This is no different from the FEC bullying the Democrats did against Sinclair TV stations in trying to keep STOLEN HONOR off the air. That was despicable and so is this.
Our campaign finance laws are an absolute travesty. Every politician who supported them (including BOTH John Kerry and John Edwards as well as George Bush) should be excoriated. It's unconscienable, just unconscienable.
Well, Dean, in this case it seems to be a clearer case of explicit promotion of a specific candidate. That is, the DJs and station in question do seem to have broken the law.
The Sinclair case was less obvious, unless they were going to add commercial breaks in the movie, where they would show 1-800- numbers to promote Bush's candidacy, or some such.
So it sounds like the GOP is accurately citing the law, in this case.
I will agree with you, completely, that it's a shit law, but maybe you should take that up with the folks in Congress who thought it was great idea? Couple o' guys named McCain and Feingold, if I recall; not to mention the goobers who voted for it.
Yeah; that would be a nice answer for whomever asked Dubya about any mistakes that he had made; this was one of them!
I still think he figured he could finesse the situation by signing the bill, then letting the Supreme Court overturn it. That way he avoids the heat of being the "president who opposed reform."
Whoopsie! The SCOTUS maintained M-F. Dammit. Yep, Dubya screwed the pooch on that one.
Well, let's put it this way: if Bush wins decisively on Tuesday, it will prove once and for all that 1) money doesn't win elections, because Republicans have been massively outspent this year when you put in all the 527 money, and 2) these "reforms" created a bigger more ugly mess than anything we've ever had in the past.
I agree with the tenor of this discussion, but I would also like to point out that David Dreier is a cabable man doing a fine job, and that John and Ken of KFI Los Angeles are idiots who are not just ignorant on nearly every issue they discuss, but apparently quite proud of that fact.
Nonetheless, stomping on speech is stomping on speech, and I'd like to see McCain-Feingold flushed down the toilet as soon as possible.
Our campaign finance laws are an absolute travesty. Every politician who supported them (including BOTH John Kerry and John Edwards as well as George Bush) should be excoriated. It's unconscienable, just unconscienable.
The Sinclair case was less obvious, unless they were going to add commercial breaks in the movie, where they would show 1-800- numbers to promote Bush's candidacy, or some such.
So it sounds like the GOP is accurately citing the law, in this case.
I will agree with you, completely, that it's a shit law, but maybe you should take that up with the folks in Congress who thought it was great idea? Couple o' guys named McCain and Feingold, if I recall; not to mention the goobers who voted for it.
I'd like to tattoo a copy of the first amendment on every one of these jerks' foreheads.
I still think he figured he could finesse the situation by signing the bill, then letting the Supreme Court overturn it. That way he avoids the heat of being the "president who opposed reform."
Whoopsie! The SCOTUS maintained M-F. Dammit. Yep, Dubya screwed the pooch on that one.
Nonetheless, stomping on speech is stomping on speech, and I'd like to see McCain-Feingold flushed down the toilet as soon as possible.