http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZF5ZTu2Go
The video is an unbelievable and actually pretty funny attack ad on Harold Ford, a Democrat running for Senate in Tennessee. It's already caused quite a stir (see
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...749189796.html)
I thought you'd all at least be amused by it. TFPolitics has been a divisive place lately, so let's try to keep the discussion here relatively light-hearted. Do you think the ad is inherently objectionable, and should be pulled? Do you agree with reports that it is racist?
As for myself, the ad is really too self-evidently silly for me to get worked up about it. It certainly didn't strike me as 'racist' when I saw it, and someone else had to explain to me why it was; then again, I didn't know anything about the candidates or the race. It does bother me, though, that having deployed such an ad, absolutely no one is at least taking responsibility for it.
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Mr Corker has said he doesn't like the ad and would like it pulled, but that he had no control over the Republican National Committee, which in turn has said it had no control either because the ad was placed by an "independent" group — funded by the committee.
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Thoughts?