Fox has been doing this kind of stuff for years, its just that they got so good at it that they have finally forced other networks to start acting the same way. Get with the party program or get out. Its the new American way. As privatizationg continues you might as well get used to it.
Doesn't really matter to the investors. They are interested in returns rather than the interests of the average Joe, whether he is in Bangladesh or Dearborn, Michigan.
The important thing is that the enterprise starts and succeeds in California rather than elsewhere, because that is what keeps the bulk of the cash flowing back to predominantly California investors. There are a lot of backers of Tesla Motors in Hollywood that are going to make a lot of money if they succeed, as they will have the potential to transfer oil company and Saudi Arabian profits into their own pockets. The potential for profits are enormous and that is why big oil is doing everything it possibly can to stop companies like Tesla Motors from succeeding. Unfortunately, for them Toyota is partnering with Tesla and they already have technology now coming on line globally to transfer a sizable chunk of oil company profits into their own as well.
People who don't think so are going to feel pretty foolish, as they watch as others whiz by on the freeways driving cars that can take them across the country for as little as $25 - $50 to "fill up", and they are still shucking out $3.50 or more per gallon to get their gas guzzler just to work and back, with no chance to take that cross-country vacation because they invested all their cash in gasoline.
Then you ought to move to the progressive state of Mississippi, where taxes are extremely low and as a result they have a history of out-competing California in every industry and technology, especially health care, high tech, and environmental technologies.
The republican love for low taxes for billionaires, blinds them at seeing what is plainly evident in front of their face. I guess those billionaires who run the republican party have its rank and file so tightly grabbed by their gonadal arteries that it has cut of the blood flow to their brains. The reality is that if Californian tax dollars were not flowing to Red States like Mississippi, Mississippi would be even poorer than it is. What on earth are you complaining about?
California leads the world in the manufacturing of high tech equipment, software, and movie production, not to mention the manufacture of fruits and vegetables.
Try to do something positive for California and rebuild it, rather than tearing it down for a few conservative political brownie talking points, and California will be just fine.
Obama did save the US auto-industry, despite republican efforts to kill it, whether he gets any credit for it or not. However, Americans and in particular the auto makers in Detroit will need to make the most of their last chance to survive. This has less to do with politics than with a a willingness and wisdom to adopt a progressive mindset that isn't afraid to change with the times. This piece was all fluff, with no real substantiation or analysis of any of the claims that "the more things change the more they stay the same" (see the closing line [in French]). Seems as if its become popular to believe that competition only requires adopting conservative philosophies and borrowing money from foreigners is all that is needed to stay competitive, with no need to put in the effort to make the changes or investments in education and infrastructure to stay in the game.
Tesla is partnering with Toyota and everyone knows that Toyota does know something about electric vehicles and does have deep pockets, if for no other reason that US taxpayers give them an indirect advantage by being so deeply in debt that their appreciating currency is worth more and more. Hence, they can buy more cheaply (from their perspective) to invest in joint ventures with Tesla and others. For geographic reasons alone, California would be an excellent location for Toyota to expand in the US, since they already have manufacturing plants in the southeastern US. Say what you will about California's progressive politics, but they have a far better educated workforce (assuming Meg Whtiman isn't successful in her promise to dismantle the University System) that is much better able to adapt and utilize to the new technologies that are the future of the auto industry, lots of electronics and experimentation with light-weight composite materials. Like anything else in life, you get what you pay for and for that better quality work force and higher standard of living for workers, one pays a bit more, yes. However, the piece makes the error in thinking that means it won't be cost effective. So long as they can use these advantages California offers to innovate faster than their competition and increase their productivity relative to their competitors, which these days is all about industrial robotics production, rather than reemploying armies of less-than high tech factory workers to do the same job, they will do just fine. Off-shoring jobs with minimal assembly and manufacturing in the US has been and continues be to the preferred republican approach to drive corporate profits, but this is rapidly reaching a point of limited returns, since ultimately it robs American consumers of buying power, the primary reason we now see so few jobs. Likewise, the notion that you will need big steel plants close by is yesterday's thinking, which is what is expressed in this PR piece, and why, if Detroit doesn't get its act together soon, it won't be much of a player in the automotive business going forward.
There will be a big shift from a petroleum based automotive industry to an electricity based automotive industry. The only real question is who will be the one to make the money.
