Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Citizen United.

Libtards lament the Supreme Court ruling allowing corporate donations under the Constitution.  Do you recall what the case was about?  I didn't either.  It was about a movie that set out the scandals of Bill & Hillary Clinton. It was called "Hillary: The Movie. The FEC ruled that the movie could not be shown during the election season.  Let that sink in.....

Philip Rucker points out the salient facts in a 2010 Washington Post article.

The film that cracked the case

David Bossie, a veteran Republican campaign operative who made his mark investigating the Clintons, thought his group could offer a conservative answer to Michael Moore's successful films. After Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" premiered in 2004, Bossie's Citizens United group released "Celsius 41.11."

And after it became clear that Bossie's longtime enemy Hillary Rodham Clinton would run for president, Citizens United released another flick: "Hillary: The Movie." Featuring a who's-who cast of right-wing commentators, the 2008 film takes viewers on a savaging journey through Clinton's scandals. The sole compliment about the then-senator comes from conservative firebrand Ann Coulter: "Looks good in a pantsuit."
But "Hillary: The Movie" never became a blockbuster. The Federal Election Commission restricted Citizens United's ability to advertise the film during the 2008 primary season, a decision that Bossie and other conservative activists saw as a threat to their freedom of speech.
"The marketplace for my movie was completely and totally shut down by the Federal Election Commission," Bossie said in an interview Thursday.
So he sued -- and thus was born Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the legal drama that resulted in Thursday's dramatic Supreme Court decision to overturn restrictions on corporate spending on behalf of or in opposition to political candidates.


Here is the movie.




Hat Tip to Roger for bringing this to the fore.  




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