“Patty Murray has a different view of Osama Bin Laden”
I probably should have written this down somewhere so I could prove it so, but I predicted two ads coming out of the Patty Murray – George Nethercutt Washington Senate Race.
First Nethercutt would have an ad showing footage from a December 2002 Murray speech where she talks about Al Qaeda’s public works programs — Murray positing on why the Muslim World is enthralled with Osama Bin Laden. Then Murray would have a counter-ad, making sure to include a Veteran, of a “Have you no shame” response.
The ad would pretty much have to come out, since Nethercutt is slated to lose by… oh… 12 points, and needs something to peg his gain traction with.
In case you’re curious, here’s the transcript for the Nethercutt ad:
Announcer: When most Americans think of Osama bin Laden, they think of this. (Image of World Trade Center ruins.) Patty Murray has a different view of Osama bin Laden.
Patty Murray: He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He’s made their lives better. We have not done that.
Announcer: He’s made lives better?
George Nethercutt: I’m George Nethercutt and I approved this message — because winning the war on terror means fighting terrorists — not excusing them.
As this article points out, Patty Murray was largely incorrect in her assessment. Al Qaeda really isn’t that good on the Public Works sector.
If you want a terrorist group that is good with their public works outreach program, you have to turn to Hezbollah. Now they get results!
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(Some odd factoids about Murray: In her first Senate bid, the political prognasticator Charles Cook, who looks into all the races and interviews every campaign, dismissed her as a lightweight. She won, of course, off of Clinton’s coattails, keeping the “Mom in Tennis Shows” image. In the annual Congressional Aide surveys, she is consistently neck and neck with Rick Santorum for title of “Dumbest”. That might well be partisan sniping, though… with a bit of a bias against “Moms in Tennis Shoes”.
The book on Nethercutt? Beat the (entrenched) Speaker of the House in 1994, off of a strong Term Limit Pledge. The pledge mysteriously disappeared from his website before the election before the election where he broke that pledge, and became a career politician.