SNL may have broken key airtime regulation with Kamala Harris appearance, FCC commissioner says


NBC's "Saturday Night Live" may have broken federal regulations governing airtime with the appearance of Vice President Kamala Harris this weekend, an FCC official said.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says the appearance may have violated the equal time rule, a requirement that public broadcast organizations offer comparable time and placement to qualifying candidates during a major election.

Carr said Harris' appearance on SNL may have broken the rule if NBC did not also send an invitation to former President Trump.

"This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule," Carr wrote of Harris' appearance. "The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct - a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”

Trump campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller told Fox News Digital that Trump did not receive an invite. An NBC News report also stated that a spokesperson for SNL "did not return a request for comment on whether it invited Trump to appear.”

 

BOOGER!
Shooter was going to post about Harris on SNL, noting that it was the best place for the airhead to be.
And here he finds that mstrman has not only beat him to it but then outflanked him with the follow-up article about the FEC having equal time issues with it.

Next thing you know, mstrman will be calling for shooter to be lined up and shot in the face with 9 rifle barrels.

Shooter stomps off in a snit.

 

Rashida Tlaib Isn't Endorsing Kamala
Matt Vespa | November 03, 2024 1:05 PM

Election Day is Tuesday. While we scan the many voter groups and exit polls that will determine who will be the next president of the United States, it will be interesting to see what Muslim communities do, especially in the crucial state of Michigan. You’d think with all the liberal media lies that Arab Americans would be lining up behind Kamala Harris, but they’re not. On the contrary, they’re heckling her at rallies and don’t seem enthused about this woman.

Donald Trump was reportedly winning Arab American voters over Harris by four points. Who knows, but it’s interesting how these leaders have either withheld endorsing Democrats or have gone full-blown MAGA over the past month. Local imams and the mayor of Dearborn Heights proudly endorsed Trump last week at his rally in Novi, Michigan. The mayor of Dearborn opted not to endorse Kamala. And now, Rep. Rashida Talib (D-MI) has officially followed suit .

townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/11/03/rashida-tlaib-isnt-endorsing-kamala-n2647174

 

Finally.
Shooter has been asking for quite a while, what it is that makes Harris the candidate for the liberals.
You know, why do you think she's the best despicable to run.
Mainly he's been getting crickets.
But the LA Times must have heard Shooter and they took a stab at it.
Funny as hell, and Shooter is pretty sure it wasn't intended as humor, but hey, at least they tried.
So anyway, have a read. Try not to shoot coffee out of your nose when you read it.​

Column: The case against Donald Trump is clear. Here's the case for Kamala Harris
Column: The case against Donald Trump is clear. Here's the case for Kamala Harris
Opinion by Doyle McManus
• 7h •
It's easy to argue why Americans should vote against Donald Trump.

The former president neither understands nor respects the Constitution. He would use the powers of the federal government as an instrument of his whims, prosecuting political opponents and rewarding donors instead of serving the public interest. Armed with a grant of immunity from the Supreme Court, he would run roughshod over the rule of law.

The most basic case for Vice President Kamala Harris, then, is that her election would protect our democracy from the damage Trump would do.

But the positive case for a Harris presidency is also strong, if not as stark.

Here are six reasons Harris would be a better president:

Consensus
She has promised to seek consensus and compromise, two words Trump has rarely uttered. We could use a dose of both.

"For too long, we have been consumed with too much division, chaos and mutual distrust," Harris said in her "closing argument" speech last week. "It doesn’t have to be this way.... Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at the table."

Economy
Harris' economic policies are less likely to produce runaway inflation and deficits than Trump's. Most economists say his high, indiscriminate tariffs would raise prices on both imports and domestic goods. Nonpartisan deficit hawks say his ever-expanding tax cut promises would increase the federal deficit by almost $8 trillion, twice as much as Harris'.

