Although the presidential election is 8 months away, political ads are already being shown on television. Some of these ads have become controversial. According to this CNN article, the Republican National Committee is warning TV stations not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. The RNC claims these ads violate campaign-finance laws.

The Bush campaign has also started running TV ads. Jimmy Breslin explains in this Newsday column why he is offended by the Bush campaign's new ads that feature film of "dead bodies, or body parts, covered with an American flag being taken through the smoke and flames of the world trade center attack." According to Breslin, "In his first campaign commercial, George Bush reached down and molested the dead."