"Last time I looked, press institutions aren't in the business of raising money for candidates," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a campaign watchdog group in Washington that submitted comments opposing Fired Up's request.
"We object to this being framed as a press exemption where you have groups that are affirmatively stating that one of their major purposes is to support and raise money for candidates," Wertheimer said.
No matter how many times it's pointed out to these people that people in other parts of the media encourage their readers/listeners give money to candidates (Stern/Limbaugh/Krauthammer/Hannity/etc...) they just ignore it and pretend it doesn't happen.
If we think such fundraising activitiy should nullify the press exception, fine, but that standard should be applied evenly across all media types.
Anyway, here's a link to FireUpMissouri which is what this is in reference to.