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.
Wall Street crony? You mean like John Corzine?
Why dig graves when we can just burn them. I'll happily donate the gasoline!
“A new ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee usesan unlikely symbol of Wall Street greed: The World Trade Center”
And surprise, the DSCC message has Chuck Schumer’s name written all over it.
You want to invoke imagery of Wall St. cronyism, just put up a picture of Dodd and Barney Frank along with the Treasury tax cheat.
great article on red state sayin how nelson blance landrie bayh are prayin brown wins so obama care wont pass so they wont have to pay the political price
great article on red state sayin how nelson blance landrie bayh are prayin brown wins so obama care wont pass so they wont have to pay the political price
Good to see you ‘round, oldtimer.
agreed -— and I think the perfect position for Rudy would be as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia! they would have such a meltdown..... actually, they’d probably refuse to “accept his credentials” as ambassador after how he dissed a Saudi prince waving a $10 million check right after 9/11
now that I’ve just watched the ad I think it’s most definitely a “stock” photo image that some ad agency type simply yanked out of a photo collection without much of a clue — not that it should not be plenty damaging to the scumbag ‘Rats, whose DSCC has (reportedly) already pulled the ad...... but the image used is obviously meant to represent simply a “gleaming skyscraper” and would not be recognizable as the WTC to a broad public...... you can’t see what was most distinctive in the shapes of the twin towers.
Still, the use of the WTC image as backdrop for a vicious and dishonest attack ad on Scott Brown is disgusting.
What I have not seen noted yet is that the content (words) in the ad are deeply dishonest and despicable as well —— because the whole theme of the ad is about how (supposedly) Scott Brown is in the pocket of “Wall St” and will never allow any “reform” etc.
.... but they scumbags stick in this quote with Scott Brown himself saying “I would be the 41st vote against IT” when he was clearly speaking about the Obamacare fiasco —— yet the DSCC ad uses that tiny clip to make it seem as though Brown has publicly pledged that he will always oppose any finanicial and economic reforms —— it is a grotesque and dishonest misuse of a quotation uttered in a totally different context.
What a surprise, the Demagogues and their DSCC are totally dishonest..... who could have guessed?
You are very right my friend. Rudy should be the head of homeland security. He hates those bastards with a passion. They almost killed him on that dreadful day .
” nobody can run a campaign this badly”
The GOP could and has.
” nobody can run a campaign this badly”
The GOP could and has.
Excellent my friend....
That same Saudi prince was trying to fund raise to get Obama into college. Hows that for a story we all need to follow. Look it up.
As long as nobody looks at a map, they'll get away with it. LOL
If memory serves, the terrorists who hit the Trade Center flew out of... Boston.
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