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Cable Companies Provide Porn While Funding Politicians
ABC News ^ | Feb. 7, 2005 | By JAKE TAPPER and AVERY MILLER

Posted on 02/08/2005 3:02:16 PM PST by repinwi

Critics Say Politicians Morally Obligated to Refuse Donations

While its previous owners considered adult entertainment "immoral," Adelphia Communications Corp., the country's fifth-largest cable television provider, last week became the first to offer hard-core adult films on pay-per-view to its subscribers.

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Comcast Cable has given millions in political donations since 1998. The national Republican Party committees are its biggest organizational recipient, with donations totaling $851,000. President Bush is its biggest individual recipient with $109,000 in donations.

Adelphia has given $166,000 to Republican committees, $17,000 to conservative Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., and $12,000 to Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., one of the most conservative members of the Senate.

(snip)

"Maybe the Republicans will be a little more forthcoming about it now," said Connelly. "They certainly don't have any problem taking the money from it."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adelphia; cable; campaigncash; moneywhores; politicians; porn
The funds were given when the cable company was considered conservative. (not showing porn) What is the last sentence implying?
1 posted on 02/08/2005 3:02:16 PM PST by repinwi
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To: repinwi

Of course, with President Clinton, it was just one big loop.


2 posted on 02/08/2005 3:10:30 PM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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To: repinwi

"Maybe the Republicans will be a little more forthcoming about it now," said Connelly. "They certainly don't have any problem taking the money from it."
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Why is this situation any different from cigarettes ??? Nobody in Washington has any problem taking obscene amounts of tax money from this life-threatening goose that lays golden eggs..you think this goose will ever get its neck wrung?? (HA!)...Does porn cause cancer???


3 posted on 02/08/2005 3:11:01 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: repinwi

ABC "News" doing their bit for the DNC.

The story fails to mention that the Democrats take money from the "adult" (pornographic) film "industry".

One of Bill Clinton's unofficial spokesmen during the Monica Lewinsky scandal was Larry Flynt.


4 posted on 02/08/2005 3:11:50 PM PST by MisterRepublican (Liberalism kills.)
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To: repinwi

It's pay-per-view. It's not like they're offering it free to the kiddies.


5 posted on 02/08/2005 3:13:28 PM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: repinwi

Its just ABC blowing off again. They think they can use this garbage to get to President Bush in some way. They are so easy to see through. Of course the president and any monies they may have donated to Republicans have nothing to do with their business decision to show hard core to their pay per view customers and CBS knows this but what the hell they will take the shot anyway.


6 posted on 02/08/2005 3:13:46 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: EagleUSA

LOL, that's funny. Thanks for the answer. I got this from my local ISP message board where I battle a rat on a daily basis. He's always looking for stuff like this to make the Republicans look bad. I came here to see if the news article was posted so I can get some good come backs..hehehe. Thank you ;-)


7 posted on 02/08/2005 3:15:07 PM PST by repinwi
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To: sgtbono2002

There is only one recent article on FR which mentions Aldephia, who btw, filed chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002. So nothing recent (I would assume) has been given since then? Why are they talking about it now? Is this news? I know the MSM does everything in their power to make Bush look bad. But I felt the last sentence of the ABC article was a bit misleading. Why am I surprised? LOL


8 posted on 02/08/2005 3:20:08 PM PST by repinwi
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To: EagleUSA
Hah... or maybe it's just that Republicans are admitting that fighting porn, when delivered to consenting adults, e.g. via pay-per-view, is a losing battle, sort of like trying to get Ted Kennedy to make sense, or Nancy Pelosi to not look like she just sat on a whoopie cushion.
9 posted on 02/08/2005 3:26:21 PM PST by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: repinwi

the implication is that some people are hypocrites. senator santorum was the recipient of adelphias' largesse.


