DeWine ad uses 9/11 images to attack rival on security

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Brown campaign defends his record, calls TV spot 'a new, shameful low'

By JIM TANKERSLEY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER


U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine cues images of 9/11 hijackers, terrorists in training, and a smoldering World Trade Center to question his Democratic opponent's national-security record in a television ad launched statewide yesterday.

Analysts said the Cedarville Republican's airwave attack was the first by an incumbent senator this year - and a sign that Republicans are returning to familiar tactics as they face challenging elections in Ohio and around the nation this fall.

Mr. DeWine's ad scolds U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown (D., Avon) for voting against increased intelligence funding, the Patriot Act, the death penalty for some terrorists, and other security measures.

It references a Web site, www.brownvotes.com, and flashes between pictures of Mr. Brown; terrorist camps; New York City's burning trade towers on Sept. 11, 2001, and the hijackers who slammed airplanes into those towers, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field...




Brown narrows campaign cash gap against DeWine
Democrat challenger tries to match war chest of Senate incumbent

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060714/NEWS09/607140337/-1/NEWS

Article published Friday, July 14, 2006

By JIM TANKERSLEY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER


U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown upped his fund-raising game over the last three months, but he still trails in the cash race with U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine.

Analysts say Mr. Brown, a Democrat from Avon, will need help from his national party and friends such as organized labor if he hopes to match organization and advertising with Mr. DeWine, a Republican from Cedarville, in Ohio's closely watched Senate election.

Both candidates are due to file finance reports today, and their campaigns offered a preview yesterday.

Mr. DeWine raised more than $2 million last quarter, his staff said, including $750,000 from a suburban Columbus fund-raiser with President Bush and nearly $300,000 from joint fund-raising committees with other Republican candidates...

[Ninga]

1. We are not surprised are we?? I have faith Sherrod will give DeWhine

a good smack down for taking such a risky chance.

DeWhine opened the door for Brown, and Brown will not fail with a strong and forceful response.

[rodeodance]

3. Where is the outrage?---to pull this ad (ad Dems just did for showing cof-

fins).

[IndianaGreen]

2. GOP complained when Dems used pictures of GI coffins

Beltway Dems capitulated and pulled the ads.

Now we see, for the umpteen time, that the GOP always plays by their own rules by evoking 9-11 and using images to elicit the emotional response they denied to the Democrats.

You can't play fair with these proto-nazis!

[bettyellen]

9. and the coffins reference our curerent situation, not 5 friggin years ago.

people got to wake the fuck up.
:headbanging:

[radfringe]

20. On GOP can exploit 9-11

that had it copy-writed

[mtnester]

26. Or handcrafted if you are of that belief..

:tinfoilhat: :)

[INdemo]

4. I guess I'm confused..

the DCCC is forced to remove ads and criticized for using the flag draped caskets but all the images of 9/11 is ok..Where are the Democrats? Why aren't they screaming??

[EST]

5. Sherrod Brown should co-opt the dewine commercial,

adding only that this is what happens when you put the republican fascists in charge.
We can do better.

[KeepItReal]

6. Exactly...GOP has run Congress since '90s...9/11 happened on *their* watch

Remember how GOP folks like DeWine refused to fund aviation security after the Pam Am 103 and the Gore Commission report.

[Kagemusha]

7. They just blamed it on Clinton. They still are, I guess.

Won't ever stop, I guess.

[maxrandb]

28. Someone with some "balls" needs to put a stop to this

We simply must not continue to allow the Republicans to exploit the worst "terrist" attack ever perpetrated on our shores!!!

What the Fu$% does it say about our country, when the GOP's "finest moment" is 9/11.

Oh yeah that's right. I forgot how Chimpy "bravely" led a delegation of Republican Congressman to the WTC within 3 hours of the attack. Or was he running around like a "scalded dog" with his tail between his legs?

FDR said: "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself"

Churchill said: "Let us bear ourselves to our duty, so that if the English empire and it's commonwealth should last a thousand years, men will still say 'this was their finest hour'"

Bush said: "Go Shopping"

All Brown should do is run an ad saying; "I would like to thank Senator DeWine for pointing out what a 'MISERABLE FAILURE' Bush and the Republican's have been"

[AngryOldDem]

8. If it's the same ad I've seen....

...it's more comic relief than anything else...the ad just shows a bunch of small-town fire and police chiefs waxing poetic about how DeWine has kept them safe from terror. DrWine: Keeping Wide Spots In The Road Safe From Terror Since 1994, or whenever the hell it was he was first elected to office.

No substance here.

And is anyone really surprised that DeWine's pockets are deeper than Brown's?

