Why I will never contribute to a presidential campaign.

Why I will never contribute to a presidential campaign. Now that there is discussion of Obama retiring Hillary's campaign debt, I am reminded of why I would never contribute to presidential campaigns: because they reward exactly those people who pollute the system.

I'm speaking specifically of ABC, NBC, and Fox News and all the other television outlets who magically use our broadcast air (which we own as a common good) and cable bandwidth (which we pay cash for) to receive $3 billion in campaign advertising revenues while they produce such inescapable monstrosities as Stephanopoulos, Gibson, O'Reilly, Hannity, Russert, and the endless parade of sewage-spewing "guests" and "correspondents" like Pat Buchanan and Cokie Roberts.

Unlike my coming tax rebate, which is obviously going to BP and ExxonMobil by design, I refuse to allow my political contributions to go to ABC, NBC, and Fox News.