Ron Christie, a former advisor to Bush II and assistant to Cheney, defended the new GOP race baiting "Playboy Party" attack ad against Harold Ford on Hardball this afternoon. Christie, himself a black man, stated that he saw nothing wrong in the ad that featured a racy blond woman beckoning Harold Ford to give her a call with a suggestive look and wink.
This is the second time that Christie has come forth recently to give a "black conservative perspective" on a potential GOP race based problem as he also dutifully defended George Allen against charges of racism on several cable news shows during the Macaca blowup.
On Hardball, Christie deflected the charges of racism by attacking Ford for attending a Playboy 2005 Superbowl party in Jacksonville - "He went to a Superbowl party WITH PLAYMATES!". Christie then turns around and plays dumb and asks "Why is it racist to have a White Blond woman say that she met Harold Ford? Where is the racism?" He then brings up the Steele Oreo incident (which was throughly debunked) and the comment a democrat house speaker made recently in which the word "slavishly" was used as absolute proof that Democrats were just as racist as the GOP was being accused of. He then concludes by saying "Chris, get over it! Its just an AD!"
I recall that Christie parroted the GOP talking points to a T in his defence of Allen stating that he wasn't offended by Allen's words and that Allen just made up some words which happened to mean monkey or worse in French and that he didn't believe the people from Allen's past who came forth to say that they had heard Allen use the "N" word repeatedly in the past since Allen was a supporter of black causes.
Good grief. I bet that if Ron Christie and Michelle Malkin ever met, they would hit it off like two peas in pod.