Let's Flack The Check On Political Lies.

Have you been enjoying the political attack ads yet? Well if you haven't, you soon will be and if you have, aren't they great? I mean they're masterful in the way they twist what candidates say or use comments out of context in order to make it sound like the opposite of what the candidate actually said. And all the candidates use them, both parties. To watch most of these ads they would lead you to believe the candidate is out of his mind. Which is, of course, close to the truth, but that's not the point. We need to see the candidate and what he actually said and meant. I think there ought to be some sort of award along with a little statue, maybe made of lead, not gold. That way the makers of these ads could wear it around their necks when they go swimming. But they could be for the ad that least portrays what a candidate said or did. Anyway, there's a new website out, or maybe it's just new to me, but it's FlackCheck.org. That's flack not fact. The idea is to get TV stations to refuse to air deceptive or misleading ads by third party groups like SuperPACs. Apparently the stations must air the ad if it comes directly from a candidate. In other words the politicians can lie through their teeth, but let's at least stop the anonymous groups from airing lies. In other words, we need to get TV stations to understand they have the right to do this and, and they can still get paid for ads. They just have to require that the ads be true. On the other hand, that would probably cut third party, SuperPAC, campaign ads by about 99%. Wouldn't you enjoy that a lot more than listening to and watching all those ads when you have no idea if there's any truth to them? Until and unless this happens, the only advice I can give you is if it's negative, it's a lie. And I'm right about 99% of the time on that.