U.S. campaign ad critical of Canada yanked

[CHIMO]

U.S. campaign ad critical of Canada yanked
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | 8:49 PM ET
CBC News

A campaign ad in a bitter Tennessee senate race that took a swipe at Canada has been pulled, though a Republican Party spokesperson said Wednesday the decision had nothing to do with the controversy it had generated on both sides of the border.

The race between Republican Bob Corker and Democrat Harold Ford Jr. is seen as key to helping determine which party takes control of the Senate come Nov. 7. The battle has led to a series of allegations and counterattacks in campaign ads and on political talk shows in the U.S.

Actors in one "man on the street" ad take turns as apologists for Ford's alleged shortcomings in policy and in character, with one expressing the view that Democrats and Canada are both soft on the issue of global security.

"Canada can take care of North Korea," the man in the ad says. "They're not busy."

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/25/tennessee-canada-ad.html

GOP election ad taunts Canada

But the Tory complaint may have more to do with politics up north than it does with rescuing Canada’s reputation in Tennessee.

The Bush administration is very unpopular in Canada, especially in urban areas where the Tories need to curry support if they hope to win a majority government.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s opponents have been eager to exploit his closeness to the U.S. president for their own political gain as they approach the next election.

Hoping to pound away at his support in Ontario and Quebec, they have dubbed him “Bush-lite,” and railed against the softwood lumber deal as a “sellout” in the hope that those labels stick.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1161814210127&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News

Portraying Canada as soft would surely bring in some votes.

[saigon68]

1. they have dubbed him “Bush-lite,

Bwa Bwa HA HA HA HA


He's actually

CHIMP - LITE

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Blame Canada!

Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents,
They just want to fart and curse. Should we blame the government, or blame society, or should we blame the images on tv No!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada

With all their beady little eyes,
their flapping heads so full of lies
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault! Don't blame me, for my son Stan, He saw the darn cartoon, and now he's off to
join the klan! And my boy Eric once, had my picture on his shelf, but now when I see him, he tells me to fuck myself!

Well, Blame Canada!

It seems that everything's gone wrong since
Canada came along
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada! They're not even a real country anyway. My son could of been a doctor or a lawyer, it's a true, Instead he burned up like a piggie on a barbecue> Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire, or the doctor who allowed him to expire. Heck no!
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
With all their hockey hubaloo and that bitch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada!

The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

[SquireJons]

4. My thoughts exactly. n/t

[Kagemusha]

3. Uh no, that ad had more wrong with it than re: Canada

I genuinely believe taking it down had nothing to do with that country. The race-baiting, on the other hand...

[pinerow]

5. So let's see if I got this straight...

They can yank an ad that disparages a predominantly white country(Canada), but it does not get pulled because of its overtly racist obertones...:wtf: