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Re:Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign by Bud on Monday November 02, 2015 @08:48PM (#10496824)
Lest you forget, the plaintiffs wanted to bash Hillary Clinton around and run infinite quantities of ads with infinite anonymous funding for said ads, too, to support "Hillary: The Movie", which wasn't actually a movie that they wanted to release, btw, it was actually a big long TV ad.

Come on, at least be intellectually honest.

They wanted to shadow-fund a TV ad campaign.

Clever of you to leave those facts out!

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Re:Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign by 13thLetter on Monday November 02, 2015 @08:58PM (#10496869)
"Lest you forget, the plaintiffs wanted to bash Hillary Clinton around"

Wait, why would it be wrong to bash a politician around again?

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Re:Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign by Bud on Monday November 02, 2015 @09:44PM (#10497070)
Once again, you conveniently leave out the key part of the comment in question: the source of the funding.

Citizens United wasn't about speech. It was about unlimited anonymous money flooding our elections.

Nothing is wrong with criticizing a politician. That's obvious. But thanks for the clumsy obfuscation attempt.

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