Hoping to spend as much as it wants on next year's elections, the National Rifle Association is looking to buy a TV or radio station and declare that it should be treated as a news organization, exempt from spending limits under the campaign finance law.
"We're looking at bringing a court case that we're as legitimate a media outlet as Disney or Viacom or Time-Warner," the NRA's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, told The Associated Press.
"Why should they have an exclusive right to relay information to the public, and why should not NRA be considered as legitimate a news source as they are? That's never been explored legally," he said.
And of course we already have MoveOn.org accumulating large sums for anti-Bush campaign -- a MoveOn petition even linked to on an official Democrat party website! -- to get around the soft money ban.
Both of these will prove unworkable in practice, IMO.
Evie

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