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[netmouse]

Does anyone besides me wish there was a rule that television broadcasters had to pull/cancel political advertising that was demonstrated to contain out-and-out lies?

I mean, somewhere in there where you get a broadcasting license, you agree to serve the public. Permitting deceptive advertising just because you've received your pieces of silver is not serving the public.

ETA: this post is in reaction to this ad, which as discussed here posits a lot of things unrelated to Prop 8 as an argument for it, as though it defends people in the state against things other than the state's recognition of the right of gay couples to get and be married. Further discussion here.

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't help. "Many people believe Barack Obama is a muslim" is true. And then you go into the list of reasons why they believe that, and many of them are true too. You can easily leave people with the impression you want without resorting to lies.

And giving an agency the authority to preview and decide is pretty dangerous, as others have pointed out.

If you let the opposing team take it to court, there are time issues, since ads are mostly run pretty close to the election.

Then there's the pre-emptive challenge of your opponent's ad, which if you're lucky you get blocked for a while (court order) until the case can be decided, and even if they win you've disrupted their schedule and cost them money.

[grndexter.livejournal.com]

MUSLIM? Oh. *I* thought they were saying he wears MUSLIN! - and I have to respond that I'm not an expert on clothing, and so couldn't say...