HUH? Fox News Hack and GOP Senator Suddenly Fearful of 'SCARY' Corporations

[applegrove]

HUH? Fox News Hack and GOP Senator Suddenly Fearful of 'SCARY' Corporations

Apr 13, 2021 11:40am Eastern Daylight Time 

by News Corpse, Community

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/13/2025686/-HUH-Fox-News-Hack-and-GOP-Senator-Suddenly-Fearful-of-SCARY-Corporations-x1f631

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This trend began when Georgia passed a series of suppressive bills that reduced ballot access, made voting by mail more difficult, and even criminalized giving water to voters waiting in line. Subsequently, some companies in Georgia responded to the protests of their customers by renouncing the anti-voting bills. Major League Baseball moved their All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver. And Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola, and others let the GOP politicians in Georgia know that there would be consequences, including cutting off campaign donations.

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Not to be outdone, Fox News primetime host, Laura Ingram, devoted her entire opening segment on Monday night to a monologue demanding that "conservatives have to rethink their relationship with Big Business," because "Corporate America has gone all-in on helping Democrats secure a permanent majority." Right, because Democrats have always been Corporate America's favorite party. Elaborating, Ingraham disgorged the ludicrous theory that corporations are intent on "protecting liberals' grip on power." "Democrats," Ingraham babbled, "know their agenda is gonna crush working class Americans. They hate it when wages go up." Which is why Democrats are the party fighting for a higher minimum wage and an end wage disparities due to race and gender, while Republicans steadfastly oppose that.

Hawley, Boothe, Ingraham, and the rest of these ultra-rightist hypocrites have apparently forgotten how supportive they were when corporations would "get together to plan how to control legislation" that favored the corporations and the Republican political power base. They must have forgotten about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a confederacy of corporate lobbyists and state legislators that work together to draft legislation on behalf of its corporate members.

For the record, what triggered Boothe and Hawley at this time is that a group of "more than 100 top corporate leaders" got together to discuss how they should respond to the Republican voter suppression movement and the GOP's threats of reprisals. It's a voluntary association driven by the reaction of the American people to the red state anti-voter initiatives. And contrary to Hawley's reference to "oligarchy" it wasn't started by the corporate titans, but by Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a dean of the Yale School of Management.

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[Bev54]

1. Really Laura Ingram? Do big corporations advertise on your show??

Perhaps they should stop, if you think they are so bad.

[Blue Owl]

2. Oh please...

[global1]

3. Even Moscow Mitch Took Off On The Corps - So I Have To Ask This Question.....

If timing is everything - is it time to mount a campaign to overturn Citizens United?

I know that the Repugs like the money they get from the Corps - but isn't this a chance to have them put their money where their mouth is?

Would we be able to garner some bipartisan support?

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It's one way to keep the Corps out of politics - isn't it.

[Caliman73]

9. I don't think we are falling in love with corporations on the Democratic side.

It is possible to praise certain pro-social acts by corporations while being wary.

I think that most if not all Democratic politicians understand that corporations do not do anything without weighing the financial consequences of their actions. Like Nike backing Kaepernick on the kneeling. They knew that some older White people were going to freak out, but that isn't their demographic so they were able to "act responsible" and stick with him. These corporations are weighing the wrath of the older White crowd with the changing demographic and acting in their economic interest. Our interests currently align so we will take the support while continuing to battle corporations on a living wage, unionization, and other issues where they are opponents.

[captain queeg]

5. The rethugs have chosen to ignore public opinion

I guess some corporations realize public opinion is important. And probably over a broader spectrum

[applegrove]

6. Plus they look to the world and youth markets. Who wants to be associated

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with anti-democratic activity when it will ruin your brand not to mention the policies that will result when Republicans get power: gutting the middle class. That's not good for coke or baseball.

[betsuni]

7. Corporations, Big Business the enemy? Oligarchy? Democrats hate the working class?

Sounds awfully familiar! Next thing you know they'll start using "corporate Democrats" and "neoliberals" and demonize billionaires. Ha!

[C_U_L8R]

8. They are meddling with the primal laws of nature

Poor idiots will atone once they figure out who butters their biscuits.