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To: Sully- who wrote (21387)	7/13/2006 1:17:59 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

That DCCC Ad Media Blog Stephen Spruiell Reporting The DCCC has just released a new video depicting flag-draped coffins in a "things that are wrong with America" montage that also includes pictures of a nuclear power plant* and high gas prices (message: We oppose nuclear power, yet it's the GOP's fault that gas prices are so high). I find two things about this ad very revealing. First, here again we see the Democrats' trope the the men and women of the U.S. armed forces are helpless victims of the Bush administration, as opposed to fierce warriors who are committed to winning in Iraq, making America safer and ensuring that the fallen have not died in vain. America should be proud of its heroes; the Democrats see their sacrifice as just one of many things that's wrong with America, like high gas prices. Second, a number of left-wing bloggers who are strongly backing Ned Lamont's campaign to unseat Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary went nuts over the weekend when the Lieberman campaign ran an ad that depicted a fake bumper sticker in order to make the point that Lamont's campaign has a single theme: No more Joe. I wonder what these staunch defenders of purity in political advertising have to say about the fake mug shots of Tom DeLay featured in this latest DCCC video. Something tells me they aren't going to attack Rahm Emanuel with the same sort of hostile rhetoric they aimed at Lieberman over the weekend. <<< My Edit - Via Hot Air As I read it, they’re accusing the GOP preemptively of trying to make 9/11 the key issue of the 2008 campaign. >>> * UPDATE: Reader Bill M. writes: <<< I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure that the power plant in the video is coal-fired rather than nuclear. It's been a few years since I was in the nuclear power business, but of all the power plants that I visited, I don't remember seeing smoke stacks (the tall skinny things in the vid). On the other hand, cooling towers are fairly common at coal-fired plants. Since Three Mile Island everyone seems to think that cooling towers mean nuclear. It ain't necessarily so. >>> If so, my mistake. UPDATE II: Lots of readers write that in all likelihood, the Dems didn't know it wasn't a nuclear plant (best line: they think electricity "comes from the plug") or if they did, intended to suggest it anyway. Probably. Also, Eric V. writes: <<< I should think it would be good to make it clear that the problem isn’t a photo of flag draped coffins. It’s that this is included in a list of things that are wrong with America. It seems to me that the fact America still produces young men and women who believe in this country and the ideals behind it – believe in it enough to shed their blood for her – is one of the things eminently right about America. They are not sacrificed by Bush. They sacrifice themselves that others may live free, and that sacrifice of themselves includes time, hardship, separation, low pay, high risk and real pain even before they get to the battlefield where they perform magnificently. If you really want to show a picture of what’s wrong with this country, show a picture of the Senate chambers. >>> Truth in advertising. media.nationalreview.com redstate.com michaelyon-online.com liberaloasis.com redstate.com

To: Sully- who wrote (21387)	7/14/2006 4:30:10 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Doctored DeLay Mug Came From Chickenhead by Ivy J. Sellers HUMAN EVENTS 07-13-2006 Much talk has been floating around the blogosphere about where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee picked up its incriminating photo of Tom DeLay featured on its latest (not to mention tasteless) campaign fundraising ad. HUMAN EVENTS has discovered the ad came from Chickenhead Productions, a questionable website that also runs websites such as SexIsForFags.com, IronHymen.com, NRA-KKK.org, FratBeat.com and WHITEHOUSE.org. Now the question is whether the DCCC has permission to use it or not. UPDATE -- 5:30 p.m.: A call was placed by HUMAN EVENTS to the DCCC earlier this afternoon to get their side of the story. Specifically, the DCCC was asked to confirm where they got the DeLay image for the ad from. The person who answered the call told us he would look into it and get back to us. We're still waiting... humaneventsonline.com humaneventsonline.com dccc.org chickenhead.com

To: Sully- who wrote (21387)	7/15/2006 9:48:05 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

So Much For The DCCC Advertisement By Captain Ed on National Politics Captain's Quarters The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee finally withdrew the advertisement they released last week after a hailstorm of criticism that wound up including at least two of the candidates the DCCC intended to help. DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel had defended the use of flag-draped military coffins as a political argument, but the argument failed to overcome the criticism: <<< Democrats pulled an Internet ad that showed flag-draped coffins Friday after Republicans and at least two Democrats demanded it be taken down on grounds the image was insensitive and not fit for a political commercial. The ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called for a "new direction" and displayed a staccato of images, including war scenes, pollution and breached levees as well as a photograph of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay doctored to look like a police mug shot. ... Democrats had featured the video ad for nearly two weeks on the DCCC Web site where it had gone largely unnoticed until Republicans began objecting to it this week. On Thursday, more than a dozen Republicans, many with military backgrounds, called on DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., to apologize. Democratic Reps. John Spratt of South Carolina and Chet Edwards of Texas asked Emanuel to pull or alter the ad. >>> As I wrote last week, I did not find the use of the imagery to be out of bounds for political debate. I thought the Democrats had shot themselves in the foot with a mond-numbingly incoherent advertisement, and the critics did the DCCC a favor by shaming them into deleting it. The DCCC talked about moving onto another subject, but they aren't fooling anyone -- it got chased off the air. The DCCC has at least improved the product. In their new advertisement, they actually discuss policy; they scold the Republicans for not supporting an increase in the minimum-wage floor. Maybe this could signal a trend for the midterms, where parties and candidates have to form a coherent message on the issues rather than just put together slide shows with scary pictures. Perhaps we may see an end to "Daisy"-style political attacks. Will we finally have political debate on substance rather than style? Naaaaaah. captainsquartersblog.com news.yahoo.com captainsquartersblog.com en.wikipedia.org