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...Just about everything changed in movies, in their content and their conduits to the audience. Yet Valenti, as the industry's chief lobbyist (his employers were the six major studios), made sure that business proceeded as usual, without federal interference or oversight. He politicked hard and heartily with his old Washington friends for favorable tariff rulings, and in the process maintained Hollywood's status as one of the few national cinemas not subject to government censorship. (It's also one of the few to receive no direct government subsidies for film production, so I guess that's a fair swap...
...Rove's mentioning the names of three he thought were underperforming. Rove is at the center of the White House's lost-e-mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April 24, the Los Angeles Times reported that the independent Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Rove and his staff engaged in a broad range of illegal political activities. What's with Rove's omnipresence? For starters, some investigators...
...subsidies in order to avoid the contribution limits that go with them. This includes McCain, whose name is on McCain-Feingold, the most recent failed attempt to curb money's role in politics. When the press started reporting that his campaign was in trouble, McCain hired a major corporate lobbyist as his finance chairman. The press approved. This showed that he was serious...
...which candidate is truly Hollywood's darling, everyone will be watching the March 31 campaign-finance reports for the answer to that question. "Obama is Usher, but she's Madonna," says Hilary Rosen, the recording industry's former chief lobbyist and a Clinton supporter. "He has a long career ahead of him, but the touring dollars don't compare." At least not yet. If the show is this good already, the tickets may be worth the price...
Kinsley is right to defend partisanship, but he misses the higher ground. In U.S. politics, the winner takes all, ideologues and hacks supplant statesmen, and reputation and access can be bought. One needs to look no further than lobbyist-lined K Street to understand...