[El Gato]

So people can now be jailed for running an ad that criticizes an officeholder or candidate for office before an election?

Or praises one for that matter. The other side, whichever side that might be, can be counted on to turn you in. Of course noone would run your ad anyway, because they could then be held as an accessory. Freedom of the press just went down along with freedom of speech. Much of "the press" hasn't figured that out yet.

[Congressman Billybob]

Nope, the TV station that ran the ad would not be an "accessory." To the contrary, as I've noted in other posts on this thread, as long as a federal candidate is in the equation the station MUST carry the ad and cannot censor it.

John / Billybob