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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who started this subject9/14/2004 9:24:48 AM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
CBS probe sought
BoycottCBS.com, which led the successful fight last fall against the CBS miniseries that mocked the Reagans, has asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether CBS and its parent company, Viacom, violated federal election laws by using obviously fraudulent documents to attack a presidential candidate less than 60 days before Election Day.
Under the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law, corporate funds cannot pay for broadcasts that name a candidate within 60 days of a general election. While CBS claims a media exemption for its news division, yesterday's FEC complaint argues that the media exemption does not protect fraudulent broadcasts or those coordinated with a candidate's campaign.
"If Dan Rather and CBS want to peddle lies, we believe they should be free to do so," said Mike Paranzino, boycottCBS.com creator and president of the nonprofit group that brought the complaint. "But under the McCain-Feingold law that Rather and CBS/Viacom championed for years, broadcasting fraudulent material that names a candidate less than 60 days before an election is a violation of federal law, as is coordinating such a broadcast with a candidate's campaign. The FEC must investigate this at once."
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