Ben Sasse Quotes
Deepfakes - seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online - are likely to send American politics into a tailspin, and Washington isn't paying nearly enough attention to the very real danger that's right around the corner.
Sasse, Ben. "Sasse Introduces Legislation to Criminalize Malicious Deep Fakes." Office of U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, 21 Dec. 2018.
The Presidential Campaigns of 2008 and 2012 shocked many Americans for the blatant lies that opponents of President Obama wrote and broadcast and then some of the retaliatory lies that Obama defenders responded with. However, this quotation from a 19th century political historian shows us that blatant lying in American politics is not at all new.
Sinclair was running for the governorship of California and initial polls showed that he was way ahead. Major Conservatives from the country over contributed money to defeat him—more money at the time than had ever been raised even for a Presidential campaign. The Conservatives hired the first political consultants who would advise on an American Campaign throughs a corporation they established Campaigns Inc. The consultants began creating posters and pamphlets many of which were total fabrications attacking Sinclair and then went through his novels that he had written and took quotes from character dialogues in his novels including some of the villain characters who said vile things. They attributed all these terrible quotation to Sinclair, put them into printed pamphlets and distributed them all over the state. Sinclair lost making the assumption that few people would believe the lies that were being issued from Campaign Inc. After that race, political consultants began to work in many campaigns, and with that came more negative campaigning, attacks and more falsehood and lies entered the American political scene.
In the 2015 political campaign, she worked as a political surrogate for Domald Trump. She had been asked why Truumo made so many statements in his campaign sppeches that were contrary to the facts. This was her response. She was right so far as Donald Trump and most of his supporters were concered. One of the major fact checking organziations analyzed his speeches and found that about 80 persent of Trump's statments were untrue in part or totally. And almsot all media including Fex News which supported hom remarked on this extreme use of exaggeration or hyperbole, However, his supportwers did not seem to care. Ms. Hughes observed correctly that for a large number of Americans facts no longer mattered. What was important was the issue that he was talking about, whose siide he said he was on, the people he blamed for problems and the promises he made.
Benjamin Eric "Ben" Sasse is an American politician. Sasse, a member of the Republican Party, is the junior United States Senator from the state of Nebraska. Sasse earned a doctorate in history from Yale University. He taught at the University of Texas, and served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2010, he was named president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska.
