Univision Rejects Ad Telling Latinos Not to Vote

PoliticsOctober 2010 • Views: 5,120

Univision has announced that they’re not going to run the outrageous advertisement from a Republican front group trying to suppress the Latino vote in Nevada: BREAKING: Univision Will Not Air GOP Group’s Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote.

“Univision will not be running any spots from Latinos for Reform related to voting. It is also important to clarify that while Mr. Robert de Posada has on occasion provided political commentary on Univision, representing one of various points of views, he is not in any way affiliated with Univision. Univision prides itself on promoting civic engagement and our extensive national campaigns encourage Hispanics to vote.”

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33 comments

darthstar Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:04:04pm

Bueno!

Batman Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:05:32pm

How racist! They’re censoring latinos!

darthstar Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:06:03pm

So if Latinos want to be told not to vote, they’ll have to watch the ad air four times an hour as a “news” item on Fox…

darthstar Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:07:44pm

re: #2 nonsense

How racist! They’re censoring latinos!

Well, they’re censoring one Latino. Latinosforreform is only one guy, and a couple hundred thousand dollars in donations. They also share the same P.O. Box as a number of GOP web-sites/”organizations”/cock-puppets.

jaunte Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:10:03pm

This story should be a case study in political cynicism for future civics classes.

freetoken Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:10:39pm

Univision prides itself on promoting civic engagement

Silly Univision - don’t they know WE’RE A REPUBLIC AND NOT A DEMOCRACY!!! Any real American knows that.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:10:46pm

What gets me is that they even have an Hispanic to carry it all out and head the fake front group.

I wonder how he or the Rodent feels about the GOP having a front group that tells Latins not to vote.

Well Rodent at least always was a traitor to his people who is obsessed with telling the world he is white. I suppose that must be a common thread amongst most Hispanic folks in the GOP.

In the 40’s there were Jews like that. They were called kapos.

darthstar Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:12:16pm

re: #7 LudwigVanQuixote

I like the way they put Roberto de Posada down as well…”he is not in any way affiliated with Univision.”

Blue Point Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:12:45pm

Muy Bueno. They did the homework and saw the slime trail. I guess the money is just too much of a principle for the other TV stations.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:12:57pm

re: #8 darthstar

I like the way they put Roberto de Posada down as well…”he is not in any way affiliated with Univision.”

As well they should have put that bastard down.

jaunte Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:15:37pm

re: #7 LudwigVanQuixote

I met a Cuban in Miami who told me the reason they were so successful compared to other countries colonized by Spain was that they had killed most of the native inhabitants instead of interbreeding. He was Hispanic, but also a white supremacist.

Linden Arden Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:17:08pm

re: #7 LudwigVanQuixote

I only learned what a “Ratfucker” was this year.

Such a perfect word for a human rodent.

Gus Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:19:50pm

Hey! Think Progress must have been reading LGF. They used the post office box trial I was posting about last night. It’s just the logical route to use if one runs a who is of these miscreants.

Shiplord Kirel Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:20:23pm

Robert de Posada’s excuse, that he isn’t willing to ask Hispanics to vote for Angle, is the lamest rationalizations I have ever seen offered in public. What is this? Do other states only have straight party ballots?
To the best of my knowledge, voters are not required to make a selection in every contest anyway, they can just skip the Senate line if they can’t stomach either candidate.

jaunte Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:20:39pm

re: #13 Gus 802

I thought that story looked like they had picked it up from your posts.

wrenchwench Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:21:19pm

re: #13 Gus 802

Hey! Think Progress must have been reading LGF. They used the post office box trial I was posting about last night. It’s just the logical route to use if one runs a who is of these miscreants.

Gus Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:23:50pm

re: #16 wrenchwench

:)

Yeah. SOP. Start with the address or phone number. It was basically the same leads for the Swift Boating campaigns. Same PAC offices too.

What, me worry? Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:25:21pm

re: #11 jaunte

I met a Cuban in Miami who told me the reason they were so successful compared to other countries colonized by Spain was that they had killed most of the native inhabitants instead of interbreeding. He was Hispanic, but also a white supremacist.

Cubans are generally Republicans (but not usually white supremacists!). I wonder how they would feel being told not to vote.

