I'm sure Carol Darr
is on it.
The Federal Election Commission has cleared the Rev. Jerry Falwell of a charge that he broke federal election law by urging followers last summer to re-elect President Bush, Mr. Falwell's attorney said Monday.
Mr. Falwell, the founder of television's long-running "Old Time Gospel Hour," was exercising a "press exemption" that gives him the same right to speak on politics as publishers, columnists and editorialists, attorney Mathew D. Staver said in a press release.
Mr. Staver said the FEC notified him that it had ruled in Mr. Falwell's favor by a vote of 6-0. The release also was published Monday on the Web site of Mr. Staver's organization, Liberty Counsel.
"Dr. Falwell does not lose his right to personal expression each election cycle," Mr. Staver said. "As a member of the media, the media outlets through which he communicates enjoy the protection of the First Amendment, just as much as The Washington Times." There was no answer to calls to a telephone number for Mr. Staver.
Of course, Darr is more worried about those evil bloggers, and can't be distracted from her efforts to destroy grassroots media by denying them the very same media exemption enjoyed by such fine, unbiased, journalistic outposts like the Daily Show, Charles Krauthammer, Bob Novak, Paul Begala, James Carville, and Jerry Falwell.
Good thing she heads the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet. It was an act of genius for her to infiltrate an organization design to promote, not destroy, the political internet.