you do is start calling from your accounting division, inform them that the monies cannot be paid as the service has been canceled (and that you have confirmation of this, that processing the invalid bill will cost them (be sure to provide a receipt; remember that your time and energy are worth money, go for a $500 processing fee), and that continuance of billing will be forwarded to your legal division.

20 posted on 08/12/2014 7:53:53 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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