Kerry opposes guns, speech too, or only for the pro-gun side?

[alan]

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Posted on Tue, Dec. 09, 2003

Kerry Asks FEC to Block NRA Channel
SHARON THEIMER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry doesn't want to tune in to a National Rifle Association channel anytime soon.

The Massachusetts senator sent Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub a letter Tuesday asking the commission to block any attempt by the NRA to get a media exemption to campaign finance rules.

The gun-rights lobby is considering acquiring a television or radio outlet and seeking the same exemption from campaign finance rules that news organizations have. If the group won a media exemption, it would be free to say whatever it wanted about candidates at any time and spend unlimited amounts doing so.

"We urge you to prevent the NRA from hijacking America's airwaves with the gun lobby's money," Kerry's letter said. "If the NRA has something to say, it can play by the rules, just like the millions of people in America who do every day."

The NRA, financed in part with corporate money, is banned by the campaign finance law from running ads identifying federal candidates close to elections in states where they are on the ballot. It contends the rules violate free-speech rights, and is among several groups asking the Supreme Court to strike them down.

 

[labgrade]

Wow!

Who could be more astounded that The Big Money would attempt to block another Big Money from getting their "give us more money" message from the airwaves.

I'm just astonished!

The whole "campaign finance reform bill" is as transparant as their own bid for election - any of 'em - & that includes the NRA's fund-raising to "protect the second."

It's all BS.

If The Problem is ever fixed, every one of these fund-whores is out of business.

Any arguements on that? at all?

But, "their rules" are what they have set up to preclude any others from expressing their own free speech.

How absolutely disgusting - these congress-pukes.

 

[cracked butt]

Who the hell does Kerry think he is?
I'm sure he supports the use of tax money for public television and radio so they can spew their left wing crap at everyone's expense yet doesn't want a private organization to buy airwaves with its own money?

 

[Art Eatman]

Hey, it's only been some 35 years since Mario Savio and the "Free Speech" movement at UC Berkeley. (Berzerkly?) "You're free to speak, if we agree with you. If we don't agree with what you'd say, shut up or we'll shout you down!"

No changes in these last decades...

Art

 

[Russ]

In a few months, Kerry will fade from the national scene forever. What a BOZO. He thinks that because he went to Vietnam he is something wonderful. I don't think so. He's just a jerk.

Jay Leno had a picture of Kerry and took it out on his "man in the street" interview. He showed the picture to a passerby and asked "who is this"?

One guy said Lurch (Lerch) from the old Addams Family show. They showed a picture of Lurch next to Kerry and you could barely tell them apart. Very funny. I almost lost it. Makes me chuckle every time I think about it.

 

[TarpleyG]

From Rush Limbaugh's site.

(Edited for decorum purposes by Don Gwinn)

 

[Don Gwinn]

To what "rules" is he referring? Are there really rules to the effect that political groups can't own broadcast facilities? It's precisely the same approach as gun control. You have the right to do it, just not to own the means to do it.

 

[Mark Tyson]

I doubt there would be any hoopla over ACLU television, human rights watch television, Greenpeace television, NAACP television . . .

 

[TarpleyG]

Point taken, Don. Sorry. Just not a fan is all.

GT

 

[Russ]

TarpelyG,

Thanks for the comparison photo. There's another one with just a head shot that is hillarious too.