Rachel Maddow: Dumb New Anti-HCR Ad Uses Race

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show w/ RACHEL MADDOW - 7 December 2009: Rachel discusses a new anti-health care ad that plays the race card.

MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL: "You know, when your producers sent this to me - and I have to say you have the best producers in the business - but my first thought was 'they haven't done enough research, this must be a joke, this must be a spoof ad.' No one could possibly seriously be attempting to enter into public conversation on an issue as important as health care reform with something like this. It is.. I think obscene is maybe the best word I can use to describe something that really, I think, sucks, as I would say, sucks all the rhetorical air out of the room. We now can't have a conversation about, either structural racism, which exists in the health care system, the ways in which race might be motivating some of the critiques of Barack Obama, nor can we even have a decent conversation about what's wrong with the assertions about what the health reform plan is, because it's such an appalling message."

[MadMaddie]

1. It's as if they have lost their collective minds!!

The ad is pathetic!

[Hulk]

2. The right wing can do one thing well...

mislead, muddle and confuse the American public. God...are we such an ignorant nation that we will fall to this smoke and screen nonsense ....again??

Give me strength. The right wing is damn good at pulling shit out of the air or flowers out of their ass...and we all suffer as a result of their cleverness.

[CrunchMaster]

3. Ad is not a joke...Ad maker is just stoopid

Not much else really to say. Just Republicans being Republicans.

[Demeter]

4. That Was Bizarre

It's like talking to stones.

[hmorehead]

5. I'm apalled