As Herman Cain Surges, Corporate Media Ignore His Koch Connections

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http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/152740/as_herman_cain_surges%2C_corporate_media_ignore_his_koch_connections/

October 14, 2011 |

With two major polls showing Atlanta businessman Herman Cain now moving ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to claim the top spot among the contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, media are beating a path to his door. Given Cain's clear and strong connection to the billionaire newsmaker David Koch, you'd think that Cain's longstanding ties to the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, which is chaired by Koch, and its sibling organization, simply known as Americans For Prosperity, would be a meaty topic for enterprising reporters. Apparently not.

Mainstream media outlets have also ignored the checkered past of Cain's campaign manager, Mark Block, who was banned from participation in Wisconsin politics for three years, 2002-2005, because of campaign law violations.

Significant players on Cain's campaign staff are draw from the ranks of Americans for Prosperity or related organizations, beginning with campaign manager Mark Block, who served for six years as director of AFP's Wisconsin chapter. And Cain himself, before launching his presidential campaign, was a frequently featured speaker at events hosted by the Americans For Prosperity Foundation.

[Journeyman]

1. The Media ignored the Republican candidate's Coke Connections in 2000 as well. . .

That didn't work out too well for us then, either. . .

[Tx4obama]

2. Here's an additional article/link regarding Cain and the Kochs

Oct 16, 5:05 AM EDT
Extensive ties to a powerful Koch group boost Cain
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAINS_RISE_KOCH_BROTHERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-16-05-05-24

[mucifer]

3. actually when I checked my comcast email the page had an article

about Cain being supported by the koch brothers. comcast.net

[bigdarryl]

4. So technically he doesn't need to raise any money because there going to fund him

the media keeps saying he will not be in the running because of money not true

[mwb970]

5. I actually think Cain is a more absurd candidate than Trump.

Of all the flavors of the week, Cain is tutti frutti - the real deal. I love the way he defends his idiotic "999" plan because it's "simple". Simple! It's three words of one syllable, all of them the same. This is even simpler than the republicans' energy policy, "Drill, baby, drill", which also has three words but only two of them are the same and the other has TWO syllables.

Complex problems call for complex solutions, the kind that republican minds are programmed to reject. Appeals to the simple-minded will always get traction here in the Land Of the Simple-Minded, but we do still have thinking people here too. People who think that important policy prescriptions should be more complex than three identical one-syllable words!

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