While looking for an article, I found this one on CNN that I thought was pretty interesting, and goes along with what we are learning in class. The article, entitled " How much do attack ads damage out faith in our leaders?" was posted today on CNN blogger Jack Cafferty's blog. Cafferty explains that while attack ads have a long history of being misleading and sometimes false, that this years ads seem to take that a step further than usual, by saying "Campaign ads accuse candidates of wanting to gas shelter animals, of wanting to inject young girls with dangerous drugs, of letting men bear their wives, and of helping child molesters-either by buying them Viagra or protecting their privacy." This reminded me a little of the Bush - Dukakis campaigns, where a lot of the facts were taken out of context. The article also points out that, surprising to me, a lot of these vicious attack ads are from the incumbent candidates, who are worried about not being re-elected. I feel like thats just immature, and unacceptable of people who we have already elected into office. These are officials that we have already given our trust to, and they are belittling other candidates on accusations that aren't entirely true, or true at all.
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Ben, I couldn’t agree more. I think that this is a perfect example of how these ads get taken way too far. Within elections it seems to become a dog fight of ripping each other of every good or positive, which just leaves the negatives for everyone to see. I think it is crazy to see how far people dig into each other’s lives and how they can spin comments and fine print into allegations to which may conceivably be true or could be completely be stretched to dramatic extremes which will capture the voting audience. I think everyone does make mistakes, but when we rip our political candidates to the point that they both are on the verge of criminals…one of them has to be elected and what’s that say about our American leaders. With attack ads I feel it doesn’t motivate voters to the polls, but rather keeps them apathetic and unimpressed by the portrayed convict candidates.
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