Republicans have had two television ads pulled over the course of three weeks. That's both unusual and embarrassing. (via MaddowBlog)
, the National Republican Senatorial Committee ran into a little more trouble. This time, it was an attack ad targeting North Carolina’s Cheri Beasley, falsely accusing her of freeing “a child porn offender” during her tenure as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
On Friday, five TV stations in Raleigh and Charlotte said they would pull the ad or that they had “paused” it pending an examination of its claims, according to emails from the stations to Courtney Weisman, a lawyer working for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which were reviewed by The New York Times. On Thursday, two Charlotte stations took the ad off the air. A representative for the stations, WXAN and WSCO, explained in an email to Ms. Weisman that the ad’s claim about Ms.
As is often the case with criminal proceedings, the details of the case are a little complicated, and involve an appeals court ruling that there was an illegal search of a man convicted of possessing lewd images of minors on a computer thumb drive. The state Supreme Court, with Beasley in the majority, agreed in 2019 to send the case back to the trial court for reconsideration. The convict, however, remained in prison at the time.
With this in mind, no matter how one tries to slice the truth, it’s difficult to defend the NRSC’s claims that Beasley “set [the convict] free.” For those keeping score, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has now had two television ads pulled over the course of three weeks. Election Day 2022 is still 22 weeks away, and I don’t imagine anyone would be too surprised if that total grows.
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