Dems to air ad of Kentucky stomping incident -- but only after 10 p.m.

[jefferson_dem]

Dems to air ad of Kentucky stomping incident -- but only after 10 p.m.

The Kentucky Democratic Party is putting the stomping incident on the air -- in Rand Paul's backyard.

Kentucky Dems will air a brutal new ad with violent footage of the stomping of MoveOn's Lauren Valle, but the spot will only air after 10 p.m. in order to avoid scaring kids, the party confirms to me:

Matt Erwin, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Dems, tells me that the party has decided to air the spot, but after an internal discussion they decided against running it during the day, because "it's scary."

Erwin confirms that the party has purchased airtime to run the spot in Lexington, where the melee took place, and in a puckish twist, in Bowling Green, where Rand Paul lives and practices medicine.

In other news about the stomp, conservatives are circulating new video of the incident that seems to show the victim, Lauren Valle, approaching Paul's car and trying to stick a sign in his window before she was wrestled to the ground and stomped on.

Is this is at odds with her claim to Keith Olbermann (and to me) that she was blockaded and targeted by Paul supporters before doing anything to provoke an attack? By my reading, it's unclear. You can't tell from the new video that the supporters hadn't identified her before she approached the car. And it's also unclear whether her action was all that provocative or threatening to begin with, though I suppose it could have been perceived that way.

And even if you alllow that she rushed Paul's car, the wrestling and stomping is obviously vicious and violent and an absurdly disproportionate response in any case.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/dems_to_air_ad_of_kentucky_sto.html

[HughMoran]

1. Republicans, so violent you can't show their actions to your children

:eyes:

[ampad]

2. I have refused to watch it

The image I had in my head was of the curb stomp in American History X. I just could not even imagine someone actually doing this to another human being. Did that poor woman have to go to the hospital?

[HughMoran]

5. It wasn't a real curby

It was nasty and he kicked down hard enough to hurt her, but she was well enough to give interviews later.

[BlueIdaho]

3. Make them own this shit...

Make them rub it in their hair, swallow it by the bucket full, and wallow in it until you can smell them a block away - make them own these horrible deeds so all Americans can see just exactly what the real core republican tea party values are - Hatred, Bigotry, and Violence towards Women.

[uponit7771]

6. AMEN!!! That crap was disgusting

[AtomicKitten]

4. Hell yes! K&R

[and-justice-for-all]

7. LET IT ROAR! nt

[DCKit]

8. That's decent of them.

I really didn't need to see the ad run by some insane Maryland anti-abortionist candidate at 6:00 pm the other night where they showed two tiny, torn off arms of a fetus.

[woo me with science]

9. Our local station aired a right-wing ad with late-term abortion photos at dinnertime last week. nt

[felix_numinous]

10. Past the teabagger bedtime,

unfortunately.