[The_Victor]

Two out of probably 30,000 close friends and immediate family members and Reuters claims that "Sept 11 Families Disgusted".

"I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush."

This quote says it all. It should be followed by "But since Saddam isn't running, I'll vote for the next best candidate, John F'n Kerry."

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Frankly, I think the Bush campaign should be using images from 9/11 even more. It was the most important event of Bush's first term. It transformed the debate in this nation. The campaign can't not mention it.

In any case, there are people who lost loved one's in the terrorist attacks. But we are all 9/11 families.

[Waco]

If dingleberry kerryRAT had used the very same type add first, it would not be called bad, it would be used repeatedly, all this year till Nov. The genius of this is that knocks the add type out for the RATS. But then again RATS don't got no reason not to do the same thing, the way they think.

[VOA]

"Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57

If TWO SECONDS of 9-11 footage enraged them...too bad 11 seconds of footage wasn't used.
Eleven seconds is about the time it took for a human body to traverse the distance
from the top of one of the WTC towers to the pavement below.

[redrock]

What happened on 9/11 is NOT the sole property of ANYONE...even those who lost family members.

The UNITED STATES was attacked....every last one of us..and as such...no one can decide who can or can't use the images of that day in an Election.

redrock

[an amused spectator]

Revived Media Shenanigans ping - "Reuters reporter Mark Egan is disgusted by Bush campaign ads."

On, Off, or grab it for a Media Shenanigans/Schadenfreude ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~anamusedspectator/

A tip of the Shenanigans shillelagh to Freeper Dr. frank fan.

[Ichneumon]

Ooh, Jonah Goldberg nails it:

THE BUSH ADS [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm sorry, but while I have a great deal of sympathy for the families of 9/11 victims, I think these complaints are nonsense squared. A lot more people died during Vietnam than on 9/11 and John Kerry has been running ads with footage from there for months. These families may have a unique relationship to 9/11 but they do not have ownership of that day, politically, culturally or otherwise and it would be absurd if this administration caved on this point, even though I'm sure the media will be delighted to exploit the personal tragedies of these families.

[Color emphasis mine, italicized emphasis in original.]

That's gonna leave a mark.

[isthisnickcool]

I'm sorry these people lost family members. It's sad.

George W. Bush went after those that helped kill their family members. He went after them. Across the planet he sent people to hunt the killers and bring them to justice.

Unlike the people complaining here George W. Bush did not lose any loved ones on 9/11. Also unlike the people complaining here because George W. Bush went hunting for the killers Bush and his whole family will be forever marked for death by the people responsible for the 9/11 murders. But these people are not thinking of that. Because they apparently can't think. If they could they would realize that George W. Bush made an amazing sacrifice. And that was to forever put himself, Laura and the rest of their family in danger. Forever. And one reason he did so was for the people complaining here and their family members they lost on 9/11.

[AmishDude]

This Ron Willett is a real piece of work: A letter to the FTC.

The Willetts are not media shy, that's for sure. It does look like John, at least, was politically active at least:

John Willett served as the state's youngest county treasurer. Gov. Mel Carnahan had appointed him to the post at age 23 in 1996, the year after John received his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He served 18 months before losing an election bid to keep the post as a Democrat in a predominantly Republican county. . (9/10/2003)

Boy, the parents love to stir up trouble. (10/9/2002) According to this the son was adopted.

But I think it is safe to say that the Saddam voters are hardcore Democrats.

[So Cal Rocket]

I'm disgusted... disgusted, I tell you, that a candidate for the Presidency of the United States would stoop so low as to use a painful event in our Nation's past - one where so many Americans paid the ultimate price with their untimely deaths - in a political ploy to get votes:

[nmh]

It is tragic but people need to be REMINDED that security and nation defense are VERY important.

I lost some loved ones there and I WANT people to KNOW and REMEMER.

[Prince Caspian]

Rhetoric from political hacks. Absolutely irrelevant. Ignore at will.

[bondjamesbond]

Sorry. The 9/11 families do not own 9/11.

Nobody, but nobody, is showing disrespect for them.

But they cannot have final say over the national debate. This election is about security and our national response to 9/11. We cannot be held hostage by people who claim all things about that day as their private legacy.

[King Black Robe]

Oh the drama the liberal media can create when they want to. I mean come on. Why shouldn't Bush talk about that and use it in his commercials. The only reason some people are disgusted is because they are democrats and they know it's effective campaigning. So the liberal media finds some rats who had family members die in the attacks and voila! controversy created.

[Richard Kimball]

I wonder how long they've had these people identified and ready to be "offended" the first time W mentioned September 11.

[VOA]

Sept. 11 Families Disgusted by Bush Campaign Ads

I think Dubya should run a clip of the CongressCreatures singing
"God Bless America" on the steps of the capitol building (on 9-11 or was it 9-12?)

And just have a simple caption underneath the video
"Not all of them believed in what they sang."

[pfflier]

This is assinine. Didn't FDR use the blown up Arizona as a backdrop for his war effort and use the mantra "Remember Pearl Harbor".

What is outrageous is that the families of the victims see the attack on Sep 11 as a personal event rather than a national tragedy which affected us all.

[RightWhale]

"Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57, of New York

He meant 'disgusting $$$$$$$ wh***s' rather than 'enraged.'

[soxfan]

All this proves is that there are some families of victims that don't like President Bush - and didn't like Bush before 9/11 - and would criticize Bush for NOT remembering their plight if he HADN'T made any ads.

Turn the page. Nothing here.

[Publius6961]

What's up with this? Two out of thousands, and they get national press?
This is getting beyond disgusting!

To me the remarkable thing is that there are so few.
The treasonous losers within the media are attempting to turn Americans against each other. I refuse to play the game.

[DoctorMichael]

What a pantload.