In 2004 CBS told Reuters that during the SuperBowl, “We have a policy against accepting advocacy advertising.”

Oh, Really?!

CBS allows on a “pro-life” ad:

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/press/pressreleases/a000001434.cfm

But not of course MoveOn.org or Peta ads:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0116-01.htm

If the media were anymore “liberal” it would be shameless!

At last they have succeeded at their greatest triumph. Let the Rapture begin…

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/21/supreme-court-sides-hillary-movie-filmmakers-campaign-money-dispute/

“money quote” from the dissent (Justice Stevens):

In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it [emphasis added]

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Taibbi hits the nail on the head again in this article:

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/04/fannie-freddie-and-the-new-red-and-blue

The money quote however is:

For what we’ve learned in the last few years as one scandal after another spilled onto the front pages is that the bubble economies of the last two decades were not merely monstrous Ponzi schemes that destroyed [...]