Stephen Colbert Advisory Opinion Request, No Kidding.
Today's Politico carried a story about Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert appearing in person at the FEC to file an Advisory Opinion request.
Ken Vogel's piece does a great job relating Colbert's long-running Citizens United v. FEC schtick from the Colbert Report to the serious campaign finance law issues raised by his announcement of the Colbert Super PAC (apparently, Colbert hasn't read the RNLA blog post on the law of Super Duper PACs).
Former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter (Caplin & Drysdale), who has appeared three times on the Colbert Report, represents Colbert in his Advisory Opionion request.
The FEC's Pending Advisory Opinion Requests page, does not yet list the request. As usual with Colbert, it's unclear whether or not he'll continue to prosecute the request (see his effort to secure ballot access in the 2008 South Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary).
In addition to Vogel's piece, several other sources picked up the story-Talking Points Memo has the actual request letter (as well as a short piece), Roll Call has a short piece with a clip from Colbert's show, ABC's The Note carries the story, on Friday at 8 pm, Google News search produced 36 stories (I can't imagine the average Advisory Opinion request produces so much attention on the day it's made).