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U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s attorney has succeeded in getting one Charleston media outlet to pull an ad that attacked DeMint’s eight-year-old position against gays teaching in public schools.
Warren Redman-Gress, executive director of the Alliance for Full Acceptance, said the story has received national attention in the gay and lesbian community since it first was reported this week.
“People just can’t believe one person can stop an advocacy campaign just because he doesn’t like the fact he was quoted in it,” he said.
The ad begins: “What if you saw this headline: Senator Jim DeMint: Jews Should Not Teach Public School. You wouldn’t tolerate such blatant prejudice and persecution. Substitute the word ‘gay’ and the reality is, you do.”
DeMint’s Washington attorney, Cleta Mitchell, had asked Charleston area televisions stations to pull the ad.
WCBD Channel 2 had asked the alliance to edit the ad by including a disclaimer clarifying that the first headline with the word “Jews” in it was not a real headline. A similar disclaimer appears under the second headline clarifying that it’s real.
WCBD station manager Rick Lipps said he made the request to eliminate any confusion, not in reaction to political pressure.
AFFA declined to edit the ad, so WCBD pulled it. In response, AFFA declined to let the station air its two less controversial ads.
It’s ridiculous to even ponder the notion that anyone looking at the ad would think that DeMint was anti-Semitic.
Seems to me that the claim the DeMint people are making is bogus. And in the case of one station, the bogus complaint has succeeded:
You can view all of the ads at www.affa-sc.org/imagine
You can also donate to AFFA at http://www.affa-sc.org/affa/donate.htm
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Meanwhile, that same station will run ads directly accusing Democrats of various atrocities, if it hasn’t already.
“It’s ridiculous to even ponder the notion that anyone looking at the ad would think that DeMint was anti-Semitic.”
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We already know that the senator from Fort Sumter has this thing about uppity Presidents. A couple of years ago, GOP county chairpeople complimented DeMint by saying that he would look after taxpayer money the way that Jews look after their own money, which actually did go too far for people in the Palmetto State. He rejects modern science. Barely a month ago, he stated in public that God has put Christians in charge of America.
So what’s so ridiculous???
Well, after getting to the White House, It took Obama most of 4 years to get to the point of endorsing equal marriage rights for Gay people (sorta-kinda…and AFTER a mini-firestorm started landing on his head…)
Let’s hope that the SC media can…evolve…a little faster.
I haven’t seen the ad but suppose it would be pro-tolerance rather than pro-gay. Would that be correct?
So in DeMint’s world, conservatives lying = okay while liberals telling the truth = controversial. Unfortunately it’s not just Jim DeMint and South Carolina that subscribes to that view.
That would be correct. The ad is at the top of the post.
After South Carolina declared its secession, former congressman James L. Petigru famously remarked, “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.”
150 years later, his observation still holds. Sigh.
It’s a reminder of the foolishness that should have become self evident a lot sooner for too many people.