{"id":6828,"date":"2006-03-10T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2006-03-10T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T20:05:36","slug":"fancy-ford-and-dreadful-dole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fancy-ford-and-dreadful-dole\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy Ford and Dreadful Dole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) is running a fairly competitive Senate campaign in Tennessee, though recent polls show him <a href=\"http:\/\/rasmussenreports.com\/2006\/State%20Polls\/February%202006\/Tennessee%20Senate%20February.htm\">trailing a bit<\/a> against the three Republicans running for the state&#8217;s open seat (Bill Frist is retiring).<\/p>\n<p>Ford, however, clearly has made the Republicans a little nervous. Ford hit the airwaves recently, for example, incorporating the controversy surrounding the Dubai Ports World deal into his Senate campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordfortennessee.com\/\">advertising<\/a>. A week later, Republicans have responded with this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fancyford.com\/\">Fancy Ford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The site, created by Sen. Elizabeth Dole&#8217;s (R-N.C.) National Republican Senatorial Committee, refers to the Dem candidate as &#8220;Fancy Ford&#8221; and includes pictures of Ford and expensive restaurants, hotels, cigars, meals, and Playboy bunnies. Ford is African American &#8212; and the Playboy bunnies are all white.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your perspective, Dole&#8217;s smear is either a subtle or direct form of character assassination. As <a href=\"http:\/\/jesseberney.com\/?p=95\">Jesse Berney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/theplank?pid=10547\">Jason Zengerle<\/a> noted, the NRSC is basically portraying Ford as a black pimp.<\/p>\n<p>If only Dole and the NSRC were capable of feeling shame.<\/p>\n<p><i>Post Script<\/i>: For that matter, it&#8217;s March and already the NSRC is dabbling in racism. If these guys are this desperate now, I shudder to think about what they&#8217;ll stoop to in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) is running a fairly competitive Senate campaign in Tennessee, though recent polls show him trailing a bit against the three Republicans running for the state&#8217;s open seat (Bill Frist is retiring). Ford, however, clearly has made the Republicans a little nervous. Ford hit the airwaves recently, for example, incorporating the controversy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}