Tribute? Maybe. Campaign ad? Without a doubt

The Republicans have just shown a short video about 9/11 that links those terror attacks with earlier, unrelated attacks to create an ideology — defined as Islamism — against which we are supposed to battle. The idea was to recreate the communist menace, to use the images of horror and tragedy that we all remember to scare voters into backing John McCain. They want this to be about security and the only way they can make this about physical safety is to scare us.

Keith Olberman, who I lately have found to be too partisan, calls the GOP out, saying that TV news channels would have rightly been castigated for showing so many graphic scenes from 9/11 and that the video shown by the Republicans was inappropriate. He’s right.

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet