FEC News

Via dKos...

The FEC yesterday dismissed complaints that the "60 Minutes" piece leading to RatherGate constituted an illegal corporate contribution to the Kerry campaign.

The decision is important, in that it refers to the media exemption for bloggers:

In other words, if the allegations are true, a large corporation intentionally or recklessly put false documents on the nation's airwaves, in coordination with a candidate's campaign, with the knowledge that its story would directly reach millions of voters and indirectly reach millions more, all for the purpose of influencing the election, and could do so merely because the corporation claims to be "press." Given that, we can find no statutory, constitutional, or especially, policy justification that would deny the so-called press exemption to any periodical publisher of political news or views, whether publishing in print, by broadcast, or over the internet.

Sounds like the FEC will come down on the side of granting bloggers the exemption. Now we'll have to see if all Hell breaks loose or not...