BCT Editorial – 11/2/10

This editorial says, “After today, we will be able to watch television and listen to the radio without having our intelligence insulted.  We will be able to answer the telephone without fear of being hit with a political sales pitch.”  Perhaps, but Times editorials and pundits will continue to insult our intelligence and will continue to barrage us with “political sales pitch[es].”

The editorial tells us, “We can do something about this.  Because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, tax code loopholes and pathetically weak federal regulation, the individuals, corporations and special interest groups funding many of these ads don’t have to identify themselves.”  Note the editorial mentioned “corporations,” but failed to mention labor union management also benefited from the Supreme Court ruling.  Previous editorials on this topic are here and here.  Based on a quick search of Times editorials since 2004, it appears the Times didn’t mention this topic until the issue became a leftist talking point early this year.