Ad By Crossroads, Karl Rove's Outfit, Yanked Off Air For Being False
WASHINGTON -- An ad by Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS was yanked from rotation on a Montana cable show because it made claims that the network deemed false.
Recently a number of ads by the well-funded conservative outfit have been declared misleading and false, but the spot targeting Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is apparently the first pulled from the air. The Associated Press reported that other outlets are still running the ad.
In it, Tester is accused of supporting an Environmental Protection Agency rule -- a rule that was never in fact proposed -- to regulate farm dust. But the vote that the ad cites actually had nothing to do with dust or the EPA; it was a procedural vote on a measure aimed at cracking down on China for manipulating currency.
It's easy to get away with false claims in political ads because people listening not only don't know the claims are false, they DON'T CARE. Not even when the truth is pointed out.
They just want to hear some reason to hate/fear/vote against the person they already are conditioned to hate/fear/vote against.
AspenValley wrote: It's easy to get away with false claims in political ads because people listening not only don't know the claims are false, they DON'T CARE. Not even when the truth is pointed out.
They just want to hear some reason to hate/fear/vote against the person they already are conditioned to hate/fear/vote against.
jf1acai wrote: If there is a law against false/misleading claims in political ads, why is it not being enforced, against both sides?
Not too good with the reading comprehension there, are ya...
QUOTE: "it made claims that the network deemed false." UNQUOTE
See, there's a difference between a "law" and a network's corporate policy. I'm sure the same FALSE ad would have been run by FauxNews... They don't care if it's false, as long as it pushes THEIR "corporate agenda."
See, there's a difference between a "law" and a network's corporate policy. I'm sure the same FALSE ad would have been run by FauxNews... They don't care if it's false, as long as it pushes THEIR "corporate agenda."
See, there's a difference between a "law" and a network's corporate policy. I'm sure if it was a FALSE Democrat party ad would have been run by MSNBC... They don't care if it's false, as long as it pushes THEIR corporate agenda.
