By a Democrat hoping to replace Jane Harmon in the 36th District. “We minorities should stick together.” The ad is kind of embarrassing.
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May 12, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Ernie's Place
I would imagine that he wants to apeal to the minoritys in the 36th district, which are actually in the majority. Who knows, it may work.
May 12, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Mitch
He probably couldn’t get his mother to squeeze his cheeks on camera.
May 12, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Eric Kirk
I would imagine that he wants to apeal to the minoritys in the 36th district, which are actually in the majority. Who knows, it may work.
Not with a wince-causing caricature-based ad like this one.
May 12, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Ernie's Place
Eric
This is an agument that you are going to win. I don’t like to see anybody play the minority card. Plus or minus. It shouldn’t be a factor.
May 12, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Eric Kirk
Well, you can play the minority card. You can say, “I am very familiar with issues pertaining to the Asian community.” It’s fine to point out that Asians in the 36th disproportionately don’t feel they’re being listened to.
But you don’t do it with an annoying woman in a laundrymat (how stereotypical is that?) interrupting your sentences to come off as an eccentric situation comedy figure, and then basically argue that you understand the Asian community because you’re Jewish.
It’s rather enough to have a key member of the local Asian community speak on your behalf.
This ad will probably piss off Asian Americans.
May 12, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Ernie's Place
By the way, thanks for letting me come over here and playing today. Blogspot is broken. You can’t make comments.
May 12, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Ernie's Place
I totally get that this guy is not going to be popular from many angles. He should have known that what he is trying to do is going to turn MOST of ALL minorities against him. I don’t like him, but I didn’t want to seem like I didn’t like him just because he is a minortity. I think the term is “schmuck”.
May 12, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Ernie's Place
Anyway Harmons not running…
“On February 7, 2011, she announced that she would be resigning from Congress to become the head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.”
May 12, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Jim
Heh, this guy is rich. The democratic machine in LA has selected Ms. Hahn as the winner. Don’t expect any other result. She sent out a meg whitman-esque 30-page mailer this week.
Anyways, she is this guys wife, so I think she felt entitled to interrupt him.
Identity politics is strong in Asian communities across the state from what I’ve seen. Name recognition alone selected my council-member in Sac (non-asians really can’t get elected in the current district). It is similar in SF and LA, from my experience living in both cities.
May 12, 2011 at 7:42 pm
PAN
It’s pretty bad. Send a mensch to congress – It should have been, send a nebbish to congress”
May 12, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Snickerdoodles
I thought it was kind of funny. Not something you see in most political ads. I like a snse of humor in my pols. Keeps them from getting too arrogant. I’d vote for the mensch.
May 12, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Snickerdoodles
Watched a few more of his vids here: http://adler2011.com/videos#
The Rudy one is classic – he got Sean
And I actually liked the guy after the Redondo Beach clip.
Funny though. He seems to have delisted the one with his kid cursing : http://mobile.salon.com/politics/war_room/2011/05/12/adler_race_ad/index.html
May 12, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Snickerdoodles
My Dad gets shit done!
May 13, 2011 at 8:26 am
Mitch
Here’s one that features him spotting a weightlifting woman and ends “Dan Adler. He gets shit done.” Interesting. I assume these ads don’t ever reach television. I wonder if Adler has decided to try to reach people who simply won’t believe a word a politician says, but think comedians tell the truth. Or perhaps he felt there was no chance whatsoever without a bizarre campaign attracting attention.
It would be amazing to see what would happen to political advertising if he were to win.
May 13, 2011 at 9:13 am
Eric Kirk
I’m all for funny political ads. Paul Wellstone had funny ads.
The one in the main post just makes me cringe.
May 13, 2011 at 11:56 am
Rose
Maybe there is hope after all – it seems you and Glenn Beck are on the same page:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/05/13/the-worst-political-ad-ever/
Think we’ll ever get to where we view ourselves as ONE race – HUMAN?
May 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Eric Kirk
Rose – I’ll look at it later, but I would imagine that he’s objecting to the identity politics. I don’t object necessarily to identity politics. I just think the ad is stupid and patronizing.
We are one race, but certain people are treated differently because of their identity, and so they respond as an identity with a commonality of experience. Hispanic people are still looked at in this very community with the assumption that they are illegals and/or “Mexican Cartel” growers. And my Asian son has already encountered racism in his young nine years, one particularly upsetting incident coming from a very unexpected source. And in Oregon, a group of Muslims who had intended to hold a rally celebrating the end of Bin Laden were forced to cancel due to death threats. And homosexuals’ marriages are still deemed of less value than those of yours or mine.
It’ll be great when identity experiences are no longer an issue, but when a whole community is attacked or disregarded with a level of uniformity, expect them to respond with some kind of unity. When the problems disappear, so shall identity politics.
It reminds me of an incident back in college where someone noted that the black students were all sitting at one table together, and some of the white students at the surrounding tables were making comments about how “exclusive” the black students were. Nobody questioned the all white tables around them.
Yeah, we’re one race. But we aren’t. And until we are, we won’t be.
May 13, 2011 at 3:10 pm
tra
Eric @1:37,
Very well put. I agree with just about everything in that comment.
One slight correction to the following statement:
And in Oregon, a group of Muslims who had intended to hold a rally celebrating the end of Bin Laden were forced to cancel due to death threats.
As I recall, it out there were no specific death threats, though TPM’s original story implied that there were (TPM later updated their article to make it clear that there was no specific threat).
The organizers just said that they cancelled the event because they were worried that “something bad might happen.” They said that they had received some “really out-there” e-mails, and they also cited the overall climate of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the America, and in particular the recent incident in which grafitti was painted on a mosque in Portland, ME.
Another story I saw the next day said that the organizers were also worried about the potential for some kind of action by some individual or individuals who may have been angered by Bin Laden’s killing. The organizers also said that it the event had never been intended as a “celebration” of Bin Laden’s killing, that it was the media who had given it that label.
By the way, I don’t doubt that there were some very legitimate safety concerns, and if I were in their shoes I’d have been pretty nervous going forward with the event. It’s certainly a sad statement on the situation that American Muslims find themselves in, when they can’t even hold a rally for “peace and unity” without worrying about the potential for some extremist to use the event as an opportunity to wreak some kind of havoc.
May 13, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Eric Kirk
I stand corrected on that point TRA. Thanks.
May 14, 2011 at 10:57 am
Ernie's Place
This just in. Bill O’Reilly showed this clip on Fox News and agreed with Eric point by point. Bill is now stealing Eric’s stuff….
May 14, 2011 at 11:33 am
Eric Kirk
I’m going to have to write him another letter!