GOP: Grayson exhibits ‘pathological pattern of instability and deceit’

Published September 27, 2010 4:00am ET



Republicans are fuming over another attack ad from Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson. The confrontational lawmaker, who falsely accused GOP opponent Daniel Webster of being a draft-dodger, now calls Webster “Taliban Dan” in an ad that FactCheck.org says uses “edited video to make [Webster] appear to be saying the opposite of what he really said.”

The “Taliban Dan” ad features video snippets from remarks Webster made to a Christian gathering in 2009. Addressing a group of men, Webster discussed the Biblical admonition for wives to submit to husbands, telling them they should not use the passage as a guide for their married lives. But the Grayson ad pulled out bits of video to make it appear that Webster was telling women to submit to their husbands. Here is the transcript of the Grayson ad:

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