http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkrwENN5CQ
This ad by the RNC against Harold Ford has come under fire because it features a white woman talking suggestively about a black candidate. Evidently this makes the ad "racist."
How so? I'm surprised by this hyper-sensitivity a perceived interracial coupling. This is 2006. (Or so I hear). Is it really still unacceptable to suggest that a white woman could be attracted to a black man?
For the record, I think the ad is uncalled for, over-the-top and unnecessary, but racist? I fail to see it...
2006-10-27 06:50:07 · 8 answers · asked by Lanani 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, it is not. The hype is more bunk spread by the media.
2006-10-27 07:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by TheMayor 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Racist - not in the least. They didn't even mention the color of Harold Ford's skin in the ad. They did the politically correct thing by having women and men and white people and black people all in the ad. Some of these racist claims are outraged at a white man appearing in "black face" - will the real Sam Malone stand up. He was in camouflage gear - he was a hunter - idiots!
Did the ad say anything that wasn't true?
--Harold Ford wants to roll back the Bush tax cuts - that means people will pay higher taxes, and be penalized in the tax system for being married, and be taxed on their estates when they die - even though they paid taxes on it their whole life
--Harold Ford wants more gun control laws - that means it will also restrict people's Second Amendment right to own them (and the Constitution doesn't say you can only own one gun)
--Harold Ford did take money from porn producers - even the blogosphere that have made counter ads don't deny this, they simply distract and say - well the Republicans do too!
--Harold Ford attended the Playboy Superbowl Party in Jacksonville Florida - he counters this by tricky diversion tactics again stating "I have never been to the Playboy Mansion."
You want the truth, Democrats can't handle the truth.
2006-10-27 14:17:32 · answer #2 · answered by Republican Mom 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As a Liberal and a Californian, I didn't see the racism in the ad. I had to have a southern Republican explain to me that it was racist. Apparently, people in the south know that it is racist, and that is why it was pulled.
2006-10-27 13:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by Believe in Possibilities 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I saw it. Oh, trust me, it's alot of things. A smear campaign, a one-sided bitchfest, and definitely one of the crappiest "don't vote for them" campaign ads I've seen since knowing what they were, Dem or Rep. But out of all that, I don't really see the ad as racist.
2006-10-27 14:07:44 · answer #4 · answered by Huey Freeman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't see the race-baiting but it's a pretty disgusting ad. when you hire actors to smear a politician using a script, that's a new low point in campaign advertising.
2006-10-27 13:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by blueprairie 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The ad wasn't racist and the people that say it's racist they are the ones who are actually racist!
2006-10-27 16:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's freakin' hilarious. How could anyone take that seriously?
There was nothing regarding race in that clip.
2006-10-27 13:56:13 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
gotcha
2006-10-27 13:58:12 · answer #8 · answered by REPUBLICAN MUD PACKER 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