TRUMP OFFERS UP A DISGUSTING RACIST CAMPAIGN AD
…Senator Bob
Corker (R-TN) has denounced the latest Trump 2018 campaign ad.
Unless they are soundly beaten in the
midterms, the Republicans will get even worse.
If you look at the leaders at Fox News,
including the head honcho, Rupert Murdoch, and then add Sean Hannity, Laura
Ingraham, and Lou Dobbs. Oh, and let's not forget to add all the Fox shareholders, Fox producers and Fox
executives and any other on-air Fox personalities. I would say that this low
point in campaigning s mostly from this group’s doing.
This group has spent years drumming up the
fear of immigrants, totally misrepresenting the danger they pose, blurring the
line between criminals and non-criminals such as the “Dreamers”. They have also sent dog whistles....correction: made trumpet blasts in support of white nationalists.
Perhaps, instead of referring to the Fox clan as a news organization, we
should call them the source of material from the worst elements in our
society. And we know that a small sliver
of that element will also become extremely violent.
Fox is not a reputable place where competent
and honest news people should want to work. Nor is it a network that
advertisers should support or that viewers should indulge.
As an example, there is President Trump’s latest ad for making Americans to be afraid, which is both ridiculous and blatantly racist.
The ad shows an illegal immigrant boasting
about killing police officers. This is a
fitting final pitch for the mid-terms for a party and a campaign that are now
nearly entirely focused on whipping up xenophobia.
The man on the screen has a shaved head and a
mustache with a long goatee. He is
smiling as he announces, “I killed f‐‐-ing cops.”
The man’s name is Luis Bracamontes, he is a
twice-deported Mexican immigrant who was given the death penalty in April for
killing two California law enforcement officers in 2014. At the time of the shootings, Bracamontes was
in the United States illegally. Now, with the mid-term election
approaching, he’s the star of the GOP’s
latest disgusting campaign ad.
Disgusting text is superimposed over videos
of Bracamontes as he appears to show no remorse for his crimes, and even
declaring, “I’m going to kill more cops
soon.”
The ad also shows a woman locking her windows
closed and with locking multiple dead bolts on her front door.
More footage follows: Throngs of unidentified
people rioting in unidentified streets and pushing down fences in undisclosed
locations. A Fox News Channel correspondent is shown interviewing a man
identified only as “deported immigrant in
caravan,” who asks to be pardoned for attempted murder. … “Who else would Democrats let in?” the
video asks. An image of Bracamontes smiling face re-appears before being
replaced by text, “President Donald Trump
and Republicans are making America safe again.”
Activating voters' fears is a long tradition
in Republican political ads, and 2018 is no different.
The Democrats have even put together a
compilation of GOP fear mongering
ads going back to Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and even
Mitt Romney. But not to be left out, the
ads also showed the famous 1964 LBJ, Cold War “Daisy Girl” ad. This ad
shows a small little girl, no talking in the ad, just a slow close up of the girl with
the flower. Then the ad finishes with the mushroom cloud of a nuclear
explosion. In the 1964 campaign, this ad
was to make people fear the Soviet Union and it implied that LBJ wouldn’t let
that happen.
Yes, there are those Republicans who obviously think
that words just don’t matter. They
rationalize their support for this president because of his judge choices and/or
the tax cuts. They also insist that
domestic terrorism is unrelated to the normalization of serious racist
rhetoric. They remain silent, believing
that they have no moral responsibility for dealing with this brand of politics.
Because of these individuals, perhaps this
would be a reason to follow the suggestion of the American author, Mr. Max
Boot. He has said that this is a reasonable reason
to vote against each and every Republican on the ballot.
We have not seen one individual Republican
candidate, let alone any House or Senate leaders, denounce this ad, or to
insist that Trump take it down. Silence
is therefore, total assent. Also
therefore, each assent deserves the ire of all decent voters.
White House staffers who insist that they be treated like
staffers of previous administrations, you know, “thanked for their service”, they need to understand that they will share
the blame for a very dark chapter in American history.
Historically, improper political ads have
gone from LBJ’s Daisy girl & nuclear war, to the GOP’s military Swift Boat ads against John Kerry and the murderer, Willie
Horton who was implicated in an ad against Democratic
Presidential candidate Michael
Dukakis in 1974.
These have become the staple for presidential
campaigns.
However, regarding this Latest Trump ad
featuring Luis Bracamontes, even the lame-duck Senator, Jeff Flake (R-AZ) stated “This is just a new low in campaigning. It’s
sickening”.
But denouncing the ad was not enough for the retiring Senator, Bob Corker (R-TN). Before the ad hit, he
rebuked Trump without even mentioning his name. Per Sen. Corker: “We all know what’s happening. It’s all about revving up the base,
using fear to stimulate people to come out at the polls.”
But these two
US Senators need to demand that the ad come down and they should try to
convince their colleagues on the ballot to denounce it. If the colleagues refuse, Flake and Corker
should pull any endorsements from them.
I personally appreciate the condemnation of any
Republicans such as Sens, Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, but they need to do more.
Yes, the
GOP has sunk to new lows, but as bad as this is, they have not yet hit
bottom.
Unless soundly beaten in the midterms,
Republicans will get even worse. In
fact, they will probably get worse regardless of whether they win or lose.
Copyright G. Ater 2018
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