Stephanie
Diamond Member
- Jul 11, 2004
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Don't accuse Democrats of being Fascist. I bet you didn't sign up for this when you cast your vote for that Messiah, Obama. one way or another they'll find a way to squash your Freedom of SPEECH. Democrats are the for little people, right?
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By Dan Calabrese -- Bio and Archives April 8, 2016
Republican members block the action, but dang
The next time a liberal claims there is no such thing as liberal media bias, all you have to do is ask why this story wasn’t covered outside of Fox News and sites like ours. A man makes an independent film critical of the president, and the Federal Election Commission comes within one vote of punishing him for it. He didn’t coordinate with any candidate or any party. He did it entirely on his own because he had something to say. Yet the FEC, which by law consists of three Democrats and three Republicans, actually takes a vote - which ends in a tie along party lines - to find him guilty of violating campaign finance reporting rules.
Had there been one more Democrat vote - which is something Democrats want by the way - Joel Gilbert would have been
forced to disclose all his funding sources for the film:
The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, in their latest and boldest move to regulate conservative media, voted in unison to punish a movie maker critical of President Obama after he distributed for free his latest work, Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, owner of Highway 61 films, has produced several independent politically-themed movies and sent Dreams out to millions of voters in key swing states prior to the 2012 election.
While he acted on his own, and with no ties to political groups or parties, an FEC complaint was filed claiming he violated reporting rules, prompting him to seek the standard media “exemption.”
But despite giving the same exemption to liberal movie makers like Michael Moore and Daily Kos, the Democrats recently voted against Gilbert in a February action, reviving their bid to punish conservative media, a campaign initially targeting online news outlets like the Drudge Report.
So much is wrong here. For starters, while it’s obviously hypocritical that the Dem members wanted to deny the exemption to Gilbert while they gave it to Moore, neither Gilbert nor Moore should ever have had to seek an “exemption” to anything in the first place. Democrats on the FEC want to treat all political speech (well, all political speech by conservatives anyway) as if it’s subject to campaign finance laws - even if there is no evidence of any coordination with or intention to specifically support a candidate.
all of it here:
Dems on FEC vote to punish conservative for making anti-Obama movie
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By Dan Calabrese -- Bio and Archives April 8, 2016
Republican members block the action, but dang
The next time a liberal claims there is no such thing as liberal media bias, all you have to do is ask why this story wasn’t covered outside of Fox News and sites like ours. A man makes an independent film critical of the president, and the Federal Election Commission comes within one vote of punishing him for it. He didn’t coordinate with any candidate or any party. He did it entirely on his own because he had something to say. Yet the FEC, which by law consists of three Democrats and three Republicans, actually takes a vote - which ends in a tie along party lines - to find him guilty of violating campaign finance reporting rules.
Had there been one more Democrat vote - which is something Democrats want by the way - Joel Gilbert would have been
forced to disclose all his funding sources for the film:
The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, in their latest and boldest move to regulate conservative media, voted in unison to punish a movie maker critical of President Obama after he distributed for free his latest work, Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, owner of Highway 61 films, has produced several independent politically-themed movies and sent Dreams out to millions of voters in key swing states prior to the 2012 election.
While he acted on his own, and with no ties to political groups or parties, an FEC complaint was filed claiming he violated reporting rules, prompting him to seek the standard media “exemption.”
But despite giving the same exemption to liberal movie makers like Michael Moore and Daily Kos, the Democrats recently voted against Gilbert in a February action, reviving their bid to punish conservative media, a campaign initially targeting online news outlets like the Drudge Report.
So much is wrong here. For starters, while it’s obviously hypocritical that the Dem members wanted to deny the exemption to Gilbert while they gave it to Moore, neither Gilbert nor Moore should ever have had to seek an “exemption” to anything in the first place. Democrats on the FEC want to treat all political speech (well, all political speech by conservatives anyway) as if it’s subject to campaign finance laws - even if there is no evidence of any coordination with or intention to specifically support a candidate.
all of it here:
Dems on FEC vote to punish conservative for making anti-Obama movie
