Republicans can racist TV ad in favor of racist radio ad

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Okay, so Election Central has just obtained a radio ad which you've got to hear: It actually has what sounds like tom-tom drums playing in the background every time the ad talks about Dem Harold Ford, Jr. The ad -- which says it was paid for by the campaign of GOP Senate candidate Bob Corker -- can be heard right here. When the ad mentions Corker, the music soars and no tom-toms are audible. Throughout the entire minute-long ad, you hear the rumble of tom-toms every time Ford is mentioned. This ad, keep in mind, quotes Bob Corker himself as having "approved" the message -- meaning it wasn't the work of the Republican National Committee, as in the case of the recent "bimbo" TV ad which drew charges of racism. More after the jump.



We got a copy of the ad from a producer from WGOW radio in Chatanooga. Bill Lockhart, the program director for WGOW, confirmed the authenticity of the ad and that it's running on the station. "They're freaking jungle-drums," Lockhart tells us. "It's racist -- it tries to conjure up deep, dark African moods. Yeah, it's overtly racial."

It's pretty interesting that this ad is running, wouldn't you say? After all, Corker disavowed the similar tactics in the recent "bimbo" ad which stirred controversy and charges of racism. The bimbo ad, which featured an actress playing what used to be called a "floozy." As you surely know by now, she claimed to she'd met Ford at a "Playboy" party and asked Ford to "call me." For some reason, people got the idea that it was supposed to be playing on fears of interracial sex, and they got very upset about it. Corker himself has called on local stations not to run the bimbo TV spot, saying that it "went too far."

But the RNC has been unapologic about the ad, and it's continued to run.

Now -- despite Corker's disavowal of the racially-questionable tactics in the bimbo spot -- we get this new spot with the tom-toms. Apparently this one doesn't go "too far" for Corker at all.

We contacted WGOW radio to ask about the ad after reader C.C. wrote in telling us that he'd overheard two local talk show hosts discussing the ad:

This morning about 6:45 I'm getting ready for work and have the radio tuned to the local mega talk station. The hosts are talking about the heat that the Corker/RNC ads are picking up, but are pretty neutral on them themselves, suggesting that the ruckus--and the suggestions of racism--are overblown. They're going through some callers, when one says, "That's nothing. Have you heard the jungle drums on the radio ad?"...

So they play it, and, sure enough, the caller's right. Soaring music underneath the copy when discussing Corker's merits, jungle-like drumming when cutting to Ford's demerits. The hosts were stone-silent when it finished, until one whistled, and said, "Damn." They both agreed that the drumming--and the intent--was obvious.

The talk show hosts, apparently, did think the ad may have gone just a bit too far. The Corker campaign didn't immediately return a call for comment.
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meh. People see racism in the craziest of places.

besides, who doesn't like jungle drums?
 
I don't think that is racist but what do I know.

Anyway I can't wait for this election to be over. The ads on all sides are horribly inaccuate and wrong. Also if I have to watch another deep country person tell me to vote for Ford and then on the next commerical watch a bunch of black people tell me how great Corker is I think I am going to puke.
 
After reading the article I was expecting to hear a chorus of drums in the background but alas, I really didn't hear anything that was overtly racist.
 
I didn't really notice the drums...I guess the begining of the ad does have some drums...but come on...that's pretty weak.
 
I think it sounds more like the dramtic villianous tone more so than the african jungle beat tone. I think the jungle beat would have made it more interesting actually.
 
WTF? These mother****ers are stealing our drums too? Now that's just foul. Misappropriation of jungle beats, dammit. It's time for revolution up in this bitch. :D BTW, I don't really hear shit in the ad. Sounds fine to me. PEACE.
 
I find it conspicuous that every mention of the Democratic candidate is accompanied by war drums while the Republican candidate is associated with this heavenly 'clouds parting and the angels are singing' music.
 
If they focus on the fact that he is digging out Snow Bunnies in Washington then Corker will win hands down. If there is one thing that riles the GOP base miscegenation is it.
 
I don't really see it as racist either. They were just attempting to play sinister-sounding music every time Ford was mentioned and contrasting it with the heavenly goodness that is Corker..... ...!...


Seriously, this is just a typical campaign subtle method to make the opponent seem scary and untrustworthy. It's like how they try to find the worst possible stock photo of their opponent for their campaign attack ads.

Personally, I don't think Ford needs the race card. I think he can pull through as long as he doesn't do anything stupid in the next two weeks.
 
Tommie Hu$tle said:
If there is one thing that riles the GOP base miscegenation is it.
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Many adult Southern white males go BERSERK at the notion of the black man using their "jungle animal instinct" to take the pretty white woman away from them. It really does drive some of them bonkers crazy when it comes up, even if they don't admit it publically.

