Oct. 5, 2006 - In the increasingly binary world of American politics, Rhode Island has earned its nonconformist reputation. The state has more voters registered as “unaffiliated” than either Republican or Democrat. One of their senators, Lincoln Chafee, was the only Republican to vote against the Iraq war, opposed Samuel Alito’s nomination for the Supreme Court and refused to vote for President Bush in 2004 (he voted for the president's father as a write-in vote). But now, after eking out a primary victory last month with strong support from the national Republican Party, Chafee trails Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse by about two points, according to the latest polls.
"We could have done something important Max. We could have fought child abuse or Republicans!" --Oona Hart (played by Victoria Foyt), in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons."
Anything legally to be done about this? Say a "truth in advertising/reporting" rule that significantly fines actual lies (as opposed to opinion and fiction). Or would that pose a problem with their "freedom of speech" considering how much of what they report is lies.
Barbara Fitzpatrick wrote:Anything legally to be done about this? Say a "truth in advertising/reporting" rule that significantly fines actual lies (as opposed to opinion and fiction). Or would that pose a problem with their "freedom of speech" considering how much of what they report is lies.
DOUG
Lying is not against the law, except in court or before Congress. And even there, lying is pretty much a matter of course.
Faux News would just say it was an innocent mistake anyway.
"We could have done something important Max. We could have fought child abuse or Republicans!" --Oona Hart (played by Victoria Foyt), in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons."
