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JohnD.Ford
Junior Chimp
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« on: January 22, 2010, 04:10:47 PM » |
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Is there anyone here who still is foolish enough to believe that you can get money out of politics? I mean other than pbrower?
I wonder, pbrower, would you ban newspapers, tv channels and radio stations from publishing editorial content? Isn't an editorial by a large media conglomerate corporate funding of political speech?
If you ban spending on politics by corporations, you don't end the ability of corporations to engage ins peech. You just advantage certain corporations (Media conglomerates) over others. A company can't buy a 30 second tv spot, but they can buy a tv station and run eidtorials all day? A citizens actions group can afford a 30 second tv ad to compete with corporate speech, but McCain-Feingold would bar them from doing so. A citizen's group cannot buy a tv station to compete with editorial content from Viacom and General Electric. I don't think you and you allies have thought through the consequences of what you propose. You just rail about corporate power, as if that were and argument.
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