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Republican Ad Disrespects Italian-Americans
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| Contributor | karin1492 |
| Last Edited | karin1492 Nov 06, 2006 11:21pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 7, 2006 05:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Just when you thought the US Senate campaign in New Jersey couldn't get any uglier or degrading, it exceeds our expectations.
When I first saw the TV ad with the cheesy looking guy in a fake alley-way in a leather jacket muttering, "We gotta problem . . . Bada bing, we're in it -- but deep." I was thinking it was some sort of cheap commercial for a product I was sure I didn't want to buy. But the 30-second spot, which is a bad "Sopranos" take off, was actually put out by a conservative political action committee taking a shot at incumbent U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and apparently trying to help Republican state Senator Tom Kean Jr..
The goof ball spot has the fake mobster crying the blues about how the mob's friend Menendez is the subject of a federal investigation. As the bad actor paces the alley-way he says, "And worse, this guy Tom Kean wants to clean things up, even cut taxes. Hey, where's our take in that? We need to get the bosses to fix this."
Bob Torricelli's name is thrown in there, as a friend of the fake mobster who is clearly intended to be some sort of Italian-American who is "connected." To make matters worse, this idiot doesn't even sound remotely like the mob guys or "wanna-bes" I grew up around in Newark. I'm betting he's not even Italian. Of course, the ad finished with a professional announcer saying, "Tell Bob Menendez his high tax record is a crime."
The spot is disgusting, degrading, and disrespectful to Italian-Americans, to New Jerseyans and to the entire political process. I find it impossible to imagine people actually sitting in a room conjuring it up and then paying $200,000 to get it on the air!
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