Friday, October 27, 2006

playing the race card

There's a pretty heated Senate race going on in Tennessee, where it's possible that the South could elect their first black senator since Reconstruction. Amazing, right?

Anyway, there are some people out there who are sinking pretty low in order to insure that Ford doesn't win. The RNC put together a television commercial that's generating quite a bit of controversy. Check out the commercial and the corresponding article here.

Discuss.

1 comment:

Dr. The Bird Man said...

This ad is ridiculous. It is, among other things, absolutely racist. I have spent a little bit of time in Tennesse, there is still a huge racial divide and deep racial tensions, even in a big city like Memphis. It may not have been intentional. We've all made jokes in the didn't come out sounding the way we'd intended, and I could see people in DC and New York, where racism is not the same problem that it is in the deep south, doing this unintentionally. Regardless, this ad should be pulled. I realize that political ads are not bastions of honesty and truth, they all bend the truth and misrepresent facts, but this add is out and out making shit up. It is atrocious. Ford has no intention of hand the North Korea issue over to Canada. That chick is no way hot enough to be a playmate. It is so stupid I can't believe it gets me this up set.