Koch brother pull ad after families speak out

[teko]

Update: Americans For Prosperity said Wednesday afternoon that the photoshopped image would be removed from the ad.

The Koch brothers'-backed outside group Americans For Prosperity photoshopped a picture of President Barack Obama and Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) during a visit to a Colorado hospital after the shooting massacre in Aurora for a campaign ad attacking Udall on Obamacare.

The cut-and-paste job was first reported by Buzzfeed's Evan McMorris-Santoro on Wednesday.



AFP, which has very aggressively hit a number of vulnerable Democrats on Obamacare throughout the 2014 cycle, took an image of Obama, Udall, and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) at the hospital and used only the part of the image that included Obama and Udall in a slide in their new attack ad that attacked Udall on Obamacare. The resulting image (pictured above) shows Obama and Udall looking unhappy with text reading "Mark Udall Voted For Obamacare." The hospital background was edited out of the image AFP used.

Here's the original image, as taken by Saul Loeb for NPR (available on Getty Images):



In response to the ad, Udall's campaign manager, Adam Dunstone, called for the senator from Colorado's likely GOP opponent, Rep. Cory Gardner, to call for the ad to be taken off the air.

"All Coloradans, regardless of political party, agree that using the Aurora tragedy in political attacks is callous, insensitive and wrong. Congressman Cory Gardner should do the right thing by demanding his friends and allies stop using the Aurora tragedy for political gain," Dunstone said. "As someone who attended an Aurora memorial alongside Senator Udall, Gardner surely has the decency to publicly condemn the Koch brothers for this cynical ad."

The families of the victims of the Aurora shooting also reportedly released a statement denouncing the ad, according to Denver Fox News affiliate anchor Eli Stokols.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/americans-for-prosperity-buzzfeed-obama-mark-udall-aurora

[orphanedhawk]

I certainly never said the Dems were saints but that is besides the point.

The ads you mention may not have been nice and people can wish what they want but despite your digression this simply is not the same.

They did not lie by means of a false photo. Falsifying a photo is lying.
The koch brothers group is guilty of trying to lie to the public.

[teko]

Quit deflecting damnit. You want to talk about anything and everything other than the article in question. Do you think the Koch brothers are the innocent victims in this? Is that what you are saying?

[Vance2335]

How about radio host Randi Rhodes wishing President Bush was dead? Or a radio ad run against Bush talking about the dragging death of James Bird (think that was his name), basically saying if Bush is elected this will be common. Or how about our sitting President then Senator calling the sitting President (Bush) unpatriotic?

[teko]

BS the street runs both ways, when the other side of the street does something this low, we will discuss that, but in the here and now it is this article concerning how low the koch brothers stoop in order to get what they want, even using this tragedy for self gain. Its pathetic is what it is, so call it what it is!

[Vance2335]

This street runs 2 ways...remember that.

[orphanedhawk]

My husband does creative photography with photoshop. No photos should be taken at face value.

These groups are capable of pulling any stunt to convince people that their way is the only 'right' way even when it is with obvious falsehoods.