Asia is way out ahead of the US in these technologies and it is unclear if America will ever again be a dominant player in the automotive industry, especially in a US auto industry that is unwilling or unable to keep up with technological progress and unable to break the lock and interconnecting web of entanglements with the oil industry. Consequently, California is well positioned with both its high tech base and forward looking industries, compared to Detroit. Likewise, it has lots of nearly free sunshine and wind and its citizenry is busy making use of it to get off their addiction to foreign oil.
Frankly, this piece displays a rather ignorant smugness of conservative status-quo thinking that Detroit and America can't afford to have, if they want to stay competitive. Sure, the politics of big oil and PR will keep Detroit in the game for some time to com
I've tried to investigate this, but the copy of My Pet Goat given to Bush after the incident has been locked away in a vault in his presidential library and they refuse allow anyone to see what he may have written in the margins.
Whatever he may have wrote, one things for sure, it very unlikely it wasthe proof of Fermat's last theorem.
Seems like a great myth for MythBusters to tackle, especially since when you look at the evidence Jesus was probably the most ardent advocate of welfare for the poor the world has ever known.
republicans are pushing very hard right now to rebuild the failed Star-wars defense system and he's trying to show the country the futility of the program?
Its because many, for very good reason, see the possibility of her becoming President of the United States as potentially catastrophic for our nation, given her lack of education, insufficient knowledge, or adequate intelligence to be anywhere within a zillion miles of the presidency, not to mention her incredibly divisive politics where she goes around the country to proclaim how happy to be "in the pro-American part of the country" as she did in a recent speech in North Carolina.
If you can't see that, presumably you are stupid enough to be one of her supporters.
Mythbusters need to investigate the myth that among all the teajhadists combined they have more functional brain-cells as our Honolulu born US president.
After all, the guy was smart enough to post the announcement of his own birth in the Honolulu newspaper so he could go on to become President of the United States. Teajhadists are simply jealous. Just like Jerry Brown who planted the illegal immigrant maid in Meg Whitman's house 10 years ago and convince the SSA to send her a letter notifying her of the fact 7 years ago so he could beat her in the 2010 election. Compared to teajhadists, democrats look like geniuses.
No wonder America's interest in science withers, the left side of its brain seems to be working but the right side seems to have died.
The ampullae of Lorenzini are used by sharks for orientation. These electroreceptors can be influenced by ships hulls, which often have much metal. Reports of sharks and whales bumping into ships are not as uncommon as you may think.
No scientific experiment tests "ALL" aspects of a theory. Each test, regardless of how well designed, makes some assumptions that are presumed to be true.
It would truly be a fool's errand for Obama's time to try to go around "fix shit", when republicans are far too good and far to fast at plaster the place with it faster than any President could ever possibly clean it up.
It would be better if he could get even one kid to become a scientist and make an important discovery that really would help to "clean up the shit" as you so elegantly phrase it.
Funny. The constitution no where mentions space travel, quantum physics, microprocessors, cholesterol-blockers, PCR,....
These must all be unconstitutional. We better give all these advances up to other countries that want them, because in the constitution it nowhere mentions the need for science education and efforts to promote it must therefore be unconstitutional.
Seems to me Mythbusters could really have a field day if it spent time on the evolution of political thinking. It is perhaps ironic that democrats have their "---- care" and republicans have the "--- gate", when republicans really don't care and democrats can't carry their own water.
"but this feels like a really weak excuse to have the President on TV"
Your attitude precisely expresses why America is faltering and why other societies are moving into the lead in so many areas of science and technology. Rather than recognizing the importance of any and all efforts to promote science and technology as interesting to kids and our citizenry in its own right, you would rather see the president fail and his appearance in support of such an effort become a political football.
What is truly sad is that the average American kid's education in math and science has fallen so far, that it now takes the President going on an entertainment-based "science" program to even get their interest. Its gotten to the point that one no longer knows which is falling faster in America, its standing in math and science education, its standard of living, or life expectancy, all of which are highly correlated.
I don't know if you have children, but frankly I feel sorry for them if you do. I also feel sorry for the countless other American kids who will grow up in a world where the finest universities will no longer be in the US, where the level of innumeracy and even simple knowledge of basic scientific concepts, such as what constitutes a theory, are beyond the vast majority to comprehend and who foolishly think that their lives won't be affected by the consequences and thus don't bother to promote it, want to pay taxes to support it, nor have the sense to encourage it at every opportunity.
