Posted on 08/17/2006 3:55:08 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Democrats dropped an ad that Hispanics had criticized as unfairly depicting illegal immigrants as terrorists.
The ad had disappeared from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's Web site Thursday. A link that had led to the advertisement now leads to a different ad.
No announcement was made about what happened to the ad. A DSCC spokesman did not return phone calls and an e-mail message seeking comment.
Democratic and Republican Hispanics had complained Wednesday about the ad. The 35-second ad questioned GOP homeland security and anti-terrorism policies. It featured images of Osama bin Laden and North Korea's Kim Jong Il and two people scaling a border fence and the words "Feel Safer?"
Houston City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, was among those who asked the DSCC to pull the ad. She said it could alienate Latino voters. The Republican National Hispanic Assembly and Latino groups also criticized the ad.
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I am sure that a Freeper, or some other conservative group managed to save a copy...
They didn't pull it soon enough All of my Hispanic coworkers saw it. I was surprised how quick the word spread...after I pointed it out.
How pathetic, they think they can just quietly get rid of the ad and not answer the phone? We really are dealing with assclowns.
LOL. This sounds like Kerry sending things from his campaign site down the Memory Hole in 2004.
Poof, like it never even happened.
Nothing put on the internet is ever Really Gone!
Perhaps they can use the same ad, featuring Osama and Kim, and just insert an image of the Detroit Judge [Carter appointee] who ruled against the NSA surveillance program, in the list of folks who are trying to make life difficult for Bush and Republicans.
TAPPED discussed the ad, so perhaps these posts will go down the hole too:
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/08/post_1140.html
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/08/post_1145.html
I couldn't figure out how to save off a Youtube video, but I did take a screenshot of what the Youtube search page showing their video looked like:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/005427.html
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