[Libertina]

ABCNBCCBSCNN are more political organizations that we are...

[aynrandfreak]

Who was the Republican?

[TASMANIANRED]

Thomas Paine lives.

[mdittmar]

Lawmakers: Hands off blogs

[billybudd]

Why is this even an issue? We have freedom of speech - end of story. The FEC can shove it.

[Fenris6]

The real story is that McCain-Feingold is a joke. Repeal it.

[longtermmemmory]

FR and other FORUMS should be treated the same as any public debate or perhaps a vigorous discussion at a coffeehouse.

Regulating forums makes about as much sense as regulating chairs for their role in political discussion.

[FreeReign]

action.downsidedc.org | 03-08-05 | Snipet:On September 18, 2004, in a dense, 157-page decision, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled . . . “To permit an entire class of political communications to be completely unregulated . . . would permit an evasion of campaign finance laws . . . ”

Link

[Cicero]

IMHO the only questionable organizations are ones like moveon.org, which are sponsored by big donors like Soros.

Wonkette may be an idiot, but as far as I know she's her own idiot, without backing from the DNC or the usual suspects. FreeRepublic is a free association supported by its members.

Under the McCain-Feingold law they could probably close down moveon.org. But frankly McCain-Feingold is unconstitutional. Since SCOTUS is too ideological to admit that, congress should repeal the damnable thing. And get their act together to appoint some decent judges.

[Brett66]

This wouldn't affect FR, since it's not a blog.....

[ex-Texan]

I took a look at (http://wonkette.com) and was not impressed. The woman writes with a pen dipped into her own foul mouth. Based on the 'reviews' she has posted, she apparently has a penchant for penis jokes. One reviewer even called her a 'skank' and she was bragging about it? DU-h! And this sort of mean-spirited rubbish passes for humor in today's vile political climate?

Quoth the maven, nevermore!

[ElkGroveDan]

if they work too closely with political campaigns by, for example, reprinting their press releases.

Who ever decided that reprinting a press release constitutes "working closely" with a campaign hasn't viewed enough threads here on Free Republic. My experience is that we are equal opportunity press-release bashers and promoters here.

It's the kind of thing our founding fathers envisioned for political debate int his country, but these gummint folks wouldn't understand that I suppose.

[goldstategop]

Repeal Constitutionally Forcible Rape 100%. Restore the original meaning of the First Amendment.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[rwfromkansas]

What is so sad is that it is the Democrats leading the fight for our freedom.

Only one Republican signer?

[Route101]

.... Fourteen members of the House of Representatives said blogs foster a welcome diversity of viewpoints....You Bet!!!...that's the P.C. way of saying....the blogs kick ass!

[Nita Nupress]

If the FEC determines that blogs [discussion forums] are in fact political organizations,...

What a joke. FR a "political organization?" Hah! You can tell they weren't lurking during the Buchanan Wars.

[nutmeg]

read later

[GretchenM]

Thirteen dems and 1 pubbie are pushing this.

Why are dems pushing this? I mean, of course, they stand to gain from it, but it's not really like them to take a stand so avidly in this way.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!

[Alissa]

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