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  1. In 2012:
  2. America Doesn’t Need an Outsourcing Pioneer in the Oval Office

    barackobamadotcom

    Sun, Jun 24 2012 12:35:30

  3. In 1990:
  4. Jesse Helms "Hands" ad

    snakesonablog

    Mon, Oct 16 2006 16:05:17

  5. Context:

    Helms ran for reelection in a nationally publicized and rancorous campaign against the former mayor of Charlotte, Harvey Gantt, in his “bid to become the nation’s only black Senator” and “the first black elected to the Senate from the South since Reconstruction”. In the primary, Helms had two opponents, George Wimbish (as in 1984) and another; Helms won with 84.3% of the vote.

    Helms aired a late-running television commercial that showed a white man’s hands ripping up a rejection notice from a company that gave the job to a “less qualified minority”; some critics claimed the ad utilized subliminal racist themes. The advertisement was produced by Alex Castellanos, whom Helms would employ until his company was dropped in April 1996 after running an unusually hard-hitting ad.

  6. Answer:

    The Indians and Chinese are not asking for any special treatment. They are only asking to be treated equally (This is not to say that affirmative action is all bad; after all, blacks were treated horrendously in the past).

    Why does President Obama not think of Indians and Chinese as worthy of equal treatment?

  7. Take it away Prof. Landsburg
  8. Economist Steven Landsburg on Fox News 4/12/05

    controlspecimen

    Sun, Feb 25 2007 15:26:03

Written by Polevaulter Donkeyman

June 28, 2012 at 00:18

Posted in hypocrisy

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