Free Political TV / My Media Strategy

Michael Stephen Levinson
Candidate for President

I decided at age four it was OK for me to doodle in the Abraham Lincoln book because some day I was going to be the president. That was sixty two years ago.

In 1980 I decided it was finally time to test the presidential campaign waters, as a write-in candidate for president, in New York State. I read political broadcasting law and found our access law, Section 312(a)(7) applied to the PBS stations, too, where the air time is free, in the words of an FCC secretary, said to me years ago on one of my visits to the Bureau, “ It's the best kept secret in America.”

Today there are hundreds of channels, but when the access law was written, circa 1971 TV band width was undeveloped, and TV channels were few. Only candidates for president, or congress were entitled to mass media access for political speech; a must carry in the 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election.

The rest of the time broadcasters could refuse to air your speech, they were in charge of what would play, the logic being, with so few channels, the viewers were entitled to a bill of fare other than political ads which are not speech but qualify as speech under our First Amendment umbrella. That was then. Today, with hundreds of channels, money talks. Form a committee and put up your bucks.

I applied, in 1980, individually, to all the PBS stations in the State of New York, though my campaigning was mostly in metro Buffalo. I did two ninety minute speeches on cable, my 1980 campaign bona fides, incontrovertible.

FCC waited until the final Friday before the election to rule I was bona fide, entitled to access, a write-in candidate, but not entitled to state wide broadcast, therefore, with fascist logic, not entitled, because I didn’t make any showing anywhere else in the state. FCC's ruling was clearly erroneous, on purpose. I'd applied individually to all the stations. I was at least entitled to give my televised speech where I'd actively campaigned!

Had you only sent letters to newspapers around the state, it would've been a showing, a bona fide good enough, they wrote.

I found out, years later, the “letter” FCC mailed to me was administrative law, Michael Stephen Levinson 87 FCC2D 433 1980 a “ruling,” my case ensconced in hard covers, but for one masterpiece of fascistry, a key detail missing in action: the one station where, under their rule, I was qualified to speak, WNED-TV, Western New York’s PBS station, noted twice in the verdict they mailed to me and the stations, at the beginning 2nd to last, across the face with all the PBS stations complained against, and again at the end, vertical down the page, was completely stripped from FCC’s printed version in their 87 FCC2d book. They knew their fascist chicanery would fail to pass judicial review.

Hitler’s judges used similar techniques.

College "stew dents" were brought into the station that night who’d never been up close to, much less operated a television camera before. The floor manager let it slip the next day when I returned, that he was told by the General Manager I planned on stripping down naked during my speech. That explained why newspapers in New Hampshire refused to even list my campaign speech. The state’s newspaper editors were told the same load of "he's going to strip down naked" baloney.

Find an FBI memorandum in FBI's own files on this "strip down naked" press manipulation. In manipulating the press FBI violated your constitution Big Time. It is their ongoing program. Upon my emailing this statement to editors of newspapers I can expect them to come knocking on my door, as they have before, waving the email and wanting to come inside for a talk.

Circa 2000, an earmark, slipped into an appropriations bill, removed all PBS stations from their First Amendment obligations to candidates and the Public Interest, under the access statute. This scurrilous earmark is not constitutional by any stretch, yet approved by your Federal Communications Commission. Today’s Commission is truly fascist, their regulatory power an Iron Curtain, shrouding the station doors from access requests by independent candidates FBI, or Bush’s mother, Bar-Donna Bush-Corleone doesn’t like.

Here is my poem inspired by FCC:

Wear this gold star, Jew
So we can see who you are.
Board this rail road car
Your campaign for president
Is goin' to Babyar.

I'm the only person in the whole country ever to have made a stand up stand alone speech on a PBS station, and the only person ever to complain against the PBS and the networks (well, originally just NBC) since 1980.

Because of the earmark I can move, as soon as the PBS (and all the other networks) refuse to allow me access, into Federal District Court, or into the Supreme Court where I have an original case that hangs by a Kevlar thread.

I cannot allow the American people to be denied their opportunity to hear me speak this time out, an FBI inspired issue of refusal upon refusal on going more than 27 years.

I'd planned to be on the ballot in New Hampshire this time, and at least in nine other states, as a bona fide write-in, well over FCC’s original ten state threshold for nationwide speech.

More than 20 states we're bunched behind New Hampshire’s primary, ensconsed in the in the same must carry 45 day window. Because I'm seeking the nomination of both parties, the only ballot available to me is the write-in ballot! An “e quill” time speculation cannot be applied to my request.

Historically FCC’s rulings dramatically violate our Constitution, contradicting the Supreme Court. But according to the ‘earmark,’ FCC will not respond to access complaints against PBS, so upon moving into the Federal District Court, or into the Supreme Court, I can attach my potential complaint against ABC,NBC,CBS, and Fox to my PBS complaint.

I expect the other broadcast networks will also "repeat" their denial of my Right / request for access to give my speech, which is a denial of your paramount Right to hear my speech. Unless my request for access is considered news by newspapers of record I am alone in the wind. So the onus is on me, against powerful fascist forces, to deliver the letter. A live speech on television. Like the Lincoln / Douglas debates except Douglas will be absent.

Of all the candidates I’m clearly the most experienced in defending our Constitution and Bill of Rights. But that is for the voters to determine, after I give my campaign speech, with every line a delicate sensible mull tie ling well multilingual rhyme. :)