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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:03 PM

Scott Brown Apologizes For Accusing Widow of Cancer Victim in Warren Ad of Being an Actor

Source: Crooksandliars.com

Anyone who has watched a loved one die of cancer knows how awful it is. A person with an operating sense of empathy would feel for these people and their grief and ongoing sense of loss. But then there's Scott Brown:

Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) sunk to a new low when he suggested at a campaign stop that the family members of asbestos victims who were in a campaign commercial for Elizabeth Warren were actually paid actors:

During a question and answer session, one firefighter commented that both campaigns are publishing advertisements featuring family members of victims of asbestos-related illness. He asked Brown how Warren gets the victims' family members to go on her commercial. "A lot of them are paid," Brown said. "We hear that maybe they pay actors. Listen, you can get surrogates and go out and say your thing. We have regular people in our commercials. No one is paid. They are regular folks that reach out to us and say she is full of it."

Guess what? They aren't actors. And they're pretty damn offended too.

Read more: http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/scott-brown-apologizes-accusing-widow



One of the ads, titled "Ashamed," features Kingston resident Ginny Jackson, whose husband died of mesothelioma after working at a Quincy shipyard that was filled with asbestos.

Reached through the Warren campaign, Jackson responded to Brown's comments, calling them offensive.

"What Scott Brown said today is so offensive to me and my family after what we went through," Jackson said. "He's sunk to a new low."

Jackson said going through her husband Sam's sickness and death from mesothelioma was one of the most difficult situations she ever endured.

"Sam and I were childhood sweethearts and we had been together since I was 15 years old," Jackson said. "I came forward in this campaign because Massachusetts voters need to know the truth about what Elizabeth Warren did to help families like mine who were affected by asbestos poisoning, rather than Sen. Brown's misleading attacks."


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WHAT A DOUCHE

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Reply Scott Brown Apologizes For Accusing Widow of Cancer Victim in Warren Ad of Being an Actor (Original post)
meegbear Oct 2012 OP
Raster Oct 2012 #1
calimary Oct 2012 #9
JNelson6563 Oct 2012 #21
tanyev Oct 2012 #25
WilliamPitt Oct 2012 #2
TahitiNut Oct 2012 #11
Trailrider1951 Oct 2012 #26
valerief Oct 2012 #3
Dem2TheCore Oct 2012 #4
Diclotican Oct 2012 #5
meegbear Oct 2012 #7
beac Oct 2012 #8
Diclotican Oct 2012 #20
Buzz505 Oct 2012 #6
hrmjustin Oct 2012 #10
budkin Oct 2012 #12
SoapBox Oct 2012 #13
Freedomofspeech Oct 2012 #14
BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #15
onehandle Oct 2012 #16
Zambero Oct 2012 #17
tomm2thumbs Oct 2012 #18
SoapBox Oct 2012 #19
We People Oct 2012 #22
dawn frenzy adams Oct 2012 #23
chelsea0011 Oct 2012 #24
Qutzupalotl Oct 2012 #27

Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:05 PM

1. It's really looking like Pretty-boy Brown may have to get a real job.

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Response to Raster (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:27 PM

9. Then let him go back to posing nude for women's magazines!

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Maybe stretched across the back of his famous Pretty-boy pickup truck?



Hey, I know Martha Coakley screwed up. She got complacent because she thought she had it in the bag, and went on vacation DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON, allowing Pretty-boy to campaign all over everywhere in her absence, and catch up and then pass her. And I have been offended by that ever since. Frankly, I'm just as offended at HER for dropping the ball like that. She didn't just drop the ball, she THREW IT DOWN.

But as a Democrat, as a Catholic Democrat, and yep - still a Kennedy lover, I have to say this - my parents LOVED JFK and I'm old enough to remember some of it. And it just hurts to the core - the very idea that a republi-CON would have taken the Senate seat that Ted Kennedy held for all those years. OR that Massachusetts would have fallen for him and given it to him. WTF??????? I feel the same way about that - that I do about women voting for republi-CONS. There's no good, logical, sensible, rational, ethical, OR moral reason to do so!

