The New York Times has boldly broken the news that “Mr. Boehner, the House minority leader and would-be speaker if Republicans win the House in November … maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R. J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.”
What the rag fails to mention is the fact that The Most Honest and Righteous President In History also received a wee bit of help from these same groups.
According to Opensecrets.org, Obama collected a cool $994,795 from the evil Goldman Sachs, $695,132 from the nefarious J.P Morgan and a whopping $701,290 from the untrustworthy Citigroup.
According to the same website, during the 2009 – 2010 campaign cycle Boehner collected a grand total of $238,300 from Securities and Exchange and $164,000 and change from Commercial Banks. So who is tied to who exactly?
The Times also attempted some character assassination by describing Boehner as a “…a 60-year-old, perpetually tanned, sharply tailored, chain-smoking golfer.” Hey, take ten years off the age and that sounds like a certain president we know.
In regards to lobbyists, the Wall Street Journal reports that, “New campaign finance data shows that Democrats now receive far more campaign cash from lobbyists and corporate fund-raising arms than Republicans.
Lobbyists have donated twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this year -– and corporate PACs have sent 60% of their money to Democrats, according to the data.”.
We’re not implying that the New York Times would not recognize the truth if it bit them in their collective journalistic asses, but we are inferring it.
Source: New York Times