My own sense is that if the President does go on the show and this leads to just one kid growing up to make an important scientific discovery, it will be a far greater accomplishment than anything republicans have done in the past 20 years combined. However, that is just my own opinion and I'll let other scientists stand up and defend all the great work republicans are doing on behalf of science.
So we can have civilization. When you get down to it, its really that simple.
Its just the politics of anarchy are far more popular these days, as people seek ways to get away with what they can amid the chaos of a collapsing biosphere.
The saying that "its what you learn, after you know it all that counts", seems to have fallen on deaf ears in America these days, where arrogance and has replaced wisdom and reason as the most sought after cultural commodity.
It certainly is true that once you get into science you discover that you know so very, very little about how things really are, even though you know far more than those who find math and science uninteresting or irrelevant to their lives.
Sadly, for America, the ignorance that comes with bliss is more highly prized by corporate America. Scientists these days are finding their talents and knowledge disrepected and too often mocked for being honest enough to admit that the current state of science doesn't have all the answers, just very good approximations to most answers. These days, when scientists say they don't have all the answers, the religious and ideologically driven scoff that they have no need for science, since they are convinced they have all the answers already.
Neuroscientists really need to answer why this is, before it is too late and what little that is left of the biodiversity on this planet that sustains humanity permanently disappears.
You need to download the latest Ubuntu patch that permits wheelless computing.that ushers in the era of flying carpet computing. Just look at the demographics, the world is going muslim, so it was bound to happen sooner or later.
The only aspect of this story that is credible is that it is certainly true that if you look at the gaming market and markets for "productivity software" sensu latu, what Linux lacks is a lot of widely (nearly universally) used software that can run across distros, with limited or no effort.
The funny thing is that if the various distro vendors really made an effort to get together and make it much, much easier for developers to create cross-platform builds for more open-source software and programmers to adopt more standaridization regarding I/O for porting data across platforms and programs in a truly open software spirit, this situation could change drastically in no time at all. Unfortunately, everyone thinks their way is best, so it won't happen.
The problem with the Linux desktop is basically that open source developers have used their "freedom" to push the snowball in many conflicting directions, so it has little chance to gain momentum against commercial entities who are really focused only on one thing, profits..
The irony is that if only one of the most voracious of the various IT corporation, Oracle, would be actually willing to support a more open, more truly community-based Java Community workgroup for Java that makes it a truly write once-run anywhere language with a full range of API's over the entire domain of possible computation, it could pretty well own or at least direct nearly all of the IT that is not truly open-source. Fortunately, for the rest of corporate IT profiters, Larry Elisson's shortsighted greed will prevent it from happening.
It seems incredibly ironic that today Slashdot has two simultaneous threads, one telling us that Linux is dead on the desktop and another telling us that Liinux is pushing Microsoft out of the corporate IT data center.
Perhaps its just that today even grandmothers have become a super-users, who do all their IT work in the cloud.
you buy up 80-90% of the ISP's. Then you get to be in charge.
Its only a step away from charging extra for your IP packets to be routed through News Corporation routers on its destination. Some ISP along the way says I won't pay and packets will have a way of getting lost.
Thats why after Murdoch owns about 85% of all media companies, he plans to turn his attention to the internet service providers, so that he can charge extra for sites people like by putting them in premium tiered space that requires a $350-$400 monthly charge to access them. Oh yes, in principle you will be able to get them for "free" as you do now, but in reality the lower/cheaper tier will be made so slow that you won't be able to load a page in less than a minute.
After the BSkyB purchase, Murdoch plans to go on an acquisitions binge buying up The New York Times, Barrons, Comcast, Cox Communications, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC. After that he plans to focus on controlling at least 85% of internet bandwidth in all US markets, at which point he plans to push for 2 tiered service, a slow internet and a fast internet that will be reserved strictly for paying customers with $350/month minimums, with extra fees to be added for each mouse click. Republicans are already falling all over themselves to ease media-ownership restrictions in exchange for additional free political advertising.
You have to admit this guy knows how to make money.
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Fox has been doing this kind of stuff for years, its just that they got so good at it that they have finally forced other networks to start acting the same way. Get with the party program or get out. Its the new American way. As privatizationg continues you might as well get used to it.