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Response to calimary (Reply #9)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 03:45 PM

21. Think about how good it will feel

To send Elizabeth Warren to sit in Kennedy's seat, instead the vapid Brown.

Tho' I'm in northern MI I'll be watching this race as closely as any other on election night and when that win is announced, we'll all be with/in MA in spirit for the moment.

On to victory!

Julie

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Response to Raster (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:16 PM

25. He can pose for an AARP centerfold.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:06 PM

2. A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-ASSHOLE

Ugh.

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Response to WilliamPitt (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:39 PM

11. That's unfair.

Assholes are USEFUL. I use mine almost daily! Scott Brown is nowhere nearly as useful. Indeed, he's been a part of the Senate Sphincter in spasm, resulting in legislative toxicity due to impaction.

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Response to TahitiNut (Reply #11)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:34 PM

26. Dear God, that was the funniest thing I've read in a long while

my life has been too long sucky with not much funny. Muchas gracias!

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:07 PM

3. He's a no-good prick. nt

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:11 PM

4. Apologize all you want butt head!

You can't unring that bell!

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:11 PM

5. meegbear

meegbear

Why bother say hi is sorry for it - when the damage is already been doing?.. Mr Scott Brown should be ashamed of himself.. And just leave national scene now... But I guess, it is something he will not do. And the only think he is "sorry" because he got taken out on it.. Republicans tend to be full of lying..

Diclotican

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Response to Diclotican (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:15 PM

7. I said he was sorry because that is the headline ...

LBN rules state you must use the exact title.

QED.

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Response to meegbear (Reply #7)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:25 PM

8. I don't think Diclotican was questioning your title, but rather

Brown's too-little-too-late attempt to walk back his vile accusation--- as in "Why bother to apologize when it's clear you don't care how you have to lie or cheat to get elected? Why not just go ahead an own your villany?"

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Response to meegbear (Reply #7)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:44 PM

20. meegbear

meegbear

I know.. Don't worry I got "it"

Diclotican

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:13 PM

6. To say the least

Brown is a looser.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:35 PM

10. Looks like Brown is going down in the polls.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:54 PM

12. Well... there go the rest of his chances

Good riddance

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:55 PM

13. Ditto to the douche!

...and he's a dick.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:00 PM

14. He needed to fact-check...

And of course we know Repooplicans have no need to do that.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:01 PM

15. This should be out of the blogosphere and into the M$M

for the widest shaming coverage.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:05 PM

16. He's history. Hope he held onto his pink leather shorts.

He'll need them when he becomes a lobbyist next year.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:09 PM

17. Brown is toast

He has run a terrible campaign and his problems are 100% self-inflicted. He will not be missed.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:11 PM

18. his true nature is exposed when light is thrown directly on him


and not processed through the 'GOP Spin-O-Matic'

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:32 PM

19. ...Way to go, Brownie!

I forgot to add that to my previous post.

Two peas in a pod!

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 03:53 PM

22. I'M sorry...

that I can't vote for Elizabeth Warren myself!

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:02 PM

23. Scott Brown's nose job

I'm telling you again folks, the man who has berated Elizabeth Warren for her lack of Native American features, has had a nose job. Now who's really the deceitful one?


Before nose job.


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After nose job:

You can clearly see the bridge is higher and the nose is less bulbous.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:03 PM

24. My former state rep is a turd. And he is using his second run for the Senate

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to trot out is wife and daughters in an ad to attack Elizabeth Warren. He used one of his daughters in the race against Coakley to say that Coakley gives woman a bad name and no wonder the don't want to run for office. That ad was an attack on Coakley for going after him on right to choose. And, lo and behold, another one this go round calling Warren and liar and Brown is pro h(who, I might add, is endorsed by MA Right to Life). Using spouses and their children in attack ads (without any clips of the candidate himself) is very rare but this guy loves them.

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Response to meegbear (Original post)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 10:14 AM

27. Rare species spotted: the elusive Republican apology

Observe:

Brown later apologized in a statement, saying he was wrong to have jumped to those conclusions.

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