So it’s not every day you get to hear about how a movie changed the world, but this is definitely one of those times.  Hillary the Movie, a searing documentary about Hillary Clinton (I literally cannot hear that woman’s name without thinking about the Paul Wall song line: “Got a bill in my mouth like I’m Hillary Rodham“), is redefining the McCain-Feingold act.

See, once the movie was finished, they wanted to run commercials for it on a cable video-on-demand service.  But a federal judge ruled back in 2008 that it would’ve violated the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.  The judge called it “electioneering communications”.  The guys behind the film promptly argued that such a thing was a violation of the First Amendment.

Seems like an overapplication of the law to me, and hopefully it’ll be changed to cover this kind of thing in the future.  There’s a limit, and this has crossed it.