Is it too late to mention that Drudge doesn’t write a single story on his web site, but rather links headlines to the actual news stories that various left/center/right publications have?
He writes the headlines but is a funny headline electioneering? Seriously? FEC will lose that fight, if they’re stupid enough to try it.
I would tend to agree...FEC bites off an enormous responsibility.
First, you’d need a staff of two-thousand per shift, to sit and review blog, by blog, and news article by news article....around the clock.
What happens when the guy mounts his blog to a Tonga IP? Will you seek to block that one blog? You would require at least a hundred administrators working full-time to block IP address after IP address.
The legal staff required to keep the FEC functional? I’d take a guess of 500 to 1,000 lawyers working around the clock. You’d have to figure $500 million a year to just work the legal functions of the staff.
Then you come to bottom line....would you start to infringe upon various left-wing commentary, and start blocking the radicals? Absolute fury would be unleashed.
All of this leads to a 1984-like scenario....where someone decides your news, your health stuff, your economics, and your life. Why bother voting? Why bother paying taxes or paying attention to any rational law?