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Author Message   Tonya "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Tonya Post Number: 6364 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 04:00 pm:        Anti-Clinton Film Panned As Advertising By MATT APUZZO – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The early reviews are in, and three federal judges appeared in agreement Thursday that a movie lambasting Hillary Clinton seemed an awful lot like a 90-minute campaign advertisement. Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, is challenging the nation's campaign finance laws, which require disclaimers on political advertisements and restrict when they can be broadcast. The group argues "Hillary: The Movie" and related television advertisements are not political advertising even though the New York senator is in the presidential race. Attorney James Bopp argued that they should be considered "issue-oriented" speech because viewers aren't urged to vote for or against the Democrat. "What's the issue?" asked Judge A. Raymond Randolph, a federal appeals judge sitting on a mixed panel to review the case. "That Hillary Clinton is a European Socialist," Bopp replied. "That is an issue." "Which has nothing to do with her campaign?" U.S District Judge Royce C. Lamberth interjected. "Not specifically, no," Bopp replied. "Once you say, 'Hillary Clinton is a European Socialist,' aren't you saying vote against her?" Bopp disagreed because the movie did not use the word "vote." "Oh, that's ridic. ..." Lamberth said, trailing off and ending the line of questioning. Under campaign finance laws, Citizens United would be required to disclose its funding for the ads. It would also have to disclose donors and pay the costs of airing it on cable television from a political fund. The movie is scheduled for six screenings in theaters, once each in California, Nevada, South Carolina, Arizona, New York and Washington. It is also being sold on DVD. Neither of those methods is regulated under campaign laws. The advertisements, however, are scheduled to run during the peak presidential primary season and would be regulated. Bopp, who successfully led a challenge to one aspect of the campaign finance system last year, compared the film to television news programs "Frontline," "Nova," and "60 Minutes." That prompted Lamberth to laugh out loud from the bench. "You can't compare this to '60 Minutes,'" the judge said. "Did you read this transcript?" The movie features commentary from conservative pundits, some of whom specifically say Clinton is not fit to be the nation's commander in chief. One ad begins with a narrator saying, "First, a kind word about Hillary Clinton." Conservative commentator Ann Coulter says, "Looks good in a pant suit," to which the narrator adds, "Now, a movie about everything else." Bopp received the greatest skepticism from Randolph and Lamberth, the panel's two conservative judges. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts, a nominee of president Clinton, was more focused on the legal test Bopp was asking the judges to conduct. (This version CORRECTS that argument took place Thursday, not Wednesday) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hUUUoGmiCzRZ79VBCIIcNk8beZSAD8U36SDO0   Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 2943 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 01:46 pm:        ...............   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 6096 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 10:47 am:        Why was top Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal Drunk in New Hampshire? Was it because they were stealing the election? http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/01/11/blumenthal-on-the- boil.aspx   Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 11159 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 01:08 pm:        The blog kid strikes again! Look at ol crissy. His eyes bulging out of their sockets as he foams at the mouth, his penis almost erect. He ain't been this excited since OJ beat the rap.