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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Moveon is not the Democrats, and it's not like there's an election going on. And since the GOP has been trying its damnedest to talk about the Moveon ad instead of, say, Iraq, you might deem the ad a subsidy of Republicans rather than all the Democrats who lined up to vote to condemn it.
Unless I'm missing something, Will is willfully (heh) confusing speech about an issue of current interest with speech aimed to benefit a candidate during an election. I know that those categories are somewhat slippery, but here it's just not that hard.
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The first paragraph is priceless. You remind me of why litigation was fun sometimes. And the final conclusion of it is a wonderful spin on the issue, and, I might add, substantively compelling. It's true. That ad was a gift to the GOP. But any incendiary political ad is these days. All the little connivers in the political game know the "taking umbrage" technique.
I think you answer your own question about Will. It is willful.
