[EL] An objection

[Steve Hoersting]

"The least of my objections," indeed. I hate when I'm right.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-24/obama-signs-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act-law

This is why (anyone who knows me knows that) I quit bleating about our
friends, the Campaign Reformers, three years ago, and switched, full time,
to the Reform Conservatives. McCain & Feingold are pikers compared to
Portman & Murphy.

(To be clear, officeholders are never the proper objects of obloquy in such
matters. It is always the architects -- in the think tanks, academy,
magazines and editorial pages -- who must be countered).

*

Respectfully, a prediction: In the medium- to long-term, any
campaign-finance organization, academic or observer that does not broaden
its, her or his brief to this topic will become impotent or irrelevant.
It's that pervasive; it's that serious.

All the best in 2017,

Steve Hoersting


On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Steve Hoersting <hoersting at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Allow me, while people are still paying attention, to note an objection to
> this entire construct:
>
> http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-house-readies-
> fight-election-day-cyber-mayhem-n677636
>
> The least of my objections is this: The construct, in significant part,
> reverses the underlying assumption in the *SBA List v. Driehaus* case:
> that it is the citizens who are competent to adjudge "fake" (e.g. false)
> from fact.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Steve
>
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