Hey ABC and Slate, welcome to the party! Both news outlets are reporting today that Stephen Colbert’s relationship with Comedy Central breaks FEC laws. That story was interesting somewhere around last week.

So in review, again: The Colbert Report counts as a very large campaign contribution from Viacom to the Colbert campaign in the form of screen time. This breaks FEC law that prohibits corporations from making "any contribution or expenditure in connection with a federal election."

But even if Colbert has made the 2008 election more fun, campaign finance laws are still boring. Nice try, though.