Wednesday, July 19, 2006

DeWine Alters Ad

Republican Sen. DeWine has had to change a campaign ad because it misrepresented actual facts. Here the story from the McAlester News:

Sen. Mike DeWine is changing the images of the burning World Trade Center towers in a campaign ad, but not for the reasons Democrats objected to it.

DeWine, R-Ohio, released a statewide television ad last week accusing his opponent, Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown, of being soft on national security. Democrats criticized DeWine for using images of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the 19 men accused of hijacking the planes in those attacks.

The senator was notified Wednesday by a reporter at U.S. News & World Report that the image of the burning Twin Towers could not have depicted the actual event because the smoke was blowing the wrong way. He immediately ordered the image replaced with a photograph of the moment, his campaign said....

Here is the real story about DeWine: Here.