Comments on: A Campaign Ad By Any Other Name http://www.betterphilippines.com/voters-education/a-campaign-ad-by-any-other-name/ Blogging For A Better Philippines|Pointing Out Truths Others Deny Or Ignore Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Filo http://www.betterphilippines.com/voters-education/a-campaign-ad-by-any-other-name/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Filo Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:04:44 +0000 http://www.betterphilippines.com/?p=496#comment-394 This is why politicians have no credibility, at least to me. I certainly trust them much less than you do (so it's likely that I'll be voting against, not for, anybody, as it will probably be a matter of choosing "lesser evils" and potential good guys if any at all). They have become so accustomed to lying to our faces that it doesn't really matter what they say because ultimately they'll get away with it. Here's the one thing NOBODY ever acknowledges: that GIVING VOICE TO THE LIARS IS GIVING POWER OF INFLUENCE TO THE LIARS. And the media get very easily played by our politicians because they just got to have "both sides of the story," even if it means broadcasting lies (which in my decades of experience, dumb people believe!). Sometimes, both sides lie. Ugh, so infuriating to think about. Why the hell am I paying my taxes just to watch all these charlatans bicker? I wish I could just bum around and bicker and grandstand and lie and still get paid right out of these politicians' paychecks. This is why politicians have no credibility, at least to me. I certainly trust them much less than you do (so it’s likely that I’ll be voting against, not for, anybody, as it will probably be a matter of choosing “lesser evils” and potential good guys if any at all). They have become so accustomed to lying to our faces that it doesn’t really matter what they say because ultimately they’ll get away with it.

Here’s the one thing NOBODY ever acknowledges: that GIVING VOICE TO THE LIARS IS GIVING POWER OF INFLUENCE TO THE LIARS. And the media get very easily played by our politicians because they just got to have “both sides of the story,” even if it means broadcasting lies (which in my decades of experience, dumb people believe!). Sometimes, both sides lie. Ugh, so infuriating to think about. Why the hell am I paying my taxes just to watch all these charlatans bicker? I wish I could just bum around and bicker and grandstand and lie and still get paid right out of these politicians’ paychecks.

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