Time Warner pulls DNC ad attacking Ryan

Time Warner has pulled a DNC ad going after GOP Rep. Paul Ryan that claims he and fellow Republicans voted to abolish Medicare.

RNC chief counsel John Phillippe Jr. wrote in a letter to Time Warner's Maryland office that the spot has been debunked by several independent analysts. The claims in the spot include that Republican leaders want to kill Medicare and that Republicans want to end the program.

"While the DNC certainly has a legitimate First Amendment right to participate in political debate, it has no right to knowingly and willfully spread false information in a deliberate attempt to mislead senior citizens," Phillippe wrote.

A Time Warner spokeswoman in Milwaukee confirmed the spot had been pulled by midnight Friday.

DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse said in a statement the ad "is true and we stand by it." He said the party has spoken with Time Warner, and the spot will be back up as early as Wednesday with some "semantic modifications."

"We thank the Republicans for drawing more attention to their decades long disdain for Medicare and other programs of importance to seniors," Woodhouse said.

http://blogs.wispolitics.com/dcwrap/2009/09/time-warner-pulls-dnc-ad-attacking-ryan.html

The truth hurts. :hurts:

:party:

friends mentioned it at the picnic on Labor Day...so it was effective anyway...the old people heard it.

Or any of those other hideous WMC ads from a few years ago.

Glad I don't have TW anymore.

But we don't need to stoop to their level. Paul Ryan has alot of misplaced priorities, but he is nothing compared the senselessbrenner or some of the other whackjobs around the country. I say we should spend our time talking about the good things that we're doing for the country, and stop wasting our time trying to smear moderate republicans that we have no chance of defeating even in a democratic wave year