Democrats Pull Internet Ad With Flag-Draped Coffins
D. Spencer Hines
They were shamed into pulling the ad by sensible Republicans and Democrats.
DSH
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"Democrats pull ad with flag-draped coffins"
By SEANNA ADCOX, Associated Press Writer
14 July 2006
"ROCK HILL, S.C. - Democrats pulled an Internet ad that showed flag-draped
coffins Friday after Republicans and at least two Democrats demanded it be
taken down on grounds the image was insensitive and not fit for a political
commercial.
The ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called for a "new
direction" and displayed a staccato of images, including war scenes,
pollution and breached levees as well as a photograph of former House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay doctored to look like a police mug shot.
The campaign committee replaced the ad with a radio commercial that targets
Rep. John Hostetler, R-Ind., for opposing an increase in the minimum wage.
Democrats have made a minimum wage increase a central theme of this year's
election.
Democrats had featured the video ad for nearly two weeks on the DCCC Web
site where it had gone largely unnoticed until Republicans began objecting
to it this week. On Thursday, more than a dozen Republicans, many with
military backgrounds, called on DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., to
apologize. Democratic Reps. John Spratt of South Carolina and Chet Edwards
of Texas asked Emanuel to pull or alter the ad.
Rahm Emanuel is a former Clintonista. -- DSH
"We're moving to another major effort that we're highlighting on our Web
site," DCCC spokesman Bill Burton said.
In South Carolina, Spratt's Republican challenger, state Rep. Ralph Norman,
commended the removal. It was "the right thing to do for the state, country
and especially the brave men and women who serve in our military," said
Norman's spokesman, Nathan Hollifield."
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DSH
TOliver
"D. Spencer Hines" <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote ...
> This ad was a very shabby trick by the Left-Wing, Cut & Run Democrats.
>
> They were shamed into pulling the ad by sensible Republicans and
> Democrats.
>
Extremely active and agitated, since the ad was sure to cost him votes in a
relatively conservative district in which his incumbency and "pre-defense"
posture have kept him in office, my local Rep, Chet Edwards (D), in a modest
race against a Republican Iraq "Vet" (Well, only 3 months atop a month at
the Mexican Border, but deployed is deployed as we used to say at
Christmas), was loudly and publicly calling for "pulling" the ad.
National polls mean little compared to polls within congressional districts,
often not reflective of the media view of "national opinion".
TMO
ray o'hara
"D. Spencer Hines" <pogue...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This ad was a very shabby trick by the Left-Wing, Cut & Run Democrats.
>
yet it is the height of patriotism when bush does it.
and the republicans have advanced a plan to begin withdrawing from iraq
that is more drastic than the dems. it is the rightwingers who are the "cut
& run" party, just as they were in viet nam and korea.
the last time the U.S. actuslly won a war{ww2} the dems were in charge.
since the repubs have screwed up kores,viet nam and both gulf wars.
but it is good to see that you are a rovian puppet.
jackli...@earthlink.net
Same group that did the Swift Boat shit comes up with a fake sequence
in which the South Tower of the World Trade Center is burning and not
the North Tower. Impossible since the North Tower was hit first. DeWine
spokesman: "the image of the burning towers in the ad is a still photo
with computer-generated smoke added." But you aren't supposed to use
such a very shabby trick by the (Name your favorite political group),
this image is insensitive and not fit for a political commercial.."
Riiight.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001175.php
OH GOP Sen Campaign Runs Doctored 9/11 Ad
By Paul Kiel - July 19, 2006, 10:16 PM
Boy, oh boy. Earlier this week, Sen. Mike Dewine (R-OH) drew
controversy for using images of 9/11 in an attack ad, which assails Dem
candidate Sherrod Brown's commitment to national security. The ad came
shortly after Republicans attacked Democrats for running an ad with
images of flag-draped coffins on the internet.
But that wasn't the end of it. The image of the burning twin towers in
the ad was doctored. As Dewine's spokesman admitted to U.S. News and
World Report, "the image of the burning towers in the ad is a still
photo with computer-generated smoke added."
