I watch Hardball every weeknight, and Chris was the first person I heard suggest that it was playing to the fears of white males about black men taking white women. I didn't see that. I just thought it was a dumb ad that had no substance. Furthermore, the Playboy party was attended by thousands of people. Both Dem's and Republican's attended the party.
2006-10-28 00:33:49 · 14 answers · asked by Talon 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Ad is on MSNBC, this link should work
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15403071
2006-10-28 00:45:08 · update #1
i agree with you !!!! - no substance and dumb, like you i never considered any race issue until i heard it in the media
2006-10-28 00:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by UK Fan 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Most whites don't usually see things racist, so its not hard to see why they didn't see that in the ad. But lets face facts: an extremely attractive African American woman would not have had the same effect as a White woman. It was obviously an undertone of the ad, but, if the Republicans felt that this would be an easy victory, they would have had no need to run it. They're panicking and its showing.
2006-10-28 04:57:54 · answer #2 · answered by rrticulate1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree Talon. I have heard that the ad was blatantly racist. I hadn't seen until just now, and as I watched I was waiting for the racist part, but it never came. Then they go into this whole black man white woman thing? I didn't get any of that from the ad. I thought it was just ad trying to smear a guy for liking porn. Critics really need to get over some of the more mundane aspects of today's society and stop trying to make them seem so unnatural.
2006-10-28 00:55:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
dont see the racism in it but then again I'm not from the south either. I do see Corker doing a little fear mongering.
Interracial dating still makes people feel uncomfortable--especially when its a black man/white woman combo.
He also got people to say, Harold Ford wants to tax me when I die...but that is only a half truth. In its current form, the estate tax only affects the wealthiest 2% of all Americans. And right now, the threshold is a $2,000,000 estate which 98% of all Amercians DONT have.
As far as the gun control, I understand the rural people who want guns. But then again, Chicago has an anti gun law and that has really done alot to stem gun violence. Gun control is a hard sell outside of big urban centers which witness the effects of gun violence.
2006-10-28 03:01:11 · answer #4 · answered by felonyshobby 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That ad was geared toward white male voters, and women. In the ad it talked about Fords gun law positions, and the porn crap was geared toward women to make them think Ford dosen't respect women.
However, I didn't get the racist undertones. It just lacked substance. But Ford's trying to force a debate was just as desperate.
2006-10-28 03:01:37 · answer #5 · answered by eyeamatrip 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've seen the ad and saw nothing racist .
Playing the Race Card is getting old .
Can't the Libs come up with something better ?
2006-10-28 03:34:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to seriously wonder about the mentality of anyone who would call that ad racist because a caucasian woman makes a phone with her hand and whispers "call me". The Democrat who came up with that theory is the racist if that's what they saw there. You have to wonder what's bouncing around in Matthew's brain.
2006-10-28 01:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I didn't see it. Do you have a link that shows the ad?
Thank you for the link. Yes, I think it was way over the top, and should be taken off the air. It wasn't so much "racist" per se, but it did play into racial stereotypes too much.
2006-10-28 00:35:46 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Republicans are desperate and will fling any lies they have to in order to maintain there hold on power so they can continue to shift more wealth into the hands of the fewest people at the expense of the middle class and poor, or as they think of us, Cannon fodder in their unjust resource war in Iraq.To a party that has no soul, racism is just a tool to be used.
2006-10-28 01:14:24 · answer #9 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. i do no longer think of it replaced into racist interior the slightest. easily, i think of hyper-sensitivity to perceived inter-racial couplings is racist. If somebody is indignant with the help of the belief of a white female with a black guy, it is their own subject. to point that the makers of the advert have been banking on a perceived presence of racism interior the section is absurd. i think of the advert replaced into pointless and in undesirable flavor, even though it wasn't racist. via fact that while is it unacceptable to intend that a white female must have an interest in a black guy? he's black. She's white. Why is that a topic? the actual subject must be the tries on the two factors to smear the different candidate's attractiveness in line with (specifically circumstances) doubtful evidence or anecdotal activities (like attending a Playboy-subsidized party)
2016-10-03 01:20:19 · answer #10 · answered by wheelwright 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quit watching Hardball and watch a real news network.
2006-10-28 00:37:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