October 30th, 2006 by Atomictumor
I’m somewhat blissfully isolated from a lot of the BS that goes into a major (or midterm) election, simply because I don’t watch a lot of TV. What I watch is often downloaded from Al Gore’s Internets, or on a DVD. I’m simple that way.
By sticking to a regimen like this, I don’t have the opportunity to be blindsided by 5 campaign ads in a row. I’m totally cool with this, because I 100% believe that these ads, like all ads, shoot for the lowest common denominator, and I can’t help but feel that our collective intelligence is being insulted because of this. Yes, we’ve all heard the racism charges of the Democrats against the Republicans because of putting some little white chick on the TV, and I didn’t understand the problem until somebody pointed out to me that Harold Ford Jr is supposed to be
a) black, and
b) a democrat
Now, I’m normally one that can pick out a black man from a crowd of people. Its like an internal gay-dar, but for black people. I’d call it black-dar, but that sounds like some lame Buck Rogers villian. I have to admit, I was a little blindsided, because the my observations told me that, while not the whitest guy in town, he isn’t very black. I mean, I figured maybe a great grandparent might have been something other than white. I mean, the guy sure seems white.
Whats the point, AT? Well, thats what I wanted to know. What was racist about this ad, democrats? I mean, damnnation, I tend to agree philosophically with you guys more than the red team, but it looks like you’re just grasping at straws. So a little airhead white girl is all about the HF.J, I don’t see where the racism comes in at all. In fact, I’d be willing to see a complaint or two about sexism, or good taste, or something, but damn.
I digress. While I’m talking to the democrats out there, lets examine point B, and the whole reason I’m going off here.
Last night, I saw a Fordy ad in answer to some of the Corker ads (who really wants to introduce me to his wife, for some reason… I’m thinking swinger) where Ford tells me that everybody’s just got him wrong, because he’s all about the war in Iraq, and all about putting the hammer down on gay marriage.
Which made me do a spit take…
The democratic candidate for office is telling me he’s pro war, and anti gay rights? Really? And then its all up in my grill because he’s super church guy? Huh? What?
The democrat? What? Can I have a witness?
Soooooo, it looks like no matter who wins, the people I disagree with are smiling. I don’t understand how this is representation. Furthermore, I don’t really see much of a difference between the two candidates anymore, other than that Ford appears to want to tell anything whatsoever to get elected, and Corker, well, he’s a rich Chattanoogan. That says it all right there.
Anyway, I started writing this thing to tell you how to steal an election, and how easy it would be to do so in the new supersecure super futuristic voting machines, but then I got distracted with the horrible state of affairs on TV right now.
Sigh.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Heh … I wonder if you can hear me cackling over here. My thoughts exactly, except more funnier.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I don’t have a dog in this fight, and don’t really know much about either candidates’ stands. We have politics of our own out here.
I did see the ad, of course. While I can’t say I find it “racist” exactly, it was certainly calculated to irritate racist Southerners who are afraid of miscegenation. It should have been insulting to any Tennessean to think that the GOP would find such slop appealing.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
I can’t wait for our election up here. There is a heated race for the county’s register of deeds. The Republican is a douche, the democrat who received the nomination is a fool and the guy who has been doing the job for the past 12 years has to run a write in campaign because he changed parties and wasn’t able to run as a democrat due to election laws. I really can’t wait to see the results of that election. The position carries with it a salary of $90k. I’m hoping the write-in guy wins and to a lesser extent the democrat… anyone to beat that show boating republican.
I don’t get why the position is partisan but when you’re handling home deeds and things of that nature, it’s better to avoid the red.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Joel, I never would have figured you for a racist Southerner who is afraid of miscegenation, but who am I to tell you what should or shouldn’t irritate you?
October 30th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
You have a bright future in GOP politics, daco.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
See, I didn’t realize people still had racial marriage issues.. I thought the Cosby show cured all that.
That, and the obsession with gay marriage nowadays..
October 30th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Nah…not interested. Fact is, I’m not the one wasting my time telling folks who the ad was aimed at or how well it was calculated. On the contrary, it would appear that your future with the Democrat party looks bright to me.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
It wasn’t the amount of attention you’ve devoted to the project of defending this ad, daco, that led to my comment. It’s the way you adopted the GOP tactic of personalizing the issue. I didn’t smear *you* as a racist, yet somehow you thought it was ok to smear me.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Yeah, I just learned yesterday that apparently Ford is anti-gay and pro-life.
When do we get two different leaders with DIFFERENT opinions again?
Any why is the Love Fo’ Jesus Scale (LFJC, dontcha forget it) so damn important? Ugh.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Oh Joel, no need for you to take it personally. You said, …”it was certainly calculated to irritate racist Southerners who are afraid of miscegenation.” You were obviously irritated by the ad, and I simply put two and two together.
No offense intended….it’s called humor.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
“No offense intended….it’s called humor.”
No problem. So was the stuff about “making baby Jesus cry” on an earlier thread. I knew you’d understand.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
touche.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Get used to it people. “Making baby jesus cry” is one of my oft used phrases…
Evan, yeah, I don’t get the decision between clone candidate 1 and clone candidate A. Apparently everybody is supposed to vote along party lines these days, but I don’t remember getting a memo about it…
October 30th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Check your mail. I got mine in the mail today but dang I already early voted so I guess I’m out of the party. But heck from the ads I’ve seen Democrats throw better parties so it’s really ok.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
I don’t understand your confusion guys. Tennessee is a red state. Mr. Ford just wants to fit in…don’tcha know.
“What Tennesseans will get will be a Jesus-loving, gun- supporting believer that families should come first, that taxes should be lower and America should be strong. When Tennesseans send us to the Senate, that’s what they’ll get in my votes and that’s what they’ll get in the kind of leadership that we have not had in the Senate over the last six years.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226104,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2006
October 30th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
www.fauxnews.com. Heh.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Hey, if Mr Ford doesn’t think that ad is racist, why should anyone else be keeping their panties all in a bunch?
October 30th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Joel…the next time you refer to a political ad as “juvenile” how about I remind you that you were the one to add a link to fauxnews? Nothing juvenile about that site is there?
October 31st, 2006 at 7:30 am
No more juvenile than your link to foxnews, daco.
The difference (since apparently it has to be explained to you) is that the GOP paid lots of money and put an ad on television in the hope of affecting the votes of those watching TV for other reasons. The folks at fauxnews.com paid very little money to put a satire on the internet in the hope of amusing those who volunarily click over to their site.
However, the equivalency you’ve drawn between the GOP and the folks who created the fauxnews.com site is duly noted.
October 31st, 2006 at 8:17 am
Joel,
my link to Fox news was a serious interview on Fox News Sunday with Harold Ford. The difference (since apparently it has to be explained to you) is that while you get your panties in a bunch about a silly and juvenile political ad, you are not above posting a link to a site that is even more juvenile and a good bit more obscene.
October 31st, 2006 at 9:01 am
. . . you are not above posting a link to a site that is even more juvenile and a good bit more obscene.”
panties, bunch, etc.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:25 am
Man, from where I’m sitting the fact that you two are still going back and forth on this states volumes. VOLUMES.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Heh.
Well, I’m not the one who posted a full page on pet cats from hell.
Chacun à son goût (ou son chat), n’est-ce pas?