Beyond the Rhetoric

In 1968 Roger Ailes, a TV producer and campaign consultant for Richard Nixon, said, "Television is no gimmick, and nobody will ever be elected to major office again without presenting themselves well on it."

And my, how they try. We are bombarded with television and other media hype from the candidates seeking to present themselves well and to present their opponents as the complete opposite.

To aid you in separating the wheat from the chaff, we reccommend the following purveyors of fine truth:

http://www.factcheck.org/ and http://www.politifact.com/