Last night I got together with a couple of other DCDL folks to watch the Mississippi returns (yet another smashing victory that Hillary Clinton says doesn’t count). Naturally at some point the conversation turned to Clinton surrogate Geraldine Ferraro’s recent repeated comments about how lucky Barack Obama was to be born black man and how little Clinton had done to distance herself from them. The political analyst at the table suggested that this was part of a strategy to reach out to a certain segment of the white blue-collar vote in Pennsylvania, people who feel resentful of affirmative action. Today I see that Will Bunch is calling it the Archie Bunker strategy.
If Clinton really wants to win over those voters, I say she should hire the guy who made this ad in 1990:
I doubt it will improve her numbers among Democrats in North Carolina, but then North Carolina doesn’t count, right?
Update (4:03pm): Wow. She probably actually does have “the guy” in her contact list. It turns out one of the people involved in making the Helms ad was Dick Morris, who has worked for the Clintons extensively, though he’s not now:
Helms media man Alex Castellanos accused [Morris] of grabbing credit for a TV spot Castellanos had made, the infamous ad showing a pair of white hands crumpling a job-rejection notice while a voice said, “You needed that job … but they had to give it to a minority.”
Wow, Dick Morris has spent the last ten years vilifying both Clintons, but especially Hillary. To toss off “Morris has done a lot of work for them” is insulting to your readers. Shame on you.
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Wow, Dick Morris has spent the last ten years vilifying both Clintons, but especially Hillary. To toss off “Morris has done a lot of work for them” is insulting to your readers. Shame on you.
—d2 • 6:09 pm, March 17