Hmm, well, looking over the site, it is biased on this one the title of the page being "A Fictional View of the Filibuster".
Plus there are some talking around the issue going on in it, like where it takes up the line "Filibusters allow both sides to be heard" it says that there's still plenty of opportunity for a senator to speak. That's like saying "Any last words" is a opportunity to expose your innocence, too little too late.
I summed up the ad as "Filibusters are a part of the rules, republicans used them, and it's not right to change the rules when they don't suit us." and the factcheck bit to be "Ad campaign says filibusters good, but look at the ebil people have used them for, Ebil!"
From my read over, they distorted the message of the ad and harped upon the misuse of the filibuster while, except from mentioning the movie filibuster, I couldn't find a single example of a well used filibuster.
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Date: 2005-04-03 11:27 pm (UTC)Plus there are some talking around the issue going on in it, like where it takes up the line "Filibusters allow both sides to be heard" it says that there's still plenty of opportunity for a senator to speak. That's like saying "Any last words" is a opportunity to expose your innocence, too little too late.
I summed up the ad as "Filibusters are a part of the rules, republicans used them, and it's not right to change the rules when they don't suit us." and the factcheck bit to be "Ad campaign says filibusters good, but look at the ebil people have used them for, Ebil!"
From my read over, they distorted the message of the ad and harped upon the misuse of the filibuster while, except from mentioning the movie filibuster, I couldn't find a single example of a well used filibuster.