Is life good or what?
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.
Ping for later..
Slow down. Warning. This ad is no accident. they put this in as soon as they heard Rudy was coming to Mass.
They want Rudy and Brown to spend the weekend complaining of dirty tricks which makes Brown look weak. Obama very skillfully did this to both hillary and McCain (witht the ‘doesn’t even use email’ ad, which came out just as McCain was peaking).
They carefully used a picture that doesn’t look like what most people associate with the twin towers.
Brown is peaking at the moment ... no need to follow this distraction.
It appears they took my statement “the Democrats can’t get any lower” as a personal challenge.
Rudy is on a ROLL!
Coakley’s campaign is sinking fast. Expect a bogus scandal involving Brown.
Scott Brown a crony? Uhhhhh, I don’t think so. Just take a look at the man. Crony???? Wow, what the dems won’t do. You can see, hear and smell their desperation can’t you?
The answer to that question is a question - "How low have Communists and Fascists gone in the past?"
Considering how attached the Dems are to power, as far as your imagination will allow.
That’s what I think - clueless.
Sadly, most people who see the ad won’t recognize the WTC - clueless as well.
They're going down HARD on Tuesday, and they now know it.
Now that's funny right there. I wouldn't count your chickens before they roost.
They could turn around and use the same thanking the dems and especially Bill Clinton for letting UBL get away. Nice touch while BJ is in town sizing up some new trim.
Honestly, this is more minor than I thought by the verbiage here.
The image is barely discernable to those who don’t think about it: a close-in view from the ground, as a vague background to the man’s face.
Stupid faux-pas to include old photos, perhaps, but not exactly blatant imagery. Not worth steaming up about.
Holy crap. With these bolshies in power, every day it’s another slap in the face to Americans.
Demorats are disgusting Lowlifes that chose a KENYAN VILLAGE IDIOT and Con-Artist as their Standard Bearer!!
There You go again! Covering OBOZO’S BUTTEND!! /s/ :-)
Is life good or what?
is that fran whiney nanny drescher?
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