Is the Committee for Truth in Politics Legal?

I saw one of their ads in Illinois tonight – it was vicious, full of mistruths and nothing short of a scare ad. Very, very sad, indeed.

I saw the ad tonight. The half truths and lies made me curious as to who was putting it out and I first had to laugh when I saw the word “Truth” in their name. I can see why they are cowards who refuse to identify themselves.

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Some people are capable of sleeping with the most heinous misleading of their fellow men on their conscious, with the most brazen lies in the name of fat-cat donors comfortably digested. Please answer those ads and call your senators to tell them you're not an idiot and see the bankers' money hard at work against your interests.

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Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the most recent ad and the brain washing techniques in “The Manchurian Candidate”? That was the first thing that struck me. The second was that it would be much more accurate to call it the Committee for Truthiness.

This AD ends with “Big Bank Bailout…We'll never be fooled Again! Ever!!!

What an insult to the intelligence of the american people! This ad is obviously financed by Big Banks in a cynical effort to manipulate us into attacking the Banking Reform Legislation that would prevent another BIG BANK BAILOUT. Do what they ask: Call your Senators…but tell them that you support the strongest Bank Finance Reform bills that these ads attack!!!

Ironic that I must give my name, but the Committee for truth is not truthful as to who they are. This is what we have become. I mourn for my lost country. Lost to snakes and manipulators. I embrace your opinion and willingly listen, but DO NOT lie, cheat and rob my liberty. Our separation of powers has eroded and Jon Stewart said it best, we truly are the “United States of America, Inc”. I hope we wake up and demand our country back!! After all “we were built by Independent people for Independent people”. Lets send those who steal our Liberty the way of King George!!! And not to some dumb tea party.

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In regards to the latest commercial, “Don't be Fooled Again”, why isn't it in Spanish too?

Things are not going to change, no matter how we lament the dishonesty of the process. The folks with the money will always get away with this kind of rubbish. The only hope is that people wake up and realize these gimmicks and completely ignore these ads. After all, no one really has measured that these marketing tricks have any value or effect – at least not in the intended direction!

Whatever happened to “truth in advertising”? If a product has to live up to claims made in a commercial, how can a political advertisement like the latest from The Committee For “Truth” In Politics make such an obviously false claim? It makes me angry that stations will even run this ad. It's misleading at the very least, damning at the worst. If this is a sign of things to come… I shudder. We desperately need financial reform to guard against another economic mess like the one we're in!

oh, come on-funding isn't hard to come by if you are the moneyed elite and are desperate since your party has been rejected wholeheartedly by the majority-at least the current (at the time) reps and pols were a bit more than a year ago-but need to wage all out war against the “other side” which is what the right has been doing-I mean they have a whole cable news channel nakedly advancing their agenda
have you not payed any attention for the last year?
clearly it's been working, and the dems have been ineptly allowing the right to have it their way, in terms of “narrative” on policy-or have no control of the corporate media so are screwed either way (I don't believe the right controls all media or anything, just that they own enough of it to tilt things the way they want-look what Bush and Cheney got away with)

oh, come on-funding isn't hard to come by if you are the moneyed elite and are desperate since your party has been rejected wholeheartedly by the majority-at least the current (at the time) reps and pols were a bit more than a year ago-but need to wage all out war against the “other side” which is what the right has been doing-I mean they have a whole cable news channel nakedly advancing their agenda
have you not payed any attention for the last year?
clearly it's been working, and the dems have been ineptly allowing the right to have it their way, in terms of “narrative” on policy-or have no control of the corporate media so are screwed either way (I don't believe the right controls all media or anything, just that they own enough of it to tilt things the way they want-look what Bush and Cheney got away with)

man i am so sick of this-almost anything on this website makes me sick (read about waht the coal companies do when they strip mine for instance)-the country is going in the wrong direction unless the dems can wrest control of any semblance of the “reality based” world, and ostensibly many of the proper people are in power to take advantage of this -I mean Obama is technically the right guy, am I wrong? I know inexperience will haunt him, but he has help from at least some people who know what their doing-ugh I can't read any more about politics it makes me sick how business runs everything

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How is something called “committee for truth in politics” when it is a republican organization that does not tell people it is republican?

I think the moron in charge just doesn't get it: these organizations need to be accountable to THE PEOPLE, not the government!

The FEC represents us when it is doing its job properly.

I think the moron in charge just doesn't get it: these organizations need to be accountable to THE PEOPLE, not the government!

The FEC represents us when it is doing its job properly.

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