PAC won’t pull ad suggesting ‘lynching’ if Democrats win

Associated Press ^ | Oct. 19, 2018 3:18 PM EDT | Andrew DeMillo

[Olog-hai]

A political action committee said Friday that it won’t pull a widely condemned radio ad that suggests white Democrats will lynch African-Americans if they win in midterm elections in Arkansas next month.

Vernon Robinson with Black Americans for the President’s Agenda said Friday that the group won’t cancel the radio ad running in the Little Rock area in support of Republican U.S. Rep. French Hill. He said the group also won’t pull a similar ad he says is airing in Missouri. The ads in both states are scheduled to run through Friday, Robinson said.

“There’s no plan to change the current mix of ads. We have a plan, we’re executing the plan,” Robinson, the PAC’s co-founder and treasurer, told The Associated Press.

Hill and his Democratic challenger, Clarke Tucker, have condemned the Arkansas ad, which invokes the accusation that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when he was a teenager. The ad implies that Democrats’ support for Kavanaugh’s accuser means black men wouldn’t be protected from unfounded rape claims.

A woman in the ad says that “white Democrats will be lynching black folk again.” …

[Dr. Sivana]

False flag. Accusing them of something they used to do is not our style. Bet the ad was RAT-bought, trying to tar us.

Not at all. If it were a false flag, AP would have linked to it.

[Vigilanteman]

I'd withhold judgement until I look at the ad. It sounds way more close to factual than the widely aired James Byrd dragging death ad widely aired before the 2000 election which more than implied:

It happened in Texas => George Bush was governor => Therefore George Bush and all Republicans are to blame.

The attempted lynching of Judge Kavanaugh had a lot more to do with Democrats than the James Byrd dragging death had to do with Republicans.

[LeoTDB69]

The ad is not Rat-bought. Vernon Robinson is a decorated Air Force veteran and well known in NC for a couple decades for his strong and often entertaining ads as he ran for congress in 2006.

Sample of an old Vernon Robinson ad for congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSQ-LNp9Nk

[JimRed]

Is there a link to the ad without clicking on the Associated Press site?

[2CAVTrooper]

Good! Keep the ad up.

The democrats run the same sort of ads on all the urban hip hop stations in the run up to elections.

That’s how that POS doug jones got elected.