Smear We Come!
January 31, 2010
In a surprising decision, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of lifting a long-standing law that limits political spending. “The spigot is … wide open,” says campaign finance specialist Richard Hansen of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. This ruling allows unions and corporations to spend limitless dollars on ads to defeat or elect federal officials. The justices stated that they made the ruling so that the public could think for themselves. However, that justification makes little sense because it flies in the face of well established psychology and is the exact opposite of what advertising is meant to do. For examples of how powerful advertising is, click here to read examples written in the USA Today newspaper.
With propaganda, opinions are easily swayed
This Supreme Court ruling has experts dismayed
People are prone to react
And not decide based on fact
So, get ready for the political ad cascade!
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Posted on: January 31, 2010
Filed under: Politics
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