Posted on 01/15/2010 11:51:05 AM PST by American Dream 246
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants to paint Scott Brown as a Wall Street crony who is out of touch with the normal, everyday people of Massachusetts. Considering their candidates’ disdain for retail politics, that’s a rather laughable accusation anyway, but the DSCC goes from laughable to jaw-droppingly inept with the imagery used in the ad. In order to represent Wall Street, which building do you suppose the DSCC used in conjunction with Brown?
A new ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee usesan unlikely symbol of Wall Street greed: The World Trade Center. VIDEO
The image in the attack on Scott Brown for his alleged closeness to Wall Street pictures the Trade Center and the destroyed Marriott Hotel on its western side.
A National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman, Brian Walsh, attacked its use.
“Using the image of a site where over 2,700 Americans died in a terrorist attack to distort Scott Brown’s position on regulating Wall Street is both distasteful and disrespectful. Martha Coakley should immediately renounce this ad and call for it to be removed from the airwaves,” he said.
Has anyone ever seen a major campaign this badly handled in one short week? Most of the blame goes to Coakley, but the DSCC was the group that sent Michael Meehan to help with messaging this week. His first contribution was to commit assault and battery on a reporter for the Weekly Standard. Now the DSCC chooses an image of the World Trade Center, Ground Zero on 9/11, to represent Wall Street and to attack Brown. That’s not just “distasteful and disrespectful” to someone who served in the war on terror and remains in the National Guard to this day, it’s flat-out stupidity.
And don’t believe it when the DSCC claims it was a mistake, either. The World Trade Center is a very distinctive-looking building, one that every American grew to know in the endless replays of the 9/11 attack. Anyone working in politics who didn’t recognize it either has been asleep for nine years or is irretrievably dense.
When the dust settles on this campaign, Democrats will be quick to blame Coakley for its failure (assuming she loses), but she won’t be the only one who screwed up this election.
Update: My good friend Guy Benson says this on Twitter: “Coakley is SO opposed to the death penalty for KSM that she put a picture of the building he plotted to bring down in an attack ad.” (Explanation of death-penalty issue here.)
Update II: Real Clear Politics has the original ad, which the DSCC pulled.
Update III: Rudy Giuliani is … not amused:
“Never in their wildest dreams did they think they would lose in Massachusetts,” says Giuliani. “Now they’re using imagery from an area of New York where thousands of Americans died.” The ad, he concludes, “just understates how excessively negative they’ve become since they’re so paranoid about losing this seat. They’re now using buildings that were destroyed on 9/11 — which is just unthinkable — and somebody better look into what they’re really trying to say.”
What are they really trying to say? My best guess is, “Help me, I’m drowning!”, but honestly, your guess is as good as mine.
This is getting good. It almost seems like they are self-destructing on purpose. The Dems could not be more incompetent.
how low ya got?
Dems know they are going to lose MA..they see the writing on the wall. They are bringing out everything, including the kitchen sink, in order to win. They have NO shame and NO soul. Using the World Trade Center to go against Brown, what the hell does 9/11 have to do with Scott Brown..Dems are DESPICABLE. They are digging their own political graves
As long as it is not effective on voting day.
Well, this explains why the Dims don’t want to fight the war on terror. They still don’t know the World Trade Center was attacked on 9-11.
Perhaps they were going to go with a 9/11 was an inside job and Brown is Bush line...
They’ve gone lower the impostor is being sent in Sunday...HA
Brown should run this ad and let it be known where her views really lie.
Go Rudy Go! Beat the Coakley campaign to a bloody pulp!!!
Ad Created by D&D Advertising (Dumb & Dumber).
The ad represents just how far away the Dems have moved from the average American mentality. Bringing the Twin Towers into the ad - will just help our efforts to overthrow these bastards.
One of our own Freepers calls Massachusets “Taxachusetes”.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants to paint Scott Brown as a Wall Street crony... In order to represent Wall Street... A new ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee uses an unlikely symbol of Wall Street greed: The World Trade Center. The image in the attack on Scott Brown for his alleged closeness to Wall Street pictures the Trade Center and the destroyed Marriott Hotel on its western side. A National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman, Brian Walsh, attacked its use... Has anyone ever seen a major campaign this badly handled in one short week? Most of the blame goes to Coakley, but the DSCC was the group that sent Michael Meehan to help with messaging this week. His first contribution was to commit assault and battery on a reporter for the Weekly Standard. Now the DSCC chooses an image of the World Trade Center, Ground Zero on 9/11, to represent Wall Street and to attack Brown... And don't believe it when the DSCC claims it was a mistake, either. The World Trade Center is a very distinctive-looking building, one that every American grew to know in the endless replays of the 9/11 attack. Anyone working in politics who didn't recognize it either has been asleep for nine years or is irretrievably dense. When the dust settles on this campaign, Democrats will be quick to blame Coakley for its failure (assuming she loses), but she won't be the only one who screwed up this election.No, WRONG, she and her henchmen didn't screw up this election, they screwed up her campaign. When the dust settles, I think we all hope that she's performed a service by throwing herself and her Party of Treason under the bus in the MA Senatorial election campaign.
Update III: Rudy Giuliani is … not amused: "Never in their wildest dreams did they think they would lose in Massachusetts," says Giuliani. "Now they're using imagery from an area of New York where thousands of Americans died." The ad, he concludes, "just understates how excessively negative they've become since they're so paranoid about losing this seat. They're now using buildings that were destroyed on 9/11 -- which is just unthinkable -- and somebody better look into what they're really trying to say."Nice of the writer to paint the thug Meehan as some kind of patriotic hero.
It's being mis-managed so bad, you'd think that a group with experience in mis-handling campaigns, like the RNC, was running the show.
I'll happily donate for more shovels...
He’s just trying to get out of DC cause he heard through the grape vine there’s going to be another attack.....on DC by a certain poor miss-understood ME religious order.
I’m not keen on many of Rudy’s stands on social issues, but America has no more stalwart defender against terrorism than Rudolph Giuliani.
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