If you're going to get exagerrations out of the process then you might as well ban all political advertisements, period.

This is an intent to silence opposition through intimidation. It's un-American and I would be just as appalled if it was McCain's camp doing it.

Furthermore, you're apparently taking that "bobblehead" position of liberals that anything you don't want to hear must be a lie and therefore justifies any slimeball tactics to silence it.

Here is a good vetting of the whole controversy on the Volokh Conspiracy, a well-respected Constitutional law opinion site that has no particular bias one way of the other.

http://volokh.com/posts/1222201928.shtml

But be careful, you won't like their conclusions, so it, too, must be "all lies!"

>>Well, apparently, the Obama campaign is sending cease-and-desist style letters to media outlets to prevent them from running ads criticizing Obama. I can't directly link to the site with the letter because the the URL contains a word I don't think Mike would like to see here, but look at the "Shut Up, The Explained" topic in this page from the Wall Street Journal
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>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122244867435379317.html
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>>This is not the first time that the Obama campaign has attempted to intimidate a media outlet (the links I could post!). In the interest of fairness can someone show an example of McCain's camp doing the same?
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>>SET STRONGOPINION ON
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>>Typical leftist tactic - silence the critics by any means possible. This is so anti-American I don't see how this is defensible in the least. I don't anticipate a lot of response to this post by my Democratic friends.
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>>SET STRONGOPINION OFF
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>So if some third party organization were to put out an ad full of lies about McCain, the McCain campaign shouldn't request that stations not air it?
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>I think we should all be trying to get the lies out of the process.
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>Tamar