Luckily, Greg Sargent and the team over at Election Central captured
the original ad, and from this still, it's hard to believe that this
went unnoticed for so long:
Here's U.S. News' expert explaining how very fake the image is:
"This particular image is impossible," says W. Gene Corley, a
stuctural engineer who led FEMA's building performance study on the
World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. Corley reviewed the ad
atwww.brownvotes.com for U.S. News. "The north tower was hit first [so]
the south tower could not be burning without the North Tower burning."
Corley also says, "the smoke is all wrong." The day of the attacks, the
plumes of ash were drifting to the southeast. "The smoke on 9/11 was
never in a halo like that," Corley says.
Dewine's campaign says that they'll be replacing the doctored image
with a still of the towers before the attacks.
Update: Ah. The AP reports that the ad was created by Stevens Reed
Curcio & Potholm, the same shop that produced the Swift Boat Veterans
for Truth ads in 2004.
a.spencer3
<jackli...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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In the UK we just had an ad pulled showing a Bible and a pool of blood -
issued by the Gay Police Association.
I'm still trying to work it out! ..................
Surreyman
Vaughan Sanders
"a.spencer3" <a.spe...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>
snip
>
> In the UK we just had an ad pulled showing a Bible and a pool of blood -
> issued by the Gay Police Association.
> I'm still trying to work it out! ..................
>
> Surreyman
>
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5195462.stm
and
http://exiledpreacher.blogspot.com/
and
http://www.grace.org.uk/geneva/gpa_advert.pdf
Have I mentioned "lunatics running the asylum" before?
Jamie
William Black
"Vaughan Sanders" <v...@jamie-san.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Who are the lunatics?
If a complaint is made the police are required to investigate it.
That, I'm afraid, is the law these days.
In this case it's reasonably obvious that nobody will be prosecuted.
What you've shown is one obsessed religious maniac managing to place a
complaint that'll waste loads of police time and another being deflected by
a very reasonable and sensible policeman who has been put in a dreadful
position by what sounds like the most unpleasant little old lady in the
country.
If you read the police statement the investigation is a result of a
complaint from a single individual...
But I agree, letting religious maniacs run about wasting police time like
this is a bad thing when violent crime is reported as being up and other
religious maniacs keep trying to blow us all up.
I don't like religious fundamentalists, why do you?
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
Jack Linthicum
Must be a school for these people, we have a one-man operation that can
generate thousands of emails as if from as many people against anything
that his "family values" ideas don't accept.
Vaughan Sanders
"William Black" <willia...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Vaughan Sanders" <v...@jamie-san.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:e9nrqo$b4s$1$8300...@news.demon.co.uk...
>>
>> "a.spencer3" <a.spe...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:bVJvg.53$v4...@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...
>> >
>> snip
>> >
>> > In the UK we just had an ad pulled showing a Bible and a pool of
>> > blood -
>> > issued by the Gay Police Association.
>> > I'm still trying to work it out! ..................
>> >
>> > Surreyman
>> >
>> >
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5195462.stm
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://exiledpreacher.blogspot.com/
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.grace.org.uk/geneva/gpa_advert.pdf
>>
>> Have I mentioned "lunatics running the asylum" before?
>
> Who are the lunatics?
>
> If a complaint is made the police are required to investigate it.
>
> That, I'm afraid, is the law these days.
"Lunatics" who made the law William, remember them? you voted for them.
> In this case it's reasonably obvious that nobody will be prosecuted.
>
> What you've shown is one obsessed religious maniac managing to place a
> complaint that'll waste loads of police time and another being deflected
> by
> a very reasonable and sensible policeman who has been put in a dreadful
> position by what sounds like the most unpleasant little old lady in the
> country.
>
> If you read the police statement the investigation is a result of a
> complaint from a single individual...
>
> But I agree, letting religious maniacs run about wasting police time like
> this is a bad thing when violent crime is reported as being up and other
> religious maniacs keep trying to blow us all up.
>
> I don't like religious fundamentalists, why do you?
>
> --
> William Black
>
I can take them or leave them William, I notice the Gay lobby didn't have
the balls (pun intended) to take on the Muslim Comic.
Now if the Gay Anglo-Saxon Association took out an add, portraying the Koran
in a pool of blood claiming it was responsible for 100% of the terrorism and
presumably the other 26% of homophobic attacks, what do you think would
happen?
Jamie