February 28, 2008 1:22 PM
Campaign nixes "Bill in blackface?" listing
Inquiries from the Rocky Mountain News prompted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to remove a purported supporter's "Bill in blackface?" event announcement from the official campaign Web site.
The notice appeared in an "action center" section of www.hillaryclinton.com where average supporters are allowed to publicize local events that are not necessarily sanctioned by the campaign.
In this case, the notice promised "Laughter at NAFTA Rally!" on Monday in downtown Cleveland.
The description:
"We've hired some high-end comedic talent to ease the way into Primary Day! Want to see HRC in cat-scratch mode? Bill in blackface? How about Mark Penn doling out pizza crusts and doughnut holes to the volunteers? We've got it all!"
The event was listed at:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/actioncenter/event/view/?id=10076
An archived version of the announcement is available HERE.
Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee called the language of the announcement "inappropriate and offensive."
"Any one of our supporters can host an event using the action network on our Web site and post it up there," Elleithee said. "If we ever find anything objectionable and it doesn't reflect what our campaign is about, we remove it, as we did in this case."
March 1, 2008
6:26 AM
Ada writes:
Like a cat watching a mouse hole ready to pounce, who has time to find all this? And should we care.......ADA
February 29, 2008
12:55 PM
ChicoEscuelasOBP writes:
OK, that's probably a little too Machiavellian, even for the Clintons. It's a pretty obscure posting buried in a campaign website - the likelyhood of this being found by a reporter is pretty low - for the resource expenditures needed to put this in place, the return is pretty low.
(Admittedly, the Intrepid Investigator M.E. found it, so... I'll just enjoy some more delicious crow... Why, yes, I would fancy a napkin for the egg on my face...)
Unfortunately, this happens all the time on campaigns, usually just overzealous volunteers thinking they're having "a little fun" (I'm sure as kids we all put gum on the teacher's chair, too). It's too bad this person chose race-baiting, but the unfortunate fact is that it happens in the same way that a candidate's supporters call into radio shows and ask the opponent impossibly-loaded questions.
February 29, 2008
6:52 AM
genuine ricardo writes:
the clintons are capable of anything. how do you know that they didn't plant this? they act like it's a surprise, but they knew all along.