It’s what the left doesn’t write about that matters.
Federal election regulators refused to ease limits on political advertising Tuesday, blocking an effort to let interest groups run radio and television ads mentioning elected officials within weeks of an election.
The Federal Election Commission voted 3-3 on a proposal that would have allowed such ads as long as they addressed public policy issues and did not promote, support, oppose or attack a sitting member of Congress. Supporters of the change said they wanted to strike a balance between campaign ad restrictions and constitutional free speech guarantees.
The measure failed on a tie vote with the commission’s three Democrats voting against the proposal and the three Republicans backing it.
I found this news at Captain’s Quarters.
But I didn’t find it at any of the twenty-six left-wing blog sites I visited yesterday.
Most especially, I didn’t see one word about it on the front page of the dKos Animal Farm and Petting Zoo. I found this strange because any other article about Net Neutrality normally gets front paged and updated by Markos himself.
I seriously doubt that he missed this in the cycle, though I won’t go so far as to say he is purposely keeping news about Democrats voting to silence political speech under the Kossackstan radar because it is so close to election time.
Mostly because that would cause me to have to step into his mind, which is probably as hygenic as one of the old peepshow booths in 1970’s Times Square, NYC.
He may write about it today, but he has never really been a “yesterday’s news” kind of fella. I’m expecting him to delegate it to one of his lessers.