The 9/11 video.
I didn’t see this at the time it was shown, I actually only got to view it after we’d finished with McCain’s speech (had to pause it to put the wee one to bed.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDx80bnFrVs
I found the imagery beyond upsetting. Appalling. Not in and of itself, but because it was being shamelessly exploited to make people feel afraid, to garner support for Republican defense policies.
I was there on 9/11. Not the only person I know who was there, and certainly one of a million people in the tip of lower manhattan that day. Footage of the destruction, the dead and the dying, touch a tender spot that I tend to armor pretty well. I don’t like it when those feelings and those memories are triggered; I especially dislike it when its purpose is to convince me to hate an enemy or vote a certain way.
Keith Olbermann’s reaction was dead on. Republicans regularly decry the kind of graphic footage that was used, and yet found it appropriate to stuff their propaganda full of it.
I really am appalled.
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I only just saw this because of your link, and my reaction was pretty much, oh, god, can you imagine the poor people whose relations were shown in that video without warning?
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