This ad is so incredibly insulting. They’re telling Hispanics they’re too stupid to figure out the message in this ad. Particularly Cubans who had no vote in communist Cuba.

Gus Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:43:43pm

Limbaugh Admits He Shares Strictly White Country Club with John Raese

Senate candidate John Raese, vying to replaced deceased Senator Robert Byrd in West Virginia’s delegation, may have inadvertently been outed as a member of a problematic Florida country club by no other than Rush Limbaugh.

According to the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, Limbaugh told his audience today that he and Raese have lockers opposite one another in the locker room of “prominent local club” where Limbaugh plays golf.

Limbaugh is a member of the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, which is infamous for having virtually no membership rules but still managing to keep from ever letting a single African-American join through 2008.

Among the more unflattering aspects that surfaced [when Limbaugh made a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams] was that while the club had no formal membership guidelines, as of 2008 it had never let in a black member and there had only been one Jewish member in its history

Everglades has, in addition, not been without its share of political controversies. The New York Post reported that: “Joseph Kennedy quit the Everglades when his son became president.” And in 1996, Georgia GOP Senate candidate Guy Millner resigned his membership in the middle of a tight U.S. Senate race against Max Cleland.

Raese refused to comment, claiming that the questions were politically motivated.

SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Oct 19, 2010 3:57:16pm

re: #11 jaunte

I met a Cuban in Miami who told me the reason they were so successful compared to other countries colonized by Spain was that they had killed most of the native inhabitants instead of interbreeding. He was Hispanic, but also a white supremacist.

What a charmer.

Vambo Tue, Oct 19, 2010 4:14:29pm

re: #19 Gus 802

OT

Limbaugh Admits He Shares Strictly White Country Club with John Raese

while I’m sure they are turning away non-white applicants, I wonder how many non-whites just know enough to stay the fuck away, and don’t even bother.

Vambo Tue, Oct 19, 2010 4:19:17pm

re: #3 darthstar

So if Latinos want to be told not to vote, they’ll have to watch the ad air four times an hour as a “news” item on Fox…

It would never air on Fox… the ad targets Latinos who vote Democrat. Not exactly the Fox News demographic. Plus, they’d probably get a bunch of angry letters from Fox viewers over “exclusive” advertising that (omg!) excludes whites (RACIST!).

Lidane Tue, Oct 19, 2010 4:51:44pm

Good for Univision. I’m glad to hear it.

Grimalkin Tue, Oct 19, 2010 7:12:12pm

I wished MSNBC had used some of that kind of editorial control instead of airing this ad tonight on Hardball about 20 minutes in to the program.

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The US Citizens Association seems to be a very small group, according to their own website, of maybe 23,000. Sure they are free to promote their non-mainstream ideas and advertises with anyone who will accept their money, that’s not in dispute. What I can’t understand is why accept an ad that so hatefully mocks our President. The quality, caliber and style of ad is appropriate, on par with something you might find on an extremist website along with birthers, truthers, anti-Muslim and conspiracy theorist. I thought the folks at MSNBC were going to “Lean Forward”? Fail.

ClaudeMonet Tue, Oct 19, 2010 9:20:15pm

re: #11 jaunte

I met a Cuban in Miami who told me the reason they were so successful compared to other countries colonized by Spain was that they had killed most of the native inhabitants instead of interbreeding. He was Hispanic, but also a white supremacist.

During the time I spent in Southeast Florida, back when my father was alive, I saw Cubanos of just about every shade. Sure, on average (based on my purely subjective observation) they’re lighter-skinned than Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans, but many have fairly dark skin.

Tiny alien kittens are watching you Tue, Oct 19, 2010 11:34:53pm

They may have declined to show the ad but it does not matter. Screw Univision standing up morally, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN have all done stories on this all night, including showing clips of the ad. MSNBC just ran another story on it at 2:20am East Coast time, that of course included running part of the ad.

Hmm…the Republicans buy an astroturf ad on Univision for only $80,000 so it would have only run two or three times at most on the Spanish language only channel and only in Arizona. The media is so outraged by the content of the ad that they constantly show clips of it on all the major English national network channels for two days straight?

