Radio Station Suspends (Republican Candidate's) Pro-English Ad

[Khephra]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A radio station temporarily suspended broadcasts of a commercial for a Republican congressional candidate who rails against illegal immigration but then signs off in Spanish, including the salutation "Yo, Gringo!"

WSJS-AM said it made the decision over the holiday weekend because it was unclear if the sponsor was clearly identified in the otherwise English ad for candidate Vernon Robinson. The ad contends the prevalence of Spanish spoken in the United States can make English-speaking Americans feel like they're in "The Twilight Zone."

Only the final line is in Spanish. After "Yo, Gringo!" -- a contemptuous Spanish term for Americans_ the rest translates to "This episode of 'The Twilight Zone' was paid for by Robinson for Congress."

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-gringo-ad,0,3784136.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[struggle4progress]

1. Uhhhh ...

:puke:

[yardwork]

2. I wish they hadn't pulled it.

People ought to hear what these bigots have to say.

[Voltaire99]

3. It will be a great day when...

. . . when America is so awash in new gene combinations that you can't tell the race of one person from the next.

[msmcghee]

4. Then people . .

. .will adopt rigid dress codes . . or hair styles . . or they'll probably dye their skin a particular color so they can define their membership in one "club" or another. They'll then proclaim that only members of their club know the truth and all other clubs have intellectually inferior members who don't deserve the same rights as they do.

Then to cement that all in place they'll find that members of their "chosen" club all have a belief in a similar creation myth and are therefor ordained by their "God" to be in control of all the world's resources.

Of course, they will pay members of the other clubs for the menial labor that they will so eagerly provide.