Friday, March 25, 2005
Free Speech Under Attack?
Franky, I haven't paid much (okay, I've paid no) attention to the story that has been floating around the blogosphere lately, that the blogs are threatened by the FEC and McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law. It just didn't register a ping on my sonar.
Well, it turns out that a piss-pot full of money from notorious liberal non-profit foundations has been devoted to advancing the bogus idea that there was a groundswell of public opinion over the last decade that something must be done to reform campaign finance law. One of the main players in this is a guy who in 1994 worked for the Pew Charitable Trust (one of the notorious); he admits now to having scared up out of whole cloth the study that purportedly showed that the public was clamoring for finance law reform.
If you're new to this story, Frontpage Magazine today is a good place to start; lots of links for background info and other opinion on the issue too.
Well, it turns out that a piss-pot full of money from notorious liberal non-profit foundations has been devoted to advancing the bogus idea that there was a groundswell of public opinion over the last decade that something must be done to reform campaign finance law. One of the main players in this is a guy who in 1994 worked for the Pew Charitable Trust (one of the notorious); he admits now to having scared up out of whole cloth the study that purportedly showed that the public was clamoring for finance law reform.
If you're new to this story, Frontpage Magazine today is a good place to start; lots of links for background info and other opinion on the issue too.
# posted by mds : 9:04 AM
