GOP uses photo from Senator Byrd's memorial service in attack ad

[Emit]

Monday, September 06, 2010
GOP uses photo from Senator Byrd's memorial service in attack ad

by Chris in Paris on 9/06/2010 01:56:00 PM

Surprise, a new low for the GOP.

The family of the late Robert C. Byrd blasted the GOP nominee for his U.S. Senate seat Sunday after he used an image from Byrd's memorial service in a TV ad attacking the Democratic nominee.

The ad by Republican John Raese's campaign seeks to link President Barack Obama to Gov. Joe Manchin by displaying an image of the two Democrats at the state Capitol ceremony marking Byrd's June 28 death.

http://www.americablog.com/2010/09/gop-uses-photo-from-senator-byrds.html

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Raese's campaign manager, Jim Dornan, defended the use of the image.

"That's a stock photo. We had no idea it was from the memorial service," he said.

But Byrd's family called for the campaign to withdraw the ad.

"This is a tasteless and insensitive act by Mr. Raese," said a statement by the family of Byrd, who was also a Democrat. "His act is insulting to the memory of Robert Byrd and should have no place in a West Virginia political campaign."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100905/ap_on_el_se/us_west_virginia_senate

[Turbineguy]

1. ".... a tasteless and insensitive act...."

The specialty of the house.

[sakabatou]

2. Disgusting

[Doctor_J]

3. And still our leaders seek to make nice with this filth

instead of treating them as the sub-human scum that they are