The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, no. 08-205, on March 24. Citizens United is a corporation with 501(c)(4) (tax exempt) status. It produced a movie in late 2007 called “Hillary, the Movie” and wanted to air it in movie theaters and also make it available on cable television, but only “on demand” from the cable subscriber. The FEC said that Citizens United must reveal the names of all the individuals who had contributed money toward making the movie, so Citizens United pulled the movie out of theaters and never made it available on Cable. The lower court upheld the FEC’s position.
Forgive me, but I am a tad bit leery of the idea of a total lack of transparency when some one is making political propaganda.
What ISN’T political propaganda these days?
Rosa;
Even if your sarcastic comment is correct, we can generally find out the source of the ‘propagenda’ i.e. journalists, film, tv, radio, bloggers, etc. etc. etc.
I have not seem this particular video about Hillary, although I did see a laughable bad, right-wing anti-Clinton video a few years back.
Some politicans — Clinton, Kennedy and Bushes — seem to lend themselves (better them most) to silly (even down right off the wall) conspiracy theories.
Yet, I am not terribly comfortable with the idea that propaganda — irrespective of its content — can be published, printed, posted, promoted, what-have-you without some sort of transparency about were it is coming from.
Thanks for taking a few of us.