Actually, a TV ad that lists thousands of names and deliberately violates this law and decision, is entirely possible. There is another provision of the FEC law that helps. One clause says that broadcasters MUST run a political ad as submitted and cannot refuse it or censor it.
Using that, an advertiser I know ran an ad on ABC radio, as I recall, for Barry Commoner, then a candidate for President, that used the word "Bullsh*t." They HAD to run it, and did. It cost $900 to run. It garnered hundreds of thousands of dollars in free publicity.
There are ways to fight this cr*p, and I intend to be in the forefront of the battle. But obviously the Supreme Court is a lost cause for defending the First Amendment rights of citizens.
Congressman Billybob
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As presently constituted, I agree. However, a one-justice shift changes that. And, as I have said elsewhere, maybe conservatives will get to work to take some sort of foothold against Big Media. It didn't take long for Fox News Channel to leave CNN and MSNBC in the dust. Why not push for a "Fox Evening News" to air every night? Why not find wealthy conservatives who would be willing to buy newspapers and eventually swing them to the right?
Would it not be a better idea to work for those shifts and even the playing field that the Left has had to itself for all too long?