Rudy hires a crop of racists for his campaign
Well, well..isn’t this a bunch of bat guano my dear reader. Rudy has hired the fuckwits, aka the brains behind the Harold Ford smear commercial, to run his ad campaign.
Isn’t that friggin special? Oh yeah, for people like us that pay attention, its SO damn disgusting I almost threw up a little in my mouth when I read it a few minutes ago. From the AP writeup:
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani has a new team of media consultants with a strong record of electing GOP candidates, sometimes using controversial ads.
The team is led by Heath Thompson and his Dallas-based firm, Scott Howell & Company. Thompson, as director of President Bush’s 2000 campaign in South Carolina, helped Bush to an 11-point victory in that state.
Last year, a commercial made by Thompson’s firm for Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race was criticized for what the NAACP and others said were racial overtones.
That was THE most underhanded bullshit ad run during the entire campaign last year. And it worked! That fact alone should depress and sicken you. Harold was winning until the Rethugs pulled out their big guns. With Heath Thompson at the helm Rudy is guaranteed to wage an underhanded, no holds barred campaign.
Guess he’s desperate..its the move of a man that either thinks the voting public won’t know or give a damn..or he is desperate enough to win at any cost.
Sort of like George Bush did.
Tags: Heath Thompson, Giuliani, racist,
August 24th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Well, I’d be willing to go with “tacky”. Question: was Ford AT a Playboy-sponsored party? I don’t know. If not, the ad was not only tacky but deceptive, to boot. Did any white women meet Ford at that party who might want him to call them? And would the NAACP have considered the ad to have “racial overtones” if the woman in the ad had been black but said exactly the same thing? I mean, anti-miscegenation laws went the way of the dinosaur some time ago. White women can’t be interested in black men? It’s somehow racist to suggest that they might?
Um…ooooooookaaaaaay.
Now don’t get me wrong. The ad was sleazy and, I’d say, for that reason, over the line but racist? I don’t think so. It would have been sleazy whether the woman was white or black but for liberals to be complaining that a suggestion of sexual attraction between a white woman and a black man is racist…in this day and age…just seems, well, illiberal.
But that could just be me.
August 24th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
And doesn’t anyone think it just slightly silly, politically speaking, for Ford to have been appearing at Playboy-sponsored parties and, thus, opening himself up to ads that play off of said appearances? The ad was sleazy but it was avoidable by merely not going to such parties. Sort of like Kerry giving the press the sound bite: “I actually voted FOR the $84 billion before I voted against it.” Seems to be a self-inflicted wound, to me.
Again, not defending the ad. Sleazy and over the line and all. Just sayin’.
August 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
It was racist to suggest a sleazy white woman would be calling Harold Ford after seeing him at a Playboy party.
What would of been the point of making the ad with a sleazy Black woman..would it of gotten voters attention?
Not like the ad that went out..that one really got to the voters.
It didn’t say anything but attack Harolds character. Not his policies, his take on the war or other issues.
Gee, isn’t that wonderful? So informational that ad Craig.
August 24th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
You can put a disclaimer on your comment all you want..your arguing that is should of been allowed..that it was informational about the candidate..it was innuendo and nothing more.
Nice very nice Craig.
August 24th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I’ll bet no one looking at that ad thought it was racist until the NAACP told them it was.
But you know the cons,everyhting they do or say is racist. Or is that just yet another talking point?
August 24th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Thanks Tos for insinuating that I am not smart enough to make my own determinations.And here I thought that was the land of Rethugs bastion of bs.
Get real. Your new favorite phrase is ‘talking points’..so cute.
August 24th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Get real. Your new favorite phrase is ‘talking points’..so cute.
I do it to bug you but I didn’t say it wasn’t a sleazy article but can you actually say the first time you saw that ad you said to yourself “That’s Racist”?
I really find that hard to believe.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Keep questioning my intellect Tos..The group you belong to..you know..the Rethugs..they don’t see any problem with running ads like that..do you?
Its a yes or no question..no spin ok?
August 24th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
And I repeat I didn’t say it wasn’t sleazy but let’s stay on topic here, did you or did you not say to yourself the first time you saw that ad “That was a racist ad” or did you just agree with what the NAACP said?Please the peasants have a right to know.
tick tock,tick tock,tick tock,tick tock……………………
August 24th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Yes you Koolaid drinking fool..I did think it was racist and a swiftboating piece of work.
Shove your tude where the sun don’t shine.
I didn’t hear from the NAACP. What they think of it has no bearing on my thought processes.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Dusty,
I won’t belabor this but when I say it was sleazy and over the line and “I’m not defending the ad”, I am not saying that it should be allowed. I mean to say that it should not be allowed. I am not in favor of sleazy ads, whether racist or not. Perhaps I should have been more clear about that. I simply don’t agree that it’s racist.
Second point. I said nothing about your intelligence not being up to the task of deciding for yourself. I said, quite plainly, “I don’t think so.” First word and subject of sentence being “I”, as in “This is my opinion”.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
My comments were directed to Tos Craig. Get over yourself ok?
August 24th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Oops, sorry. I guess that second was addressed to Tos.
My bad.
August 24th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Thank you Craig. As for your last comment Sir, if you can sit there in your whitebread world and tell me race didn’t play a part in that commercial..I am calling bullshit right here and now.
That’s called my pov.
August 24th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I said I won’t belabor it and I won’t. I guess it’s okay for us to disagree.
August 24th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Yep.
August 24th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Dusty not all white people live in a whitebread world. I say that was a racist remark. That’s just my pov
August 24th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
To say this ad is horrible, smarmy and disgusting..but to stop at calling it racist is craptastic..really it is.
Explain how it’s racist..I am dying to see this one believe me. Are you saying Craig isn’t white? Are you saying his house isn’t populated by white folks? His world can encompass everything from his home to his block to his city and state and beyond Tos..your stretching it now.
And its hysterical btw..your out there aren’t you on this thread? spin away Tos..spin away.
To say this ad is horrible, smarmy and disgusting..but to stop at racist is craptastic..really it is.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Well, Tos, my world has been almost exclusively a whitebread one. To my recollection, the first black I had in any school with me was in high school. There were two in my class. One male and one female. They didn’t make any trouble and neither did the whites. There was no need. I went to private colleges and there were a few more blacks at seminary but not many. I’ve lived my whole life in communities where blacks are rare.
Now my wife used to be a librarian in Gary, Indiana. At one school, there was she, one other teacher and the principal in the whole school that were not black. Different world.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Wow, thanks Craig..I sort of figured with the seminary thing you didn’t have much interaction with black or brown folks as a general rule.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Actually, the seminary had a number of students from Africa who were studying there, although not many African-American students. It was an interesting opportunity to get to know different cultures and all. We had a community of students from Russia, of all places, when I went back in the late 90’s to do Masters level work. Not black or brown, of course, but fascinating nevertheless and another mind-broadening experience.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
At least Rudy’s ads will be entertaining. Hope he gets to use them on Hillary.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Maybe more offensive than racist. You are using the term “whitebread” in a neagative way like it’s a bad thing. Alot of races grow up only knowing their own.