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Joel McNally: Host of right-wing radio takes political ads lower
By Joel McNally
The Capital Times: Editorial
Joel McNally of Milwaukee writes a weekly column for The Capital Times. E-mail: [email protected]
Published: February 4, 2006
"In 1964, a racist governor from Georgia named Lester Maddox wielded an axe handle to chase away African-Americans who wanted to order fried chicken at his segregated restaurant.
"Now, in 2006, a governor from Wisconsin named Jim Doyle is threatening to bash in the heads of innocent African-American schoolchildren to prevent them from attending choice schools in Milwaukee.
"Tell Gov. Doyle to stop dressing up in a hooded bed sheet and burning fiery crosses on the playgrounds of private schools. Tell the governor that, unlike those lousy public schools, private schools should get unlimited piles of tax funds without any public accountability."
Just when you thought political advertising couldn't get any worse, it got taken over by mean-spirited, right-wing talk radio.
A series of unusually ugly political attack ads have been running on Milwaukee radio with especially heavy rotation on radio stations in the African-American community. The ads compare Jim Doyle to virulently racist Southern governors who opposed school integration.
The ad above is fictional, but only slightly. The actual ads really do compare Doyle to Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Arkansas Gov. Orville Faubus, racist Southern governors who openly opposed allowing black students to attend school with whites.
The ads use the language of the civil rights movement to falsely portray Doyle, a progressive Democrat, as a modern-day version of some of the worst racists in history.
The ads were created by Charlie Sykes, a right-wing radio talk show host who is not known for using his own show to advocate for civil rights, school integration, affirmative action or any other serious effort to reduce the vicious effects of racism in our society. ...
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Joel McNally: Host of right-wing radio takes political ads lower
By Joel McNally
The Capital Times: Editorial
Joel McNally of Milwaukee writes a weekly column for The Capital Times. E-mail: [email protected]
Published: February 4, 2006
"In 1964, a racist governor from Georgia named Lester Maddox wielded an axe handle to chase away African-Americans who wanted to order fried chicken at his segregated restaurant.
"Now, in 2006, a governor from Wisconsin named Jim Doyle is threatening to bash in the heads of innocent African-American schoolchildren to prevent them from attending choice schools in Milwaukee.
"Tell Gov. Doyle to stop dressing up in a hooded bed sheet and burning fiery crosses on the playgrounds of private schools. Tell the governor that, unlike those lousy public schools, private schools should get unlimited piles of tax funds without any public accountability."
Just when you thought political advertising couldn't get any worse, it got taken over by mean-spirited, right-wing talk radio.
A series of unusually ugly political attack ads have been running on Milwaukee radio with especially heavy rotation on radio stations in the African-American community. The ads compare Jim Doyle to virulently racist Southern governors who opposed school integration.
The ad above is fictional, but only slightly. The actual ads really do compare Doyle to Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Arkansas Gov. Orville Faubus, racist Southern governors who openly opposed allowing black students to attend school with whites.
The ads use the language of the civil rights movement to falsely portray Doyle, a progressive Democrat, as a modern-day version of some of the worst racists in history.
The ads were created by Charlie Sykes, a right-wing radio talk show host who is not known for using his own show to advocate for civil rights, school integration, affirmative action or any other serious effort to reduce the vicious effects of racism in our society. ...
[Click link above for the rest of the TCT newspaper article.]