Doesn't really matter to the investors. They are interested in returns rather than the interests of the average Joe, whether he is in Bangladesh or Dearborn, Michigan.
The important thing is that the enterprise starts and succeeds in California rather than elsewhere, because that is what keeps the bulk of the cash flowing back to predominantly California investors. There are a lot of backers of Tesla Motors in Hollywood that are going to make a lot of money if they succeed, as they will have the potential to transfer oil company and Saudi Arabian profits into their own pockets. The potential for profits are enormous and that is why big oil is doing everything it possibly can to stop companies like Tesla Motors from succeeding. Unfortunately, for them Toyota is partnering with Tesla and they already have technology now coming on line globally to transfer a sizable chunk of oil company profits into their own as well.
People who don't think so are going to feel pretty foolish, as they watch as others whiz by on the freeways driving cars that can take them across the country for as little as $25 - $50 to "fill up", and they are still shucking out $3.50 or more per gallon to get their gas guzzler just to work and back, with no chance to take that cross-country vacation because they invested all their cash in gasoline.
Then you ought to move to the progressive state of Mississippi, where taxes are extremely low and as a result they have a history of out-competing California in every industry and technology, especially health care, high tech, and environmental technologies.
The republican love for low taxes for billionaires, blinds them at seeing what is plainly evident in front of their face. I guess those billionaires who run the republican party have its rank and file so tightly grabbed by their gonadal arteries that it has cut of the blood flow to their brains. The reality is that if Californian tax dollars were not flowing to Red States like Mississippi, Mississippi would be even poorer than it is. What on earth are you complaining about?
but supporting polluting oil companies to perpetuate a 150 year old internal combustion engine technology is progressive. Yeah, right.
California leads the world in the manufacturing of high tech equipment, software, and movie production, not to mention the manufacture of fruits and vegetables.
Try to do something positive for California and rebuild it, rather than tearing it down for a few conservative political brownie talking points, and California will be just fine.
Obama did save the US auto-industry, despite republican efforts to kill it, whether he gets any credit for it or not. However, Americans and in particular the auto makers in Detroit will need to make the most of their last chance to survive. This has less to do with politics than with a a willingness and wisdom to adopt a progressive mindset that isn't afraid to change with the times. This piece was all fluff, with no real substantiation or analysis of any of the claims that "the more things change the more they stay the same" (see the closing line [in French]). Seems as if its become popular to believe that competition only requires adopting conservative philosophies and borrowing money from foreigners is all that is needed to stay competitive, with no need to put in the effort to make the changes or investments in education and infrastructure to stay in the game.
Tesla is partnering with Toyota and everyone knows that Toyota does know something about electric vehicles and does have deep pockets, if for no other reason that US taxpayers give them an indirect advantage by being so deeply in debt that their appreciating currency is worth more and more. Hence, they can buy more cheaply (from their perspective) to invest in joint ventures with Tesla and others. For geographic reasons alone, California would be an excellent location for Toyota to expand in the US, since they already have manufacturing plants in the southeastern US. Say what you will about California's progressive politics, but they have a far better educated workforce (assuming Meg Whtiman isn't successful in her promise to dismantle the University System) that is much better able to adapt and utilize to the new technologies that are the future of the auto industry, lots of electronics and experimentation with light-weight composite materials. Like anything else in life, you get what you pay for and for that better quality work force and higher standard of living for workers, one pays a bit more, yes. However, the piece makes the error in thinking that means it won't be cost effective. So long as they can use these advantages California offers to innovate faster than their competition and increase their productivity relative to their competitors, which these days is all about industrial robotics production, rather than reemploying armies of less-than high tech factory workers to do the same job, they will do just fine. Off-shoring jobs with minimal assembly and manufacturing in the US has been and continues be to the preferred republican approach to drive corporate profits, but this is rapidly reaching a point of limited returns, since ultimately it robs American consumers of buying power, the primary reason we now see so few jobs. Likewise, the notion that you will need big steel plants close by is yesterday's thinking, which is what is expressed in this PR piece, and why, if Detroit doesn't get its act together soon, it won't be much of a player in the automotive business going forward.
There will be a big shift from a petroleum based automotive industry to an electricity based automotive industry. The only real question is who will be the one to make the money.
