Personally, I think this has the "Harold, call me" tactic written all over it. In case you forget, it's the blonde white floozy in the ad used to defeat black Harold Ford last fall in Tennessee. He's got a good gig now, though, head of the Democratic Leadership Council and vacuous black spokesperson for all things centrist and Republican Lite.
by Chris Bodenner
I'm the last person to buy into the so-called "racist" intentions of mainstream Republicans. And I think Democrats usually cry wolf on the matter, to the detriment of race relations. But reading John Riley's post gave me pause:
We just got off a conference call with Camp McCain, defending their new ad comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. They said they thought the ad was legitimate because Obama is a big celebrity..., and Britney and Paris were Number 2 and 3. The problem: Anyone with even a vague sense of pop culture knows that Britney and Paris are yesterday's news. Here's a link to Forbes' Celebrity 100. Paris and Britney don't even make the list any more. Instead, the top 10, in order: Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie, Beyonce Knowles, David Beckham, Johnny Depp, Jay-Z, The Police, JK Rowling, Brad Pitt. So, they didn't pick other big celebrities, who were either men, or black, or married. What they picked was two sexually available white women.
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