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This has to be the most blatantly dishonest political ad I've ever seen, and that's saying something.
Rep. Grayson Lowers the Bar | FactCheck.org
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Grayson has been garnering attention by acting like an adolescent internet troll for some time now; hopefully he'll get booted out this November. Nate Silver, who last week gave Webster a 52% chance of winning, writes on Twitter that "Democrats who don't want to look hypocritical when they denounce GOP ads in the future should probably denounce Grayson's ads".
Rep. Grayson Lowers the Bar | FactCheck.org
We thought Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida reached a low point when he falsely accused his opponent of being a draft dodger during the Vietnam War, and of not loving his country. But now Grayson has lowered the bar even further. He’s using edited video to make his rival appear to be saying the opposite of what he really said.
In a new ad, Grayson accuses his Republican opponent Daniel Webster of being a religious fanatic and dubs him "Taliban Dan." But to make his case, Grayson manipulates a video clip to make it appear Webster was commanding wives to submit to their husbands, quoting a passage in the Bible. Four times, the ad shows Webster saying wives should submit to their husbands. In fact, Webster was cautioning husbands to avoid taking that passage as their own. The unedited quote is: "Don’t pick the ones [Bible verses] that say, ‘She should submit to me.’"
Here's Webster's full quote:
Webster: So, write a journal. Second, find a verse. I have a verse for my wife, I have verses for my wife. Don’t pick the ones that say, ‘She should submit to me.’ That’s in the Bible, but pick the ones that you’re supposed to do. So instead, ‘love your wife, even as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it’ as opposed to ‘wives submit to your own husbands.’ She can pray that, if she wants to, but don’t you pray it.
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But the ad’s claim that Webster would "deny battered women . . . the right to divorce their abusers" is a distortion. The claim is based on legislation he sponsored in the Florida House of Representatives 20 years ago. The bill, HB 1585, would have allowed Florida residents the option of a "covenant marriage," which would limit their divorce rights. Under the proposal, couples could dissolve a covenant marriage only in cases of adultery. But that would not have applied to anyone who did not choose to enter a covenant marriage. The legislation died in committee in June 1990. Webster has not advocated for covenant marriages as a congressional candidate.
Grayson has been garnering attention by acting like an adolescent internet troll for some time now; hopefully he'll get booted out this November. Nate Silver, who last week gave Webster a 52% chance of winning, writes on Twitter that "Democrats who don't want to look hypocritical when they denounce GOP ads in the future should probably denounce Grayson's ads".