Why is Harry Reid helping scary brown people beat you up and take your job? Sharrrrrrron Angle wants to know!
Last week ... Sharron Angle’s (R) own spokesperson slammed the Nevada senatorial candidate’s vicious immigration ad which fallaciously portrayed opponent Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) as being the “best friend an illegal alien ever had.” The racial overtones of the ad were so offensive that chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Hispanic Caucus and Angle spokesperson, Tibi Ellis, stated “I condemned this type of propaganda, no matter who is running them, where they blame Mexicans as the only problem and where they attack them as the only source of illegal immigration.”
Ellis may have an even bigger problem with Angle’s latest racially-tinged ad which goes after Reid and his support of undocumented students. The ad includes the offensive footage of menacing men with flashlights walking along a fence that was featured in her first ad. However, it also adds new images of scowling Latino men as the narrator proclaims, “and now Harry Reid is fighting for a program that would give preferred college tuition rates to none other than illegal aliens.” The image is juxtaposed against a photo of white college graduates in their graduation robes. At the end, the narrator asks, “What does Harry Reid have against you?”
Here's the ad:
Note that the ad doesn't even pretend to source any of its claims. So when it accuses Reid of offering "preferred college tuition rates" to illegal aliens, it doesn't cite the DREAM Act. Why? Because all the DREAM Act does is provide a path to citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants as long as they complete college or join the military. So what's that got to do with preferred tuition rates? It means that those kids can get in-state tuition if they've lived in the state in which they're going to college. Scary! Especially when they look like this:
That photo may scare the bejesus out of Angle and the rest of the teabaggers, but most Americans aren't as cowardly. Seventy percent support the DREAM Act, including 60 percent of Republicans, which is why Angle has to pervert the law's intent to make it fit her racist fear-mongering ad.
In any case, I'm sure this will all be very helpful as Angle continues to "court" (in her own special way), the Latino vote in her state.