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In reply to the discussion: SOS Hillary: Populists, help me out: What were SOS Hillary's great foreign policy accomplishments? [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)9. I don't think "Correct the Record" is exactly an unbiased source
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/
They're paying people a lot of money to churn out flowery fawning pro-Clinton BS.
On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The groups move was first reported by the New York Times.
That befuddled many campaign finance experts, who noted that super PACs, by definition, are political committees that solely do independent expenditures, which cannot be coordinated with a candidate or political party. Several said the relationship between the campaign and the super PAC would test the legal limits.
But Correct the Record believes it can avoid the coordination ban by relying on a 2006 Federal Election Commission regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as blogs, is off limits from regulation. The Internet exemption said that such free postings do not constitute campaign expenditures, allowing independent groups to consult with candidates about the content they post on their sites. By adopting the measure, the FEC limited its online jurisdiction to regulating paid political ads.
The rules totally exempt individuals who engage in political activity on the Internet from the restrictions of the campaign finance laws. The exemption for individual Internet activity in the final rules is categorical and unqualified, then-FEC Chairman Michael E. Toner said at the time, according to a 2006 Washington Post story. The regulation protects Internet activities by individuals in all forms, including e-mailing, linking, blogging, or hosting a Web site," said Toner, now a prominent Republican campaign finance attorney.
They're paying people a lot of money to churn out flowery fawning pro-Clinton BS.
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SOS Hillary: Populists, help me out: What were SOS Hillary's great foreign policy accomplishments? [View all]
merrily
Jul 2015
OP
My reply 11 below summarizes what a group supporting her says. See what you think.
merrily
Jul 2015
#18
She's given a lot of women's rights speeches worldwide, presumably supported women's rights groups
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jul 2015
#2
Yes, I discerned that immediately, but I summarized it below anyway. See what you think.
merrily
Jul 2015
#12
On a closer look, it looks like something that may have been prepared by the Hillary campaign.
merrily
Jul 2015
#11
This is a RW meme desgined to attack Hillary in an attempt to minimize her expertise.
Evergreen Emerald
Jul 2015
#8
Her greatest proven expertise was regime change and creating room for the Islamic State
leveymg
Jul 2015
#10
Please self delete and stop posting inappropriately in this group. This is a host request.
merrily
Jul 2015
#15
Political discussion often seems like an attack to those who disagree. Thank you for deleting.
merrily
Jul 2015
#22
Plenty of discussion is here, just not the kind you tolerate. That's the very reason
merrily
Jul 2015
#25
Gee, levey, that's the most simplistic analysis of our country's forieng policy I've ever seen.
Nitram
Jul 2015
#35
And that's the propaganda line, the conventional version of events, most of which is a lie.
leveymg
Jul 2015
#38
Actually, I was trying to fact check an article from KOS that was extremely critical of Hillary.
merrily
Jul 2015
#27