Billboard displaying burning twin towers reads ‘please don’t vote for a Democrat

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Billboard displaying burning twin towers reads ‘please don’t vote for a Democrat.’»

A billboard on display in Orange County, Florida shows the World Trade Center towers burning while telling passers-by: “Please Don’t Vote for a Democrat.” The local ABC News affiliate reports that the person responsible is a local musician “trying to help Republicans” but that “officials with both political parties are calling the billboard inappropriate.”

Link to picture: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/15/billboard-displaying-burning-twin-towers-reads-please-dont-vote-for-a-democrat/

[Olney Blue]

1. Those burning towers happened on a Republican's watch.

[WillParkinson]

2. Liberal lies!

We all know it was Clintons fault.

:sarcasm:

[opihimoimoi]

3. Caused by a President who failed to HEED WARNING(S)...and later made excuses

[Captain Angry]

4. Inappopriate, unfortunate, regrettable...

When will somebody just say it's WAY THE HELL OUT OF LINE?

They are legally allowed to do it. But if a Democrat had posted the same thing with a "don't let a Republican let this happen again" the owner of the sign, the organization who posted it, and anybody within two generations would be executed publicly.

[RC]

5. As another DU'er posted earlier,

"Or we will do it again."

[Jade Fox]

6. The local Dems should sue. n/t

[bbinacan]

7. They should sue?

Look, as much as this sign disgusts me, it is freedom of speech.

[Jade Fox]

9. Ever heard of libel?

definition:

. A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.

[dems_rightnow]

13. Huh?

C'mon. Libel is a personal tort, not against a group.

And the sign says nothing libelous anyway. Just "Don't vote Democratic". The obvious implication of the sign is that we are weaker in defending the country. That's a false implication, yet falls very clearly in the realm of "opinion" in a legal sense.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. The right to free speech also extends to our right to call him

a fucking asshole. And if he can't take the obscene, nasty responses to his garbage, well, tough shit.

Speech is free - consequences are not.

:evilfrown:

[lonestarnot]

10. Can't another billboard be put up next to it?

[MaryEllen71]

11. maybe

someone should put up a billboard with images of Hurricane Katrina and John Mccain accepting the birthday cake from bush with the caption "please don't vote for a Republican"

[AZBlue]

12. There are some scarily stupid people in the world.

Who owns the billboard? That's who we should criticize - after all, they let the billboard go up.

[Rex]

14. Why not? So we have another 911? That is the msg?

The billboard is telling us Repukes want another 911. :sarcasm:

[patrice]

15. I feel pretty certain that this works the opposite of how the owner assumes.

There's NO f-ing way MOST of America could see such a think and NOT think, "That happened with a Republican pResident."