GOP Uses Graphic 9-11 Footage In Video

From the Boston Globe: "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." Here's the video, if you care to see it..

Sep 5, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 4 Responses

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Comments (4)

No. 1 · DEAF FEMINIST PUNK!!!!!!!!!!

wow, how fucking creative, original and clever.

NOT!!!

Posted: Sep 5, 2008 at 12:20 pm

No. 2 · ljkelly

GOP back to their old scare tactics…

Posted: Sep 5, 2008 at 12:33 pm

No. 3 · Daria at Gorgeous Black Women

Fortunately, most Americans can see through this now. It became clear to them that they were being played in January 2005

Posted: Sep 5, 2008 at 2:07 pm

No. 4 · redsongia

Well, it's not too tasteless, in my opinion, until the very end, when they show images of people hanging up photos of their missing loved ones near the rubble of the towers. Some of these photos and posters have bloody fingerprints, because, for those of you who don't know, these postings began very quickly, just outside of ground zero around 9th street in the East Village. My uncle lived less than 2 blocks away and family members came to these spots for weeks, literally wailing and screaming and breaking down physically. My family was concerned that my uncle had PTSD, not only from being in the area, but from enduring these scenes every day in the after math. He never did get checked out, but he did relapse after 25 years of sobriety. He's just starting to get in the clear now after many years of constant set backs. Thanks for asking.

I suppose the big irony is that the actual victims of this attack live in New York, a state that is referred to partisans as "blue" and will be voting mostly Democrat, however these people posting blood-smeared pictures of their children, their newly wed husbands, their wives of 50 years or more, were shown at the RNC primarily to pull on the heartstrings of what partisans refer to as "red state" people, most of whom live geographically very far from NYC.

The other big irony is that these same destroyed people, sifting through rubble, bringing flowers to the photos of the missing, thus transforming them to makeshift graves, as good as any burial plot since very little remained of their loved ones; a finger, some hair, some "material" too vague to identify, these same people were then villified as the filthy, east coast, ivory tower, elite "angry left" that the base had to mobilize against at all cost in November.

Just a guess, but I think that was the objection to the footage used.

Posted: Sep 6, 2008 at 12:43 am

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