Thursday, July 20, 2006

Wrong

Have you seen Mike DeWine's ad attacking Sherrod Brown using images of one of the Twin Towers burning? There is one problem with it, the wrong tower is on fire. From US News:

"This particular image is impossible," says W. Gene Corley, a structural engineer who led FEMA's building performance study on the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. Corley reviewed the ad atwww.brownvotes.com for U.S. News. "The north tower was hit first [so] the south tower could not be burning without the North Tower burning." Corley also says, "the smoke is all wrong." The day of the attacks, the plumes of ash were drifting to the southeast. "The smoke on 9/11 was never in a halo like that," Corley says.

The error in this ad really symbolizes the republicans response to 9/11. Getting it right, not that important. Demonizing Democrats for not enabling them to get it wrong, very important.

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