World Trade Center Used in Anti Scott Brown Attack Ad

According to Hot Air's Ed Morrissey, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee launched an attack ad against Scott Brown to paint him as a Wall Street crony. The background used was the now destroyed World Trade Center.

The ad has since been taken down, but not before the damage was done. The World Trade Center was destroyed along with nearly three thousand lives during the 9/11 attacks. The attack was broadcast live in front of tens of millions of horrified Americans. The World Trade Center has become as iconic in the annals of American history as Pearl Harbor and Gettysburg. The idea of using the World Trade Center as a symbol of corporate greed and Republican malfeasance is something that seems so insane that one has to wonder whether Michael Steele has a mole inside the DSCC.

A National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman, Brian Walsh pounced and said, "Using the image of a site where over 2,700 Americans died in a terrorist attack to distort Scott Brown's position on regulating Wall Street is both distasteful and disrespectful. Martha Coakley should immediately renounce this ad and call for it to be removed from the airwaves."

What next? Using the USS Arizona memorial to claim Scott Brown is a warmonger? Or perhaps the Democrats will use the Vietnam War Memorial instead.

Leaving aside the idea of a total infiltration of the Democratic Party apparatus by Republican operatives, one can only suggest that an air of desperation has set in concerning the Martha Coakley campaign. Desperation causes people to make mistakes, like using the World Trade Center as a symbol of corporate greed in an attack ad.

The stakes in the Massachusetts special Senate race are both symbolic and real. The symbolism of a Republican taking "Teddy Kennedy's seat" in bluest of blue Massachusetts would be so damaging to Democratic moral that the Democratic Party may not recover. If a Senate seat in Massachusetts is not safe, then so seat is safe. It will be a sobering realization to take into the 2010 midterm elections.

A Senator Scott Brown would also pretty much sink health care reform. The Democrats have alienated the entire country with the brutal political tactics and the back room wheeling and dealing in their drive to pass health care reform. The latest is a sweet heart deal with labor unions, exempting union members from the "Cadillac insurance tax." To have done all of that and to still see health care reform go down in flames would be a tragedy that Shakespeare or Sophocles could have written.

After hubris comes nemesis.

Source: DSCC uses World Trade Center image in anti-Brown ad, Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, January 15th, 2010