Posted on 07/11/2017 6:31:43 PM PDT by Maceman
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is looking to target right-wing media outlets under the guise that they could’ve helped Russia interfere into our presidential election, reported The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard Tuesday.
The commission will decide at this Thursday’s meeting whether or not to investigate websites like the Drudge Report, Breitbart and others on the right for violating election spending rules by allowing advertising on their Facebook pages by Russian entities.
The call for investigation was spearheaded by the FEC’s Democrat commissioner, Ellen L. Weintraub, who has been trying to accomplish this for months. In May, she told Politico, “I think there is potential there for finding a violation, but I don’t want to suggest that I have prejudged anything that could potentially come before me.”
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“———but I don’t want to suggest that I have prejudged anything that could potentially come before me.””
Of COURSE you haven’t prejudged,Ellen. /s
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I actually feel dumber after reading that.
God help us when this is grounds for the capital "S" State investigating you. Oh wait looks like it already is.
Wow...advertising on their ‘facebook’ sites?
How does one ‘advertise’ on another business’s facebook site? One can’t as far as I know and have never seen such a thing.
Links posted sure...but those are free...like free speech...right?
Fascist bastards.
Before the investigation of “right wing” sites, where is the evidence of this Russian interference? This is what my dad used to call “going off on a tangent” when I would deflect from the issue of our discussion.
Time to replace the FEC Chair. Now.
Right? Wouldn’t they have to say which ads were contraband?
One can get sued for refusing ads from a person or group, and apparently fined if you don’t refuse from the wrong person or group.
We are well past the consent of the governed.
-PJ
This imbecile cannot be this asinine?
Another swamp creature that cannot be flushed down the toilet.
The Russia!,Russia!,Russia! will NEVER go away as Soros,Clinton and Obama surrogates have the marching orders.
I wonder if Juan McCain finds this “troubling”
The "official" narrative on the left is that any criticism of Hillary during the campaign had to be Russian propaganda. Only the MSM speaks the truth about politics.
FEC Commis does what ?
FEC Commis does what ?
Fine, but can’t they begin with CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, and all of those other MSM outlets who are nothing more than propaganda arms for the dictatorial left?
If we are to believe this commissioner, then any reporting on real and documented flaws, misdeeds, disregard of law, etc., by a socialist candidate is evidence of collusion by some foreign entity because it is unseemly for people to know the truth about that candidate. On the other hand, she thinks it is okay to impugn and imply all sorts of nefarious activity of a non-socialist candidate, regardless of whether any evidence of wrong-doing exists.
It looks to me like some swamp-draining is in order here.
When pigs fly.
Time to replace the FEC Chair. Now
Exactly!! Why is this 0bama holdover hack the head of the FCC????
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