Housing, childcare, elder care
Harris has offered serious proposals to address three pressing problems: housing, childcare and elder care. Critics have raised doubts about the details, including the uncertain effects of her plan to subsidize down payments for first-time homebuyers, but she has at least made those issues high priorities.

Immigration

She has fully embraced Biden's belated toughening of asylum rules on the border — and since she's been stung by the issue, she's likely to follow through. But she would do so in a measured, humane way, unlike the mass deportations and deliberate cruelty her opponent has promised.

Foreign policy

Harris says U.S. foreign policy should be based on strong alliances with other democracies, not cynical partnerships with tyrants like Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping. She has pledged to maintain the U.S. commitment to help Israel defend itself, but has also signaled — without offering any specifics — that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not get a free pass for attacks on Palestinian civilians.

Reproductive freedom

And, of course, she would work to ensure that women can make decisions about abortion without state governments endangering their lives.

No, Harris isn't a perfect candidate
Harris isn't perfect; no candidate is. But in the 15 weeks since she became the Democratic candidate, she has proved herself an abler politician than her critics expected.

She took a distressingly long time to define a clear, overarching vision. Early in the campaign, her answers to tough questions often devolved into word salad. She struggled to explain how her presidency might differ from a second Joe Biden term ("There is not a thing that comes to mind," she said on "The View").

Put some of that down to the fact that she had only three months to construct a platform instead of the usual two years. Put some of it down to the fact that she spent four years as vice president avoiding any daylight with Biden, only to face demands for a detailed list of differences. Still, those wobbly moments raised doubts about her readiness for the job.

Over time, though, she supplied more clarity. "My presidency will be different because the challenges we face are different," she said in her speech on the Ellipse in Washington. "Our top priority as a nation four years ago was to end the pandemic and rescue the economy. Now our biggest challenge is to lower costs."

Other complaints have come from both ends of the political spectrum: Trump charges that Harris is "a radical left Marxist," while Sen. Bernie Sanders complains that she's moved too close to the center.

Harris' 21-year record in elected office — more experience than Trump or Barack Obama had — solves this non-riddle: She's always been a center-left pragmatist, not a progressive ideologue. In her very first election in San Francisco in 2003, she defeated a progressive district attorney by promising to raise conviction rates.

"She's a mainstream Democrat, but she's a product of California — which makes her a left-of-center Democrat," her biographer, Dan Morain, told me.

Like Biden, Harris has generally aimed at what she saw as the center of gravity in the Democratic Party. That led her into the biggest mistake of her career, her attempt to impersonate a progressive in the campaign for the 2020 presidential nomination. Voters saw through it, and her candidacy ended before the first primary.

A move toward the center
This time, she has moved relentlessly back toward the center.

Biden talked of being a "transformative" president, but Harris has framed her agenda more modestly, as solving problems incrementally. There's nothing as ambitious as Sanders' "Medicare for All" on her wish list.

“I’m a capitalist. I believe in free and fair markets,” she told business leaders in Pittsburgh.

She has even, on a few issues, staked out positions a little to the right of Biden's. The president has proposed raising capital gains taxes to a top rate of almost 40%; Harris said she would raise them to a more modest 28%.

This outbreak of centrism may include a dose of election-year calibration. Still, most presidents stick to their campaign promises, if only because they know voters will be angry if they don't.

Besides, by reaching out to corporate executives, national security hawks and conservatives like former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Harris has built a potential foundation for broad support that could restore a measure of bipartisanship to Washington.

If she's elected, that will prove harder than it sounds, just as it did for Biden. When President Harris makes mistakes in office, as she undoubtedly will, her supporters — and columnists like me — must hold her to account.

And that returns us to the bottom-line choice in this election: One candidate will preserve the Constitution and the rule of law; the other will erode them.

As my colleague Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post put it with admirable concision: "I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president because I like elections and would like to keep having them."

Or, to paraphrase President Biden: Don't compare her to the almighty. Compare her to the alternative.

 

There are moments in every campaign that become defined by a single statement.
This is Kamala's.