RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] DDOS

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Political ads are almost never perfectly accurate.  People who simply
> believe what is said in such ads are almost certainly 
> mentally retarded.
> Do you think anyone saw that ad and then told his friends "Hey, I just
> learned today that Bush is committing war crimes just like 
> those Hitler
> committed!"  That would have been a good line for Jim Carrey 
> in "Dumb and
> Dumber."

A lot of people do believe this BS. Common sense never has been very common, and thinking isn't the strongpoint of the masses.

> So I don't think it matters much.  There will never be a law 
> suit partly
> because of the absurdity of the claim and partly because you 
> are allowed
> ot say almost *anything* about a public figure.  (Remember the supreme
> court case involving Larry Flynt and Jerry Fallwell?  It was 
> explained in
> this entertaining movie:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117318/)

I'm not saying he could or should be sued, just that this was indeed slander. Given how all the Democratic frontrunner can do right now is complain about how Bush is handling the war, and his fellow liberals are spewing as much BS like this as they can, I'm left with no choice but to vote for Bush. I've either got someone controversial but who did something beneficial (dethroned Saddam, repair), or I've got a Democrat whose own policy is apparently less important to him than berating his opponents.

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