Infuriated, doubtless, by the failure of its campaign to ensure that only the media has the right to comment on politics, the New York Times has an angry editorial today attacking the 527s (strangely, the only 527 the newspaper singles out are those notorious Swifties and their ‘clear ties’ to the Republican party : no mention is made of MoveOn or the pro-Kerry efforts being funded by various billionaires). The paper is, as usual, peddling self-interested nonsense.

The only thing wrong with the 527s is the privileged position that they have been given by last year’s corrupt and abusive campaign finance ‘reform’, legislation backed, needless to say, by the New York Times.

How to solve that problem?

Repeal McCain-Feingold-Bush, not the 527s.