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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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[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

We had a similar problem here - Stephen Harper kept talking about how Stephane Dion was going to raise taxes with his "Green Shift", but always omitted the bit about offsetting reductions in personal income tax to compensate. So that would be a lie by omission, which is almost as bad.