(K)razy (K)at (K)ruz: Senate CU amendment would put Lorne Michaels at risk of being jailed

[cali]

Yeah, yeah. He's brilliant. Or so say the pundits.

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Perhaps the most attention-getting portion of Cruz’s lengthy speech (which you can read in its entirety here) came when he suggested that Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of NBC’s long-running show Saturday Night Live, would be put at risk of imprisonment if the amendment were enacted:

"When I asked the senator from Minnesota (Al Franken, a former Saturday Night Live writer and actor) in the Senate Judiciary Committee, ‘Do you believe that Congress should have the constitutional authority to prohibit Saturday Night Live from making fun of politicians, the good senator promptly reassured me he had no intention of doing any such thing. But what we are debating is not the intentions of 100 senators. What we are debating is a constitutional amendment that 49 Democrats are proposing to be inserted into the Bill of Rights. ...

"What the amendment says is for any corporation, Congress would have the constitutional authority to prohibit it from engaging in political speech. Well, NBC, which airs Saturday Night Live, is a corporation. … Congress would have the power to make it a criminal offense. Lorne Michaels could be put in jail under this amendment for making fun of any politician."

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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/sep/11/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-snls-lorne-michaels-could-be-jailed-/

btw, the asshole idiots at Politifact rate this insanity as "half true".

[Politicalboi]

1. We'll take the loss of SNL

If it also takes away Faux Noise. But of course, this will NEVER happen. More smoke and mirrors from Carnival Cruz.

[X_Digger]

2. Faux News is 'the press', so this wouldn't apply to them in any case.

Rupert gets to spend however much he likes, but HRC's book? Well, that's verbotten, don'cha know!