Irrationality

*sigh*

Not only has McCain’s latest celebrity attack ad gotten goofier, it’s also starting to reveal the particularly distasteful “white women like the black guy” tactic that Republicans have used in the past to scare voters away from African American candidates.

Oh, what moronic garbage. Here is the "racially offensive" ad:



Alright, so here is the racial/gender breakdown of the ad:

We are shown:

Black Males (other than Obama himself): 0
Black Females: 1
Non-Black Males: 4
Non-Black Females: 6

Of the Non-Black females we are shown a chanting middle age lady old enough to be Obama's mother, and one teenage Taco Bell employee working the drivethru saying that people have been buying a lot of Taco Bell.

Gee, how outrageous.

Only liberals could look at this ad and think about black men raping white women. And, of course, it is the rest of dumb hill billy America who have a problem.

And, for godsakes, the "Dreamy" meme was created by the media and the Obama camp itself, or have we already forgotten what makes Chris Matthews leg tingle?

UPDATE:

More dastardly advertising! Here is a campaign ad that juxtaposes images of Obama with those of a good half dozen young white women.



The horror.

UPDATE x2:

I think my point should be pretty self evident, but no one ever got rich counting on the quick uptake of ideologues. Obviously, if the mere juxtaposing of images of a black man and a white woman is enough to re-kindle anti-miscegenist tendencies, then one would expect Obama to avoid such images like the plague. The claim is made that the actual content and context of an ad is unimportant as it is the images themselves that cause the supposed reaction. (A reaction which, if true, one should be able to find evidence of in experimental psychological data, but which seems to not exist.) However, if the context and content of the ad is unimportant than the exact same (supposed) reaction should be expected from an Obama ad that shows images of himself juxtaposed with white women. I guess we are supposed to believe content and context only work for mass audiences when the ad makers are Democrats?

When anyone runs an anti-Obama ad with this as its content...



...then and only then can you come crying to me.