I recently published an article on the annoyance of political ads on TV. This being an election year, the ads are on all the time. The Supreme Court in all its wisdom said that you cannot limit the amount of spending on political ads nor can you limit the amount of times the ads are shown on TV. They say it would violate the Free Speech Amendment.

OK, I'll accept that. What other choice do I have? What I would like to see is an end to political lies. It's really hard to believe that those honest and upstanding citizens would stoop to telling lies, or say anything to get elected. Boy, I really am naive!

How can an end be put to political lies? Am I so naive to think this can happen? Probably.

My local paper subscribes to column called PolitiFact. PolitiFact takes statements by politicians and rates them according to true, mostly true, half true, mostly false, false and pants on fire. It is so interesting to read how politicians get their facts and how they distort them, use them in a way to make them look good.

Why would anyone want to put an end to this? TV stations don't care about the content of the ads. They are only concerned with ad revenue - and there is plenty of this. Political ads almost give the networks a license to steal. Politicians certainly don't want to censor their advertising. They just want their names and faces on TV. It's hard to believe that politicians would say anything to get elected. After all, they claim to be the moral backbone of our nation. Isn't that a laugh? Look at all the scandals members of Congress have gotten into. These scandals seem to be on an increase.

Do politicians really think they are fooling us? Yes, I believe they do and they are shocked beyond belief when they get caught in something sinister.

There are truth in advertising laws to protect consumers from false advertising. Advertising must be truthful, must have evidence to back up claims, and cannot be unfair. Shouldn't political advertising be subject to the same rules? Apparently laws do not pertain to politicians, just the general public.

Couldn't we have a neutral body like PolitiFact investigate ads before they are aired? Of course, someone who disagrees with their decisions would claim such a body to be biased.

The real solution to this is: let each political party see the other party's ads before they are shown and insist on the truth. Since neither party can agree on anything, this would cut down, if not eliminate, political advertising which is what I was after all the time!