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because that is the only way to get any opposition opinion to the bush admin out to the mass media and public. Without these organizations and ads, who in the public would know a fraction of the fraction they know (other than those who get their information from the internet)!! Other than Lou Dobbs, Bill Moyers, and Jon Stewart there is NO opposition to the bush agenda. None, zip, zero. Bush and his cronies want to use these swift boat guys to hurt not just kerry with the lies, but also to take a huge swipe at groups like Moveon, because they must stifle any and all criticism in order to stay in power and gain even more power.
To bend to them is to allow a situation in the US that is intolerable and a threat to democracy. We have no unbiased media. And the opinions and knowledge of half or more of us has no public outlet.
Also, if candidates approved of what the 501c4s said, then they would be in violation of campaign laws, if I'm understanding them correctly. So the question is loaded to begin with.
What we have to fire back with is that with all forms of the media tied to the political agenda of the right wing, in order to save our democracy and get information to the people so they can make informed political decisions, we MUST have these groups and they must be allowed to express our opinions unless the media is regulated so that we go back to the equal time laws of the past (pre Reagan) and before the 1996 deregulation.
The media belongs to the American people, not the corporations. We are exercising our free speech rights through the use of groups like Moveon. Without them, our speech is stifled.
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