Judges restrict anti-Clinton movie ads

[cal04]

Source: Associated Press

A conservative group must abide by campaign finance laws if it wants to run ads promoting its anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton movie, a federal court ruled Tuesday.

Citizens United had hoped to run the television advertisements in key election states during peak primary season. The court ruling means the group must either keep its ads off the air or attach a disclaimer and disclose its donors.

Lawyers for the group had argued its 90-minute ``Hillary: The Movie'' was no different from documentaries seen on television news shows ``60 Minutes'' and ``Nova.'' That prompted skepticism and, at one point, outright laughter from the judges during a hearing last week.

Campaign regulations prohibit corporations and unions from paying for ads that run close to elections and identify candidates. Citizens United argued that the advertisements promoted the movie and should be treated as commercial speech as opposed to political advocacy.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080115/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_movie_1

[Yael]

1. Enter at your own risk,

I just watched the trailers on their site. http://www.hillarythemovie.com/trailer.html

Anyone still think she is just going to walk into the election and pull it off?

Damn.

[geardaddy]

3. Why do they need a movie?

Taking a look at the cast, aren't they content with spewing lies on Faux Noise?

[rodeodance]

5. its actually a documentary----

[geardaddy]

7. Yeah.

I just found it weird that they refer to the people interviewed in the documentary as "Cast" on the website.

[zbdent]

8. not as weird as many RW "news" people calling themselves

journalists ...

[geardaddy]

10. *nod*

Right you are.

[Yael]

9. Seemed to me to be old news footage and a lot of Dick Morris blathering

[high density]

2. Yay an "upcoming attraction" of the general election

This is going to be so much fun! Liberal liberal liberal!

[JackRiddler]

4. - oi -

Reminding me that the one time I did vote for her, it was because of the very same pond scum as in this trailer, making the very same absurd comments (well, absurd when applied exclusively to HRC, as opposed to 90 percent of other politicians who are equally or often even more venal, self-serving, etc.).

[santamargarita]

6. Hi cal04, I hope Mike Malloy knows about this...

Good catch! See you at Mike's show tonight.