Sharron Angle ad: Is it racist?

[TomCADem]

Source: Christian Science Monitor

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Sharron Angle has a new ad up that features Hispanic-appearing men carrying weapons and appearing in police mug shots. In the ad, she alleges that her opponent, incumbent Sen. Harry Reid (D) of Nevada, is soft on illegal immigrants.

Has the Republican Senate candidate gone too far? Is the spot a racially-tinged appeal in the mold of the Willie Horton attack ad of 1988?

That was a campaign ad sponsored by an outside spending group that associated Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis with a black convict, William Horton, who murdered a woman after escaping from a furlough program that Mr. Dukakis had supported.

Hispanic and pro-immigration groups are furious. They say they will launch a Spanish-language ad blitz to try to counteract the effect of an ad which, they say, depicts Hispanics as criminals and thugs.


Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/1026/Sharron-Angle-ad-Is-it-racist

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That is right, the young latino is going to take away your social security in the racist fantasy world of Sharron Angle.

[breadandwine]

1. Angle & Co. are now screwing Reid more by doing a hit job now on Reid's Hispanic media aide ----

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9394399

[AlbertCat]

2. young latino is going to take away your social security

Before or after Sharon privatizes it?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. GOP is not going to get Latino vote

Latino peopke need to rise up against this piece of dirt. She shouldn't be allowed to get away with it!

[awoke_in_2003]

5. they may get the latino vote...

the GOP opposes abortion, and most latinos are catholic. That is just enough to ensure they (GOP) get some of the vote.

[kysrsoze]

4. Sad that hispanics were willing to pose as thugs for the commercial. OR... were some of them Asian?

Hard to tell, really.

Actually, the dude in that picture looks like Vanilla Ice, so now I'm totally confused!:crazy:

[caseymoz]

6. At least one of the shots I recognize

From a different source, in a totally different context. I know this because it was used in another Republican ad depicting illegal immigrants that used the shot from a news-story about farmers in Mexico who had lost their crops. It was "outed" in a different story.

In other words, that one wasn't posed by Hispanic guys for this ad. They pretty much stole it, and it's possible a few of the others weren't as well.

[kysrsoze]

15. Well, that would go right along with stolen songs for the Republican conventions.

Whew. That makes me feel a little better, but I'm stunned that copyright law violations and racism seem to bring about zero feelings of guilt in this cabal. They're free to steal from, and ridicule whoever they choose. These are loathsome people, indeed.

[jmowreader]

20. They probably got it off a royalty-free picture CD

[caseymoz]

7. What sort of question is that? Yes!

We're going to hear the MSM pose that question again and again as though it's not crystal clear, or it's some kind of gray area. Twenty-two years after the shock of the Willie Horton ads, we shouldn't have to wait to hear the only answer to that question only in retrospect.

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[Rhiannon12866]

9. Yes...

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[deacon]

10. It's clearly racist. n/t

[deacon]

11. And, check this out. Here's another one...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/al-reynolds-tea-party-can_n_774432.html

[chemenger]

12. Yes, it blatantly is racist

White couple cowering in fear :scared: ... scary Latinos (or are they Asians???)carrying guns and appearing in police mug shots.

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[Brewman_Jax]

14. Yes

scary dark-skinned people are here to take your money and women! :hide:

The standard GOP scare tactics--and they aren't original. :eyes:

[marmar]

16. And the sad fact is this plays very well with a lot of people, particulary in her rabid base.....

..... thus the close race in Nevada.

[DirkGently]

17. Uhhhh. A leering "hispanic" under "nightvision" with an arrest card? Any way it's NOT racist?

[TomCADem]

18. The Sharron Angle Solution For Hispanics Is For Them To Claim They Are Asian...

...per her comments to a local Nevada High School.

[DirkGently]

19. Another "What the f**k?" moment for the Obtuse Angle.