DeWine's 'shameful' 9/11 exploitation ad (video)

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 7:57 AM on July 20, 2006.

Oh, and it's a fake...

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"I'm Mike DeWine, and I approved this ad."

Oh, except, now I don't.

What an ass. In a 9/11 exploitation ad, the corruption-tainted Ohio senator used a phony representation of the towers to ostensibly show what would happen should his opponent be elected over him.

"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... for U.S. News. "The north tower was hit first [so] the south tower could not be burning without the North Tower burning."

So what does Mr. "I approved this ad" DeWine have to say?

"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..."

Or: Sorry, my exploitation ad was a phony. The real towers wasn't spectacular and scary enough. I approved it but I, uh, don't know. But the exploitation part? I still approve that.

Sounds trustworthy to me. Here's his opponent Sherrod Brown:

"the overwhelming number of people think the drug companies, the oil companies and the insurance companies rip Americans off. They don't like the Medicare bill, they want a minimum wage increase and they think our trade agreements hurt our country."

And DeWine?

DeWine pockets more than $300,000 from the oil/gas industry, that might have a little something to do with his vote for the 2005 energy bill that gave away tens of billions of dollars in new tax breaks to the oil/gas industry. I guess we're also crazy for wondering whether when DeWine took another $300,000 from the drug industry, that had anything to do with him voting for the drug-industry-written Medicare bill that gives away tens of billions of dollars to - guess who? - the drug industry. We must also be crazy for wondering whether that drug industry cash had anything to do with his vote this week to prohibit Americans from purchasing lower-priced, FDA-approved medicines from Canada. Oh and that $1 million that DeWine got from major corporate outsourcers? Yes, according to Mikey, we're crazy for wondering whether that cash has anything to do with him "support[ing] every Bush administration trade agreement" despite the fact that Ohio's job base has been decimated by these corporate-written trade pacts.

No wonder he's resorting to video game fear tactics... (Buzzflash, Huffpo)

