G.O.P. Yanks Racist Ad

Ken Mehlman, still asserting that he does not see racial overtones or racism in a national Republican ad (then Ken Mehlman is an idiot.......) against Representative Harold Ford Jr. in the Tennessee Senate race, announced late this afternoon on CNN’s SitRoom that the ad had been taken off the airwaves.

The Caucus has been swamped, swamped, by readers talking about this ad, which includes a lot of to-and-fro about Mr. Ford receiving money from the pornography industry (which he returned) and ends with a blond (white) woman coyly urging him to call her.

Mr. Ford’s campaign and many other people have been outraged, saying the ad attempts to pander to prejudice.