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tonight's episode of
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, where the special guest
will be November's cover story author David Mark. In "Attack Ads
Are Good For You," Mark whole-heartedly defends the commercials and
attacks so regularly derided by politicians, pundits, and
academics.
Few if any officeholders will openly admit to negative campaigning. To candidates, criticizing an opponent's voting record is properly called comparative advertising, and spotlighting a rival's marital infidelity is merely raising character issues. Campaign tactics that to one voter seem misleading, mean-spirited, or immoral can impart to another important and relevant information about how the candidate would perform under the pressures of public office. Negative campaigning, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Before he tackled the subject for Reason, Mark penned Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning. He plugged the book and the cover story in a C-Span interview that we'll link when it goes online.
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|10.12.06 @ 7:36PM|#
My cable menu says that Lou Dobbs is on the show tonight. Maybe they both are. I wonder if Dobbs will get grilled or pampered. Or if my cable company got the guest(s) wrong.
|10.12.06 @ 9:35PM|#
As a general rule you should simply ignore any and all political campaign ads. Especially ANY AD which makes a claim like the following: Senator X voted for measure Y fifty-seven times.
|10.12.06 @ 9:39PM|#
In 1999, Senator Kleinsauser voted to crucify Jesus. While desecrating the Host in unnatural ways with Congressman Foley.
|10.12.06 @ 10:55PM|#
Lou Dobbs was on last night.
|10.12.06 @ 11:03PM|#
I moved to Colorado from Illinois and now all Daily Show and Colbert report episodes are on 24 hour delay. I have no freekin clue why.
|10.12.06 @ 11:45PM|#
David Mark is a weird looking guy. That is all.