The political bias slant of the three major cable news networks is beyond blatant. There! Now for full disclosure, this writer is conservative in nature, so I tend to default to Fox News only because the other two, with their ridiculous over the top, woke agendas, make me nauseous. The only exception is that CNN does seem to do a better job reporting on world-wide crisis events. But this post isn’t about politics. It’s about the commercials that run on these networks.
It pains me to say this, but Fox News ranks first in disingenuous commercials. Among the many that I find distasteful are William Devane pitching gold from Rosland Capital while standing on a battleship deck wearing a flight jacket and aviator sunglasses, Mike Lindell and his annoying My Pillow ads, and Tom Sellick using his folksy persona to convince seniors that they need a reverse mortgage. Let’s not forget the incessant Back to Nature supplement ads that have no scientific health basis. But the worst of all are the ads from this guy named Jonathan Lawson hawking life insurance from Colonial Penn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ldmLkS1AE
The pitch is that guaranteed coverage for anyone 50 to 85 costs only $9.95 a month. The catch is that $9.95 per month ($120 per year) only buys $760 in coverage for a 68-year-old male. The other catch is that the full death benefit only pays out if death occurs after two years of the policy date. What a deal, huh?