Using Fame

I am not sure that I can agree with the practice of allowing people who have access to the media to promote their personal views during a presidential campaign. Now you may think that I am being overly restrictive of one group of people while others are free to discuss issues (if they choose) in dinners, bars, colleges(among students and not by professors in the classroom) etc.. But when your engaged in an outright directed goal to influence the general public because your profession allows you the advantage of a large audience, is in my opinion abusing fame which you earned because of a talent and not because they have some greater insight to who will better serve.

Sarah Silverman (The Great Shlept, trying to influence older Jews living in Florida to vote for her choice of candidates) and the recent scripts displayed on SNL(Saturday Night Live) is either directed or evidently slanted toward their particualr choices.

There seems to be a great deal of money supporting one candidate over the other( much which have been half truths if true at all bits of info) flooding the viewers no matter what channel you turn to with ads, which in itself, that can mislead the listener into believing that most of TV world must be supporting that particular candidate.

How does one combat this form of brainwashing? Easy, take the time to research, not only the candidates running, but 25 years of history regarding issues, programs, voting records of congress and senate, distbursement of our funds, infringement of liberties for personal gains, etc. The bottom line is BE AN EDUCATED VOTER. Do not rely on tibits of information no matter who you hear it from. It is like if we were educated, selective, controlled consumers we probably wouldn't be in this financial fix.

Remember if something sounds to good to be true, it usually is'nt true.