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Originally Posted by onetime2
I agree and there are organizations out there that do it (unfortunately the press feeds more off the controversies generated by the lies than they do uncovering lies themselves so they're more willing participant than voice of reason) but they have no real power to enforce truthfullness.
My point was that unless there is a universal standard for truthfullness in political advertising, regulating only the 527s will get us nowhere.
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Since we lack a universal standard for truthfulness, all we can do, and all we should have to do, is to expose the dishonesty of certain ads, and to expose the intellectual dishonesty of politicians who benefit from them and proceed to praise them with faint damnation.
Sorry, but we have to work within the constraints of democracy. If we as citizens allow ourselves to be mislead, then we deserve the lousy government we get.