Robert Reich describes the tax exempt political action groups that are paying for the ads which keep repeating the big lies that become believable when they are repeated often enough. The Supreme Court has made it legal for them to spend unlimited amounts of money on the ads while keeping the source of their funds secret. The IRS contributes to the problem by pretending that these are educational organizations providing a public service. The big lies that they keep repeating in the ads, just happen to be identical to those used by republicans on the campaign trail.
Some of my friends tell me that advertising is not effective in selling a bad product. Scott Walker's successful campaign to avoid the recall in Wisconsin spent $29 million on ads. His opponent spent less than $3 million on ads. If advertising can't sell a bad product, I don't know why the political action groups that paid for the Walker ads spent all of that money.
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