Submitted to KFYI Phoenix for approval – My Anti McCain Ad

Update on the process of trying to get the script below approved for broadcast on KFYI in Phoenix:

  

So McCain Feingold et al have ripped the idea of free speech to shreds.

I feel it is time for John McCain to go. 

In the interest of furthering this aim I decided to run an internet ad on KFYI a local Phoenix Arizona talk radio station.   You might be surprised to find out how sensitive they are about political speech on a political talk station.   Either they are not accustomed to nobodies like me wanting to run a political ad or the government / FCC have hit them with the slap stick enough that they do not just let a local editor approve a script.    They put it in a briefcase, handcuff it to the couriers wrist and fly it to San Antonio.    Certainly I could detect that they did not have a procedure in place for accepting political ads.  But I have heard political advocacy ads on KFYI before so I am left thinking this "approval process" does not entirely pass the sniff test.   I have to say I am flabergasted.  I never imagined it being so difficult to get a private company to accept my money.    If I was in charge at KFYI  the approval process would be 2 hours or less.   Check for swear words,  correct grammar and verify no advocacy of illegal activities.  DONE!   

Why am I doing this?  The future of politics is not unlike open source software.  Open source software involves volunteers in the process of writing it.  It is a force to be reckoned with.  We are seeing open source politics  develop as a trend before our eyes.  This effort on my part is just a normal progression upon that trend.   I hope KFYI realizes that they can be a part of something that is likely to be very big.  To do that they will need to show some vision.   But dollars are what they do so maybe not.  If they choose not they will be diminished in my eyes and I think eventually other people will sense them slipping behind the times.  Yet maybe that is their job to be enough behind the times to never threaten their FCC license.   All the more reason to run the ad.  John McCain was co author of the bill restricting political free speech in the form of the McCain Feingold act.  

Well never mind if it runs or not.  We will not be their serfs and while they aspire to be feudal overlords I think the future is a flat society without political status.   Its only a question of how long it takes to realize it.

The first version is below.     Had I known it would have to be flown to Clear Channels San Antonio corporate headquarters for approval I would have been much more careful.   The second version is what I would have preferred to use but given the circuitous approval process I do not want to complicate the issue. 

 

   John McCain The political Weather Vane – twists so much in the political wind that you could generate electricity with him.

   I like him now.  But that's because he is a virtual JD Hayworth as he tries to mirror his primary opponent to appear more conservative.

   Amnesty invites more illegal aliens.  Global warming is a scam.  Yet McCain supported economy killing legislation for both.

   And He's been in the senate how long?  26 years?  Well my precious golum! Is democracy served by someone hanging on so greedily to power?

   I think it is time to put Arizona's pet R.I.N.O. out to pasture?

   Go to amarketplaceofideas.com to discuss forming an open source political advertisement movement.  Let's do for politics

   what the open source movement has done for software.

 
Rev 1  –   I can not believe I left out that McCain co authored the anti free speech legislation!

   John McCain The political Weather Vane – twists so much in the political wind that you could generate electricity with him.

   I like him now.  But that's because he is a virtual JD Hayworth as he tries to mirror his primary opponent to appear more conservative.

   Amnesty invites more illegal aliens.  Global warming is a scam.  Yet McCain supported economy killing legislation for both.

   Worst of all he was successful with campaign finance reform.  It's wrong if talk show hosts speak out.  It's wrong if citizens or corporations speak out.

   ….low and behold according to John McCain it's still ok for senators to speak out.

   And He's been in the senate how long?  26 years?  Well my precious golum! Is democracy served by someone hanging on so greedily to power?

   I think it is time to put Arizona's pet R.I.N.O. out to pasture.

   Go to amarketplaceofideas.com to discuss forming an open source political advertisement movement.  Let's do for politics

   what the open source movement has done for software.