Posted on 01/28/2008 11:19:52 PM PST by Tigen
Originally, there were to be three acceptable choices the right-wing media elites would champion. All three had large corporate backing and each had their group of insiders on K street. Unfortunately, once the posturing was over and the voting began, the Republican primary attendees had the unmitigated gall to vote for someone who wasn’t one of “The Chosen.” Things were further complicated when one of the triumvirate decided he would rather play the part of a District Attorney on TV then a presidential candidate in real life. Another acceptable candidate took a cue from his fellow New Yorkers and retired to South Florida rather than run a national campaign. This left Mitt Romney, the one-term governor from Massachusetts as the only viable candidate in the eyes of the chattering class.
If you have listened to talk radio or perused a conservative column in the last 60 days, you know two things. Mitt Romney is a true conservative and the next best thing to Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Governor Romney had something going for him besides personal wealth and central casting looks. The governor was the founder of Bain Capital, a private equity group. The company specializes in leverage buyouts and made billions of dollars throughout the eighties and nineties. This is the company that made Mitt Romney a wealthy man, with a net worth around $250,000,000. Romney, who stepped down in 1999 when he took over the Salt Lake City Olympics, is still a silent partner in the company and, according to the governor’s financial disclosure, will continue to receive profits from Bain Capital through February 2009. These facts alone might seem innocuous enough, but consider the latest acquisition Bain has its eye on.
Romney is a former CEO of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and the co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. From 1978 to 1984, Romney was a vice president of Bain & Company, Inc., another management consulting firm based in Boston. In 1984, Romney left Bain & Company to co-found a spin-off private equity investment firm, Bain Capital.[11] During the 14 years he headed the company, Bain Capital's average annual internal rate of return on realized investments was 113 percent,[12] making money primarily through leveraged buyouts.
On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel Communications agreed to be acquired by Bain Capital and Thomas Lee Partners for nearly $19 billion.
Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media conglomerate company based in the United States. Clear Channel, founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, wields considerable influence in radio broadcasting, concert promotion and hosting, and fixed advertising in the United States through its subsidiaries. The largest U.S. radio station owner owns over 1,100 full-power AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations, twelve radio channels on XM Satellite Radio, and more than 30 television stations in the United States, among other media outlets in other countries. The present head of the company is Mark Mays, and its headquarters is located in San Antonio, Texas.
The term "clear channel" comes from AM broadcasting, referring to a channel (frequency) on which only one station transmits. In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting history, "clear channel" (or class I-A) stations had exclusive rights to their frequencies throughout most of the continent at night, when AM stations travel very far due to skywave. WOAI in San Antonio, one of Clear Channel's first acquisitions, was such a station. On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced plans to go private, being bought out by two private-equity firms, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners for $18.7 billion, which is just under a 10 percent premium above its closing price of $35.36 a share on November 16 (the deal values Clear Channel at $37.60 per share).[1][2] The new ownership of Clear Channel has also announced that all of its TV stations were for sale, as well as 448 radio stations that were outside of the top 100 markets.[3] All of the TV stations and 161 of the radio stations were sold to a Providence Equity Partners, a private-equity firm, on April 23, 2007, pending FCC approval. Premiere Radio Networks is a US-based radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications and was headed until recently by Kraig Kitchin who is currently transitioning out, handing the reins over to CC Executive Charlie Rahilly.
Premiere programs are heard on over 5000 radio stations worldwide, primarily in the United States and Canada and through streaming audio over the Internet on their system called Streamlink. Several programs are heard on XM Satellite Radio, of which XM is the exclusive satellite provider for Premiere. Programs
The Glenn Beck Program Weekdays 9A-12A The Rush Limbaugh Show Weekdays 12P-3P Rush Limbaugh Week in Review Weekends TBA Just to name a few!There are hundreds more. 24/7 Radio Networks Fox News Radio - Premiere feeds this network thanks to a programming agreement between Fox News and Clear Channel. Fox Sports Radio - Premiere completely owns and operates this network and distributes it to AM, FM, Worldspace, and XM. ReachMD - Exclusively on XM Satellite Radio National Lampoon Comedy Radio - Handles sales and distribution of the network, which is currently only planned for digital radio platforms. John Hogan is CEO of Clear Channel Radio[1] (a subdivision of Clear Channel Communications) in San Antonio, Texas. A 25 year radio veteran, he is responsible for the operations of nearly 1200 U.S. radio stations and nationally syndicated radio shows; including those of Rush Limbaugh, Ryan Seacrest, Casey Kasem, and Donald Trump.
Clear Channel has purchased interest in, or outright acquired, companies in a number of media or advertising related industries. Bain Capital LLC is a Boston, Massachusetts-based private equity firm founded in 1984 by Mitt Romney. Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. In addition to Romney, the firm was also founded by two other partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company: T. Coleman Andrews III and Eric Kriss. Bain Capital was originally conceived as a combined equity start-up and leveraged buyout fund, """an innovative strategy at the time"""
So, that is the reason you don't like Mitt. Why don't you simply put a thread that you are against a Mormon to be a president, so people don't need to respond to other stuff? After all, while Romney surely has liberal policies, other Republican candidates also suffer from the same sins, IMO.
ok I’ll just do that. You do know about smoke and mirrors I am sure too.
Thank you for the info.
To quote my favorite rooster - That was a joke son.
lulz.
Hillary is a Methodist. have fun
I believe what She was referrin’ to was the well-known point that Mormons are openly known to be anti-gun, anti-tobacco, and anti-alcohol. Actually, anti-fun. That’s why I’ll never vote for him. I don’t want a nanny-in-chief.
First off, welcome to FR newbie and I hope you enjoyed your trip from DU. Secondly, I know that you don’t think Mormons are anti-gun but it was funny to see you lie like that. Thank you for making such a positive contribution to honest debate, by blatently lying just to smear. I wish you would come to Utah and start breaking into houses at night and see just how anti-gun we are.
Yeah, yeah, blah blah. Just because you personally own a gun don’t mean jack. And please, people with less than 5 years board seniority have heard the newbie and du comments at least a hundred times. too stupid to come up with anything original? If you’re an example of a romney supporter, you won’t make too many converts.
I did not mention Romney, you did, which proves that you are denigrating a group of people only because he is associated with them. Since I don’t like Madonna, I guess all Catholics are whores and queer loving people who have no morals at all. If you are an example of any kind of supporter than I don’t want you to convert to anything associated with me because you are an idiot.
P.S. I own 23 guns
garbage...
It’s a sad state of affairs, but the old adage “Follow the Money” continues to hold true. Whatever happened to “Honor”?
“Oh sure. Defend the Mormon. Good luck!”
Man, you sound like a real hater.
Good for you, I only need two.
Romney is not McCain, which is the reason talk radio is behind him. I will never vote for John McCain.
Talk radio is getting behind the front running that has votes. Talk radio did not do this until Hunter and Thomson didn’t get any early votes. Wake up! Hunter and Thomson are gone. It is time to save us all from McCain or Huck.
Rush is the leader of the Conservative movement... to trash Rush is an admission of liberalism!
LLS
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