The Clinton campaign today apologized to Barack Obama for what it called “an inadvertent slip” in one of its ads that ran during the run up to Super Tuesday.
The ad portrayed Hillary Clinton walking and greeting voters on a street in a small New Hampshire town.
However, photo enhancement techniques employed by bloggers zeroed in on a house down the street shown in the background. Then, using similar technology developed by analysts at the National Reconnaissance Office for our spy satellites, it was discovered that the house in question had a racist lawn ornament – a small, black jockey known in the lawn ornament trade as “Jocko.”
“This was a clear and deliberate attempt to bring race into the campaign,” said blogger Ann Althouse.
“It’s almost as blatant as subliminally using part of the word N***er in an otherwise harmless ad.”
The Clinton camp’s apology was swift. “Frankly, I don’t see a damn thing,” said campaign aide Harold Ickes.
“But we’ve been beat up so much on this issue we may as well apologize now and get it over with before someone really decides to make an issue of it.”
Althouse said her next goal was to find clues to who really is behind 9/11 in John McCain’s commercials.
7:06 pm
Ann would definitely lose at the Wheel of Fortune.
People who annoy you…
N_ggers
7:11 pm
This is a funny story. No matter how careful you are, when you’re a candidate for the Presidency, there’s always somebody out there ready to catch you on the slightest mistake. This particular mistake is about as innocent as they come.
10:08 pm
[...] Right Wing Nut House: CLINTON COMMERCIAL TAGGED “RACIST” [...]
11:28 pm
A piece written by Sean Wilentz recently appeared in the New Republic. Wilentz is no conservative, by anyone’s stretch of the imagination. In the article, Wilentz claims that the “racist” hits that Hillary is taking is actually a campaign tactic of the Obama campaign. He refers to it as a campaign-within-a-campaign.
I have no person admiration for Hillary. I think she is as big a political opportunist as her husband, and just as shady. But I think she has taken an unfair amount of hits from the media, a point Wilentz makes, while the Obamassiah has been basically given a pass on everything from his “unusal” meteoric rise in politics to his association with Tony Rezko and Mike Bauer to his friendship with know terroists, William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn.
But if there is a God (and I believe there is) Tony Rezko and Patrick Fitzgerald will be Obama’s Waterloo.
One other thought: why is Hillary hanging on by the skin of her teeth? Does she know something about the Rezko deal that will kill the Obamania? Has Hillary had her goons digging in trashcans again for information that will destroy the Second Coming? Why is Hillary’s campaign manager asking questions now about Rezko when she has Norman Hus to her credit?
Is Humpty Dumpty about to have a great fall only to be so broken no amount of political glue can repair him?
Just a thought.
11:37 pm
“Inadvertent slip,” eh? Well, even if the ad has been pulled, it’s still out there and people are talking, y’know?
“Ah, Monsieur Obama, pleeeeeeease forgive me. I am sooooo sorry I accidentally crushed your big toe with my slipper. I apologize and won’t do it again.”
12:09 am
And she felt the need to bring up the bogus “rats” charge.
I assume she thought Huckabee’s floating cross was intentional too.
12:14 am
“Althouse said her next goal was to find clues to who really is behind 9/11 in John McCain’s commercials.”
Really? Where?
1:11 am
This has to be a joke. The Jocko is based on a hero of the American Revolution, much like Crispus Attics. Jocko refers to Jocko Graves, a 12 year old free black who wanted to join the Revolution. Washington turned him down, but allowed the boy to tend to his horses. Jocko froze to death as he held the horses and a lantern for Washington as he crossed the Delaware. Upon finding the boy still holding the horses, Washington commissioned a statue in his honor at Mount Vernon called The Faithful Groomsman.
12:11 pm
i don’t think it takes much to imagine if they will do this to one of their own (billary) as to what degree they will attempt to do it to a republican facing obama. race will be an issue in this election, not because of mccain but because of the left net knutz. just you wait and see what they pull out of their magic hats…
2:18 am
This woman is crazy. I don’t know how some people can come up with this stuff. All you can do is laugh. I think what scares me more is that she is a law professor. Good thing you don’t really learn anything in law school.