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Old 08-23-2012, 09:47 PM
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Default Ad Hawk, Super Pac App Tell You All About Who's Funding Those Dirty Political Attack

For those of you who have an iPod or Android etc., this sounds cool. Especially if you're also a political junkie.

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After a long day of work, have you ever had your television programming of choice interrupted by the ominous instrumentals and sepia-hued images of a political attack ad? You probably just let the spin wash over you, too lazy to Google "Restore Our Future" or "American Crosswords" to figure out what these ad sponsors are really about.
Ad Hawk, Super Pac App Tell You All About Who's Funding Those Dirty Political Attack Ads
It probably says something about how annoying these ads are that not one but two smartphone apps have been developed to cut through their crap. On Wednesday, an app called Ad Hawk, made by the Sunlight Foundation, and another called Super PAC App, made by Glassy Media, were both launched independently of one another. Each essentially is a Shazam of political TV spots: Let the app listen to a bit of a political TV or radio ad and it will search its audio databases to provide the ad's backer and info about the ad.

Now if there were only an app to block out political TV spots altogether...
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For those of you who have an iPod or Android etc., this sounds cool. Especially if you're also a political junkie.
And I have seen plenty for the POTUS which are attack ads to. Haven't you? Or any Liberal on this site?

Tis the season for this crap.

And yet we have a few debates ahead of ourselves to boot. Which is what I want to watch....
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