{"id":5515,"date":"2004-02-27T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/27\/hue-cry-part-ii.html"},"modified":"2004-02-27T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T00:27:46","slug":"hue_cry_part_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/27\/hue_cry_part_ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Hue & Cry, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missouri Republicans are up in arms after a media company backed out of a deal for a billboard along I-70 in St Louis’ predominently white suburbs. The billboard showed a picture of a white man against an American flag, with the legend, “Missouri Democrats have a plan. You are not a part of it.”<\/p>\n

The GOP called the ad “fact-stating and informative,” but local Democrats called the billboard “race-baiting.”<\/p>\n

Another case of the GOP using wedge issues to try to stir up racial trouble and appeal to their prejudiced constituencies, right? Just what we’ve come to expect. I’m sure that sort of exploitation of race will be roundly condemned, and rightfully so, by Terry McAuliffe and the DNC.<\/p>\n

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Oh, except <\/a>it was the Democrats <\/i>who tried to put the billboard up. And it had a picture of a black <\/i>man against an American flag, with the legend, “Missouri Republicans <\/i>have a plan. You are not a part of it.” And the billboard was to go up in a predominently black <\/i>areas of St Louis and Kansas City. Etc.<\/p>\n

But I’m sure McAuliffe will denounce it anyway. After all, he’s always quick to condemn racial insensitivity and fomenting of wedges, right?<\/p>\n

(via Ipse Dixit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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