What was that old saying? If you can’t appeal to black voters…. bribe the newspapers? Wait, that wasn’t it?
The Orlando Sentinel reports that RPOF Chairman Jim Greer is open to buying ads in black news media in exchange for presumably favorable coverage of his party:
Greer promised that the party would stop ignoring black media. He said that mainstream newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Tribune and Tallahassee Democrat cover the party’s issues regardless of whether they advertise, but the party chairman nevertheless seemed willing to accept the quid-pro-quo arrangement.
“When I hear that when we advertise, the paper will be more likely to disseminate Republican issues, am I hearing right?” Greer asked. “I don’t understand the legitimacy of disseminating information and having a tie-in to revenue — but I get it.”
What won’t Jim Greer buy with donor money? (See: here, here, and here.)
Short answer: Greer won’t buy ads to help John McCain’s presidential campaign when it counts, but he’ll help himself to free stays in five-star hotels and free rides on charter airplanes on donor dime. And he’ll look to buy positive media coverage.
The Reid Report responds to the Sentinel story and gives Greer some free advice:
Stop. Just stop. Not only is this story, which appeared in the Orlando Sentinel over the weekend, embarrassing for those Black media outlets (which I assume are mostly newspapers since there are only a handful of black-owned radio stations in Florida) and who should be ashamed of themselves for basically trying to hustle political parties for cash, it’s also humiliating for you. If you really think buying news coverage in Black papers will get you anything other than a bill, you don’t know very many Black people.
This is just one more reason why Republican insiders wish Greer would go through with his farcical plot to run for Congress, lose, and be out of their hair. Personally, I hope he sticks around.
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Jim Greer, should have researched what was going on before he took such a bold step to “stamp” certain people out.
He should step down immediately.
The people involved, all of them are HUMAN BEINGS who care about this country. That should be first and foremost in the minds of the “ruling elite”, but it is not, because they don’t care what anyone thinks. He even admitted it. He said “do you want to win”, and ordered people to go along with his idea of what winning is, writing everybody off as ignorant and not having an open mind.
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