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Tom is absolutely right that the manipulative use of graphical filters has a long (if not exactly proud) pedigree in politics. What he’s forgetting, however, is that hysterical over-reaction to political advertising also has a long pedigree. Does no one remember RATS? Or Michael J. Fox’s exaggerated Parkinsons symptoms? Making mountains over molehills is the whole point of a political campaign. This campaign has had its stupid moments, but they’re no stupider than past contests.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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