Special Comment by Keith Olbermann: Free Speech has been Destroyed

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A little melodramatic as expected, but he says what most of us fear. Dahlia Lithwick at Slate:

Even former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist once warned that treating corporate spending as the First Amendment equivalent of individual free speech is "to confuse metaphor with reality." Today that metaphor won a very real victory at the Supreme Court. And as a consequence some very real corporations are feeling very, very good.

And that is a very, very bad thing for people.

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