{"id":21840,"date":"2011-06-30T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2011-06-30T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:22:36","slug":"usa-today-stephen-colberts-super-pac-gets-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/06\/30\/usa-today-stephen-colberts-super-pac-gets-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Stephen Colbert&#8217;s super PAC gets approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s bid to launch a super PAC is no laughing matter, especially now that the comedian has won approval to raise unlimited campaign cash to influence the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Election Commission today voted 5-1 to approve Colbert&#8217;s political action committee, giving him a shot at doing what political types such as Bush strategist Karl Rove and former Obama aide Bill Burton are already doing to finance TV ads ahead of next year&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert sought a so-called media exemption that would allow him to use airtime, staff and other resources from The Colbert Report for the super PAC so that Viacom Inc., Comedy Central&#8217;s parent company, wouldn&#8217;t have to disclose them as in-kind contributions.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory opinion adopted by the commission today, the FEC said &#8220;some of Viacom&#8217;s activities would fall within the press exemption, others would not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2011\/06\/stephen-colbert-pac-federal-election-commission-\/1\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s bid to launch a super PAC is no laughing matter, especially now that the comedian has won approval to raise unlimited campaign cash to influence the 2012 elections. The Federal Election Commission today voted 5-1 to approve Colbert&#8217;s political action committee, giving him a shot at doing what political types such as Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}