FEC Clears ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/09/politics/main769463.shtml

FEC Clears ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’

Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” lived on at the Federal Election Commission after it left theaters.

The FEC said Tuesday it has dismissed two complaints that accused Moore and others involved in the 2004 film of violating a ban on the use of corporate money for election-time presidential ads.

Moore's documentary portrayed Bush as lazy and inattentive to warnings in the months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that terrorists were preparing to strike the United States.

The film hit theaters last summer as the presidential race heated up. The documentary and ads promoting it immediately drew complaints from Moore critics that the filmmaker and the movie's financiers and distributors were illegally using company money to attack Bush.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Of course they did. This is a great example of a "windmill issue"...

...that the Radical RW does so well, and we need to learn to do better.

They knew it would fail. But it got their position out into the news cycle.

NGU.

[damntexdem]

4. Well, after all, what else could they do?

Only what they always do, with lies on their side.

The right has yet to 'debunk' anything in F911.

[catzies]

12. With lies on their side, facts don't matter. The poster you replied to was

right -- it got "their side" out there first.

[AndyTiedye]

5. That is The Sort of Things The Repubs Do All the Time & We Can't Do AT ALL

because they own the news media and we don't.

[AuntiBush]

2. FCC Didn't Stop Millions Of People From Seeing it!

[Stevepol]

10. And the film probably had some effect on the election because

Kerry won by 3% to 5 1/2 %, a comfortable margin of victory.

[tiptoe]

3. "lazy and inattentive" is being kind to Bush...

...and harshly unserving the full truth.

(the first is not an impeachable offense)

[Kolesar]

9. You could manage with a smaller signature line...eom

[RPM]

6. moot - what good did it do anyway

** is still prez :cry:

[Massacure]

7. The FEC seems to have allowed a broad interpretation of the laws.

It is only fair that if Swift Boats was allowed, F911 was too. Mud slinging is a part of politics.

[NVMojo]

8. UNLV groups reach agreement in poster dispute

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Aug-09-Tue-2005/news/27018459.html

[MaineDem]

11. A kick (nt)