{"id":51,"date":"2012-06-19T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/06\/bill-moyers-video-clip-why-american-elections-are-no-longer-fair-and-free-the-stunning-consequences-of-citizens-united\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:06:00","slug":"bill-moyers-video-clip-why-american-elections-are-no-longer-fair-and-free-the-stunning-consequences-of-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/06\/bill-moyers-video-clip-why-american-elections-are-no-longer-fair-and-free-the-stunning-consequences-of-citizens-united.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Moyers Video Clip: Why American Elections are No Longer Fair and Free &#8211; The Stunning Consequences of Citizen&#8217;s United"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-l3.blogcritics.org\/10\/11\/07\/147999\/Bill-Moyers.jpg\">\u00a0\n<div>My hat is off to Clara Jeffrey and Monika Bauerlein, who are some of the only journalists who are really on top of the changes that are happening in the American political world in regard to what they call Dark Money. Dark Money is the mountain of\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: white\">unregulated, undisclosed money flowing into the electoral process right now. There is no federal oversight on where the money is coming from, who is behind it, and it is not being measured or accounted for in an open and honest way. The coming elections will be bought, not fought, for the first time in the modern era.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\">All of this is connected to the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Citizen\u2019s United<\/a><\/i> decision, which most people do not understand or even know about.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">Citizen\u2019s United wiped out clean election laws that were on the books to safeguard fair elections. It destroyed accountability and regulation and allowed corporations and the uber-rich to bring unprecedented money to bear on elections w\/out any sort of check or balance, even on the veracity of content of ads.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">This is not a republican thing, this is not a democrat thing \u2013 this is a question of how we are going to organize as a people, and how to make sure that elections are fair and honest.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They no longer are.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\">Bill Moyer recently did a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/episode\/full-show-dark-money-in-politics\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fascinating show<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white\"> on the topic of Dark Money with several different contributors chiming in. It is an illuminating look at the new political landscape, and how it actually works out in specific cases. It is pretty incredible to hear. These folks are telling \u00a0a story that almost nobody is listening to. I implore you to spend some time watching this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\">This is a short segment with Jeffrey and Bauerlein in which they talk about Citizen\u2019s United and its impact on elections.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My hat is off to Clara Jeffrey and Monika Bauerlein, who are some of the only journalists who are really on top of the changes that are happening in the American political world in regard to what they call Dark Money. 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