I’ll get to the “blog” bit in a minute, but first …
A report has been leaked that a State Department study shows that Iraq’s government is in “full collapse.” Not surprising as it takes a huge amount of US troops to maintain any semblence of order over there. Now, if Bush had only listened to all Intelligence instead of the Intel that said what he wanted to hear …
Now, on to our blog talk -
A guy filed a charge against the Daily Kos that it is a group that falls into FEC rules as a “political action committee.” Mostly because they chose to endorse certain candidates. Now, the FEC dismissed the complaint, but the guy is still trying to get the Daily Kos in trouble.
My perspective is that if the FEC has to register every person who endorsed a particular candidate at any given time that possessed a popular blog site, they’d be totally overrun and killed by the sheer number of blogs that might qualify. Seriously, I have a lot of readers. I’m going to start putting links to candidates I endorse on my site come January 2008. However, that does not make me a political action committee. It just makes me some average Joe who is endorsing his preferred political candidates through his outlet. Which everyone does when they get together to talk – like at a bar, for example.
It’s not a matter of the FEC trying to avoid the stickiness of blogs. It’s the FEC recognizing (for once) that blogs are blogs. They don’t exactly work for anyone or always endorse the same people. People on blogs can change their mind, unlike the people in a political action committee working for a candidate.
So before you go making charges that blogs should be monitored by the Federal Government, ask yourself – is it really necessary? IMO, no.
