Well, this is just great. It was bad enough that he signed McCain-Feingold, now this. President Bush has come out against an important outlet for free speech, calling for the end of 527s.
And I would truly love it if reporters could get it through their skulls that 527s are NOT unregulated. They are regulated. It just happens that they aren't regulated in ways that various political actors wish they were, one prominent set of those actors being the mass media. I think Matt Yglesias was onto something this month when he said that there was no more obvious bias in the press than its opposition to these kinds of institutions.
Posted by armand at August 27, 2004 10:37 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics