The idiocy of negative political ads on TV

Last night while watching the Celtics game on CSNNE, every single commercial break contained multiple political ads.  And more often than not, a negative and a positive commercial for the same candidate back to back.

First I see an ad telling me Charlie Baker is the worst person in the world, then immediately after he's everybody's best friend and taking selfies all over the place:



How am I supposed to know what to believe?

Then a commercial comes on with a little girl spelling out O-B-A-M-A, and that's supposed to make me think somebody named Jean Shaheen is no good:



Right after that I see an ad bashing Shaheen's opponent, Scott Brown, telling me that he doesn't care about New Hampshire:



Well guess what, I don't care about New Hampshire either!  I'm in Boston watching a basketball game!

But seriously, I think all negative political ads should be banned.  You say something awful about me, and then I come back with something terrible about you.  It's just stupid and depressing.


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