Gotta put this one down as a effing major win for the astroturfing asshats, they got about a million times more media exposure than they actually paid for… :(

ThomasLite Wed, Oct 20, 2010 4:10:59pm

re: #7 LudwigVanQuixote

What gets me is that they even have an Hispanic to carry it all out and head the fake front group.

I wonder how he or the Rodent feels about the GOP having a front group that tells Latins not to vote.

Well Rodent at least always was a traitor to his people who is obsessed with telling the world he is white. I suppose that must be a common thread amongst most Hispanic folks in the GOP.

In the 40’s there were Jews like that. They were called kapos.

godwin and really not cool besides.
thousands of ways to attack a ridiculous ad like this, and of all things you choose to call the guy managing it a kapo? meh.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Wed, Oct 20, 2010 6:55:43pm

re: #27 ThomasLite

godwin and really not cool besides.
thousands of ways to attack a ridiculous ad like this, and of all things you choose to call the guy managing it a kapo? meh.

Interesting that you defend either of them in that way.

Very interesting.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Wed, Oct 20, 2010 6:57:39pm

re: #27 ThomasLite

godwin and really not cool besides.
thousands of ways to attack a ridiculous ad like this, and of all things you choose to call the guy managing it a kapo? meh.

Care to tell me why you felt the need to burn a sock on this?

ThomasLite Thu, Oct 21, 2010 4:27:41am

not defending them, that’s just you putting words in my mouth.

calling someone a capo over something like this is, IMO not proportional and quite childish besides.

why the sock reference, I don’t know. not the first time I’ve disagreed with you on semantics like this, but to go off calling me a sock? real grown up behaviour.

but I do gather you really do think calling a dissenter within a group a capo if you don’t like what he’s doing is alright?
might want to watch out the next time you ridicule a beckian - it’s the same quality of logic here.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Oct 21, 2010 5:56:35pm

re: #30 ThomasLite

not defending them, that’s just you putting words in my mouth.

calling someone a capo over something like this is, IMO not proportional and quite childish besides.

why the sock reference, I don’t know. not the first time I’ve disagreed with you on semantics like this, but to go off calling me a sock? real grown up behaviour.

but I do gather you really do think calling a dissenter within a group a capo if you don’t like what he’s doing is alright?
might want to watch out the next time you ridicule a beckian - it’s the same quality of logic here.

Hmmm… if you aren’t a sock, you don’t know the people involved. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that.

So just to educate you, the Rodent screams that he is proudly LAtin, wants to see the genocide of all Muslims (and has screamed this repeatedly) puts down Latins who are too Latin, shouts to all who will hear that he is white (as opposed to “tainted” Hispanics with Indian blood, and despite his very dark complexion) and is in general, a self hating tool who despises his own people and works against them.

That is very much in line with a kapo.

As to the head of this organization, he is an Hispanic American who is trying to fool other Hispanics into disenfranchising themselves, to further the aims of a party that openly hates them, and secure his own position. That too makes him a kapo.

ThomasLite Fri, Oct 22, 2010 2:14:21am

Hmm, okay. the stalker a kapo, I get (read just about enough to get where that’s coming from, doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable).
But if I take that last argument to it’s logical conclusion, it’d almost mean that any Hispanic American supporting the GOP would be a kapo. Not quite of course and indeed the ad is nasty, but you’re getting there.
It would stand to reason such a person would at least try to persuade others to either vote for the repubs or not at all as well; and tactical use of your members within a population group is not considered especially unfair in politics (yes I know, it sounds like “the dems do it too” but that doesn’t automatically invalidate the point).
Now I don’t see how stating that any Latino who supports the GOP actively is a kapo is either contributing to a healthy debate, in any way fair or even remotely indicative of proper reasoning. Maybe it’s just the sentiment attached to such remarks over here in the Netherlands; I know the Brits are quite a bit more relaxed about such things as well. still, not nice IMO.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Fri, Oct 22, 2010 3:10:05am

re: #32 ThomasLite

Yeah and I’m Jewish. I know exactly what the word means. Please don’t lecture me about your sentiments.

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