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Saw this charming billboard being run by Missouri Democrats via Dumb and Dumber (excuse me- Hannity and Colmes):
The Democrats are saying, with a straight face, that this is not race-baiting.
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http://tvh.rjwest.com/archives/004696.html
No James Byrd ad yet, but this shows where it’s going this election year……
Missouri Dems race bait then say “Who, me?”
Democrats in Missouri actually have the gall to insist that a new campaign billboard is not “race baiting.”The billboard, pictured here, has a black man’s face dourfully looking out next to the words “Missouri Republicans have a plan. You are…
Kimmitt
I s’pose it depends on what is meant by “race-baiting;” I understand it to usually mean “an appeal to the racial prejudices of voters.”
Chris P
Well, I understand this billboard to insinuate that Missouri Republicans (and, by proxy, all Republicans) are deliberately leaving blacks (and, by proxy, all minorities) out of some mysterious and delightful plan from which everyone else benefits. Essentially, it implies that Republicans hate minorities, blacks in particular, and will do everything in their power to trample them underfoot. It’s shameful nonsense. Looks like my jaded glasses don’t need their prescription changed.
Slartibartfast
Kimmitt will no doubt argue that it’s absolutely de rigeur. I’m starting to think that all Democrats are just that stupid.
poormedicalstudent
you’re just now starting to think that?
Slartibartfast
Actually that was a wee bit of irony for our insane friend. I fully expect him to declare that I’ve declared war on some literary device or other, now.
Slartibartfast
Bad form, that last. Well, it’s early, the caffeine was in short supply, and the kid kept me up all night, practically. I’m going to let it stand.
sean
is this one race-baiting too??
http://www.missouridems.org/images/billboardwlg.jpg
Chris P
Well, now that I know the billboards are equal in their treatment of race, I recant my former post. As they say, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.” I should’ve known better than to trust anything run on Hannity and Colmes. Thanks for the link sean.
Why was the billboard depicting the image of the black man the only one put out there for discussion if there are other billboards bearing the same message but different, seemingly racially equal, images?
DG
Not race sean, gender. I wonder if they have one with a white male as well? I bet not. I think it is wholly innapropriate and I hope the Missouri Democrats get slaughtered in the election.
sean
“I wonder if they have one with a white male as well? I bet not.”
nothing like making a statment without doing some research:
http://www.missouridems.org/images/billboardwg.jpg
http://www.missouridems.org/images/billboardwk.jpg
http://www.missouridems.org/images/billboardgg.jpg
http://www.missouridems.org/images/billboardwwclose.jpg
Chris P
Way to stick your foot in it DG. In case you’re too lazy to follow each individual link, let me break it down for you. In addition to the middle aged black male and older white female billboards, the Missouri Dems website shows billboards depicting: an older white couple, two young black children, a young white male, a young Latino female, a young white female, and a young white boy. All billboards carry the same message.
So again I ask, given the fact that the billboards appear to be equally representative in terms of gender and race (and even age) and they all carry the same message, why was the billboard depicting the image of the black man the only one put out there for discussion? Why not put them all out there for discussion? You think it’s wholly inappropriate? I think it’s inappropriate to accuse the Democrats of race-baiting and then selectively choose one billboard as justification for one’s accusation.
sean
well said ChrisP.
i believe the billboards are scheduled to be put up over the coursr of the summer, with a new one appearing every two weeks. the one with the older black man is just the first in the series
Jeff
Well, it was a logical assumption to make considering that Missouri is the home of the old “every time you vote Republican a church burns” bullshit from a few years ago.
Dean
Well, now, just who IS part of this GOP plan, if:
an older white couple, two young black children, a young white male, a young Latino female, a young white female, and a young white boy
are each depicted? Asians? Mixed race people? Infants? This would seem to be nonsensical. Or is it that Republicans are white, aren’t Latino, aren’t black, aren’t young, aren’t old, aren’t male or female?
Of course, if the black billboards are in predominantly black neighborhoods, the older folks are next to retirement homes, the Latino woman is in a mainly Latino neighborhood, still sure it’s not race-baiting?
Chris P
I know nothing about the placement of the billboards, Dean. I just assumed they were along highways or something. But even if the scenario you presented were true, I still wouldn’t call it race-baiting, I’d call it targeting the appropriate audience.
Anyway, I’d like to know what this mysterious Missouri Republican plan is that everyone is being left out of.
Hal Duston
I drive past this billboard every weekday. I think it’s been up for about a month or so now.
It’s right about here facing south:
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=2BtRWOp_0Totr8TbVGTxYZoEjnv9wD3HSq1Shl1ZurOt&csz=kansas+city%2C+mo&country=us&new=1
Troost western border of the historically segregated black neighborhoods in Kansas City.
From my reading of the article, this is the only one in the entire state. I’ve not seen any others in the Kansas City area during my daily travels.
It lists a website http://www.showmeissues.com that you can’t read in the picture.
Kimmitt
“Well, it was a logical assumption to make considering that Missouri is the home of the old “every time you vote Republican a church burns” bullshit from a few years ago.”
