1.0 link 44894 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/hostile-takeover-08-democ_b_44894.html Flipping on the television last night, I was struck by how utterly vapid the media's coverage of the presidential fundraising numbers really is. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but there's something, well, surreal about watching Adam Nagourney and Charlie Rose sit there chin-scratching like Serious Thinkers while spending a full 15-20 minutes of airtime trying to bend FEC numbers into a Vegas-style handicapping system, without so much as a word about what industries are buying what from whom with...

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