In comments filed to the FEC last month, Colbert wrote in jest that his super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, agrees that “fully coordinated” ads shouldn’t be counted as “coordinated communications.”
“For example, an ad in which the Kool Aid man decries our nation-wide childhood thirst problem would not necessarily be an ad for Kool Aid brand juice drink. That being said, would a tall glass of Kool-Aid solve that thirst problem? To quote one expert: ‘Oh, yeaaahhhh!’”
Not all commissioners spoke as warmly about the comedian.
“If Stephen Colbert decided to run this kind of ad in the context of his TV show, no one would say that’s a problem,” said Republican Commissioner Donald McGahn. “Even though Colbert is owned by Comedy Central, which is owned by MTV, which is owned by Viacom — that’s all corporate money, big corporate money — but that’s fine because that’s the media. But when Crossroads does it, well, wow … democracy is going to crumble, that just can’t be.”
Stephen Colbert gets love at FEC
via politico.com
