DeWine’s 9/11 TV ad video image is doctored

[Kolesar]

DeWine’s 9/11 TV ad video image is doctored
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Stephen Koff
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief

Washington ­ Sen. Mike DeWine’s latest re-election commercial uses a video image of smoke rising from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, while an announcer says that opponent Sherrod Brown is weak on national security.

The footage is haunting ­ and, it turns out, is fake.

The campaign of DeWine, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, acknowledged as much Wednesday night, saying its media consultant used gimmickery to create smoke billowing from the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The commercial shows the North Tower unaffected at that moment ­ even though it was the first to be struck by a hijacked jetliner.

That would make the “footage” impossible, said U.S. News & World Report, which broke the story in its online edition.

Joanna Kuebler, a campaign spokeswoman for Brown, the Democratic congressman from Avon, said it was “shameful enough” that DeWine “exploited an American tragedy for political gain.” But “to learn that he doctored an image that is sacred to so many Americans sinks to a new low,” Kuebler said.
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[unpossibles]

1. I can just hear Rushannireilly complaining about how wrong this is

oh wait - no I can't.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Outrage Update? Anyone?

The wingnuts are beside themselves with rage, furor and disgust at this blatant exploitation of 9/11 imagery by Mike DeWine, right?

Right...? Hellloooooooo?