Asia is way out ahead of the US in these technologies and it is unclear if America will ever again be a dominant player in the automotive industry, especially in a US auto industry that is unwilling or unable to keep up with technological progress and unable to break the lock and interconnecting web of entanglements with the oil industry. Consequently, California is well positioned with both its high tech base and forward looking industries, compared to Detroit. Likewise, it has lots of nearly free sunshine and wind and its citizenry is busy making use of it to get off their addiction to foreign oil.
Frankly, this piece displays a rather ignorant smugness of conservative status-quo thinking that Detroit and America can't afford to have, if they want to stay competitive. Sure, the politics of big oil and PR will keep Detroit in the game for some time to com
I've tried to investigate this, but the copy of My Pet Goat given to Bush after the incident has been locked away in a vault in his presidential library and they refuse allow anyone to see what he may have written in the margins.
Whatever he may have wrote, one things for sure, it very unlikely it wasthe proof of Fermat's last theorem.
Seems like a great myth for MythBusters to tackle, especially since when you look at the evidence Jesus was probably the most ardent advocate of welfare for the poor the world has ever known.
It wouldn't have done much good. The Sicilians you are talking about didn't arrive until after they threw the Greeks out of what is now Sicily.
republicans are pushing very hard right now to rebuild the failed Star-wars defense system and he's trying to show the country the futility of the program?
Its because many, for very good reason, see the possibility of her becoming President of the United States as potentially catastrophic for our nation, given her lack of education, insufficient knowledge, or adequate intelligence to be anywhere within a zillion miles of the presidency, not to mention her incredibly divisive politics where she goes around the country to proclaim how happy to be "in the pro-American part of the country" as she did in a recent speech in North Carolina.
If you can't see that, presumably you are stupid enough to be one of her supporters.
Mythbusters need to investigate the myth that among all the teajhadists combined they have more functional brain-cells as our Honolulu born US president.
After all, the guy was smart enough to post the announcement of his own birth in the Honolulu newspaper so he could go on to become President of the United States. Teajhadists are simply jealous. Just like Jerry Brown who planted the illegal immigrant maid in Meg Whitman's house 10 years ago and convince the SSA to send her a letter notifying her of the fact 7 years ago so he could beat her in the 2010 election. Compared to teajhadists, democrats look like geniuses.
No wonder America's interest in science withers, the left side of its brain seems to be working but the right side seems to have died.
"Sharks don't ram ships in real life".
The ampullae of Lorenzini are used by sharks for orientation. These electroreceptors can be influenced by ships hulls, which often have much metal. Reports of sharks and whales bumping into ships are not as uncommon as you may think.
No scientific experiment tests "ALL" aspects of a theory. Each test, regardless of how well designed, makes some assumptions that are presumed to be true.
It would truly be a fool's errand for Obama's time to try to go around "fix shit", when republicans are far too good and far to fast at plaster the place with it faster than any President could ever possibly clean it up.
It would be better if he could get even one kid to become a scientist and make an important discovery that really would help to "clean up the shit" as you so elegantly phrase it.
Funny. The constitution no where mentions space travel, quantum physics, microprocessors, cholesterol-blockers, PCR, ....
These must all be unconstitutional. We better give all these advances up to other countries that want them, because in the constitution it nowhere mentions the need for science education and efforts to promote it must therefore be unconstitutional.
Seems to me Mythbusters could really have a field day if it spent time on the evolution of political thinking. It is perhaps ironic that democrats have their "---- care" and republicans have the "--- gate", when republicans really don't care and democrats can't carry their own water.
"but this feels like a really weak excuse to have the President on TV"
Your attitude precisely expresses why America is faltering and why other societies are moving into the lead in so many areas of science and technology. Rather than recognizing the importance of any and all efforts to promote science and technology as interesting to kids and our citizenry in its own right, you would rather see the president fail and his appearance in support of such an effort become a political football.
What is truly sad is that the average American kid's education in math and science has fallen so far, that it now takes the President going on an entertainment-based "science" program to even get their interest. Its gotten to the point that one no longer knows which is falling faster in America, its standing in math and science education, its standard of living, or life expectancy, all of which are highly correlated.
