Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! did the show today on Green Politics. Featured on the show were Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for US Senate in New York, and Michael Berg, running for the one House seat in Delaware.
No one can criticize the GOP for failing to produce sophisticated propaganda that successfully exploits the hopes and fears of white middle Americans. But can the right-wing distraction factory woo minorities with the same techniques? Check out the following transcript of a new Republican ad targeting black voters in 10 battleground states this year and you be the judge:
BLACK MAN #1: “If you make a little mistake with one of your ‘hos,’ you’ll want to dispose of that problem tout suite, no questions asked.”
BLACK MAN #2: “That’s too cold. I don’t snuff my own seed.”
BLACK MAN #1: “Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican.”
This ad was financed by J. Patrick Rooney, a white billionaire notorious for funding several misleading anti-Kerry ads that ran on urban radio stations in 2004. The money for Rooney’s newest ad flowed through a little-known group called America’s PAC, which was founded by Richard Nadler, a veteran Republican consultant who pushed Intelligent Design in Kansas public schools, declaring, “Darwin is bunk.” Read on…
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