TVSquad

As long as any other candidate has the opportunity to purchase the same amount of airtime, it does not violate equal time. That does not mean all candidates have to take networks up on that option.

(There are a lot more laws going into that rule...such as the cost of the ads and whatnot.)

Personally, I would have spent it on Taco Bell's new Volcano Taco. Thirty billion of them.

Yes they support money.

1. Bob is right: money trumps all.

2. Fox is also board if it doesn't interfere with the World Series.

No bias here; just the almighty dollar (which isn't all that mighty these days).

not sure if this was sarcasm? but that's not exactly how it works...

"a station which sells or gives one minute to Candidate A must sell or give the same amount of time with the same audience potential to all other candidates for the particular office. However, a candidate who can not afford time does not receive free time unless his or her opponent is also given free time. Thus, even with the equal time law, a well funded campaign has a significant advantage in terms of broadcast exposure for the candidate."

So the issue with the Governator and Foghorn Leg...errr...Fred Thompson was that when their shows/movies were on, it was face time on TV that their campaign didn't spend money on to promote. If networks ran those, then the other candidates would be able to (attempt to) get the free air time provided above.

Scott's pretty much got it right. To give another example, George Takei gave up on a promising political career in the early '70s because his opponents started making 'equal time for Star Trek episodes' noises, causing at least one channel to stop showing them.

Yes, it would, which is why I've donated for the first time in my life to a political campaign.

Look at it this way - if the donated money needs to be spent on a half hour of national television time by one candidate to counter all the negative (100% of ad buys across the country as of this writing) attacks our TAXPAYER money has funded for the other candidate, then spend away, spend away.

And if McCain does win, then good luck with the feeding the homeless and health care for all.

i meant to say, "yes, if only..." there - yes it would makes no sense. oops. ;-)

Fox may or may not have game 6 of the World Series, that is what they have said is the reason for selling Obama the air time.




now I actually think it's a cool idea. I think candidates actually speaking to the public instead of bs ads that are all distorted is better. And I say that about both sides -- I hate negative ads by either side. Sh-t I live in Minnesota and Norm Coleman and Al Franklin have been going at it. I'm tired of distortion - I just want honest talk. McCain has the chance to do this too, so it's fair.

Too bad life isn't TV sometimes - I'd love Bartlet or Santos right now