Bush spokes-fratboy says 'Race Card' 'always' played with Black candidates [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 1:03 PM on October 26, 2006.

Not racist, just 'a little bit cute'

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Of the Republican ad that "makes Willie Horton look tame," a smirking Tony Snow tells an incredulous Chris Matthews that "maybe I’m just quaint in this day and age. But no, I think there is always an attempt when you've got an African-American candidate to try to attribute something to the race card." In the clip to the right you can see Matthews' agape mouth replaced by the bowed head of disbelief...

Matthews, no liberal, very clearly lays out the pre-existing stereotype that this ad fits snugly into; yet Snow smirks it off, saying that they're trying to be "a little bit cute":

"You don't think having a naked woman, cutey-pieing the guy, saying let's get together; you don't think that's, that's, okay, I'm not gonna ask you three times, I'm gonna ask you a second time: You really do believe, Tony Snow, that they're not playing on the white guy vote down there, to try to turn him off -- a working guy who would normally vote democrat -- turn him off to the democratic candidate because you got this black guy goin' after white women."

Visit the PEEK main page for the General's satire ad and more, HERE.

Tagged as: racism, campaign ads, election06, tony snow, chris matthews

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.

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There are African-American frats also [Report this comment] Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Oct 26, 2006 2:10 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Just an FYI. Most Universities have black frats also, like Omega. Often they haze worse than the white ones (if there can be degrees of hazing.) [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Insane priorities... [Report this comment] Posted by: porgygirl on Oct 26, 2006 2:17 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Racism is "cute," and torture is "hazing," but gay marriage is a threat to civilization? Why does anybody take these people seriously? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » Insane priorities...for insane people Posted by: brasilaron breakthesky [Report this comment] Posted by: breakthesky on Oct 26, 2006 3:57 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Look. I grew up in the south. Richmond, VA - the capital of the confederacy. Many members of my extended family are racists. I KNOW the face of racism and I know all the subtext. It's beyond obvious that this ad is playing the race card in the most crass way possible. All southerners will know this. Some will buy it and some will not. But ALL will recognize it. The thing is, I believe that this ad is SO obvious that people that respond to it will actually be embarassed enough about themselves that it may KEEP them from voting their racism. Few racists want to think of themselves as racist. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: breakthesky Posted by: perri6 » RE: breakthesky Posted by: mdruss42 Hate to say it, but to be fair to Snow... [Report this comment] Posted by: alazka on Oct 26, 2006 5:56 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...this really is a misleading headline on Alternet's part. Does he say the race card is always played with African-American candidates? No, he doesn't. He's clearly saying that Republicans campaigning against African-American candidates are always accused of using the race card. (Which doesn't even pretend to speak to the question of whether or not they're actually doing so.) And he's got just a smidgen of a point, as usual; Republicans have gotten very good at playing that card implicitly, not explicitly, and making liberals look hysterical for habitually getting in a lather over it. The background of the ad is what's truly insidious: the Republican committee gave an independent agency money to produce ads, but had no contact with them at all so they could claim complete ignorance of the ads later, and in fact they've argued that they don't even have the standing required to remove the ads. It sounds like nothing so much as a Mafia hit job: "take this money, and attack that guy, I don't care how, as long as I don't have to know anything about it." This is, however, how the game's played...by the people who are winning it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Huh? [Report this comment] Posted by: ABetterFuture on Oct 26, 2006 10:05 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The point? That your average white-guy-dummer-then-shiite is going to get offended and go vote republican? Or that your average white-guy-dummer-then-shiite is going to get angry enough to not vote democratic? I don't know. ?? I think some folks are disparaging average Americans. And that behavior is decidedly dummer-then-shiite. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Huh? Posted by: yellow Tar Baby? [Report this comment] Posted by: yellow on Oct 27, 2006 12:47 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Didn't Tony Snow once come off on record saying, "I don't want to hug the tar baby?" Randy Rhodes keeps playing this sound bite on her Air America segment. I thought that was wild!! How can this be out of context? "I don't want to hug the Tar Baby?" What could he be talking about? BTW, whatever it is it sounds kinda racist!! Doesn't it? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Tar Baby? Posted by: perri6 » You don't 'hug' a Tar Baby ... you punch and kick it Posted by: AdamSelene40 » RE: You don't 'hug' a Tar Baby ... you punch and kick it Posted by: albrechtkrausse » RE: You don't 'hug' a Tar Baby ... you punch and kick it Posted by: mdruss42 Bigotry, of all types, is alive and well in the US [Report this comment] Posted by: Lizmv on Oct 27, 2006 1:43 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Maybe the one 'good' thing to come out of the Bush presidency, is the bigotry that has been hiding under the blanket of political correctness is being exposed. As long as we could pretend it was confined to a few unenlightened souls, we didn't have to deal with the issue. But is has long been undermining true democracy in the US. It is only by bringing it into the open that it can be dealt with. Suggested reading for all progressives is the work of Arnold Mindell, Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity, The Leader as Martial Artist: Techniques and Strategies for Revealing Conflict and Creating Community, The Deep Democracy of Open Forums and Riding the Horse Backwards: Process Work in Theory and Practice . [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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» Insane priorities...for insane people Posted by: brasilaron

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» You don't 'hug' a Tar Baby ... you punch and kick it Posted by: AdamSelene40

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