Comments on: The Truth And Lies In The Ad Wars

CBS Evening News Fact Checks Obama's And McCain's Recent Ads

[oldwhiteguy1]

We are lied to day in and day out.
Our VERY BEST leaders are staying home. Our children don''t vote because WE don''t vote. We don''t ''love our neigbor'', because we don''t know our neighbor. We''d all like to help the less fortunate-except suddenly, WE ARE the less fortunate.
America needs to change, or perish.
Change is scary, but, not changing will be our demise.
One candidate has great hope, one candidate lies.
I''m tired of being lied to.
I have hope.
Yes, I''m bitter and I cling to my guns and religion, when did expressing THAT become wrong?
I can vote for change or I can vote to be deceived, again.
I choose change.
I choose Obama

[mediawatch50]

McCain has traded what honor he had for lies. He is a liar, and he is desparate. What we are seeing is that he will do anything---anything at all, no matter how low, no matter how despicable or dishonest or dishonorable, for Power......John McCain is morally unfit to be President.

[summerrunner]

Foreclosures, uneployment, record debt, unwinable wars, Fanny & Freddy in federal receivership...and McKKKain puts lipstick on Palin. Wow! It looks like we''re going to have more of the same.

[oldwhiteguy1]

Friday...
My favorite night to post here. Working folk aren''t HERE much on ''school-nights'', so we only get to speak out on the weekends.
Darndest thing tho''... news, politics, banking, stock markets, it stops, on the weekends. All anyone wants to talk about is days old stuff. Rather than discuss THAT, Id like to express an opinion.
I''m closer to sixty then fifty. White, male and I live 7 miles from town. To some I''m a hick. I work hard and play hard. The polls say I favor McCain, but I am crazy about Palin. They are WRONG!
I learned of Obama, like everyone else, from the 2004 speech. I was impressed and still am.
I support Obama and heres why.
He is well educated, from a broken home. He has worked his butt off, to help others. He has run a very determined, sucessful campaign. He has endured the rigors of American politics and still is on focus.
We have become numb thus dumb to politics. We have been lead like sheep for so long we believe our votes don''t count, so THEN they don''t.
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[joedante]

So what''s the deal? The folks who brought you the John Edwards and Bill Clinton affairs: National Enquirer is Alleging Sarah Palin has a Sexual relationship With Husband Todd''s Business Partner. The McCain Campaign is threating to sue and it''s interesting to note that the Enquirer hasn''t lost a law suit in 30+ years.

[idnnsg]

"Now CBS is taking talking points from the pinheaded bimbo liberals on The View. CBS has stooped to a new low of liberal spin doctoring" Posted by OneAmerican4 at 07:30 PM : Sep 12, 2008

Hey, pinhead! Don''t you know that the three "bimbo liberals" on the right are republicans? Only the two on the left are democrats! And one of them, Barbara Walters, has spent a lifetime kissing up to repugs and normally won''t ever cross them on TV. But McCain kept on lying, and she she just couldn''t take it anymore.

[cbville72]

Pretty even keeled reporting CBS.


Don''t let AMerica hit BaROCK bottom on elecion day.
Say no to drugs.....and Obama.

[joe_transit]

McCain is a liar and has distorted many facts many times and that is something he will never change. Palin may be a great soccer mom but she is not qualified to be a VP, he arrogant assumptions that she believes she can at the cost of our nation shows she is more interested in her personal power trip then the betterment of the USA. She is drunk with delusions. Both of these candidates are jokes, McCain is an elderly man and the only thing he will be changing are his own diapers. Voting for Palin for the only reason being female is a disaster about to happen. When an anchor man is more knowledgeable and qualified it is a little more then a clue that something is wrong here.

[obbcbs]

MEN under 36. Prepare to be DRAFTED for the PALIN war to take the Ukraine from the Russian sphere.
Prepare to be drafted for the war in SOUTH Ossetia, the former Georgian province, where PALIN says she is willing to go to war if Russia dares to invade Georgia again. That''s the Caucasus mountains. Bring your long underwear. The South Ossetians are IRANIANs who escaped from IRAN when the MONGOLIAN hordes overran it. They escaped to the Caucausus mountains. Go help them. The DRAFT awaits you. Vote for PALIN and go to war vs the Russians to save 7,000 Georgians from being a minority. Yes, this is over 7,000 people. Think small.
PS. Even if there is no war v Russia, the US still must reinstate the draft to keep up the effort in the middle east.
McCain confirmed that in a TOWN HALL meeting.
Check it out. under 36, vote for the DRAFT. You make the call.

[lunarella]

Check out www.factcheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. They accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations. Let''s make informed decisions this November.

[missingamerica]

The problem that the public faces is that for about 3 minutes during a 30 minute news broadcast, the networks point out the lies that McCain and Palin are using to misinform the American public.

Then at random times during the OTHER 1,437 minutes of the day, the American public sees those McCain/Palin ads that contain those same lies spewing at them from those same networks.

That leaves the public puzzling over a valid question:

"Well, if they were untrue, the networks and their affiliate stations wouldn''t run them, right?"

And, since the Republicans are very good at talking about "the liberal media" and "the MSM bias against conservatives and religion" etc., etc., the public is left with the hypothesis:

"The news broadcasts that say that the McCain ads are lies even as the networks and their affiliates run those same ads 24 hours a day must just be examples of the liberal bias of the MSM, right?".

In short, the Republican machine is playing the MSM like a fiddle.

Dance, Katie, dance!!

Swing your partner round and round, Brian!!

Do-se-do, Charlie!!

[credibility2]

The drum beats louder and continues to crescendo to a deafening state for the unqualified inexperience ultra-liberal nincompoop Obama. So beat the drums loudly; that won''t change the truth or the facts.

[williewomper]

Why would you think their ads would be any different than other commercials? All ads are full of lies and deceit, the truth meter on ads are pretty low.