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View Poll Results: Should political campaign commercials be banned from TV? | |||
Yes | 60 | 69.77% | |
No | 26 | 30.23% | |
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10-10-2014, 03:52 PM | #61 |
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In a way, political ads are kind of worthless except at the most local level. It seems that in national elections, 90% of the people out there would vote for Satan himself if he were running for their party.
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10-10-2014, 04:07 PM | #62 | |
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There's not really much legal basis to the concept of public ownership of the airwaves. It's just been repeated so often without examination. When the Radio Act of 1927 was passed Congress specifically deleted a House-passed “declaration of ownership.” A co-author of the Radio Act of 1927, Sen. Clarence Dill also said “The government does not own the frequencies, as we call them, or the use of the frequencies. It only possesses the right to regulate the apparatus. We might declare that we own all the channels, but we do not." Even the Congressional Research Service, which conducted a study of the problems raised by proposals to assess fees from broadcasters for use of the spectrum, concluded that “the notion that the public or the government owns the airwaves is without precedent. We find no case that so holds." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas... ...debunked the argument that the government can control broadcasters because their channels use airspace by comparing broadcasters to people who speak in public parks—like the airwaves, also in the “public domain.” He added, “Yet people who speak there do not come under government censorship.”The spectrum is there, whether we use them or not. So the public does not own them. Govt is there so ensure they are used in an "orderly use of the electromagnetic spectrum so signals won't crash into each other, and clear communication could be impossible." The area needs reform because too much central planning has entered in here and the public can benefit from reforms based on freely transferable property rights. But that's another argument. The public's recourse is to change the station. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/new...ves-myth/75018 |
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10-10-2014, 04:12 PM | #63 | |
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Now in the case of fraud, well, perhaps we can implement a way to remove an official for having committed fraud, but I don't know what that would be. We have impeachment for a president...and still it doesn't get used enough. |
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10-10-2014, 04:15 PM | #64 |
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Doesn't that have more to do with the kind of candidates that run, their characters and how gullible the public are in believing them?
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10-10-2014, 04:19 PM | #65 | |
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These political commercials are simply advertising. They are full of blatant lies Red Bull just got sued because people claimed they did not get wings from drinking the product. Politicians and the companies plastering these lies across the tv should be sued out of existence |
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10-10-2014, 04:24 PM | #66 |
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That doesn't bother me in the slightest, what does is the billion dollar campaign funds for the presidential elections, and the ever increasing costs of gubernatorial election campaigning costs. Lets have that money funded elsewhere, so it can be used for, you know, good things.
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10-10-2014, 04:27 PM | #67 |
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Part of me likes Brownback. That Davis ad said that Kansas is spending less on schools more than ever. That is wonderful. I don't have kids, not going to have kids, so if we can somehow get the funding down to zero for public schooling, that would be great.
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10-10-2014, 04:28 PM | #68 |
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10-10-2014, 04:30 PM | #69 | |
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But political advertising is still protected speech and it should remain that way. Committing blatant fraud should be a crime for them I agree. I agree there's corruption and probably the most than ever before. But that's a different argument in need of another solution than banning them from the airwaves. It ain't gonna happen under our Constitution. Your recourse until then, is to not listen to them and change the dial. |
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10-10-2014, 04:32 PM | #71 | |
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I stopped reading after the part where you said I was correct. I'm assuming everything after that is arguing with me even though you've acknowledged I'm correct. |
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10-10-2014, 04:34 PM | #72 |
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**** yes they should be banned. I'm tired of hearing all that garbage spewing and blatant lies in every direction.
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10-10-2014, 04:37 PM | #74 | |
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You know with the Liberal Media and all...they would never allow a right-wing candidate to show an ad. And if Red Bull actually got sued for that, it would be immediately dismissed as a frivolous lawsuit, so I don't know what your point is there. |
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Quite a strawman there cosmos.
Not quite what you said. Only the first part. Note the quotation marks around the word "considered." I am disagreeing with that, tho' that's how it currently is. It need not be.
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