[OzarkDem]

10. DeWine trying to get Brown to spend money

It seems like a pretty feeble attempt to get Brown to spend money on ads early in the campaign season. Not likely to work, because DeWine is so weak on this issue already. Interesting how it was timed to coincide with all the mess in the ME. The only way the GOP can influence voters these days is with fear and war. They have nothing left.

[AngryOldDem]

15. Another cynical ploy to play on the fear of terror...

...to people who don't know any better.

The GOP will keep riding that horse forever, I'm afraid.

[columbusdem]

11. Hopefully this will be a wake-up call...

...to Democrats to not make the same mistake yet again of waiting for the "silent majority" to rise up and vote out Republicans for these filthy ads, which of course have the stench of Mr. Turd Blossom's dirty, grubby little fingers.

[Mark E. Smith]

12. How Can Anyone Believe The GOP Is Stronger On Terrorism?

Almost 5 years after 9-11 Osama bin Laden is still at large, and al Qaeda is still killing Americans.

If that isn't failure on the part of the Bushies, what is?

[leesa]

13. Brown should use the EXACT same images and simply point out

that these events occurred on Republican watch and were the result of their mismanagement. Done.

[Nashyra]

14. Get the coffin ads back

I can not believe they pulled them. Someone posted to use the same images different words. Perfect

[New Government]

16. Dewine is an idiot - Shameful use of 9/11.........nt

[President Kerry]

17. back to the old dirty trick of using 9/11 for political purposes.

Nothing I hate more than fucking hypocrits!

[rucky]

18. Everybody FLOOD DeWine's Office w/ Calls

and DEMAND he pull his opportunistic ad!

[jseankil]

19. Contact Info: D.C. Phone: [phone], (more in post)

Has a total of 8 phone numbers.


http://dewine.senate.gov/

[UpInArms]

21. expect a lot of 9/11 coverage prior to the Nov elections - WP article

How Common Ground of 9/11 Gave Way to Partisan Split

After watching the news broadcasts, participants answered a survey that measured their attitudes toward Bush, the campaign against terrorism, the war in Iraq and the economy, as well as views on the two political parties and prominent Republican and Democratic leaders. By looking for differences in the way respondents who saw different news broadcasts responded to the survey questions, Iyengar could estimate the impact of each visual image on political attitudes.

What the experiments showed is that, even five years after the attacks, the image of the Twin Towers under attack has lingering effects on the public's political attitudes on a range of security-related questions. Those who were shown the Twin Towers video tended to be less hostile toward the president's handling of terrorism than was a separate group that did not see the same video.

"We went in with the expectation that people would have had so much exposure to 9/11 over the past five years that another 30 seconds of watching the same old video would not add very much," Iyengar said. "It turns out that reminding people of 9/11 modifies their opinions on a variety of issues."

The Twin Towers imagery also affected how Americans assess the causes of terrorism. The experiment found that 53 percent of Democrats who saw the video said Islamic extremism was extremely important in causing terrorism, compared with 40 percent of Democrats in a control group, who saw no video. Those in the control group were more likely to cite poverty and political oppression as causing terrorism than were those who saw the Twin Towers video.

[mitchum]

22. Thanks for the link. Lakoff's "Don't Think Of An Elephant" details...

the psychological triggers of Sept 11 imagery and how the gop exploits the irrational responses. They will continue to do so.

[many a good man]

23. Power of an Image

From the same article:

[suegeo]

24. Sept 11 was a national security FAILURE

From the perspective of this serf, the attacks on New York, Penn., and DC were a huge national security failure. It happened on GOP/Bush Junta watch. They had plenty of warnings, and did nothing.

Republicans are not good at national security, they suck at it, and there's proof of that everywhere.

I'd advise this two-bit, Republican jackass (redundant) from Ohio to distance himself from republican FAILURES in security.

[gully]

31. It was a GOP failure.

And as you say, it should be pointed out. WTF, do DU-ers have to run our own effective ads?

[MissMillie]

25. It's almost as if the GOP is enjoying the deaths of those people

:sarcasm:

[maxrandb]

29. Where's Ann Coulter

to say "I've never seen a Senator so gleeful over the loss of 3,000 Americans"?

[RFKHumphreyObama]

27. This is a Rovian technique

Release ads containing footage of 9/11 and subsequently ensure there is as much fallout and controversy as possible so that it keeps the alleged linkage between 9/11 and your opponent in the news and in the public spotlight

It's the lowest common denominator -exploiting 9/11 and the families who lost loved ones for cheap political tricks

[gully]

30. Seems to me REPUBLICANS WERE IN CHARGE ON 911?!

That's all Brown needs to say. To praddle on about how "shameful/low" it is won't get us anywhere.

[OneMultnomahDem]

32. This is really sad