<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/27fb06db-1fa8-451b-a933-7294bc2f56d8/BF088423-7F2B-40C9-80F4-080B6197C88F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.msnbc.msn.com/img/163A3545-2F46-44CF-9FC0-3283546E7B17" alt="TV reporter Calvert Collins with candidate Jim Esch" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/"><DIV class="caption">In addition to giving $500 to Democratic congressional candidate Jim Esch, Omaha TV reporter Calvert Collins posted a photo of the two of them on her Facebook page, saying, "Vote for him Tuesday, Nov. 7!" She says her father wrote the check, and she was just building rapport with candidates. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV class="box_3027626"><TABLE width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxH_3027626"><TBODY><TR><TD width="1%" class="boxHI_3027626"><IMG width="100" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="20" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/ColorBoxes/Styles/img/byline_msnbcDotCom.gif" /></TD><TD width="*" nowrap="" class="boxHC_3027626"><DIV class="textSmallBold"></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxB_3027626"><TBODY><TR valign="top"><TD><IMG vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" alt="MSNBC.com investigative reporter Bill Dedman" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Bylines/mugs/MSNBC Interactive/msnbc_dedman_bill_02.thumb.jpg" /></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD class="boxBI_3027626"><DIV class="textMed"><B>Bill Dedman</B></DIV><DIV class="credit">Investigative reporter</DIV><HR width="85%" size="1" color="#cccccc" align="center" /><DIV><SPAN class="bulletRedSmall">• </SPAN><SPAN class="textMed"><A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14897510/">Profile</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="bulletRedSmall">• </SPAN><SPAN class="textMed"><A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/mailto:Bill.Dedman@MSNBC.com">E-mail</A></SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxF_3027626"><TBODY><TR><TD class="boxFI_3027626"><DIV class="textSmall"></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>BOSTON - A CNN reporter gave $500 to John Kerry's campaign the same month he was embedded with the U.S. Army in Iraq. An assistant managing editor at Forbes magazine not only sent $2,000 to Republicans, but also volunteers as a director of an ExxonMobil-funded group that questions global warming. A junior editor at Dow Jones Newswires gave $1,036 to the liberal group MoveOn.org and keeps a blog listing "people I don't like," starting with George Bush, Pat Robertson, the Christian Coalition, the NRA and corporate America ("these are the people who are really in charge").</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/">MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF088423-7F2B-40C9-80F4-080B6197C88F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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