If one is going to criticize another for using F911 footage in an ad...

[deminks]

one should make sure that it truly is F911 footage.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rnc-blasts-howard-dean-for-using-fahrenheit-9/11-footage-in-tv-ad-2008-04-29.html

Robert “Mike” Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), continued to slam his Democratic counterparts for an ad they are running against presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).

Duncan on Tuesday accused Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean of running an ad that features footage from director Michael Moore’s controversial movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.”


The ad, which slams McCain for his now-famous New Hampshire town hall line that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 100 years, features footage of an improvised explosive device (IED) going off near U.S. soldiers. ABCNews confirmed it was the same footage that appeared in Moore’s movie.


(snip)

The DNC said it bought the footage from Getty Images. They noted it was created by Associated Press Television and has been “used by a number of projects, including Frontline’s documentary, ‘Bush’s War.’”

“The Democratic Party will not be lectured to about patriotism or the well-being of our brave men and women in uniform by a Republican Party whose leader misled us into the war, sent our troops without the proper equipment, and has not done nearly enough to ensure we honor their service when they come home,” DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney said in a statement.

emphasis mine

[gateley]

1. GREAT statement by Karen Finney! nt

[guyanakoolaid]

2. Rec, esp for Finney's statement at the end