Every election,... I get sick n' tired of all the lying on both sides.
It's 1st Amendment protected speech,.. but jeez...

Ad after ad, repeated a 100 times of candidates lying about their opponents and lying about their own accomplishments and standing on issues.
Video and audio clips cut of in mid sentence that you know are taken totally out of context. Images altered to look menacing, and dire music added to instill fear.
And then there's the deceptive PAC groups with names like, "Citizens for clean air" that are really backed by big oil, or Pharma, or Monsanto... just posing as citizens to push their agenda.

When does the right to free speech cross the line into deceiving voters?...
Who's rights are more important?...
Shouldn't we have a clear choice based on honest facts?
This is how some people, even still, believe Obama is a Muslim or Kenyon...
..and I don't mean to single out the Right for this either... Liberals do it too.
I think the voting public deserves better.  At least honesty, from those that would represent us.

Finally,.. glad it's over.  

Nothing's wrong with our election methods.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to ads. Here in Missouri, Claire ran ads that Josh Hawley was against pre-existing condition coverage. She said that because he was part of a lawsuit against Obamacare. She extrapolated that to say he was against pre-existing condition coverage which he said of course he wasn't, just that particular plan.

He ran ads saying her husband got rich during her time in the Senate using her influence. She said that wasn't true, he was just a good business man.

Who is telling the truth?

In Missouri, the largest media outlets are all Democratic mouthpieces so they 'believed' Claire's ad against Josh, but were quiet on his charge against Claire. We have no unbiased media in Missouri.  

So what are we to do? You can't rely on the media to be fair. There's no such thing as an unbiased fact checker.

Leave it as it is and let the public figure out who is more truthful.

MShipley wrote on 11/07/18 at 09:57:14:



I wish everyone had that in their mind whenever they hear ANYTHING, too many people are duped my lies from both sides

and if we could turn down the hyperbole for pete's sake