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Tennessee Senate ad plays to racism

 
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cwemory



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:41 am    Post subject: Tennessee Senate ad plays to racism Reply with quote

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NAACP: Tenn. Senate ad plays to racism
By BETH RUCKER, Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A political TV ad targeting a black candidate for Senate contains what critics, including the NAACP, are calling racist sexual innuendo about a black man and white woman.

The Republican National Committee ad began airing Friday and features a series of characters facetiously declaring their support for Democrat Harold Ford Jr., a Memphis congressman who faces Republican Bob Corker, who is white, in the Nov. 7 election. Polls have shown the two locked in a tight race.

In the ad, a blond white woman brags, "I met Harold at the Playboy party." At the end she looks into the camera, holds her hand like a telephone and says, "Harold, call me," before winking.

The line is an apparent reference to Ford's attendance at a Playboy Super Bowl party in Jacksonville, Fla., last year.

"I was there. I like football, and I like girls," Ford said Tuesday.

"I don't think they're doing it to talk about the goodness of me or the goodness of my opponent," Ford said. "They want to scare people about me."

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized the ad.

"It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women," Hilary Shelton, head of the Washington NAACP office, told the Los Angeles Times.

The Corker campaign denounced the ad, saying it is "tacky, over the top and is not reflective of the kind of campaign we are running."

RNC spokesman Danny Diaz has defended the ad's accuracy and said it will run its full course. It cost $457,944 to buy the time for the ad, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Because the ad was created by an outside group that contracts with the Republican National Committee, neither the RNC nor Corker's campaign saw it in advance and can't order it to be taken off the air.

Under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act passed by Congress in 2002, political parties can pay for "independent expenditure" advertisements against opponents that do not count against legal spending limits on campaigns. But the party is not allowed to play any role in creating the ad or deciding how and when it will be used.

Former Clinton Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, also a former Republican senator from Maine, said on CNN that the ad was "a very serious appeal to a racist sentiment."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_on_el_se/tennessee_senate_ad
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This one probably makes Daddy Bush feel nostalgic for the good old days of the Willie Horton ad.

Can't you just hear Strom Thurmond chortling in Hell?
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cwemory



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first thoughts were of Jesse Helms' famous "Hands" ad in the early nineties. But as wrong as that ad was, it was at the very least made in the context of an actual issue, affirmative action.
This ad though, (from what I understand anyway having not yet seen the ad) seems to be nothing more than race baiting of the crudest, vulgarest sort.
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W.T.Carl



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How many of you BOZOS have even SEEN the ad? It attacks Ford for his attitude toward MANY things the people of that state stand for, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. There was NOTHING ABOUT RACE. What it DID attack was FORD hanging out with WEST COAST types ie, at the PLAYBOY mansion.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The segment people are responding to is where the white woman says something like, "Call me, Mr. Ford". Are you saying you don't see the racial implications of that?
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W.T.Carl



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Read my post BOZO. Your average Vol just don't hang around with no Playboy Bunnies. DID YOU SEE THE AD? You Sir are a PUTZ ( or a Canadian).
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bucheon bum



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.T.Carl wrote:
Read my post BOZO. Your average Vol just don't hang around with no Playboy Bunnies. DID YOU SEE THE AD? You Sir are a PUTZ ( or a Canadian).


aren't you the a-hole. i kinda figured you were before, but your posts on this thread pretty much confirm it.

why such hostility? relax.
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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw the ad and it looked like some kind of Saturday Night Live sketch......

Very stupid and fell more into the realm of comedy (satire) than political debate. Low, horrible and does nothing to raise the level of debate into anything substantive.

I can only congratulate Ford on his own response. No anger, just a smile and saying that "they must be running way behind" to be stooping to this kind of thing.

W.T. -- Ford has nothing to hide or be ashamed of. I think the fraudulent ($$$$ ripping off the people of the state/country) actions of his opponent are MUCH MORE morally important to the voter. I'd rather vote for a guy who can have a good time than the guy siphoning off dollars that might go to your grandmother..

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dogbert



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Tennessee Senate ad plays to racism Reply with quote

NAACP wrote:
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized the ad.

"It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women,"


Why didn't she say, "It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about _colored_ men and white women"?
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happeningthang



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Tennessee Senate ad plays to racism Reply with quote

dogbert wrote:
NAACP wrote:
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized the ad.

"It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women,"


Why didn't she say, "It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about _colored_ men and white women"?


Because most people can understand both synonyms?

Watching the ad it doesn't seem to be overly racist to me... I'd guess you would need to have some strongly held prior beliefs to make the connection that all this equates to;

black guy+ white chick + Playboy party = mudpeople sex

You'd need to be a pre-existing racist to come to this conclusion. At worst it could be said to pander to a racist way of thinking. Are there a LOT of people in Tennesse who are THAT racist? If there are and the Republican's are playing up to them then it's pretty contemptible all round. I don't know if that's the case though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkrwENN5CQ&mode=related&search=
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dogbert



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the ad had featured an African-American playmate would it have been OK?
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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If the ad had featured an African-American playmate would it have been OK?


No, because I would still be able to complain that the ad was cheating contributors of the efficient use of their money. The ad as it is at least is meant to stir up the morality police and the racial bigots. More bang for your buck. Two birds with one stone. I admire that.
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dogbert



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
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If the ad had featured an African-American playmate would it have been OK?


No, because I would still be able to complain that the ad was cheating contributors of the efficient use of their money. The ad as it is at least is meant to stir up the morality police and the racial bigots. More bang for your buck. Two birds with one stone. I admire that.


It's funnier than the Willie Horton ads, at least. Let's see if it is as successful.
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