Yesterday, Nevada’s Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle pulled slightly ahead of Harry Reid in the polls. But, regardless of what happens on November 2nd, she’s already won one contest—against some pretty tough competition.
Angle’s first two race-baiting, anti-immigrant ads (here and here) made her an early favorite in Salon’s Baity Awards for Excellence in the Field of Race-baiting, but it was this latest video that secured her victory in the category of “Best Attempt at Convincing People That Mexican Immigrants Are Drug-running Cartel Assassins.”
Transcript after the jump.
This has got to be the most overtly racist piece of political shit I’ve ever seen. Waves of scowling Mexican thugs (with tattoos! and bandanas! the horror!) force little white girls, who just want to go to school, to live in fear. Meanwhile, Harry Reid is siding with President Obama and the President of Mexico (two more brown men!) while Sharron Angle sits in the sun and drinks coffee at the kitchen table of home and family and all that is good. She’s even driven home the not-so-subtle point further with a new website called The Harry Reid Amnesty Game with the tagline “Fun for the Entire Illegal Family.”
What We Missed
This tweet has been a favorite today. (via)
California Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman admits that she would have her undocumented housekeeper deported to win the election. It’s hypocritical and heartless.
Lambda Literary has a round-up of ten LGBT books for teens that tackle the topics of bullying and suicide.
Campus Progress reports on a study of college sex columnists.
Some good news: Three months into the Arizona anti-immigrant law, there have been no arrests. The bad news: there has been a lot of fear, intimidation, anti-immigrant sentiment and many immigrants have left the state altogether.