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award-winning Best of Left Podcasts with Cups Day from the Young Turks, the Rachel Maddox Show,

the Tom Hartman program, the David Pakman Show, and Jim Hightower. New York Times is another

great editorial about dark money and the influence of money in politics. And they're explaining how

President Obama actually does want to address a part of it. Thanks God. But of course, the Republicans

are fighting. So let's explain. President Obama is reported to be considering an important break

on the torn of dark money already flooding the 2016 presidential campaign, an executive order

requiring federal contractors to disclose their donations to political candidates. Mr. Obama

should immediately sign such an order. This editorial board of the New York Times taking a position

on this. This position is nearly inarguable. It should be led federal contractors secretly give

money to politicians. The politicians then decide who's who's going to get the federal contracts.

That would be the most obvious bribery of all time. But it's legalized and now they want to keep

it in the dark. So President Obama is saying, Hey, look, I'm not going to make it illegal. I can't

the Supreme Court says giving a politician money is not illegal. It's your, you're just talking to

them. It's speech. Okay. I don't understand why they can't just put it in their pockets. They can

give it to them in campaign donations. They can hire them later and give it directly in their

pockets. They can give it to their independent expenditures. The only thing I, those are all speech.

But if you say, Oh, here, go buy a fur coat with it. Oh, wait a minute. That's a bribe.

Now they're all bribs. They're all bribes. And you know that they're something wrong when you're

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