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Blogs Eric Reads
They Have No Shame
The Republican Party has absolutely no shame about exploiting tragedy for political gain:
One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.
The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by political ads in recent years, was pronounced dead at approximately 7:40 CST, when a video aired before delegates at the Republican National Convention included slow-motion footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center, the towers’ subsequent collapse, and smoke emerging from the Pentagon.
The September 11 precedent was one of the few surviving campaign-season taboos. It is survived by direct comparisons of one’s opponents to Hitler.
Be afraid, be very afraid. Because then they can keep taking advantage of you.
Rudy Finally Does It: Includes 9/11 Footage in Ad
We all knew it was going to happen eventually. Ever since he entered the presidential race, Rudy has built his entire campaign on September 11. Joe Biden said it best:
Rudy Giuliani. There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There’s nothing else! There’s nothing else!
But it hasn’t been working. In Michigan’s Republican primary, Rudy only picked up 3% of the votes–he got half as many votes as Ron Paul! So Rudy’s ad team whipped up this last-ditch effort to save the Giuliani candidacy, using actual footage from the 9/11 attacks. And as we watch buildings collapsing, killing hundreds, and innocent people fleeing, we hear:
When the world wavered, and history hesitated, Rudy never did.
“All these people ran away from Ground Zero, but Rudy didn’t. Fire crews and EMS waited around trying to work their broken radios, but Rudy was there for the photo op.”
Truly sickening. Up until this point, Rudy only verbally exploited the tragedy of 9/11 for his own political gain. Now, he’s reminding you to vote for him over footage of people dying in the World Trade Center. This disgusting caricature of a man can should be locked up, not put in the White House.
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