DCCC Video

[AustinHoya03]

Got this link from Drudge. Matt's complaint is that this campaign video utilizes images of caskets draped in American flags. I have a different issue. Check out the Photoshopped fake mugshot of Tom Delay.

While we're at it, this video is horribly slanted and ineffective IMO.

www.dccc.org/multimedia/archives/new_directions/

[jerseyhoya34]

Haven't seen the ad and probably won't because I'm tired of ads on both sides, whether it is the Swift Boat stuff or the continued politicization of the war against Iraq. I just find the basis of your quibble interesting.

You're reading Drudge, yet criticize something else for being slanted, let alone a campaign ad?

Photoshopping is also common practice on both sides. BC04 in at least one case photoshopped pictures of troops as a backdrop for Bush in tv ads. During the Iraq War, administration propagandists photoshopped pictures of the tearing down of the Hussein statue to make it look like the fall of the Berlin Wall or something that dramatic and to exaggerate the support of the Iraqi people for the American invasion.

I won't say that I disagree with you, however, since you seem to be calling for a more substantive dialogue. The times require it, yet the political leaders aren't providing it. There's a poverty of intellect in many corners of our government, and things like this and the Swift Boat attacs are the results.

[AustinHoya03]

jerseyhoya34 said:

You're reading Drudge, yet criticize something else for being slanted, let alone a campaign ad?

Yeah, I got the story off Drudge. I thought Drudge's comment on the ad was dumb. My comment was made after watching the video, so any "slant" in the above post is mine. Besides, my major complaint with the ad isn't that it's slanted, it's that it propagates a falsehood. And so what if Drudge is slanted? Can folks who read Drudge, or DailyKos, or Wonkette not think for themselves anymore? I'm not sure how I lose the right to call a campaign video slanted (which it clearly is) due to the media I choose to consume.

BTW, campaign ads don't have to be slanted, and are often more effective when they aren't. Ask any Texan who lived through Rick Perry v. Tony Sanchez in 2002.

In this case, I didn't just call the ad slanted, I called it "horribly slanted," meaning it's so slanted a two-year old could pick up the bias. The horrible slant causes the ad to be ineffective. Of course, had you watched the video you might have seen that.

jerseyhoya34 said:

Photoshopping is also common practice on both sides. BC04 in at least one case photoshopped pictures of troops as a backdrop for Bush in tv ads. During the Iraq War, administration propagandists photoshopped pictures of the tearing down of the Hussein statue to make it look like the fall of the Berlin Wall or something that dramatic and to exaggerate the support of the Iraqi people for the American invasion.

I was not aware that was the case, and I think this is a foolish and ineffective ploy regardless of who is doing the photshopping. In this case, it wasn't even necessary. DeLay is so widely despised that any ordinary picture of him would have done the trick. Additionally, Delay skipping out on his "real" mugshot was a pretty big media story, which makes it easy to ID this one as a fake.

FYI, the committee pulled the ad this evening over the "uproar?" caused by the casket images.