Corker and the RNC were extremely intelligent in this line of attack, assuming that Corker's problem is getting out the base voters, which from the polls it was. This is probably the most nasty ad of the cycle and I applaud the people behind its creation-it is subtle enough that it shouldn't backfire too much, and it's strong enough that the media sees a story and is, in turn, pointing out and explaining the real message of the ad.

Brilliant advertising. I long for the day Democrats can skip past mundane negative advertising like distorting records and pouncing on complex ethical failures, and can get to the real meat-and-potatoes of targeting and exploiting ingrained cultural weaknesses for electoral profit.
 
Fragamemnon said:
Brilliant advertising. I long for the day Democrats can skip past mundane negative advertising like distorting records and pouncing on complex ethical failures, and can get to the real meat-and-potatoes of targeting and exploiting ingrained cultural weaknesses for electoral profit.
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Exactly, I lothe the GOP for the underhanded tactics they use to maintain power but, I can do nothing but applaud them when they use them to win.
 
Fragamemnon said:
Brilliant advertising. I long for the day Democrats can skip past mundane negative advertising like distorting records and pouncing on complex ethical failures, and can get to the real meat-and-potatoes of targeting and exploiting ingrained cultural weaknesses for electoral profit.
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Yeah me too but what could they do to you know tap into ingrained cultural fears of key voting blocks whenever an election comes around?? like.. if only there were something, some sort of "card" perhaps (?) that could be "played" around election-time to make sure a large and important voting block was too afraid to vote for the Republicans, or so angry that more come out to vote for Democrats? But what would that "card" be?

I'm not sure if we'll ever get the answer... *sigh*
 
Just heard this thing. Jeez. This is like running klezmer music behind a description of a Jewish candidate.

But the important thing to do is remember all the hypothetical things that Democrats do which are Just As Bad.
 
APF said:
Yeah me too but what could they do to you know tap into ingrained cultural fears of key voting blocks whenever an election comes around?? like.. if only there were something, some sort of "card" perhaps (?) that could be "played" around election-time to make sure a large and important voting block was too afraid to vote for the Republicans, or so angry that more come out to vote for Democrats? But what would that "card" be?

I'm not sure if we'll ever get the answer... *sigh*
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Katrina.
 
Mandark said:
Just heard this thing. Jeez. This is like running klezmer music behind a description of a Jewish candidate.

But the important thing to do is remember all the hypothetical things that Democrats do which are Just As Bad.
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Well funny you should mention that:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200610250016?src=newsbox-atrios.blogspot.com said:
ABC pre-emptively criticized Democrats for negative campaign ads that have not yet been produced

In a report on how recent campaigns advertisements are "getting ugly," ABC News, unable to point to a single instance of "nasty" attacks from Democratic candidates or their supporters, suggested it is only a matter of time before "the left" begins to "unleash its garbage as well." ABC News offered no evidence to back up its allegation that Democrats might soon resort to distasteful, negative advertising.

ABC News had no problem documenting ads, currently airing in campaign across the country, attacking Democrats, including one from the Republican National Committee about Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. In it, an actress playing a ditzy blonde bimbo says: "I met Harold at the Playboy party. ... Harold, call me." Critics, including one prominent Republican, have called the ad borderline racist.

At the conclusion of its report on attack ads, ABC News insisted that "Democrats aren't necessarily running clean campaigns." Unable to cite any examples, ABC News reported, "As the races tighten in the next couple of weeks, the left will likely unleash its garbage as well."
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I know the sinister "danger is looming" beat and that was not it! They were totally implying nonsense with those conga drums.
 
Tommie Hu$tle said:
Exactly, I lothe the GOP for the underhanded tactics they use to maintain power but, I can do nothing but applaud them when they use them to win.
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I would constantly be tieing each and every Republican candidate to George Bush so they get his negative publicity by association. The one thing that bothers me more than anything else is how republicans have been trying to distance themselves from Bush more and more yet they have been riding his coattails for years! You supported him then - don't try to jump ship now.
 
i heard racism in the ad. jungle drums which sounded menacing in regards to the black candidate, sweet violins calming you representing the white candidate.

tennessee.

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oh man, i can't believe this shit...

this is like the black/white psp ad...

even if they didn't PLAN it out as being a racist thing, someone had to realize how it would be interpreted...
 
bishoptl said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkrwENN5CQ&eurl=

Holy smokes, what knuckle-dragging yokels would respond to this ad? Freakin' hillbillies
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Hahaha, that TV ad is ridiculous, no wonder they're going to pull it.

