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More proof that the GOP is chock full of racists, rednecks, obstructionists, anarchists, and assassins.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/senate-candidate-under-fire-for-very-disturbing-super-bowl-ad/
More proof that the GOP is chock full of racists, rednecks, obstructionists, anarchists, and assassins.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/senate-candidate-under-fire-for-very-disturbing-super-bowl-ad/
Amid spring-loaded babies and Ferris Bueller flash-backs, there was one Super Bowl ad that had few people laughing. While it ran only in Michigan, U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstras campaign ad featuring an Asian woman speaking broken English is being criticized around the country today.
In the ad, Hoekstra, a former U.S. House Representative, dubs his Democratic Senate rival Debbie Stabenow Debbie Spend It Now for supporting policies that cause American jobs and investments to be outsourced to China.
Debbie spend so much American money, you borrow more and more from us, says a young Asian woman riding her bike through rice paddies at the beginning of the 30-second ad. Youre economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you Debbie Spend It Now.
It is the racial undertones of the ad that have critics up in arms. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., the chairwoman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said she was appalled by the ad and called for Hoekstra to take it down and apologize.
I am appalled at the Hoekstra campaigns offensive and insensitive Super Bowl ad that relies heavily on negative Asian stereotypes, Chu said in a statement. Politics of fear and division will never bring the American people together around the solutions they so desperately need, and I am calling on former Rep. Hoekstra to take down this atrocious ad and issue an apology immediately.
The Asian and Pacific Islander American Votes Michigan chapter also condemned the ad as very disturbing.
It is very disturbing that Mr. Hoekstras campaign chose to use harmful and negative stereotypes that intrinsically encourage anti-Asian sentiment, the group said in a statement Sunday...