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jennherne [Report this comment] Posted by: jennherne on Jul 20, 2006 8:35 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Like all good conservatives. His name should be DeWhine. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] There should be.... [Report this comment] Posted by: custersbud on Jul 20, 2006 8:35 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] a suite reserved in hell for anyone approving this kind of bullshit. DeWine is so corrupt, as are most of Ohio Republicans, that one would hope the voters see through this crap. However; they did push Bush over the top in 2004.....hmmmm. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Thanks, Mike. [Report this comment] Posted by: larry278 on Jul 20, 2006 10:44 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] It takes a buckeye crook to cast more doubt upon the 9/11/01 version of events purveyed by W & co, msm, et al. Thanks, Mike. If the purveyors of the conventional wisdom on 9/11/01 can't keep their troll on script-they are in the trouble they deserve. The white wash is getting thin after five years. I await the critical blogs in sites which deal with 9/11/01. Thanks again, Mike. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Sherrod Brown for President! [Report this comment] Posted by: fool-on-the-hill on Jul 20, 2006 1:41 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Sherrod is the most decent man in Ohio politics (admittedly, not a hard bar to rise above). More importantly, Sherrod Brown is one of the most decent men in the U.S. Congress. I earnestly hope he becomes the next Senator from OHio---partly for the sake of all my friends in Ohio, but mostly because it would be a great launching pad for him to make a run at the Presidency! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Have U Forgotten History Is OWNED by the GOP? [Pt. 1] [Report this comment] Posted by: pelle_in_goal on Jul 21, 2006 9:21 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] "Americans love a conspiracy. According to a May 17 Zogby poll, 42 percent believe the U.S. government and the 9/11 Commission are covering up what really happened on September 11, 2001". "Scientific theories, on the other hand, depend on interlocking chains of evidence: The integrity of the whole relies on the soundness of each link. Break any one and the theory founders". "The 9/11 conspiracy is a classic example of a faith-based pile hypothesis. Its proponents cite a mountain of evidence to conclude that the U.S. government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks for its own traitorous ends, chiefly staging "a new Pearl Harbor" to rally support for an invasion of Iraq. --- Article posted on alternet on July, 12, 2006, by Terry Allen of In These Times. I wondered when I read Allen's bullshit article what attachment -- to the real world -- did the US Government's version of the events of 9/11 Attacks make it THE leading conspiracy theory above and beyond all others. And why was Terry's debasement of anyone openly questioning the 9/11 Commission Report so obviously "foolish?" Terry -- through his media access -- seemed to be "dumbing down" the continuing controversy of 9/11 for those of us who obviously lack his "intellectual superiority." But the question I wasn't asking myself was: why was his article coming out now -- and from a supposedly left-leaning publication no less -- like ITT? Then, a couple of days later, I saw an ad for the forthcoming movie The World Trade Center -- with Nicholas Cage once again being paid some stratospheric salary -- to tell a story of one American "common man's" extraordinary courage in the face of absolute evil. DeWhine must be counting on the fact that the OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT version will be cast in concrete -- once some predictable and distorted docudrama makes the movie circuit and also makes the history the US Government wants you to believe "convenient" for the GOP in the fall elections. By the way -- I'd hate to be DeWhine's wife or mistress if he's actually as premature as his original campaign ad. He must need a lot of dry ice on his penis to "hang in there" for more than a few seconds -- if you know what I mean. Now...if he'd just waited until September or even October to release his bogus ad...everything would have been alright. I've never questioned the extraordinary valor of the FDNY and the NYPD in more than rising to the occasion of that awful mess on that awful day. At the same time, the movie will probably pay scant attention to the needless sacrifice of over 400 firefighters because Rudy Giuliani bought the wrong walkie talkies from Motorola. Motorola's CEO had been a big contributor to Giuliani's mayoral races. So the FDNY were issued communicators that were OK for the Secret Service but couldn't really function inside steel superstructures. That, and don't expect more than a passing mention of "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani burning down his own command post because allowances weren't made for diesel fuel safety for the post's emergency generators. And the film will probably skim over all the folks with bad lungs, etc., who went back to work in an "airborne Love Canal" of toxins just so the GOP wouldn't be held responsible for the shutdown of NY's Financial Markets. The GOP has gone into the "full-length" movie business at last! I'll bet they can even make one hell of a boring erotic film into a "Haves-and-Have-Mores" funded success. Seriously, the GOP has done some awful stuff. DeWhine is just an amateur at twisting the truth by his party's standards. That is, unless he's pocketing some slush money -- in which he is an expert. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] DeWhine (cont'd.) [Report this comment] Posted by: pelle_in_goal on Jul 21, 2006 9:29 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] But look out for "swiftboating" of a lot of Dems in close races with similar themes surrounding the 9/11 attack. Most, if not all, will show how the Dems are "actually" weak on homeland security. After all, this is the same PR machine that swiftboated Max Clelland in Georgia. To hear some GOP bastard tell the "story you don't know" -- that Clelland was "actually" fooling around with a grenade at a firebase -- that went off in his careless hands -- and sheared away three limbs. I didn't think a party could get any lower than that. But they are good at it. So maybe we'll never find out why Terry Allen is doing the GOP's busywork. Maybe the money was just too good for Allen to pass up. Anybody out there STILL think that the 9/11 attacks weren't part of a conspiracy? They are -- by definition -- the result of a conspiracy. On this 100% of Americans agree. Allen idiotically tries the old "Dealy Plaza From Behind The Fence" logic that conservatives use to paint anybody as a lunatic who doesn't swallow the government's version lock, stock, and barrel. Maybe Allen should go to work on DeWhine's campaign -- if he hasn't already. That'd probably result in one less GOP seat from Ohio [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: DeWhine (cont'd.) Posted by: bettyn Prescience [Report this comment] Posted by: pelle_in_goal on Jul 22, 2006 8:02 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] bettyn said in a few sentences what it took me a page and a half to say. BUT THAT'S NEVER STOPPED ME BEFORE. She's spot on as well about present and future GOP Productions, Inc., LTD., AG, PTY., etc. Here's more take on WORLD TRADE CENTER -- THE MOVIE: LOS ANGELES, July 8 [2005] /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Award(R)-winner Nicolas Cage will star in and three-time Academy Award(R)-winner Oliver Stone will direct an untitled World Trade Center project for Paramount Pictures. The film, a dramatic motion picture based on the true story of the rescue of two Port Authority police officers from the collapsed World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, will be produced by Double Feature Films' Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher and former InterMedia Films chairman Moritz Borman. Debra Hill will also be credited, posthumously, as a producer. Andrea Berloff wrote the original screenplay. The film will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Oliver Stone hasn't had a hit movie since "Natural Born Killers" in 1994. "Alexander the Great" wasn't the financial hit his backers thought it would be. Expensive, lavish, and most predictably boring. "Any Given Sunday" was a financial and critical failure and "U-Turn" -- although a rather good movie -- won't make people Stone's age forget epics like Bad Day At Black Rock. "U Turn", too, was a box office flop. Ollie needs a big hit badly now that he's 60. So he goes to where the money is. And this is what the money wants. The GOP is literally running on less than empty this summer and fall. But it looks like they're just cleaning up in Butt Town. I guess one can understand why DeWhine might have shot his cannon off so quickly. Hollywood "liberals" like Steven Spielbergh and Michael Douglas have already taken their money to "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" window at the racetrack. Most of the rest have read the handwriting on the wall. A relatively new production company -- Double Feature Films -- helped produce this movie. Another film producer -- Intermedia Films -- also put up the money for the project. . If it's any help, InterMedia AG and has its roots in Germany where the German government gives lucrative tax shelters to movie production companies. Double Feature Films is also currently in production of Hilary Swank in a "feel-good up-from-the-boot-straps movie" Freedom Writers. And "Double" is also beginning work on a movie due out -- guess when -- in 2008 -- on the Battle For Falluja. Wonder why the title isn't "The Battle Of Falluja?" Harrison Ford will play the heroic American general who devasted the city completely to save it in the name of freedom. Any rumors of Ford playing Eric Shinseki telling Donald Rumsfeld to sod off with the DOD's battle plan for Iraq are simply unfounded. Truth is, there'll always be money in Hollywood for right-wing pix. If McCarthyism left a legacy, it's that almost everyone's soul in Hollywood is available for the right price -- or the greatest threat. Stone's father was a New York investment banker. In that sense, I'd say the former was true for Stone. The "apple may not fall far from the tree" after all. P.S. If you're in the Greater Toluca Lake area: You know that old saw "(s)he couldn't even get arrested in Hollywood anymore?" Well...guess what...you can. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Valentine Day [Report this comment] Posted by: nikolailb on Jan 24, 2007 3:48 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] funny valentines poems funny valentine poems valentines day poems cute short love quotes cute funny love quotes short sad love quotes really sad love quotes short love poems valentines day picture valentines day party ideas valentines day hearts romantic valentines day ideas funny valentines poems funny valentine poems cheap flowers for valentines day free love poems short love poems short cute love poems short sad love poems best sad love poems lost love poems [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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