Monday, August 04, 2008

But, Which "-ism' Is It?

We talked about the McCain campaign's Paris Hilton/Barack Obama/Britney Spears miscegenation sandwich ad last week. We were mostly all in agreement that the ad was not only tasteless, but racist (hell, even Kathy Hilton agrees with us). Now, we need to revisit McCain's other ad "The One":



Again, it's tasteless and dumb and poorly edited, but is it also racist? David Gergen thinks so. Others have suggested it tries to paint Obama as the anti-Christ? What do you think? We'll get into a discussion about the ad during our fourth hour (5 p.m. EST) today.