Distorted Ad's over Judicial Nominees.


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Judicial Fight Prompts Duelling, Distorted Ads

Both sides twist facts about Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen.

Summary

Millions are being spent on rival ads supporting and opposing two of President Bush's most controversial judicial selections. Neither ad is completely accurate.

An ad by the pro-Bush group Progress for America implies that Texas judge Priscilla Owen has been endorsed by a newspaper that actually says she's biased in favor of large corporations and "often contorts her rulings" to conform with her conservative outlook.

A rival ad by the liberal People for the American Way quotes Texas judge Janice Rogers Brown as saying seniors "are cannibalizing their grandchildren," without making clear she was speaking metaphorically of debt being passed on to future generations by entitlement programs.

Click the link below for the full article:

http://www.factcheck.org/article325m.html

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