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🗓️ 4 November 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:05.0	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:06.0	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:08.0	This week saw the first sprinkling of what is likely to be a deluge of campaign advertising
0:14.0	from a gathering storm of cumulonimbus known as super PACs.
0:19.0	There's a pro-Obama super PAC called Priorities USA,
0:22.8	a pro-Romney super PAC called Restore Our Future,
0:26.2	and a pro-Perry super PAC called Make Us Great Again.
0:30.8	Be afraid, very.
0:32.9	The Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case last year,
0:36.0	certain political action committees may now collect unlimited contributions without disclosing the people.
0:40.3	It's incomprehensible how much more screwed up it is now than it was before Citizens
0:45.3	United.
0:46.3	It is inarguable that these organizations exist for no other purpose but to elect the candidates
0:50.3	that they are associated with.
0:52.3	Super PACs were the direct result of the Citizens United decision in which the Supreme Court
0:57.1	held that the government can't stop corporations or unions from spending money to persuade voters.
1:03.4	Super PACs may spend unlimited amounts of money so long as they don't directly coordinate
1:08.7	with a candidate's campaign.
1:17.1	The Karl Rove linked SuperPack American Crossroads and its nonprofit partner Crossroads GPS have announced they plan to spend $240 million in 2012 double what they'd first projected.
1:25.3	This week, in what's seen as the start of the SuperPack TV ad downpour,
1:30.3	make us great again, began running ProPerry TV ads in two key primary states,
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