Oh, for the love of Pete, just admit that you were absolutely and completely wrong and get over it.
God, I should have known better than to even take your interpretation of the sign at face value.
Emperor Misha I
Absolutely correct. It WAS the logical assumption. However, it turned out to be the wrong one in this case.
It happens.
Besides, I never really understood the “vote for Republicans and black churches burn” ads.
I mean, weren’t the Missiouri Donks saying that if anybody voted for Republicans, the Donk hit squads would go burn black churches?
DANEgerus
The inclusion of other targeted ‘scare-mongering’ groups only strengthens the argument that the (D)’s shame themselves with these tactics…
The elderly? Hispanics? The “children”?
Latino’s? Women?
It reads like a Nancy Pelosi(D) rant…
The point is… beyond the lie of squealing that (R)’s don’t care… what have the (D)’s done for any of these groups? I mean besides fighting dirty to preserve abortion, create gay marriage, and filibuster the civil rights act?
DANEgerus
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” – Winston Churchill
Kimmitt
I mean besides fighting dirty to preserve abortion, create gay marriage, and filibuster the civil rights act?
Oh, for the love of Zod. You are aware that there was a Democratic President who first proposed these laws, then a different one who ushered them through Congress, right? You’re also aware of the fact that this act cost us the Dixiecrats (which you so quickly scooped up with Nixon’s Southern Strategy), yes?
It’s not like Strom Thurmond spent his latter years as a Democrat; the man who ran on segregation found a much more congenial home elsewhere.
Dean
Yup. You kept Fritz Hollings, though. Good on ya!
Ricky
I keep asking lefties for some list of all those folks who left the party due to civil rights and they scamper away after Thurmond and about three other names, while the rest of the Donks stayed in tow and instituted Jim Crow laws. Heck, the south stayed overwhelmingly (D) throughout the 60s & 70s.
And they REALLY get steamed when you remind them about Al Gore’s dad participating in the filibuster of the CRA……
Ricky
Heh, they do NOT have any other billboards up, only the race-baiting one. Nice ommision, sean. Let us know when one of those other jpegs actually makes it from computer file onto a billboard.
Kimmitt
I went hunting for information; there is very little good data on the voting patterns of bigots. The recent gubernatorial election in Louisiana provides anecdotal evidence.
Interestingly, racism does not seem to figure directly into voting with the Republican Party; instead, conservatives tend to vote based on non-race issues and to hold racist views on the side. Dunno what that means, precisely.
Kimmitt
I really need to break out the NES survey data and answer the questions myself. Wouldn’t be too difficult to do some basic correlations on Excel. I’ll work on it.
Ricky
BTW, the dead giveaway was when you admitted to doing research after proclaiming it as a certainty. Red flag…..
And you were so adamant about “the fact that this act cost us the Dixiecrats (which you so quickly scooped up with Nixon’s Southern Strategy)” .
Let us know when you can come up with some list of “Dixiecrats”. Your razor thin credibility could certainly use the boost.
ape
it is interesting that JC looks at this and sees a representative black man.
could it not be that this individual represents the 13.5% of the population of Missouri who are over 65? (that was my first thought!)
what on earth would make it so unusual for this person to be from the 15.2% of the population of Missouri who are non-white?
does anyone else think the current wave of critical blather against ‘liberals’ and democrats is getting more than usually weak? like drudge castigating Kerry for his joke on bush. it was witty and spot-on, but the extensive analysis Drudge linked to happened not to mention the source of the ‘training wheels’ concept, implying that kerry was merely insulting bush for being infantile rather than undiplomatic.
anyway, the dimmest blogger in the world.
Kimmitt
“BTW, the dead giveaway was when you admitted to doing research after proclaiming it as a certainty. Red flag…..”
Er, I know that the sun rises in the east, too, but if I were forced to provide an online cite, I’d have to do a little hunting.
“Let us know when you can come up with some list of “Dixiecrats”. Your razor thin credibility could certainly use the boost.”
Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, and Phil Gramm are generally considered Dixiecrats who switched Parties. What happened is that some switched over, while others stayed in the Democratic Party until they retired and were replaced by Republicans who shared their views (since there were no Democratic politicians who shared their views to succeed them).
It’s ironic, really. A Party formed around the issue of destroying slavery is now the Party where the bigots find their home, while the pro-slavery Party (Democrats) was altered so massively by FDR and Kennedy that it collects 90%+ of the African-American vote.
Kimmitt
Jesse Helms is considered to have changed Parties in 1970, though he was not in the Senate at the time.
Ricky
Er, Phil Gramm switched in the 80s because the Democrats removed him from any position of seniority because he was “working too closely” with the Reagan administration on legislation. You know, bipartisanship & all.
Find better talking points.
Well, if that’s not an official endorsement of you not having a clue as to what you’re talking about & an admission that you put forth (more) bullshit without anything to back it up, I don’t know what is. Now, people voting for politicians is the same as the Democrats leaving the party and the GOP accepting racists.
There went the razor thin level of credibility, Kimmitt. Now, you have none.