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dc_dux · 10-09-2008, 06:37 PM

I applaud the noble sentiment, but just dont see the practicality or likelihood of organizing a national boycott campaign in less than a month. Anything beyond that and you are, in effect, proposing to punish commercial advertisers for not taking correction action after the fact.

A more reasonable approach, IMO, would be to focus on regulatory reform of political advertising over the next four years.

That would include a return of some form of "fairness doctrine" that would require allowing a candidate to run an ad immediately following any ad by the opposing candidate (or any 527 org) that uses the first candidate's name and/or image in an ad.

I would add other provisions....one i can think of off the top of my head would be requiring ads to run a scroll across the bottom for the full length of the ad when using actors to portray real people (no, one of the swiftboaters was not a swiftboat vet...it was an actor).

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dc_dux Location: Washington DC	I applaud the noble sentiment, but just dont see the practicality or likelihood of organizing a national boycott campaign in less than a month. Anything beyond that and you are, in effect, proposing to punish commercial advertisers for not taking correction action after the fact. A more reasonable approach, IMO, would be to focus on regulatory reform of political advertising over the next four years. That would include a return of some form of "fairness doctrine" that would require allowing a candidate to run an ad immediately following any ad by the opposing candidate (or any 527 org) that uses the first candidate's name and/or image in an ad. I would add other provisions....one i can think of off the top of my head would be requiring ads to run a scroll across the bottom for the full length of the ad when using actors to portray real people (no, one of the swiftboaters was not a swiftboat vet...it was an actor). __________________ "The perfect is the enemy of the good." ~ Voltaire Last edited by dc_dux; 10-09-2008 at 06:40 PM..