Life is full of surprises at the NY Times:
Southern Democrats, Courting Black Voters, Focus Senate Campaigns on Racial Scars
In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invokingTrayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — to jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington.
The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression. And their source is surprising. The effort is being led by national Democrats and their state party organizations — not, in most instances, by the shadowy and often untraceable political action committees that typically employ such provocative messages.
In North Carolina, the “super PAC” started by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, ran an ad on black radio that accused the Republican candidate, Thom Tillis, of leading an effort to pass the kind of gun law that “caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.”
“They have been playing on this nerve in the black community that if you even so much as look at a Republican, churches will start to burn, your civil rights will be taken away and young black men like Trayvon Martin will die,” said Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican Party. “The reality of it is, the Democrats realize that their most loyal constituency is not as loyal as they once were.”
No criticism of Republicans making coded appeals to racism with, oh, tough on crime Willie Horton ads?
I'm here.
Posted by: Sandy--Engorged Capital~Fallow Districts--Daze | October 30, 2014 at 05:44 PM
My Uncle Frank:
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative, and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago.
Since then he has voted Democrat.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | October 30, 2014 at 05:51 PM
Oh, no, I am NOT going to cross post my NC stuff to this thread. Not in a million years.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | October 30, 2014 at 05:52 PM
Is that Harry R-e--i-d the Searchlight pederast?
Posted by: Frau Lehrerin a.D. | October 30, 2014 at 05:58 PM
How long can the progs get away with this carp? It's just disgusting.
Posted by: Frau Lehrerin a.D. | October 30, 2014 at 06:01 PM
In Georgia, Democrats are circulating a flier warning that voting is the only way “to prevent another Ferguson.” It shows two black children holding cardboard signs that say “Don’t shoot.”
I'm still ready for that honest conversation on race.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 30, 2014 at 06:08 PM
Don Surber got fired for calling Michael Brown an animal - on his personal blog.
Posted by: Jane | October 30, 2014 at 06:08 PM
"And their source is surprising."
Only to the Times.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | October 30, 2014 at 06:10 PM
Oh, I see. Perhaps they need a sign?
While Ferguson was ongoing ... I saw one that works for me:
PANTS UP ... DON'T LOOT
These days the least scarey thing any politician can do is pull the "race card." Ain't worth a damn.
Posted by: Carol Herman | October 30, 2014 at 06:23 PM
And yet there was all this hullabaloo, about Willie Horton, which illustrated Dukakis's policy priorities exactly,
Posted by: narciso | October 30, 2014 at 06:32 PM
-— invoking Trayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — -
Um, do they happen to mention which party runs Ferguson or which party passed and protected Jim Crow laws?
Posted by: Iggy | October 30, 2014 at 06:45 PM
I know I answered my own question:
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/10/28/More-Evidence-the-Government-Hacked-Sharyl-Attkisson-s-Computer
Posted by: narciso | October 30, 2014 at 06:49 PM
Elbert Guillory
Elbert Guillory: Send Hagan Home
Elbert Guillory: Mary Landrieu is Not Helping Blacks
Elbert Guillory: "Why I Am a Republican"
Racist !
/sarc
Posted by: Sandy fallow districts~engorged capital Daze | October 30, 2014 at 06:52 PM
Any self-respecting black should take offense at this. Some day they will.
Posted by: jimmyk | October 30, 2014 at 06:54 PM
I'm getting a strange feeling of dejavu:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/10/30/tsr-starr-khorasan-strikes.cnn.html
Zaphod was on hard hitting Steve Harvey show, today,
Posted by: narciso | October 30, 2014 at 06:55 PM
Regrets, I've had a few...
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Eric-Holder-decision-do-over-James-Rosen/2014/10/29/id/604003/?ns_mail_uid=32944113&ns_mail_job=1592953_10302014&s=al&dkt_nbr=dqxlvdwa
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 30, 2014 at 07:24 PM
Biggest asshole AG of all time.
Posted by: lyle | October 30, 2014 at 07:29 PM
Drudge: Obama prepares amnesty plan.
For himself?
Posted by: Frau Fragezeichen | October 30, 2014 at 07:53 PM
Good evening all. Behind me at the auction this evening were a retired nurse and a couple who are dealers; he is German, she is American.
The pre-auction discussion turned to Ebola, Obama, and the nurse in Maine.
NO positive commments. Dealer believes this is all going on because Obama is a Muslim. (I am not arguing this, just letting you know that this is going around and not just with knuckle-dragging types. I have a friend who heads a department at a hospital who thinks the same thing.) Nurse thinks they are making people afraid with their constantly changing policies. All are disgusted. Too bad we don't have a Senator up this cycle.
Lots of angry people out there.
Posted by: Miss Marple | October 30, 2014 at 09:04 PM
Miss Marple:
Behind me at the auction this evening were a retired nurse and a couple who are dealers
Your marijuana dealers? You're two threads behind for the that thread.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | October 30, 2014 at 09:43 PM