Lacking coherence on issues, lacking conviction in debate and lacking faith in Tennesseans to make decisions on the issues, Corker has resorted to pre-Civil War tactics to motivate the base to vote with their prejudices.
Every time Ford's name is mentioned, drums start beating. According to callers and the station manager, they're not fun band drums. They're drum sounds designed to conjure up African jungles.
A new report at TalkingPointsmemo.com has picked up on a radio ad being circulated by Corker's campaign.
According to the characterization,
We got a copy of the ad from a producer from WGOW radio in Chatanooga. Bill Lockhart, the program director for WGOW, confirmed the authenticity of the ad and that it's running on the station. "They're freaking jungle-drums," Lockhart tells us. "It's racist -- it tries to conjure up deep, dark African moods. Yeah, it's overtly racial."
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ing_mentions_of_ford