Funniest Political Ad of 2006
Scrapbook Funniest Political Ad of 2006 To hear the critics' characterizations of the "racist" RNC ad targeting Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford Jr. in his Senate race against Republican Bob Corker,...
...The press release went on to say that he would talk "about his experiences as a soldier in Iraq and the need for leadership in Washington that matches the courage and capability of the soldiers he served with...
...The particular issues the group has in mind are things like funding for more body armor and higher appropriations for V.A...
...Even by the low standards of Washington interest groups, these rankings are a crock...
...But whose votes back up their rhetoric, and who's just wearing an American flag lapel pin...
...Bush and his neoconservative foreign policy implementers believe they are today's men of destiny...
...Wouldn't it have been racist for the ad's casting director to assume that only a black bimbo would come on to Harold Ford...
...hospitals...
...Lo and behold, when you do that, the entire Democratic leadership ends up with A's for "supporting the troops," and the likes of John Warner and John McCain with D's...
...Hint number two: Rieckhoff's first big media splash came in an April 30, 2004, press release from the John Kerry campaign: "Iraq Veteran Paul Rieckhoff to Deliver Democratic Radio Address Saturday...
...But the claim of destiny for a whole nation or a constructed state has long been the ultimate tool of the fascist, the super-nationalist, the propagandist worthy of a Lenin or a Hitler or a Pol Pot...
...A breathless article in far-left Mother Jones magazine so full of conspiracy it reads like something you might find in a photocopied LaRouche pamphlet...
...But he at least had a partisan excuse...
...A black-clad oil-slick of a man says, "So he took money from porn movie producers...
...Statistics show that there are more white bimbos than black ones, on account of a higher general population of white women...
...To infer from this really quite amusing ad that he is some Mandingo-like threat to white manhood is indeed a racist notion, telling us more about the offendee than the purported offender...
...According to a report by Eli Lake in the New York Sun, the mailing warns: "Chris Carney failed our nation once...
...The Republican party...
...To achieve unalloyed partisanship in its rankings, the IAVA engaged in some creative reverse engineering...
...The reality is much less colorful...
...Hint number three: The IAVA ratings manage a rare feat...
...An older gent with a walrus mustache says, "Canada can take care of North Korea, they're not busy...
...The lowest-ranking Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, gets a B...
...Everyone from the NAACP to concerned Vanderbilt professors to former Republican senator Bill Cohen was incensed, comparing it to the worst of the worst Willie Horton subtexts...
...What excuse do Pennsylvania Republicans have for basing their attacks on the word of someone who compares George W. Bush—the head of their party, after all—to Hitler...
...What's that, you say...
...A camouflaged hunter says, "Ford's right, I do have too many guns...
...The Scrapbook, an equal opportunity admirer of women, believes Harold Ford has the right to love white women, too...
...The highest ranking Republican, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, gets a C. As anyone familiar with the construction of political scorecards knows, such statistically "pure" results are no coincidence...
...Iraq and Afghan vets deserve more honest representation than this...
...Hint number one: Rieckhoff announced the IAVA ratings with a post at Arianna Huffington's heavily left-leaning blog, huffingtonpost.com...
...Why is it assumed that a white bimbo asking Ford to call her after meeting him at a Playboy party is racist...
...So, though the RNC has capitulated and pulled the ad, we salute their moxie—not so much for breaking down racial taboos, as for irritating the Canadians...
...She also believes the United States is fascist...
...In what should go down as the most ignoble attack ad of the 2006 election cycle, Republicans in Pennsylvania paid for a mailing assaulting Christopher Carney, a former Pentagon counterterrorism analyst running for Congress as a Democrat...
...The law of averages, then, would suggest that if Harold Ford was to be approached at a Playboy party, his admirer would most likely be white...
...It selected as "key" issues for its scorecard a high number of party-line votes on amendments to the defense authorization bill...
...Apparently so...
...Were Saddam Hussein's ties to international terrorists the product of fevered minds working in a shadowy Pentagon unit established to fabricate warmongering propaganda...
...Our hypersensitive neighbor to the north, as one might have predicted, has registered a complaint with the White House...
...As it turns out, there's a reason for that...
...They give every Senate Democrat a higher grade than every Senate Republican...
...Worst Political Ad of 2006 Did the Bush administration deliberately lie the country into war with Iraq...
...We said then that he should be ashamed to avail himself of such "expertise...
...In her writings, Kwi-atkowski claims that the United States "went to war in Afghanistan—planned of course before 9/11/2001—due to some Taliban non-cooperation regarding a certain trans-Afghanistan oil pipeline, and the requisite security for said pipeline...
...Even Corker, on whose behalf the RNC ran the ad, denounced it as over the top and tacky (uhhhh, Bob—first time seeing a political ad...
...This was a rebuttal following the weekly presidential radio address...
...Based on the one Playboy party The Scrapbook has attended (at Hef's mansion during the 2000 Democratic political convention), blonde bimbos were certainly overrep-resented there...
...Nonpartisanship,' Washington style A supposedly nonpartisan group calling itself the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, has produced a congressional "scorecard" rating legislators on "issues that matter to Iraq and Afghanistan vets...
...Why does The Scrapbook say the group is "supposedly" nonpartisan...
...The Mother Jones article relies heavily on the word of a former Pentagon official, Karen Kwiatkowski, who is not exactly a credible source...
...One of the coauthors of the article in question, headlined "The Lie Factory," is Robert Dreyfuss, contributor to LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review...
...in his Senate race against Republican Bob Corker, you might think that Ford had been depicted dancing around a boiling pot of white people with a bone through his nose while singing "Camp-town Races...
...The source for these claims...
...Fringe bloggers, Sidney Blumenthal, Lyndon LaRouche, Frank Rich, and . . . the Republican party...
...Call The Scrapbook a miscegenation-loving race mixer, but we're confused...
...According to Iraq veteran Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of IAVA, "Politicians say they support the troops...
...Later, she cradles her fingers to her ear like a phone, saying, "Harold, call me...
...Don't give Chris Carney a chance to FAIL us again...
...I mean, who hasn't...
...Few people really believe this...
...I like football, and I like girls"), the ad also features a helium-voiced blonde bimbo enthusing, "I met Harold at the Playboy party...
...The ad in question features a murderers' row of mostly schlubby-look-ing Tennesseans, resigning themselves to vote for Ford by reaffirming their weaknesses...
...Two years ago, this poisoned well was being drawn upon by Ted Kennedy for his Bush-bashing foreign policy speeches...
...Making extra hay over Ford's appearance at a 2005 Playboy Super Bowl party (of which Ford has said, "I was there...
Vol. 12 • November 2006 • No. 8
