Eight term incumbent Rep. Mary Bono Mack is running the above ad against upstart challenger Dr. Raul Ruiz. The New York Times recently called the race in California’s 36th District “one to watch.” Bono Mack (who is married to Rep. Connie Mack of Florida) is trailing in the most recent polls, and looks to be pulling out all the stops. Next up: Raul Ruiz hates apple pie — and your freedoms!
(h/t Max Blumenthal)
A masterpiece in the cynical manipulation of visual and auditory effects to imprint associations of the words “radical” and “Palestinian” with one another and with danger, violence and terror.
I recall in the course of research into Russian history going through microfilmed issues of the tsarist journal Novoe vremia (New Times), which catered to conservative readers. I was struck by the recurrence of expressions like “Jew-terrorist” and “Jew-revolutionary.” In Russia in those days Jews were automatically perceived as violent revolutionaries and terrorists, just like Palestinians are nowadays. (Of course, some Jews really were revolutionaries and terrorists.)
Mary is a demonizer, a hater – yes we know this.
But what I wanna know is why the heck is she clinging on to her dead husband’s surname when she married a Mack after Bono’s death? And her new husband agrees to this?
I never heard of such a thing!
Except, of course, in politics.
And we call it ‘milking the name’ for votes cuz your policies suck eggs and a celebrity name is about all you’ve got.
A pox on Mary and her goddam despicable anti Semitic video! Yes it’s ‘anti Semitic’ to demonize a whole Semitic people!
It’s sick sick sick how many of our politicians are real nazis!
I know nothing about Mr. Ruiz. Of course, that doesn’t stop me from speculating…
I wonder if a lot of voters SUPPORT someone who is a protestor against the status quo? A voter who has been foreclosed, and has seen his blue-chip retirement fund turn black and blue might ask,
“Mr. Ruiz, did you protest against Wall Street? If you didn’t, you should have!”
Even the Tea Party benefited by pretending to be a grass-roots group of outraged citizens, rebels against the Establishment, even though in reality the Tea Party is just the same old Republican loons.
Here’s a soft-focus pro-Raul-Ruiz TV advertisement, appealing for support for Dr. Ruiz, an MD with graduate degrees from Harvard. The endorsers are young Hispanics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DR_KDr6C3Y&feature=related
Here’s an anti-Mary Bono Mack advertisement, which is a low-key negative ad, that doesn’t mention Ruiz’s name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVI_YoFT8gw&feature=related