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September 09, 2013 10:25 AM UTC
23 Comments
This is unfortunate, but I seriously doubt it was intentional. I could see the puppetmaster image coming up innocently, especially in Bloomberg's circumstance.
Agree.
More interesting to me is that Pueblo Freedom and Rights apparently couldn't find any checkmark clip art and had to resort to a misappropriation of the square root symbol.
Victor Head an unemployed plumber got 20,000 for the recall. I wonder who gave him the money.
It's so cool how Republicans think fellow Republicans never do anything "intentionally."
And I'm sure they're "nice", too.
Yeah, the Jewish puppetmaster thing is so easy to understand coming up "innocently," like when the Nazis did it.
Can't see the forest for the trees, haters, because you're all trees yourselves.
I thought http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_Treadstone controlled everything.
Sorry to break it to you, but at most newspapers the ad people and the news people live on different planets. As long as the advertiser okays the proof and absent profanity. the ad goes.
In a perfect world, several sets of eyes, from both advertising and news, see each page before it's released. But with all the staff cuts throughout every paper's staffs, a perfect world isn't even withiin shouting distance.
To be fair, I'm Jewish and even I don't think the intent was ant-Semitic. That's because I know so many people under 50 who have no historic knowledge whatsoever. Zilch. While most do know about Nazis, the holocaust etc. ( we have pop culture, movies etc. to thank for that) I bet very few know about the puppetmaster cartoon connection. I think it's about Them New York Liberals buying pols, not about Jews controlling the world.
No one will denigrate you for that opinion, but let me say you're giving them the benefit of the doubt, and they would never give that to you as a Democrat.
Sorry. I can't help it. I was trained to be a GOP ass hat.
oops meant "wasn't" trained to be a GOP ass hat.
I have to agree with my friend bullshit!, here. I don't think it much matters if it came up "innocently." Those who forget history…
I think as progressives we're a little too quick to forgive ignorance. I'm absolutely certain that Representative Saine's silent Popeyes' protest in defense of her favorite stereotype was a "completely innocent joke" as far as she was concerned. The problem is that (whether she was fully aware or not) her protest was based on centuries of slavery then civil oppression using the very stereotypes she so "innocently" champions.
Enough is enough. I won't let ignorance stand as an excuse.
Wait Lynn Bartels says it's not a story?
Well never mind then!
</snark>
Sorry Pols — Fail!
Someone pulling someone's strings is an extremely common political motif. This is no more anti-Semitic, than it is anti-feminist (a woman being controlled by a man . . . )
As a liberal, it really troubles me when other liberals act stupid sensitive, like the caricature the GOPers would like to paint. Peter and the wolf, people …
Just let it go, the ad is anti-Giron that's all!!
I guess I must have paid attention in history class, because I got it right away and knew it wasn't cool. I guess after Vicki Marble it's tough to be shocked anymore, but I don't personally think it's cool.
Like many, I didn't associate the ad to the anti-Semitic past imagery. I'm not willing to call it unintentional – I don't know – but neither should we give them a free pass.
An "oops – we didn't know the history of such imagery" would be a good gesture on the part of the ad producers.
Agreed.
On this planet, PR…?? In this century??… not gonna happen.
I didn't say I thought it would happen – only that it would be a good gesture. C'mon – gain some rep from enlightening folks on the history of this imagery, act like decent people and still get the publicity (and maybe more) for a pro-recall position? A rational campaign might jump on it – not that I'm accusing them of that level of competence.
yup..it has been a long time since you could accuse any of the GOP "deciders" of being overly brilliant..
The Republican party thinks with its' Amgdala…not much sublety there.
Amygdala, as it were.
Ken Gordon is entitled to his opinion, but does he have to recite the exact opposition message? Off reservation as usual.