NOLTE: National Geographic Channel Turns Into Pro-Obama Super PAC
By MB Snow at October 6, 2012 | 12:48 am | Print
by JOHN NOLTE 5 Oct 2012, 2012 –
Two days before the election, on Sunday November 4, the National Geographic Channel (Nat Geo) will broadcast a multi-million dollar, two hour pro-Obama campaign advertisement. For legal purposes and to avoid any messy entanglements with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Nat Geo is disguising the two-hour pro-Obama ad as entertainment, specifically a film titled: “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden.”
One of the companies behind the two-hour pro-Obama ad is The Weinstein Company, which is co-chaired by longtime Obama fundraiser Harvey Weinstein. Like Nat Geo, both The Weinstein Company and Mr. Weinstein have avoided any messy entanglements with the FEC by disguising their multi-million dollar in-kind contribution to Barack Obama’s reelection campaign as “entertainment.”
Imagine if you will an alternate universe in a Twilight Zone where our media is not hopelessly corrupt and just as eager to hold Democrats accountable as Republicans. In that world, the very idea that Big Business would shirk campaign finance by pouring millions into a campaign commercial disguised as a film would raise some eyebrows. In that world, a television network broadcasting said commercial would be subjected to questions about an in-kind contribution.
via National Geographic Channel Turns Into Pro-Obama Super PAC.
