Rove Protégé Behind Racy Tennessee Ad

[CatWoman]

(CBS/AP) A protégé of White House political guru Karl Rove produced the controversial Republican National Committee ad targeting Tennessee Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr., that some have called racist, CBS News has learned.

The ad, in which a white woman with blonde hair and bare shoulders looks into the camera and whispers, "Harold, call me," and then winks, was produced by Scott Howell, the former political director for Rove's consulting firm in Texas.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/politics/main2125324.shtml

[KingFlorez]

1. Should have known

Only a Rove clone would pull a stunt like this.

[TomClash]

6. Well, Rove is an Atwater clone nt

[cautiouslywaiting]

2. Figures.

This is no surprise.

[twilight_sailing]

3. a quote from the link

"Howell is no stranger to controversy. He was media consultant for Sen. Saxby Chambliss when his campaign ran an ad showing a picture of then-Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, alongside Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."

Imagine that.

[RevCheesehead]

4. I knew it'd be either Rove or Roger Ailles.

Same shit, different pot.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

5. Why does this not surprise me???

Anyone who knows the history of KKKarl knows he got his start here in Illinois in 1970 pulling dirty tricks against Alan Dixon..

He and minions are nothing but f*cktards!!!!

[AspenRose]

7. Sur-prise, sur-prise

x(

[lapfog_1]

8. Read this article about this POS in the nation

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/blumenthal

Apparently, Scott's been a busy boy slinging mud all over the place.

[babylonsister]

9. OMG, he's CLONING himself? Arggghhhhh! nt

[fooj]

10. Huffington Post says it's George Allen's ad man...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/george-allen-just-anothe_b_32557.html

Same guy?

[UTUSN]

11. Why are ATWATER's spawn willing to be his proteges in dirty tricks but

are NOT willing to be affected by his deathbed repentence?

[emulatorloo]

12. because they aren't dying yet, and the RNC money is too damn good

for them to be moral.