that it reminded me of jesse hems s white hands ad. he s really trying to channel white male anxiety and even resentment about minorities and women getting ahead because of affirmative action. you remember that ad. it showed white male hands crumpling a rejection letter and you deserved that job and you didn t get it because opponents supported affirmative action. but this is massachusetts ad. it s a swing state. i don t think it will work. i think it will backfire. but he s obviously really desperate. warren is appalled by the video but wouldn t go any further than that. the other thing is it s clear that senator brown is trying to set her up for being a liar, a character flaw, that she lied about her heritage on her application and when she got her tenure that she changed that in the law directory. suspect that a little deep for voters to comprehend here?
and we need your help to do it. so if you, say, know of an undocumented immigrant who helped an old lady across the street or saved a puppy from drowning, do not post that on the tea party nation immigration forum. acts of decency by people without papers are disqualified from this forum. quick, someone save the puppy from the illegal mexican drug cartel water in laredo. they only want stories of immigrants being bad. that s specifically what they ve asked for in this e-mail to supporters. they know that illegal immigrants being bad is the truth, now they just need to find some evidence of that to back up that truth, since they already know it s true, before they get the evidence. scaring white people for fun and profit is not a new idea. it is not a new goal, but its means have come a long way, baby. remember the white hands ad from 1990, tapping white
baby. remember the white hands ad from 1990, tapping white resentment about affirmative action to get north carolina to vote for jesse helms against a black candidate? now they don t need commercial time to get across that message. now it s user generated. joining us now is princeton professor, columnist for the nation, and msnbc contributor, melissa harris-lacewell. very nice to see you. thanks for coming in. yeah. good to be here. scaring white people for political profit is obviously a very old tactic. does it matter that it s being done in a new way? i think it does. i think it shows that the right is collecting itself a little bit. part of what happened in the 2008 campaign was that ofa, obama for america, demonstrated a kind of nimble capacity relative to new media sources. they had the first iphone application, they figured out how to use facebook in the most appropriate ways to get both their supporters and their
whole thing. t. j., we did not want to leave you out. i have been waiting on this. there it goes. there you go! you know, out of the three of us, i pull it off the least. isn t that weird? i am not saying anything, but that is odd. you guys pull it off better than i do. how did that happen? well, i have to say in terms of the clothes, though, you are rocking there. and this is a first on our show. i don t have white hands, though. that s a detail they missed. yeah, they change color throughout the whole time. i think you are moving so quickly it s an optical allusion. that s what it is. i don t know about that. this is one of the membership