And who would respond? The Canadian government, naturally!
The Toronto Star said:
OTTAWA - The Canadian government has lodged a complaint with the Bush administration over a Republican election ad that belittles Canada as a global freeloader.

The television ad’s chief target is Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr., who just made the cover of Newsweek and is fighting Republican Bob Corker in a pivotal race of the do-or-die fight to control the upper house of Congress.

Various actors in the 30-second spot suggest Ford is a tax-and-spend playboy, a gun-control supporter, and soft on terrorism and nuclear threats to the United States.

One man in the ad says: "Canada can take care of North Korea. They’re not busy."
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What's the deal with Ford allegedly taking money from "porn movie producers" as suggested by that commercial?

Also, isn't that ad suggesting Ford is a "playboy" (and apparently he went to a Playboy superbowl party? the charge, as per a quick google, is that Ford is a "church-goer by day and a playboy by night") not trying to stir up primitive racist instincts in knucle-dragging rednec.. oh wait, we want Ford to win this race, better not call his redneck constituents rednecks; the rednecks hate it when we show our ingrained hatred and feelings of superiority towards them. ****ing rednecks.

The Canada thing is bizarre, bizarre that they'd be offended when the negative implication isn't against Canada or the Canadian government, but at the (alleged) ignorance and naivete on the part of Ford supporters; these are caricatures of beliefs, not actual policy positions.
 
When will America learn that the rest of the world laughs at your Rebulican Party. Then we laugh at the fact americans actually vote for them. Then ****ed up shit happens and we cry.
 
Dr_Cogent said:
:lol at the idea that that ad is racist.
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Well, let's see, the only black person in the ad says, "Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough" and they have a white chick playing off the "black man stealing our white women" fears that alot of old redneck racist hicks have.

Of course, if you're talking about the radio ad, I haven't heard that one.
 
Booser said:
When will America learn that the rest of the world laughs at your Rebulican Party. Then we laugh at the fact americans actually vote for them. Then ****ed up shit happens and we cry.
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Yep, that's it in a nutshell.
 
APF said:
Also, isn't that ad suggesting Ford is a "playboy" (and apparently he went to a Playboy superbowl party? the charge, as per a quick google, is that Ford is a "church-goer by day and a playboy by night") not trying to stir up primitive racist instincts in knuckle-dragging rednec..
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teiresias said:
they have a white chick playing off the "black man stealing our white women" fears that alot of old redneck racist hicks have.
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bishoptl said:
Yep, that's it in a nutshell.
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The TV ad is funny. One aimed at Republicans in the same manner (pointing out their many, many hypocrisies) could presumably be funny too.

It's better than the typical serious dramatic mudslinging both parties engage in... "Candidate Y must hate children!!11!1~" "Vote for us or everyone's gonna die!1!11uno"

How politically correct do you have to be to see racism in it, though?
 
JayDubya said:
How politically correct do you have to be to see racism in it, though?
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Not much really. It is what it is. A better question would be "How overt does it have to be before you acknowledge it?" You doesn't mean you, btw.
 
teiresias said:
Well, let's see, the only black person in the ad says, "Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough" and they have a white chick playing off the "black man stealing our white women" fears that alot of old redneck racist hicks have.

Of course, if you're talking about the radio ad, I haven't heard that one.
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I'm referring to the radio ad.
 
teiresias said:
Well, let's see, the only black person in the ad says, "Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough"
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Ford does "look nice"--he's a good looking man, like most of the Democratic politicians, according to the Washington Post article I've linked before (so much for the so-called, "so-called" liberal media, amirite?). What does that person being black and saying that have to do with anything?


teiresias said:
and they have a white chick playing off the "black man stealing our white women" fears that alot of old redneck racist hicks have.
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Is she? Or is she just some trampy person Ford supposedly met at a Playboy party? I admit I'm not from TN, but watching that ad--creepy though it may be--didn't spark any sort of ZOMG RACIST connections. It reminded me more of the "latte-drinking" ad from the last election cycle than Mandark's race card playing. But I guess that's the point, that you cannot prove it unless you have a signed letter of intent.
 
teiresias pretty much nailed it.

bob: We could come up with a scale of Coded Bigotry, where the higher the score, the harder it is to pretend you don't know what they're really talking about. "San Francisco liberals" would be 10, "all these problems" that President Thurmond could have prevented would be 9, "New York bankers" would be 8, etc. It'll be fun!
 
teiresias said:
Well, let's see, the only black person in the ad says, "Harold Ford looks nice, isn't that enough" and they have a white chick playing off the "black man stealing our white women" fears that alot of old redneck racist hicks have.

Of course, if you're talking about the radio ad, I haven't heard that one.
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Pretty much.
 
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