10 posted on 02/08/2005 3:26:38 PM PST by ny demimonde
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To: repinwi

The funny thing about Adelphia is that their founder, John Rigas, refused to provide adult pay per view programming before 2002 because they were a morally upright family business. He was wearing handcuffs the last time that I saw him on the news, and his sons were about to be fitted for their own sets. It seems that his family didn't consider theft and fraud to be moral transgressions.


11 posted on 02/08/2005 3:29:18 PM PST by kaboom
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To: repinwi

My cable company is Time Warner and porn is available through pay per veiw (or so I've heard). Why no mention of them and their political leanings?


12 posted on 02/08/2005 3:32:16 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: repinwi; Southack; kristinn; Howlin; Liz

"Moviemaker" Bing was #2 DNC contributor,IIRC ....

Steven Bling, er, Bing:

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/000119.html

http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527indivsdetail.asp?ID=11001142278&Cycle=2004

http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/steve_bing.htm



13 posted on 02/08/2005 4:45:18 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: ny demimonde; Dark Skies; repinwi; Jokelahoma; Sgt Bono; MisterRepublican; Blurblogger

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/


14 posted on 02/08/2005 4:58:27 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("There is some sugar...It's harder in the case of fires. The tariffs are too high!")
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To: Jokelahoma
when delivered to consenting adults, e.g. via pay-per-view

Go ahead and tell that to the religious right who are swiftly becoming the new liberal establishment by minding everyone's business. They won't be satisfied until women are corsetted with a chastity belt around their nether areas and men tie a rubber band around their dongle. (Says something about what actually satisfies these nutcases).

15 posted on 02/08/2005 5:27:51 PM PST by Archangelsk (There is nothing more cowardly than a keyboard warrior.)
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To: repinwi

After staying with Winamp 2.81 for the last few years I finally upgraded to their latest 5.08c with its video application. The free adult programming you can get from some of those tv stations is unbelievable, I'll bet many parents don't even know those stations exist let alone their kids are most likely watching them.


16 posted on 02/08/2005 5:30:11 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: kaboom

from Janet Batchler's blog:
www.quoththemaven.blogspot.com/

Friday, February 04, 2005
A LACK OF HOLINESS
 
Our cable company is Adelphia. I was very pleased, a few years back, when Adelphia dropped the soft-core porn Spice Channel (over many consumer complaints) because of the Christian convictions of the founder and CEO, John Rigas.

But then it turned out John Rigas, despite his strong stand for holiness in this area, had some other problems. He's now in prison, having been convicted on charges of embezzlement and fraud.

And just yesterday, what did I read in the L.A. Times? Turns out that Adelphia is now going to be the first major cable channel to offer hard-core porn. Pay-per-view, but still.

If Rigas was still in charge of the company he founded, would this have happened? I strongly doubt it. But his strong stand for holiness was completely negated by actions in what would seem to be a totally unrelated area. Millions of people will have access to hard-core porn, piped right into their homes, thanks to his fall from holiness.

What we do has consequences. We can't see the consequences. But they're there.

I can't make great claims to holiness myself. I have areas where I struggle mightily, and areas where things just aren't tough for me. But woe to me if I focus on the areas where I seem to be doing all right, pat myself on the back, and let everything else go.

Who knows what the consequences could be? I wonder, is Rigas in his prison cell feeling the pain of realizing that, due to his fault, what he absolutely never wanted to happen is now happening?

Especially as we approach Lent, we need to be aware. My sin that seems so negligible to me can reverberate through the years. And how do I know which sin will have what effect?

I guess I'd better look into switching to satellite TV.

"Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied aroundhis neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. So watch yourselves." (Lk. 17:1-3)


17 posted on 02/08/2005 6:04:57 PM PST by GOP Jedi
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To: Junior

It's probably these pseudo soft core things they want a fee for on my satellite dish. Pretty tame and pretty awful stuff at the same time. I dunno who would watch that garbage. There isn't any real hardcore on satellite, not what we would have considered to be "hardcore" back in the seventies anyway. Now that was real smut.


18 posted on 02/08/2005 6:57:32 PM PST by Luke21
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