Rep. Alan Grayson's 'Taliban' ad backfires

Politico ^ | Updated: 9/28/10 10:19 AM EDT | ANDY BARR

[BradtotheBone]

Rep. Alan Grayson's attempt to equate his Republican challenger with the Taliban is having a big impact — just not the one Grayson may have hoped.

In an ad, Grayson's campaign calls Republican Daniel Webster a "religious fanatic" — a charge it supports with video in which Webster seems to encourage wives to "submit" to their husbands.

But FactCheck.org says the narrative crafted by the Florida Democrat's campaign distorts what Webster was actually saying.

"Grayson has lowered the bar even further. He's using edited video to make his rival appear to be saying the opposite of what he really said," the nonpartisan site, sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, wrote on its blog Monday.

"Grayson manipulates a video clip to make it appear Webster was commanding wives to submit to their husbands, quoting a passage in the Bible. Four times, the ad shows Webster saying wives should submit to their husbands," the site points out. "In fact, Webster was cautioning husbands to avoid taking that passage as their own. The unedited quote is: 'Don't pick the ones [Bible verses] that say, 'She should submit to me.'"

Grayson was also reprimanded by the Orlando Sentinel, which posted a story Monday headlined "Grayson's 'Taliban Dan' Ad Takes Webster's Words Out of Context, Twists Meaning."

"By twisting Webster's words, Grayson risks eroding some of the support he may have won from independent voters," the paper concluded.

[kanawa]

Link to ad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvB-mHXcWzg

[kanawa]

Webster’s response...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCCx7_aiLs&feature=related

[Ciexyz]

Disgusting.

[VRWCmember]

The term "Crazy" gets thrown around quite a bit

Reminds me of a scene from one of the Pink Panther movies when Clouseau went to visit the sanitarium where former Chief Inspector Dreyfus was being treated.

Clouseau: That man is crazy!
Director: We don't use that word here.
Clouseau: Well, what word do you normally use?
Director: Now, now...
Clouseau: Well that man is very "now now", let me tell you this.

[John S Mosby]

An activist savvy conservative street fighter. Like an Atwater. Grayson’s people are street level, collegiate newbies living on a loan,code pink, code rainbow, les/gay activists and uh... drug dealers. That and his millions of his own cash provides “cred” he doesn’t deserve. He is, by the way from Brooklyn and made his money in “phone cards” (See Soprano’s episode).

[Republican Wildcat]

The wife submitting to the husband is a response to the husband first sacrificing for his wife the way Christ sacrificed for the Church. It’s a two way street, not a one way street. It is frequently lifted from its context to create a negative. Same way with the passage about a wife being a “helper” to the husband - a “helper” is not a slave.

[SunkenCiv]

"Grayson manipulates a video clip to make it appear Webster was commanding wives to submit to their husbands, quoting a passage in the Bible. Four times, the ad shows Webster saying wives should submit to their husbands," the site points out. "In fact, Webster was cautioning husbands to avoid taking that passage as their own. The unedited quote is: 'Don't pick the ones [Bible verses] that say, 'She should submit to me.'"

Florida made the mistake of electing the lying loon in the first place, don't count him out yet. Thanks BradtotheBone.