Connie Schultz: Karl Rove’s Playbook Goes Up in Smoke

From Connie's latest blog entry at Huffington Post:

It's impossible to gauge how many Americans were hurt or offended by Mike DeWine's attack ad that used a doctored image of the 9/11 tragedy to smear my husband, Sherrod Brown.

There are all the families, of course, the ones who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers burst into flames and disintegrated into mounds of smoldering rubble.

I thought of their anguish when I saw the ad, which starts with Mike DeWine insisting that he approved it and then turns to a fake image of the blazing towers.

I also wondered how many children saw the ad, which was the handiwork of the same firm that produced the 2004 Swift Boat ads against John Kerry. There are so many children whose hearts must still race at the sight of the horrifying images forever seared into their memories. It was, after all, a day that changed all of us.

Far more selfishly, I thought of our own family - our four grown children, and especially Sherrod's elderly mother. As soon as Sherrod learned about the ad, he picked up the phone and called her. "I don't want you finding out about this on TV," he said.

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07/26/2006 / Permalink / 2006, Connie, Hometown Tour, (all tags)