Conservative Group Kills Candidate’s Samuel L. Jackson ‘Uncle Tom’ Videos
Perhaps anti-abortion activist Randall Terry should have known better than to pick a fight with Samuel L. Jackson. A guy whose last movie role was playing Nick Fury in the Avengers was probably not going to sit by quietly while Terry blanketed the airwaves with TV ads accusing Jackson of “carrying water for racists” and supporting “Black genocide” because of his support of President Obama. Yesterday, I explained how Jackson’s lawyers had been threatening TV stations and Terry himself with libel suits for airing the ads and posting them online. Apparently my post had some ripple effects.
Terry had created a website, www.uncletomjackson.com, to help broadcast his ads, along with another video he made of himself reciting a “faux Dr. Seuss” rhyme called “The New Uncle Tom.” Terry has long had trouble getting his videos in front of bigger audiences, presumably because they often feature graphic and gruesome footage of bloody fetuses. YouTube, apparently, has been reluctant to carry them. So his “Uncle Tom” series was hosted by the Media Research Center, a conservative nonprofit whose mission is to “neutral[ize] left-wing bias in the news media.” MRC was founded by L. Brent Bozell III, an abortion foe whose parents were pioneers in the anti-abortion movement, having led the first “Operation Rescue” protest in 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade. (Terry named his first anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.)
But after Mother Jones reported yesterday that Terry’s videos were technically political ads for his various campaigns (he’s running for both president of the United States and Congress in Florida), MRC pulled the plug on the videos.
