You can always count on liberals to throw down the "racist" slander, even when the ad they're complaining about has nothing in it about race, at all. There's nothing even remotely racist about the ad. Nothing.
The MSM, adjunct to the DNC, are trying to help fan the flames. Here is MSNBC's take:
The ad brought immediate criticism from the Ford campaign and the NAACP, whose Washington office called it "a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women."
Granted, many Democrats have pre-existing prejudices about black men, white women, and all sorts of other things, but that's their problem, not the Republicans'.
And here's Harold Ford, projecting:
Ford told MSNBC-TV: "I know that they are a little desperate and doing the things that you do when you get desperate in a campaign."
When you're a Democrat, especially a black Democrat, and the polls get a little too tight, cry "racism!"
Even for the perennially race-baiting Democrats, this is really pathetic.
UPDATE: The Democrat Times of Los Angeles piles on.
UPDATE: Harold Ford agrees with us: "..I don't think race had anything to do with that ad..."
Get real, the biggest fear of some southern whites is a Black man with their women. Obviously you are clueless. We get it! Why do you thinkg racists align themselves with the GOP? Safe haven for sure.
Comment by Ed Johnson — October 24, 2006 @ 9:10 pm October 24, 2006
You're projecting Ed. If you have issues with inter-racial relationships, that's your problem.
And we see the racists aligning themselves with the Democrats. Republicans shun racists. Democrats embrace them. They ran at least one for president in their 2004 primaries, and Sharpton also hosted a Democratic presidential primary debate in 2000.
And we won't even mention Senator Robert Byrd.
Comment by The Editors — October 25, 2006 @ 7:35 am October 25, 2006
You obviously are not from the south, are you?
Comment by mandy — October 25, 2006 @ 6:55 pm October 25, 2006
mandy,
We detect some anti-Southerner bigotry in your question. Shameful.
Comment by The Editors — October 25, 2006 @ 7:39 pm October 25, 2006
The only thing that would convince The Editors that an ad used race
for a political purpose would be if the ad said "Don't vote for my
opponent because he is a n____r". I'm not even sure that would do it
because according to them anyone who sees racism in anything is
projecting, therefore they are racist themselves. Get that. mandy, Ed
myself, Harold Ford are the racists who are projecting. I must have
been projecting again when I heard those jungle drums beating in that
radio ad about Ford. What a racist I must be.
From now on if you ever see anything you think to be racist
or race baiting The Editors would advise you to sit down and shut
up as it is most likely a delusion on your part. They will let us
know when it is OK to get upset. Just not before the election please.
Comment by Paul — October 27, 2006 @ 5:19 pm October 27, 2006
Paul,
"...anyone who sees racism in anything is projecting..."
We did not make any such generalization. You made that up.
And yes, if you hear drums (along with music) and "Harold Ford" and you immediately think "jungle drums" then you do have a problem.
Comment by The Editors — October 27, 2006 @ 7:51 pm October 27, 2006