{"id":2902,"date":"2004-11-01T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2902.html"},"modified":"2004-11-01T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T15:56:20","slug":"limbaugh-and-fox-news-better-look-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/limbaugh-and-fox-news-better-look-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh and Fox News better look out"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the weekend’s stranger stories<\/a> was generated by the dumbest legal complaint since Al Franken was sued for using “fair and balanced.”<\/p>\n

The National Republican Congressional Committee has filed a seven-page complaint letter with the Federal Elections Commission alleging the hosts of a popular talk radio show have illegally colluded with a Democratic candidate for Congress to oust Rep. David Dreier from office. <\/p>\n

According to the complaint, John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, hosts of the afternoon John and Ken Show” on KFI, have made unlawful campaign contributions by making repeated on-air appeals for listeners to reject Dreier and elect Cynthia Matthews on Nov. 2. <\/p>\n

Further, KFI is accused of violating federal campaign law by paying for broadcasts that endorse the defeat of a federal candidate within 120 days of an election. The John and Ken Show has become nothing but a political diatribe,” states the complaint, which was filed Oct. 14. This behavior is illegal and must be appropriately punished.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There aren’t a lot of competitive House races out there, and I realize the NRCC is worried about Dreier, but this reeks of desperation. If the Republicans really want to use FEC complaints to make talk-show support for a candidate “illegal,” do you suppose the NRCC will also be filing similar charges against Limbaugh, Liddy, O’Reilly, Hannity, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the entire Fox News team?<\/p>\n

KFI program manager Robin Bertolucci said the station is “extremely confident” the FEC will dismiss the complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that’s a safe bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the weekend’s stranger stories was generated by the dumbest legal complaint since Al Franken was sued for using “fair and balanced.” The National Republican Congressional Committee has filed a seven-page complaint letter with the Federal Elections Commission alleging the hosts of a popular talk radio show have illegally colluded with a Democratic candidate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}