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Reference to the anti Bush ads - back when we were civil
Posted on: January 30, 2018 at 14:49:25 CT
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-11-02/news/0011020277_1_naacp-national-voter-fund-hate-crimes-bill-ad
But Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are hoping that it won't be this year--which is why they aren't saying much about the despicable NAACP ads running against George W. Bush. The ads, in grainy black and white, show a pickup truck with a chain dragging across a dirt road. The voice-over is by Renee Mullins, the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to his death two years ago chained to a pickup in Jasper, Texas.
Mullins accuses Gov. Bush of refusing to support a new hate-crimes bill, saying "It was like my father was killed all over again." The unmistakable message: Bush condones lynching. What the ad doesn't say is that two of the men who killed her father have been sentenced to death by a Texas court for the murder, while the third serves a life sentence. What's more, the hate-crimes bill she supports would not have added one whit to their punishment. Nor does the ad mention the presidential election. It doesn't have to; it's airing in battleground states with large black populations, exactly the places where a large black turnout might tip the election to Gore.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/us/the-2000-campaign-the-ad-campaign-emotional-appeal-urges-blacks-to-vote.html
and here is how Salon picks up on it and embelishes
https://www.salon.com/2000/10/16/byrds/
Yeah, it's fine to incite hatred against white men, IAM.
Your team lost an election and the world is going to end and changed overnight.
But Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are hoping that it won't be this year--which is why they aren't saying much about the despicable NAACP ads running against George W. Bush. The ads, in grainy black and white, show a pickup truck with a chain dragging across a dirt road. The voice-over is by Renee Mullins, the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to his death two years ago chained to a pickup in Jasper, Texas.
Mullins accuses Gov. Bush of refusing to support a new hate-crimes bill, saying "It was like my father was killed all over again." The unmistakable message: Bush condones lynching. What the ad doesn't say is that two of the men who killed her father have been sentenced to death by a Texas court for the murder, while the third serves a life sentence. What's more, the hate-crimes bill she supports would not have added one whit to their punishment. Nor does the ad mention the presidential election. It doesn't have to; it's airing in battleground states with large black populations, exactly the places where a large black turnout might tip the election to Gore.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/us/the-2000-campaign-the-ad-campaign-emotional-appeal-urges-blacks-to-vote.html
and here is how Salon picks up on it and embelishes
https://www.salon.com/2000/10/16/byrds/
Yeah, it's fine to incite hatred against white men, IAM.
Your team lost an election and the world is going to end and changed overnight.
Please explain why this message is being reported.
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Reference to the anti Bush ads - back when we were civil - 90Tiger MU - 1/30 14:49:25
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