I don't know if you have children, but frankly I feel sorry for them if you do. I also feel sorry for the countless other American kids who will grow up in a world where the finest universities will no longer be in the US, where the level of innumeracy and even simple knowledge of basic scientific concepts, such as what constitutes a theory, are beyond the vast majority to comprehend and who foolishly think that their lives won't be affected by the consequences and thus don't bother to promote it, want to pay taxes to support it, nor have the sense to encourage it at every opportunity.
My own sense is that if the President does go on the show and this leads to just one kid growing up to make an important scientific discovery, it will be a far greater accomplishment than anything republicans have done in the past 20 years combined. However, that is just my own opinion and I'll let other scientists stand up and defend all the great work republicans are doing on behalf of science.
So we can have civilization. When you get down to it, its really that simple.
Its just the politics of anarchy are far more popular these days, as people seek ways to get away with what they can amid the chaos of a collapsing biosphere.
The saying that "its what you learn, after you know it all that counts", seems to have fallen on deaf ears in America these days, where arrogance and has replaced wisdom and reason as the most sought after cultural commodity.
It certainly is true that once you get into science you discover that you know so very, very little about how things really are, even though you know far more than those who find math and science uninteresting or irrelevant to their lives.
Sadly, for America, the ignorance that comes with bliss is more highly prized by corporate America. Scientists these days are finding their talents and knowledge disrepected and too often mocked for being honest enough to admit that the current state of science doesn't have all the answers, just very good approximations to most answers. These days, when scientists say they don't have all the answers, the religious and ideologically driven scoff that they have no need for science, since they are convinced they have all the answers already.
Neuroscientists really need to answer why this is, before it is too late and what little that is left of the biodiversity on this planet that sustains humanity permanently disappears.
You need to download the latest Ubuntu patch that permits wheelless computing.that ushers in the era of flying carpet computing. Just look at the demographics, the world is going muslim, so it was bound to happen sooner or later.
The only aspect of this story that is credible is that it is certainly true that if you look at the gaming market and markets for "productivity software" sensu latu, what Linux lacks is a lot of widely (nearly universally) used software that can run across distros, with limited or no effort.
The funny thing is that if the various distro vendors really made an effort to get together and make it much, much easier for developers to create cross-platform builds for more open-source software and programmers to adopt more standaridization regarding I/O for porting data across platforms and programs in a truly open software spirit, this situation could change drastically in no time at all. Unfortunately, everyone thinks their way is best, so it won't happen.
The problem with the Linux desktop is basically that open source developers have used their "freedom" to push the snowball in many conflicting directions, so it has little chance to gain momentum against commercial entities who are really focused only on one thing, profits..
The irony is that if only one of the most voracious of the various IT corporation, Oracle, would be actually willing to support a more open, more truly community-based Java Community workgroup for Java that makes it a truly write once-run anywhere language with a full range of API's over the entire domain of possible computation, it could pretty well own or at least direct nearly all of the IT that is not truly open-source. Fortunately, for the rest of corporate IT profiters, Larry Elisson's shortsighted greed will prevent it from happening.
It seems incredibly ironic that today Slashdot has two simultaneous threads, one telling us that Linux is dead on the desktop and another telling us that Liinux is pushing Microsoft out of the corporate IT data center.
Perhaps its just that today even grandmothers have become a super-users, who do all their IT work in the cloud.
you buy up 80-90% of the ISP's. Then you get to be in charge.
Its only a step away from charging extra for your IP packets to be routed through News Corporation routers on its destination. Some ISP along the way says I won't pay and packets will have a way of getting lost.
Thats why after Murdoch owns about 85% of all media companies, he plans to turn his attention to the internet service providers, so that he can charge extra for sites people like by putting them in premium tiered space that requires a $350-$400 monthly charge to access them. Oh yes, in principle you will be able to get them for "free" as you do now, but in reality the lower/cheaper tier will be made so slow that you won't be able to load a page in less than a minute.
After the BSkyB purchase, Murdoch plans to go on an acquisitions binge buying up The New York Times, Barrons, Comcast, Cox Communications, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC. After that he plans to focus on controlling at least 85% of internet bandwidth in all US markets, at which point he plans to push for 2 tiered service, a slow internet and a fast internet that will be reserved strictly for paying customers with $350/month minimums, with extra fees to be added for each mouse click. Republicans are already falling all over themselves to ease media-ownership restrictions in exchange for additional free political advertising.
You have to admit this guy knows how to make money.
He F__ks everyone else.