Spying on Americans, OK -- Spying in NFL, Bad.

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Far be it from me to suggest that a U.S. Senator could be influenced by such petty concerns as money. But if you’re scratching your head trying to figure out why Sen. Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican, is so interested in the NFL’s Spygate scandal, you could – just for fun – follow the money.

In this case, run over to Specter’s list of campaign contributions accounting at opensecrets.org. Number two on the list, with $100,100 is the cable giant Comcast Corp. Number one, with $197,500, is Blank Rome, a law firm that represents Comcast.

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Only Congress can reverse history like that. Specter’s one of the champions of fairness who wants to fix it so that the President, Vice President and telecoms will be immune from prosecution for spying on citizens illegally. In other words, cheaters will be cleared after the fact of their cheating.

That’s fine with Specter, because it involves only a violation of the civil liberties of ordinary Americans who don’t contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign funds. The NFL, on the other hand, is messing with the profit margin of the folks stuffing his coffers.

And that, my fellow Americans, is your tax dollars at work.

http://openmike.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/15/668023.aspx