US News: Dewine 9/11 smear ad is doctored

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DeWine blunder adds fuel to controversial Sept. 11 ad (U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060719/19dewinead.htm
By Bret Schulte
Posted 7/19/06


The controversial video of the burning World Trade Center towers in a television campaign ad for Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine is doctored, U.S. News has learned. The television spot, which has been lambasted by critics as a political exploitation of the Sept. 11, attacks Democrat challenger Rep. Sherrod Brown for being weak on national security.


On the air in major Ohio markets since last Friday, the ad shows the towers, with the south building billowing smoke, which gradually drifts upward. In the video, the north tower, which was struck first on September 11, is undamaged.


"This particular image is impossible," says W. Gene Corley, a stuctural engineer who led FEMA's building performance study on the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. Corley reviewed the ad atwww.brownvotes.com for U.S. News. "The north tower was hit first the south tower could not be burning without the North Tower burning." Corley also says, "the smoke is all wrong." The day of the attacks, the plumes of ash were drifting to the southeast. "The smoke on 9/11 was never in a halo like that," Corley says.


DeWine's office acknowledged the error. "The Senator was unaware that the image of the towers was a graphic representation and has instructed the campaign to replace the footage with a picture of the Twin Towers," his office said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
DeWine spokesman Brian Seitchik says the image of the burning towers in the ad is a still photo with computer-generated smoke added.
In a sign of how politically charged the issue of politicizing the Sept. 11 attacks has become, DeWine's camp promised a newly edited version would be produced immediately and released as early as Thursday.<snip>
The ad is "shameful," says Joanna Kuebler, Brown's campaign communication director. "Instead of being honest and engaged in discussion with voters and the media ... exploiting an American tragedy and now we find out that even that's a distortion."<snip>

Geeze...this Dewine guy lies even when the truth will suffice.

[TomInTib]

1. They just can't help themselves.

Just had to have that halo, didn't they?

[timontheleft]

2. It's the only way they'll get one . . . nt

[Metta]

3. What do you expect? Truth, justice and the American way?

What they do is the new t,J and the aw for them.

[Cocoa]

4. "not dramatic enough, let's goose it up a little"

:puke:

[MissWaverly]

5. The GOP - they even lie about the truth

[Mnemosyne]

6. But this was "unpatriotic" - "GOP criticizes new Democratic web video"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2386499

Controversial DCCC Fundraising ad--------------> VIDEO
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1635098

DCCC PULLED THE "NEW DIRECTIONS" AD - LOOK...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1635236


Haven't heard the Gop howling about DeWhine's ad.

[marmar]

7. Just when you think these troglodytes can't sink any further....

They find a new depth.

[hopein08]

8. My sister was just complaining about that ad, I'll have to fill her in...

She's going to school in Ohio and says the DeWine smear ads make her want to vote for Brown because of how DeWine makes him look (i.e. progressive-true Democratic). The catch is that she's still registered in Pennsylvania (and PA is still her official address but she could switch). So she's torn between voting for Brown or Casey or rather against DeWine or Santorum. She told me that she likes Brown better than Casey.