Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal

eldavojohn writes "Some of you may know about Steven Colbert's fake presidential campaign... although are you sure it's fake? Well, it had better be because if it is taken too far — such as if he actually gets on the Republican and/or Democratic ballot in South Carolina — his use of corporations & advertising to back his campaign could get the attention of the Federal Election Commission. Doritos & Comedy Central could be facing some problems as well, funding a man running for president." A million Facebook users have signed up for the "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert" group in the last week — though the group could be read as a satire of Barack Obama's similarly-named group, which has fewer than 400,000 members after 9 months.

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The end of McCain-Feingold. I hope.

[PHAEDRU5]

I've been down on that fascist, John McCain, ev er since he decided to stomp on our First Amendment rights. So, good for Steven Colbert. Let him violate every damn financing law there is and get the FEC to hell and gone out of our political process.

Re:Fox News illegal then?

[Sergeant Pepper]

I'm glad you get your information from intelligent places instead of sticking to what bias you hear in mass media. Fox News still counts as the mass media and does NOT count as an intelligent place.