A Review of Karl Rove and His Billionaire Boys Club, including their opening act, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
An old definition of pornography was “lacking any redeeming social value.” If that is the case, network TV has become the biggest purveyor of porn in the U.S. We are bombarded with porn, night after night after night. Explain myself? Well, does anyone care to try to explain just what the redeeming social value of political attack ads might be? Exactly what do these ads contribute to the well-being of society? They are full of half-truths and outright lies, and I do not understand why anyone with half of a brain would be influenced by them. Oh, now I see. Make your decision, no thinking required.
Neither side in campaign 2010 should feel anything but shame over how out of hand political ads have become. Though I live in Nebraska, Iowa is a mere 30 miles away, meaning Omaha TV stations provide me with a double dose of drivel. I can’t begin to tell you how sick I am of ads mentioning “Obamacare,” and picturing Nancy Pelosi, though she is running for office in a district 1,500 miles from here. I am tired of both sides accusing the other of “gutter politics,” though both sides are usually right. Thank you Lord for remote controls.
I have never decided on what candidate to vote for (or against) because of a TV ad. I would like to think there are many other people who can say the same. Still, Karl Rove and his Billionaire Boys Club, with opening act U.S. Chamber of Commerce are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this slock. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee countered the big bucks bashers with smaller donations from 68,000 people in the last week. All so we can continue to elect candidates who refuse to work with the opposition to come up with ways to make our country a better, safer place to live. Both parties need to plead guilty to gridlock.
Tea Party members have my utter disdain. They are willing to give until it hurts to candidates that want to lessen their tax bill. OK, here is what you are doing tea baggers-instead of giving tax dollars that might help house the homeless, feed the hungry, make our shore safer, or improve are now 30th ranked health care system, you are helping TV stations make bigger profits, maybe donating more than you pay in taxes. Utterly, ridiculously stupid.
In the past these ads would disappear until the next campaign. Now we don’t just get ads from candidates and their supporters, we are inundated with special interest ads, more of the same old lies and half-truths. One thing I may have in common with the Tea Party despots (what would you call Rand Paul’s supporters who physically attacked someone who opposed this radical right winger?)-is I do long for something from the past. I long for the days when candidate’s views were discussed in newspapers not presented as 30 second sound bytes on TV, and people would engage their brains to decide who the right candidate to represent them was and what issues to support.
I am afraid of what we are becoming as a nation.
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