Florida GOP Group Uses Image Of Dead Ambassador’s Body In Obama Attack Ad

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

A Florida chapter of the pro-gay Log Cabin Republicans has published an attack ad against the Obama administration that prominently features a picture of slain Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya last month. Accompanying the picture, taken just after last month’s assault, is the claim that the President refuses to protect gay and gay friendly Americans against “Islamic radicalism.”

Funded by the Broward County Log Cabin Republicans, the ad calls for LGBT voters to support the Republican Party because of its support for Israel. Israel, according to the flyer, is the “one beacon of hope in the Middle East protecting our communities human rights.” The ad further insinuates that President Obama will impose sharia law on the United States in a second term. The full ad as published in the Florida Agenda, an LBGT newspaper (see right photo).

In making its assertions, the ad perpetuates two rumors surrounding the death of Ambassador Stevens. The first, that the group shown in the picture was proudly dragging his body through the streets, has been roundly debunked. Translated video of the moments captured in the picture shows that the group was taking the Ambassador to the hospital for treatment. The second is that Ambassador Stevens was himself gay, an unsubstantiated claim that right-wing blogs have seized on to claim that the Obama administration “needlessly enraged the passions of protesters” in the Middle East.

Pro-gay groups from both parties have condemned the ad.

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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/12/1003451/florida-gop-ambassadors-body-in-ad/

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[Enrique]

3. am I the only one confused by this?

Funded by the Broward County Log Cabin Republicans, the ad calls for LGBT voters to support the Republican Party because of its support for Israel.

wtf does LGBT have to do with Israel, and wtf does Chris Stevens body have to do with Israel?

I never had a strong feeling either way about the Log Cabin Republicans, now I think they might be even worse than Republicans in general.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Simple, he was gay. "Mooselims" hate gays and Israel. Israel loves teh gays. Or some shit like that.

[jsr]

5. Log Cabin Republicans sure are evil fucks

[Kali]

11. expecting logic from repukes

is as ridiculous as being a gay one.

[dsc]

13. because Israel is the only country in the ME in which gays can live openly

and given the country they are in it is more than likely many of the readers of the ad are Jewish. So it makes sense to put Israel in the message. I think the ad is a bad ad which backfired but Israel is a true friend of gays in a part of the world with very few.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. There's nothing wrong with being gay.

There's everything wrong with being GOP.

Republicans suck; Log Cabin or otherwise.

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Stay classy, GOP.

[wicket]

8. GROSS

[Andy Stanton]

10. Self Hatred Anyone?

Why would someone be a member of a political party that despises them?
I agree, these folks are seriously messed up.

[KurtNYC]

21. Stockholm Syndrome

[classykaren]

22. Kinda like a African American Mormon

Being a member of a church you had to sue to be a elder in.

[defacto7]

12. Using such imagery

is more than distasteful. It's disrespectful to the diplomats family and loved ones. How dare anyone use something like that for political grandstanding. It is counterproductive to LBGT causes. I'm beginning to believe the Log Cabin Republicans aren't even gay, just paid dummies of the repugs for propaganda purposes.

[truebrit71]

14. They do know that the gop wants them all dead or "cured" right?

I mean, they KNOW that, right?

[ieoeja]

15. Just remind people of those 2004 Democratic ads highlighting Bush's failure to protect us on 9/11.

Or, rather, the non-existance of such ads.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Log Cabin Republicans = Chickens For Colonel Sanders

[Skittles]

17. he must be their new dead guy

their old dead guy was from "Fast and Furious". Thousands of war dead do not count.

[tomm2thumbs]

18. Log Cabin Republicans = Damaged Goods

They need help. I pity them and wish them lots of productive therapy.

[KamaAina]

19. Of course Stevens was gay

he was from the Bay Area.

Everyone knows all 6 million or so people in the Bay Area are gay.

[KamaAina]

20. Why on Earth would the Florida Agenda accept this bilge?

[OldDem2012]

23. Sickening. nt.

[spiderpig]

25. Figures.

It's what they do.

Bastages.

Edited to add this is in no way a disparaging reference to the GLBT community, but to those damned Republicans. I am so SICK of their hate-mongering and utter willingness to exploit anyone and anything to feed their mindless followers.

Ugh.