Seminal Watercooler – If Money Can’t Buy Happiness, It Can Make You Mayor |
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| By: Jim Moss Wednesday October 28, 2009 7:00 pm | |
Some fun facts about Michael Bloomberg and his bid for a third term as New York’s mayor, courtesy of The New York Times:
1) Bloomberg’s estimated total personal wealth: $16 billion
2) Amount of his personal wealth Bloomberg has invested in this campaign: $85 million (the most in United States history)
3) Amount Bloomberg will spend by Election Day: $110-140 million.
4) Amount raised by Bloomberg’s non-billionaire opponent: $6 million
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I’ll tell you what’s on my mind. Media Bullies. I started out writing a short post about how pissed I was that Glenn Beck and Fox news could engage in vicious character assassination with no repercussions and AND the mainstream media defend them.
WTF? Being the the kind of guy I am I decided to explain what we bloggers and other could do to hit Fox back in the only way they care about the pocketbook. I have simple plan that will work.
Turning the Financial Bullies Loose on the Media Bullies: The Spocko Way
After I finished writing it I started thinking. “What’s the point?”
It’s so fraking exhausting fighting these people especially when the people who could help don’t care.
I describe how lawyers can help, finance people can help, writers can help, but I know that unless people feel personally the drive to have an impact in this area nothing will be done.
Spocko, there’s a reason we’re here — it’s because the legacy media sucks.
“What’s on your mind tonight?”
Up until just recently (this week) you could click through at least a hundred T.V. channels and not hear one mention of the dead, injured, displaced in Iraq, dead, injured American soldiers.
forget hearing a damn thing about the Israeli Palestinian conflict, the Goldstone report. Hell many of the so called progressive bloggers will not touch these issues…including the heavy hitting bloggers at FDL.