See here (scroll to Friday, April 8, 2005). On Kaus’s second point, what makes the burden too great? If you know you are a paid campaign consultant, then make sure that appears on your website each time you blog about that candidate. How hard is that? (See here for a typical disclosure I’ve included on my blog where relevant.) On Kaus’s first point, it is not clear that a 30-second ad on an “internet television” or whatever we wish to call it would be regulated by the FEC if it grants a broad exemption for bloggers.