Once-Conservative Adelphia Adds Hard-Core Porn to Cable: "Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation's only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn. Come Friday, triple-X-rated programming will be available on cable for the first time in a major media market: Southern California. "
We know what you're thinking Gentle Reader? "A "Red" entertainment company? Impossible! Everyone knows those degenerate movie types are all liberal." But here, it's simply not true. According to Open Secrets, Adelphia Communications and its employees made $33,000 in donations to the Republican Party in 2002.
William T. Schleyer, Adelphia's CEO, moreover, made personal contributions to Joe Barton (the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committe, from - that's funny, Mr. Schleyer lives in New Hampshire) John Sununu (Republican Senator from New Hampshire) and John Peterson, a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania, a member of the House Appropriations and the House Resource Committees - that's funny, Mr. Schleyer lives in New Hampshire).
Ron Cooper, the President of Adelphia, made contributions to John Sununu (that's funny, Mr. Cooper lives in Colorado), Ken Salazar (Democratic Senator from Colorado) and George W. Bush.
So, except for the $1000 that Mr. Cooper donated to Mr. Salazar's campaign, one could not help but conclude that Adelphia is a very "Red" company indeed. We wait with baited breath for the letters from Focus on the Family and Margaret Spellings. We assume that Il Ducetto, as a Christian, will speak to the folks at Adelphia and ask them not to create so great an occasion of sin for so many Americans.
