The Latest Swiftboating

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein at 10:00 AM on October 19, 2006.

America's PAC "snuffs own seed" with boneheaded campaign.

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Surprise, surprise! In the dying days of the mid-term campaign, Republican surrogates resort to race baiting ads. America's PAC obviously thinks highly of the intelligence of African American voters:

The group, America's Pac, began running ads last month in more than two dozen congressional districts.The campaign discusses issues ranging from warrantless wiretapping to school choice, but the most inflammatory spots pertain to abortion.
"Black babies are terminated at triple the rate of white babies," a female announcer in one of the ads says, as rain, thunder, and a crying infant are heard in the background. "The Democratic Party supports these abortion laws that are decimating our people, but the individual's right to life is protected in the Republican platform. Democrats say they want our vote.Why don't they want our lives?"
Another ad features a dialogue between two men.
"If you make a little mistake with one of your ‘hos,' [Ed:!] you'll want to dispose of that problem tout suite, no questions asked," one of the men says.
"That's too cold. I don't snuff my own seed," the other replies.
"Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican," the first man says
[Raw Story]

[Progressive Gold, The Raw Story]

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Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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if you want to play the race card [Report this comment] Posted by: Raja T on Oct 19, 2006 7:36 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The ad described above is revolting. But the repubs are asking for it. I for one would like the dems to take the gloves off, and fight mean. Run a newsreel of black people floating on logs during katrina. And no sound bites, just a text caption: where was George Bush then? Democrats seem to not fight dirty on principle. I admire that. But if you listen to Carvell who got Clinton elected, that is the kind of thing you have to do to compete with these people. Now, we don't have to fight as dirty as my above suggestion. But we at least have to be as mean and direct about our principles, as progressives, as the right is willing to be. If not, we end up looking like the insipid Alan Colmes' that Fox News would have us be. (I am convinced Colmes is a plant). Besides, once you decode the ad into a thematic or thesis, you get this piece of absurdity: democrats want black people to kill their babies. Come on? What a bunch of rubbish. It is about as credible as that whole Jewish banking conspiracy proposed by the John Birch Society, and it should be called out as just that. Ooo, this kind of crap gets me steamed! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: if you want to play the race card Posted by: mum.rocks Ridiculous ads [Report this comment] Posted by: jcutler9 on Oct 19, 2006 7:39 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Do these Republicans really think that African Americans are so stupid as to believe that anyone is going to force them to abort babies for any reason whatever? That the whole issue, if it is one, is that Republicans want to deprive them of the right to make that own decision about reproductive rights? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] What do black Americans expect? [Report this comment] Posted by: Jammer2 on Oct 19, 2006 8:08 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] What do black Americans expect from the scum that occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? What does anyone expect from them? The GOP has evolved into the worst kind of white trash on this planet; and they have their racist right-wing pseudo-Christian psychotic mass murderers as their enforcers. (much like in the days of the Crusades) I don't believe that the black Americans have forgotten Katrina... I know this white guy sure hasn't! The images of those bodies being pulled from homes and businesses while Bush played footsie with his cronies in Washington still burn in my mind! I certainly won't forget! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] frank67 [Report this comment] Posted by: frank67 on Oct 19, 2006 8:19 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Tired of Repubthug crap yet? VOTE VOTE VOTE these AHOLES out of office!!!!! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] It doesn't get any more insulting [Report this comment] Posted by: helenwheels on Oct 19, 2006 9:20 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] To black people. How revolting. I nearly thought I was reading the Onion or something. Honestly, this seems like the type of thing that will backfire. Talk about racist and delusional. Yep. They are pissing their pants for sure, to get this desperate. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] How disgusting! [Report this comment] Posted by: Basenjis on Oct 19, 2006 11:14 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] As an Independent, I can't speak for Democrats, but neither should Republicans. My political philosophy is much closer to that of the Democrats and stems from a belief that people should be free to make their own life and death choices as long as there is no harm to anyone else. (And I have never found anything to convince me that an embryo cares one way or the other.) Abortion rights should never have been politicized in the first place. If the rate of abortion is disproportionately high in this segment of the population, consider the desperation of discovering an unwanted pregnancy in a time made difficult by the necessity to feed, clothe and provide medical necessities to children without a living wage or a true safety net. Politicians need to get off the subject of abortion and begin taking notice of the largely ignored problems of over-population and an already over-stressed planet. At the rate humans are reproducing now, we are already straining the earth's finite resouces to the very limit. We are behaving more like voracious locusts than thinking beings. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] where are the women? [Report this comment] Posted by: linden on Oct 19, 2006 12:57 PM Current rating: Not yet rated** [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] "I don't snuff my own seed." What? I guess in Republican thinking, the only choice available belongs to the man: whether he'll force his "ho" to have an abortion or have a baby. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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