One of the stupidest hypotheticals campaign finance reform obsessives raise is the prospect of large companies like Halliburton starting a blog using it to influence federal elections. Of course, you don't need to be a large company to start a blog - anyone can start one! If Halliburton really wanted to throw its weight around like that, it has the power to do what I do not but General Electric does - buy a television network and load it up with useful idiots like Tim Russert and Chris Matthews. Certain election related FCC regulations cover NBC broadcast, but not the cable outlets, and they're basically entirely exempt from FEC regulations.
