DeWine Fakes WTC Towers Burning In Ad Attacking Dem Challenger

[kpete]

DeWine blunder adds fuel to controversial Sept. 11 ad
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, http://brownvotes.com/ 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.

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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 ... DeWine's exploiting an American tragedy and now we find out that even that's a distortion."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060719/19dewinead.htm

[saltpoint]

1. I've spent some time in Ohio and recall with respect Dick Celeste,

Howard Metzenbaum, and John Gilligan.

I'd love to see Sherrod Brown take DeWine's seat in November.

That would be a fine, fine thing.

[RufusEarl]

3. I'm not from Ohio, but i caught Sherrod Brown on C-Span

the other night. I only wish we had that kind of candidate in my neck of the woods, he was really good on all the issues.

[saltpoint]

5. My fingers are sure crossed for that race. It would be a big lift

for a Democrat to be in the Senate from the Buckeye State.

The national party should invest heavily in Ohio this fall. I'm hoping for good news.

And from the looks of things right now, Kenneth Blackwell is having no easy time of it against Ted Strickland.

And as long as we're in town, let's hope voters choose Victoria Wulsin over Mean Jean Schmidt.

Go Sherrod, Go Ted, , Go Victoria, Go Ohio Dems.

[oasis]

16. He also took on Colin Powell at a congressional hearing. The subject?

Bush AWOL from national guard duty.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Look on the bright side: They still have Gilligan.

[babylonsister]

2. And the repukes get their panties in a wad over flag-draped coffins? nt

[pa28]

4. OK then Senator . . .

Since we're on the subject I don't recall DeWine calling Bush to account for his failure to find Osama.

Has DeWine objected to the administrations shuttering of the CIA's Bin-Laden unit?

DeWine is claiming to be tough on terror but his lack of public action shows otherwise.

Like Bush he's gone from "dead or alive" to "don't care".

[Botany]

6. tough on terror?

bin Laden free
Iraq a breeding ground for terrorists
the UAE back to the port deal

Please run on terror you little one eyed skunk.

[OzarkDem]

7. ODP & Sherrod Respond to DeWine with their own ad

http://www.ohiodems.org/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/842440

[DUBYASCREWEDUS]

8. I live in Cleveland

and I can tell you first hand how disgusting this commercial is. What I don't understand is where Sherrod Brown's response and why isn't it airing? Why isn't the DNNC airing commercials of their own? Yesterday DeWine voted against Stem Cell research. Why isn't this little ditty all over the airwaves in Ohio? Brown is leading DeWine and Strickland is leading Blackwell but what do you want to bet those 2 pull out "miraculous" victories in November? The Moron was in Ohio just last week for DeWine and Blackwell, however, I don't think either one was home. Just send the campaign money. What I wish we would see in Ohio are ads with Blackwell and Bush and DeWine and Bush side-by-side and over-and-over again.

[Toots]

10. 911 also happened while DeWine was on Intelligence Committee

Talk about colossal failure in security, and he expects people to elect him??? Complete incompetence at all levels is the Hallmark of the GOP. Maybe America wants it that way as it possibly reflects their daily lives. What other explanation can there be? How can anyone keep rewarding such incompetence time and time again?

[warrens]

11. This ad could backfire bigtime

The gibbering monkeys will lap it up, but the saner wingnuts are going to see it as unnecessary and callous, like Coulter's remarks about the widows.

[genie_weenie]

12. What? Waving of the Bloody Shirt backfiring?

What are Republicans suppossed to do if they can't shout, "You are a Cut N' Run coward!" "You are happy Americans died on 9/11 and in Iraq!" "You hate America!"

Man there goes their whole platform!

[Sleepless In NY]

13. So why doesn't Brown run a 9/11 ad of his own?

With the real pictures of the Towers burning, in conjunction with clips showing how Homeland Security funds were cut to places like NY & DC, and Bush promoting the Dubai Ports deal? Republicans want to exploit 9/11? Ok, give them a dose of their own medicine. But wait, Democrats can't do that. Might actually show what hypocrites republicans really are. Just keep letting them push the Rove mantra about how "weak" democrats are on security and do nothing to dispute it.

[npincus]

14. dirty piece of sh*t

[2QT2BSTR8]

15. Has anyone noticed that the ad is now changed?

IF you go to Brown's site now, it does not have the same imagery shown in OzarkDem's link.

Thank you OzarkDem - GREAT JOB!

This is truly an outrage!

[mkb]

17. Every Warning Heeded

      Not Without reason do I say that some of the bad things
that are happening indicate that progressive forces are
achieving fundamental accomplishments.
     When politicians and influential people are seen by the
public doing deceitful and harmful things, then we learn
hopefully to not trust them.
     I don't see everything clearly sometimes, but those who
think about the future, even if you don't have children,
should see the progress in the cycles of history, and help to
keep that process moving ahead.
     We must educate ourselves to the best of our ability and
time permitting it, in order to be involved in the struggle to
make life better on the whole.
     Because many people, including myself, do not learn as
quickly or thoroughly as others should not discourage one from
participating in the understanding of and betterment of
society.
     The question will usually come to mind, how much should I
contribute?  I don't think there is a precise answer for that,
but doing the most you can in an intelligent way will help the
situation get better, and you should benefit from that as
well.  There are things people can do even if they are just
beginning to understand the way the world operates.  Doing the
best you can do is all anyone can ask, and hopefully you will
find happiness too.

[Voltaire99]

18. Ooooh, yeah, baby: 9/11 as right wing porn

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

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"This particular image is impossible," says W. Gene Corley, a structural engineer who led FEMA's building performance study on the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks.


Well, Gene, so are some of the boobs in Playboy. Structurally speaking.

But as every sweaty fantasist knows, silicone and airbrushing go a long way to providing the mind with what reality cannot.

Ditto for 9/11 idealization: for right wing grunters, those towers just can't burn or fall down spectacularly enough. We're talking about the money shot. Their destruction is the seed of the "everything changed" narrative, the locus of authority for abuses from Bush's domestic spying to the U.S. war on Iraq. And it's there to use again and again. Unlike reality, representation always spreads its legs.

Not content to let trauma be anything less than Trauma, especially with so much power and money at stake, 9/11 fetishists will be polishing their favorite image--fluffing its hair, collagening its lips, loosening the strings on its teddy, and Photoshopping it into an ever younger, more vulnerable ideal--for a long, long time to come.