Outrage erupted online after the Latino Victory Fund targeted Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie in an inflammatory ad, showing a pickup truck with a Gillespie bumper sticker and a Confederate flag chasing down non-white children.
The ad, which was released on Monday, shows a group of minority children running as the truck pursues them. “Run, run, run!” one of the children shouts to the others.
Just as the children become trapped between a fence and the truck, they all wake up from what was actually a nightmare. “Is this what Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie mean by the American dream?” the narrator asks.
The video prompted an angry backlash on social media, including from Gillespie himself. “…This is a new low in politics here (Virginia). It’s a sad day…outrageously, my opponent has embraced it,” he told Fox News, referring to Democratic candidate Ralph Northam.
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee also chimed in. The Republican commentator said it “just might be the lowest, most repulsive, most unconscionable political ad run since the days when Andrew Jackson was accused of cannibalism.”
“It’s meant to depict Gillespie, Donald Trump, and their supporters as evil, racist, white supremacists who drive pick-ups with Confederate flags and use them to chase down terrified minority children and, I’m just guessing here from the context, filet and eat them. It’s absolutely disgusting…you can see it at the link, but I warn you: you’ll feel as if you need a shower afterwards,” said Huckabee.
He added that the ad is particularly insensitive considering recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist mowed down a protester with his car, killing her, in August. A total of 19 others were injured in the attack.
One social-media user pointed out that just a day after the ad was released, a suspected terrorist plowed down people in Lower Manhattan, killing eight. “This ad didn’t age well,” she wrote.
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Others lambasted the ad for apparent double standards. One user pointed out that, although Democrats accuse Republicans of being “fear mongers,” this ad appears to be doing exactly that.
Another said that, although he didn’t vote for Gillespie in the primaries, he will now do so on November 7. “After this ad, I’ll crawl over broken glass to vote for him…” he wrote.
The Latino Victory Fund apparently agreed with some of the criticism, opting to delete the ad after the Manhattan attack. It said it would be “placing other powerful ads into rotation,” citing “recent events.”
“We knew our ad would ruffle feathers. We held a mirror up to the Republican Party, and they don’t like what they see. We have decided to pull our ad at this time,” Latino Victory Fund President Cristóbal J. Alex said.
However, the ad did have its fair share of supporters. One Twitter user called it “brilliant” and urged Democrats to keep “hammering this message.”
“Ed’s feelings are hurt. Welp. Maybe don’t be a white supremacist-loving, confederate statue-hugging Trumpist,” one person wrote on Twitter.
Gillespie is a former George W. Bush aide and a mainstream Republican, who narrowly defeated Trump supporter Corey Stewart in the June GOP primary.
The Latino Victory Fund describes itself as a “progressive political action committee with the mission of growing Latino political power by increasing Latino representation at every level of government.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/408576-confederate-truck-children-ad-virginia/
It’s ALWAYS projection. People will always project upon you the crimes or misdeeds they’re guilty of (or in the act of committing).
Do we really have white drivers running down non-whites with pick-up trucks, or is it more accurate that even the slightest criticism of non-whites is met with accusations of “racism and hate-speech”, while the wetback trash constantly yelling “kill all the gringos” is always protected speech?
I think the entire “Latino victory fund” needs to be sent back to whatever third-world shit-hole they crawled out of, and shot if they don’t move fast enough.
And thanks for the idea. Maybe I will mount a rebel flag on my pick-up truck and run down a few wetbacks. You DESERVE it for the crimes you’ve committed in this country.
If this were a TRUE depiction of Mr. Gillespie’s platform and if I lived in Virginia, he would MOST CERTAINLY have my vote!
Also, please take note of the front license plate on the truck, subliminally making patriots out to be bad people.
And the ad is pure slander. I checked dictionary on slander:
“The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation”
Wonder if any will be accountable. Ha!
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Look at the bright side.
It could have been an American flag.
“This is a new low in politics…”
I dunno… kinda hard to top the tranny as the first ‘lady’.