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Charming

by John Cole|  May 20, 20048:27 pm| 33 Comments

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Saw this charming billboard being run by Missouri Democrats via Dumb and Dumber (excuse me- Hannity and Colmes):

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The Democrats are saying, with a straight face, that this is not race-baiting.

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  1. 1.

    Kimmitt

    May 21, 2004 at 12:18 am

    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.”

  2. 2.

    Chris P

    May 21, 2004 at 6:54 am

    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.

  3. 3.

    Slartibartfast

    May 21, 2004 at 7:43 am

    Kimmitt will no doubt argue that it’s absolutely de rigeur. I’m starting to think that all Democrats are just that stupid.

  4. 4.

    poormedicalstudent

    May 21, 2004 at 8:18 am

    you’re just now starting to think that?

  5. 5.

    Slartibartfast

    May 21, 2004 at 8:22 am

    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.

  6. 6.

    Slartibartfast

    May 21, 2004 at 8:23 am

    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.

  7. 7.

    sean

    May 21, 2004 at 8:55 am

    is this one race-baiting too??

    http://www.missouridems.org/images/billboardwlg.jpg

  8. 8.

    Chris P

    May 21, 2004 at 9:32 am

    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?

  9. 9.

    DG

    May 21, 2004 at 10:46 am

    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.

  10. 10.

    sean

    May 21, 2004 at 11:12 am

    “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

  11. 11.

    Chris P

    May 21, 2004 at 11:32 am

    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.

  12. 12.

    sean

    May 21, 2004 at 11:38 am

    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

  13. 13.

    Jeff

    May 21, 2004 at 11:45 am

    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.

  14. 14.

    Dean

    May 21, 2004 at 11:55 am

    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?

  15. 15.

    Chris P

    May 21, 2004 at 12:07 pm

    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.

  16. 16.

    Hal Duston

    May 21, 2004 at 4:52 pm

    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.

  17. 17.

    Kimmitt

    May 21, 2004 at 10:33 pm

    “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.

  18. 18.

    Emperor Misha I

    May 22, 2004 at 9:15 pm

    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.

    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?

  19. 19.

    DANEgerus

    May 23, 2004 at 12:33 am

    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?

  20. 20.

    DANEgerus

    May 23, 2004 at 12:53 am

    “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” – Winston Churchill

  21. 21.

    Kimmitt

    May 23, 2004 at 10:45 pm

    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.

  22. 22.

    Dean

    May 24, 2004 at 9:08 am

    Yup. You kept Fritz Hollings, though. Good on ya!

  23. 23.

    Ricky

    May 24, 2004 at 10:46 am

    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……

  24. 24.

    Ricky

    May 24, 2004 at 10:50 am

    The first of these signs was erected in Kansas City early this month. Click here to contribute to the Missouri Democratic Party’s efforts to put up more such billboards.

    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.

  25. 25.

    Kimmitt

    May 24, 2004 at 10:15 pm

    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.

  26. 26.

    Kimmitt

    May 24, 2004 at 10:18 pm

    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.

  27. 27.

    Ricky

    May 25, 2004 at 8:25 am

    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.

  28. 28.

    ape

    May 25, 2004 at 9:34 am

    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.

  29. 29.

    Kimmitt

    May 25, 2004 at 8:15 pm

    “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.

  30. 30.

    Kimmitt

    May 25, 2004 at 8:18 pm

    Jesse Helms is considered to have changed Parties in 1970, though he was not in the Senate at the time.

  31. 31.

    Ricky

    May 26, 2004 at 8:34 am

    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.

    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).

    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.

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