November 3rd, 2014

False and shocking political ads: The worst of the worst

(CNN) – Voters can’t turn on a TV these days without hearing a narrator in a deep baritone telling you all the reasons why casting a vote for one political candidate over another could potentially destroy all that is good and righteous in this country.

And while Americans have grown accustomed to negative ads in the heat of an election season, what never gets old is just how far ads are willing to go to shock voters, and in some cases just flat-out lie to them.

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker columnist Glenn Kessler waded knee-deep into the muck to weed out what he called the most “fact-challenged” ads of the 2014 midterms. He shares his top three with CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” and CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash singles out her top three shockers on the airwaves.