False ads and how to respond to them

The posts are getting more political.  The contest is heating up.

Yesterday, Limbaugh talked about the false ads.  Well, false ads are just politics.  It may be useful, and perhaps best for one's own peace of mind, to step back a little from all of this political stuff.  But the hotter this stuff gets, the harder that is to do.

The accusation of dishonesty gets made a little too often.  That Obama ad though, was pretty rotten.

Limbaugh wanted to find something in the past that compared to this ad.  He mentions the Lyndon Johnson's daisy girl ad against Goldwater as a possibility.  Actually, that may not be a good example.  Here's why I think so.  Essentially, the daisy girl ad was about an opinion that Goldwater was dangerous.  An opinion may be incorrect, but it can't be dishonest.  Opinions aren't facts in and of themselves.  There may be some facts mixed in, but they aren't factual in and of themselves.  On the other hand, the Obama ad starts with opinion that Romney is a bad guy, and then attempts to support that accusation with a lot of falsehoods.  There's not much of a comparison.

Maybe Limbaugh should have said that this ad is unprecedented in its mendacity.  That may be enough to describe it.  There's probably nothing quite like this ad in its rottenness.

It's that kind of stuff that gets the opposition fired up.  Not the smartest thing to do than to put out some locker room bulletin board material to get the other guys fired up.

The Chick-Fil-A video is another example.  Here I was, just writing stuff about how to work together to bridge the political gap, and along comes this video.  Now, I'm getting sucked in, and it is all about politics.  Too easy to get sucked into this stuff.

Another thing Limbaugh talked about is the Obama campaign's response to that anti-Romney ad.  There was this sound bite of an interview, and the Obama spokeman just wouldn't own up to the dishonesty.  Then I got the thought.  This reminded me of something humorous, like in the movie,  The Blues Brothers, where Elwood told his brother Jake a lie about the band getting back together.  Jake accuses him of lying, but Elwood wouldn't admit that it was a lie.  He claims that he was just "bullshitting".   So that Obama spokesman isn't lying, he's just bullshitting.  That thought struck me as funny.  Yeah, it may help to have a sense of humor to get through all of this dreary stuff.

Perhaps it is enough to say that Obama wants to bullshit his way into another term, and leave it at that.