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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 04:11 AM Jan 2012

Ron Paul Supporters Release Racist Ad Depicting Jon Huntsman As Maoist Soldier - video

America has only experienced the first of many primary contests this week, and already a candidate for “most offensive campaign ad” has come to the fore, and with gusto. The group “New Hampshire Liberty 4 Paul”– supporting Rep. Ron Paul– has come out swinging against Jon Huntsman for his ties to China, asking whether he is the “Manchurian Candidate” and whether he lacks “American values” for having lived in Beijing.

The ad begins asking of Huntsman, “The Manchurian Candidate,” “What’s he hiding?” It features “traditional” Chinese music and clips of Huntsman doing things in China: speaking Mandarin, taking interviews from Chinese press, walking around in China– you get the idea. It then asks a series of questions during the montage like, “American values, or Chinese?” and “Weak on China? Wonder why?” It also takes a detour to slam him for being Mormon (“A man of faith?”) before the coup de grace, a doctored photo of Huntsman in what appears to be Maoist military garb. Essentially, it makes “Willie Horton” look like Will.I.Am’s “Yes We Can” ad.

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Full article and VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/ron-paul-supporters-release-racist-ad-depicting-jon-huntsman-as-maoist-soldier/





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Ron Paul Supporters Release Racist Ad Depicting Jon Huntsman As Maoist Soldier - video (Original Post) Tx4obama Jan 2012 OP
Yee-HAH! This could get downright interesting. How long until Godwin's law shows up? saras Jan 2012 #1
Ron Paul is using racism? I am flabergasted! Behind the Aegis Jan 2012 #2
The ad shows their level of maturity and judgement. nt Kahuna Jan 2012 #3
Xenophobia is not the same thing as racism. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2012 #4
It's a close cousin. MADem Jan 2012 #7
that is weird - Douglas Carpenter Jan 2012 #5
It's a pretty disgusting ad. AtomicKitten Jan 2012 #6
It's an appalling, disgusting ad... Spazito Jan 2012 #8
per standard procedure, Paul will claim nobody in his campaign was connected Blue_Tires Jan 2012 #9
Not racist. Xenophobic. cthulu2016 Jan 2012 #10
But why bother? cojoel Jan 2012 #11
Jon Huntsman denounces ad, see DU link below Tx4obama Jan 2012 #12
 

saras

(6,670 posts)
1. Yee-HAH! This could get downright interesting. How long until Godwin's law shows up?
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 05:06 AM
Jan 2012

Maybe they could be egged on into some REAL lunacy before the election...

Behind the Aegis

(54,032 posts)
2. Ron Paul is using racism? I am flabergasted!
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 05:16 AM
Jan 2012

Oh wait, no I am not. I am only flabergasted by people who support him, including some so-called "liberals/progressives."

MADem

(135,425 posts)
7. It's a close cousin.
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 07:00 AM
Jan 2012

xenophobia
noun racism, nationalism, bigotry, isolationism, racial hatred, ethnocentrism, jingoism, racialism, racial intolerance, ethnocentricity a wave of xenophobia

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia

Spazito

(50,549 posts)
8. It's an appalling, disgusting ad...
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 09:21 AM
Jan 2012

put out in support of an appalling, disgusting, racist, homophobic, antisemitic, misogynist POS.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
9. per standard procedure, Paul will claim nobody in his campaign was connected
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 09:47 AM
Jan 2012

of course he won't disassociate himself from it, either...

He's already explained to the world he can't figure out one of those newfangled tweeters, why would anyone explain how the yewtubes work to him??

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