{"id":45143,"date":"2020-07-24T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=45143"},"modified":"2020-07-24T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:22:06","slug":"are-political-ads-fact-checked-before-they-are-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=45143","title":{"rendered":"Are political ads fact-checked before they are televised?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No.<\/p>\n

Do politicians lie in their ads? Yes.<\/p>\n

In How I Learned The Facts of Life<\/em>, I devote some time to TV product commercials and tell you something you might not know: you can believe that the claims they make are valid, to a certain extent. (You’ll have to wait for the book to learn the “certain extent.”)<\/p>\n

But political ads do not have a built-in fact-checking system, so…politicians will lie. And the worst of them will lie egregiously.<\/p>\n

Just ran into this example on DailyKos:<\/p>\n

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Friday, Jul 24, 2020 \u00b7 5:13:08 PM EDT<\/span> \u00b7 David Nir<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

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CO-Sen<\/strong>: The NRSC has reportedly replaced<\/a> an ad so appalling that even Republican Sen. Cory Gardner asked the committee to take it down<\/a>, but its new spot<\/a> is still replete with falsehoods.<\/em><\/p>\n

The ad begins by claiming that Democrat John Hickenlooper “took millions in shadowy donations in the governor’s office,” with on-screen text calling them “secretive donation,” but there was nothing secret about them at all. Rather, as 9News’ Marshall Zelinger explained in a detailed fact-check<\/a>, the website on which the contributions are publicly available is simply not user-friendly.<\/em><\/p>\n

The narrator then claims that Hickenlooper paid for his defense against charges he’d violated state ethics rules by taking “$100,000 from a 9\/11 recovery fund.” This, says the Hickenlooper campaign<\/a>, is an outright lie: The money came from a 2003 federal bill that cut taxes and sent stimulus funds to the states.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a problem. So, as a voter, the safest position to take when you see a political ad making charges against an opponent is…fact check it before you vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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