A new advertisement from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee blasts Republican Scott Brown, who now leads Democrat Martha Coakley in a tight Massachusetts Senate race, for his close ties to “greed and corruption” on Wall Street. The only problem is that the spot also uses a stock image of the now-destroyed World Trade Center and the nearby Marriott hotel as the narrator reads the attack.
“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,” said Brian Walsh, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The gaffe comes at a particularly bad time for the Coakley campaign, which is already reeling from a slew of other recent PR problems. Earlier this week, Michael Meehan, a Coakley staffer and Obama appointee dispatched by the DSCC, attacked a Weekly Standard reporter trying to ask Coakley about health care. And the Coakley campaign is still feeling the effects of the televised debates, which voters overwhelmingly agree the Republican won.
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