The Agenda Project’s ad going after GOP efforts to end Medicare as it now exists is likely to generate a lot of debate. It shows a Paul Ryan look alike throwing Grandma off a cliff. A masterpiece of negative advertising? Or is it exactly the kind of political exaggeration and demonization that has made American political debate so hateful — and often over simplistic and downright impossible? (Your thoughts in comments..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.