Exposing Liberal Lies

Over the last several decades, the liberals (now calling themselves “progressives”) have become increasingly adept at spinning the issues and redefining perceptions to their advantage while conservatives have failed repeatedly to expose their liberal lies and distortions.  With the presidential election cycle now in full swing, I thought it appropriate to provide some hard facts in response to some of their claims.

This is the first in a planned series of “daylight” exposures I’ll be sending you from time to time over the next several months.  Feel free to discuss and share them with others and to delve deeper if any of them really perk your interest.  I’ll provide sources of reference.

With all the recent “OCCUPY” protests so much in the news, I thought the following might be appropriate:

Claim #1 – “Republicans are the party of the rich corporate special interests.”

Fact – In the 2008 presidential election cycle, the top 100 donors to the major political parties gave overwhelmingly to Democrats!

Contributors with greater than 50% of their total contributions donated to Dems	65		$202,073,569	$99,885,025
			65%	32%
Contributors with greater than 50% of their total contributions donated to Repubs	22		$ To Dems	$ To Repubs

All the numbers are for the 2008 election cycle and are based on data released by the FEC on July 13, 2009.

The short story - The organizations listed here were the biggest donors to federal candidates and political parties in the election cycle. The numbers combine all PAC, soft money (for the 2008 election cycle and before), and large ($200+) individual contributions made by the organization, its employees, officers and their immediate families. Subsidiaries and affiliates are also included in the totals. Not included is money spent independently on issue ads or donations to political party conventions, legal defense funds, presidential inaugurations or post-election recount funds.

The data is provided courtesy of The Center for Responsive Politics.