Searching for context

Greg Sargent raises a lonely cry from his outpost at Kaplan Prep Daily for some context in the media coverage of the propaganda ads enabled by Citizen United.

And no one is talking about what's in the ads themselves. No one is talking about how these ads are filled with multiple distortions and debunked falsehoods. In other words, no one is talking about what it is the voters themselves are seeing in these ads on an hourly basis. The discussion is largely a Beltway process argument about matters such as whether attack ads are effective and whether the Dem criticism of the secret cash is working politically for them.

None of this discussion does anything to undercut or challenge what the Chamber and Rove's groups are actually up to here: They are flooding airwaves across the country with a massive, secret-donor-funded campaign that's designed to tip control of Congress with a campaign of misinformation, distortions and falsehoods that have been widely debunked by independent fact checkers but nonetheless have attracted little to no notice.

To use a much over-worked phrase, follow the Benjamins. The teevee media isn't going to call out the lies while they're raking in hundreds of millions in ad revenue from them. Just not going to happen. [Via John Cole]

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