http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=44149

CREW Releases Report 'Addicted to Porn: Members of Congress Accept Political Contributions from Porn Purveyors'

3/10/2005 11:30:00 AM

WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report Addicted to Porn: Members of Congress Accept Political Contributions from Porn Purveyors. The report details how 15 Members of Congress, including 11 Representatives and four Senators, all of whom revile pornography, have accepted campaign contributions from corporations and executives who derive substantial profits from selling pornography.

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CREW's executive director Melanie Sloan stated "it is one thing to be silent on the issue and accept porn purveyor's contributions. However, these Members of Congress attempt to slap pornographers with fines and legislative restrictions with one hand and turn around and accept porn profits with the other. Our report details the hypocrisy of this 'skin caucus.'"

Some of the findings of the report:

Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) -- who equivocates pornography with crack cocaine -- accepted $17,000 from porn peddlers.

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) -- who has long campaigned against the growing coarseness of our culture -- along with renown gambling addict William Bennet, handed out "Silver Sewer" awards to those who made immoral videos, and who has criticized MTV for having porn stars on the air, accepted over $16,000.

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who leads the charge against indecency, accepted over $56,000.

Arizona Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who claimed to be the "anti-porn" presidential candidate in ads that ran prior to the South Carolina primary, pocketed $46,000 from corporations and executives who profit from porn.

Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director referred to Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) as "the biggest hypocrite of all" for having written a letter to former Vice President Al Gore demanding that he return a contribution from an adult entertainment web site and for sanctimoniously ranting at Viacom executives that they cared more about profits than morality, despite accepting $47,000 in porn profits.

Thank you for this. This will cause such a ruckus on a politics board I frequent!! :bdance:

These people are grouping AT&T and other cable carriers as porn pushers.

Which they are, but its not Huslter is giving money to them.

I downloaded the report, but the pdf file is coming up as corrupted , so I can't see who all they are naming or how they are making the connections.

Doesn't matter what "color" your collar is if you push porn you are a pornographer. These politicans rail against pornography and hit others on the issue while taking money from corporations that make more money in porn than people here do. You would get treated like a criminal by someone like Brownback. But dress up porn money and hide it behind a white collar company and its all good to them.

Uh, you all do know that isn't a newspaper or news mag but a press release place, now dontcha? And the press release was sent in by one of those moral majority right-wing ultra-Christian conservative little places, right?

Mike, yep, they have hotel chains and cable companies in there right next to AT&T.

Sare, seriously bro, I think you need a new computer or something. You can't seem to read PDFs or view MOVs either lately. :(

They aren't just including cable companies ... they are including hotel chains and telephone carriers (AT&T, SWB et al) as well.

Edited to add - also included in the repoort is General Motors, because they at one time owned DirecTV.

Yes, it is a press release, but I don't think it's from some right-wing religious organization.

This page would be enough to make Mike's blood boil - so must be some kinda commies.

More damned double-speak on that page ... for a page that's an "about us" ... they certainly seem to speak more around themselves.

That said, little hints like "litigation to target outrageous conduct" and how they are full of "injustice" and feel like "victims" is, um, interesting.

... Geez, haven't they ever heard of the VChp? They can do lock themselves out of everything except the Disney channel.

Oh wait, Disney owns Buena Vista. Nevermind. I guess it's PAX for them. :)

Ahhh ... but take a look at most of of the suits they've filed. Most have been against Bush &/or various Republicans.

Like I said ... commies.

ROTFL!! :okthumb:

Oh .... Mike!!! :)

lol :-)

I know one of the companies who contributed to lieberman's campaign, and the did it specifically to fuck things up for him down the line, lololol