Kay Hagan Sues Elizabeth Dole Over Despicable "Godless" Ad

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Kay Hagan Sues Elizabeth Dole Over Despicable Ad

http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/kay-hagan-sues-elizabeth-dole-over-de

By Logan Murphy Friday Oct 31, 2008 4:15pm

By now most of you have seen or heard about Republican Elizabeth Dole's disgusting and desperate "Godless" commercial attacking her front-running opponent, Democrat Kay Hagan.

Not only has Hagan fired back with an ad of her own (posted above), her campaign has now filed a defamation lawsuit against Dole and fiercely punching back against what has to be the lowest of campaign smears in the 2008 campaign cycle. From The Hill:

Democratic challenger Kay Hagan has filed a defamation lawsuit against Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) for questioning Hagan's faith in what is shaping up as the nastiest campaign of this cycle.

Hagan announced the lawsuit after Dole refused to remove the ad, which suggests Hagan is an atheist and has become the subject of tough criticism from several newspaper editorials in North Carolina. Several polls show Dole trailing Hagan, a state senator.

“Elizabeth Dole would love nothing more than to distract from the issues and her record for the last five days of the campaign,” Flanagan said. “In filing this suit, we’ve made clear that these kind of despicable tactics will not be tolerated, and our campaign is moving forward with the most important task at hand: defeating Elizabeth Dole, and giving North Carolina’s families a voice in the U.S. Senate that they’ve been sorely missing.” Read on...http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/hagan-sues-dole-over-atheist-ad-2008-10-30.html

[pnwmom]

1. Good for her!

Although, obviously, this whole thing of having to prove that you're a Christian is disgusting and un-American.

[fascisthunter]

3. it is disgusting and stupid

[Zhade]

2. Being called godless is despicable?

I'm quite happy to state that I am godless. No point in worshiping gods for which there is no evidence.

[nomorenomore08]

4. This is in North Carolina, though. Considered part of the Bible Belt.

As dumb as it is, yes, labeling someone an atheist down there could be considered slander.

[grannylib]

5. Not at all, but falsely trying to portray someone in that fashion when

s/he is not, and in an area where faith is important to a large number of people, is despicable.

[pnwmom]

7. It is despicable to lie about someone else's stated beliefs. Ms. Hagan

teaches Sunday school and is an active leader in her Christian church.

Of course, none of that should matter. But in North Carolina, it appears to.

[DesertRat]

9. Yes

Because Dole knows that Hagan is an elder in her Presbyterian Church and is a Sunday school teacher.

[roody]

10. I prefer to be goddessless.

[DireStrike]

11. That would be "without the godless". You don't want us around?

We're hurt. T.T


No, no. I get what you mean. =D

[spooky3]

12. like being called a Muslim, gay, an Arab, etc. We have a long way to go.

[RainDog]

13. faith-baiting

Dole knows the demographic and she can win votes with some with such b.s. The REALLY disgusting thing about this is, of course, that Dole could care less what someone believes, in terms of religion, outside of the whackiest stuff - and even then, she doesn't object if enough of the whackies vote.

[Fla Dem]

6. Glad she's hitting back. About time someone took a stand on these despicable tactics. n/t

[sam sarrha]

8. saw one about an hour ago