Markos of DailyKos tears into Democrats who lack the fortitude and intellectual honesty to oppose SOPA, and continue to back it because they fear losing the campaign funding that comes from Hollywood. PNH sez, “Markos highlights a couple of paragraphs from a Politico story assessing the landscape following the SOPA/PIPA protests:”
Leo Hindery, a major Democratic donor whose New York media private equity firm owns cable channels, said Obama might have reason to worry about his entertainment industry fundraising base.
“[The bill] is an issue that has no business being decided politically – by anybody on one side or the other – and the fact that it might be becoming a political issue is unfair to the content producers,” said Hindery, who’s contributed more than $3 million to Democratic candidates and groups.
“An issue that has no business being decided politically.” I can’t recall seeing a purer expression of the idea that certain decisions ought to simply be reserved for whoever shows up with the largest bag of cash. Not that the world is like this, but that it’s right and just that it should be like this.
It’s very illuminating to hear people like this speak frankly.
Hollywood bought its politicians, and it expects them to stay bought
(Thanks, PNH!>)