New RNC Comm. Director - Castellanos - Is Insurance Industry Lackey, Creator Of Racist Ad

[jefferson_dem]

New RNC Comm. Director Is Insurance Industry Lackey, Creator Of Racist Ad
November 23rd, 2009

Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant, will take over as a senior communications adviser to RNC Chairman Michael Steele, according to a source familiar with the move.
Castellanos & The Insurance Industry:

The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent has confirmed that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos’ political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for the insurance industry group America’s Health Insurance Plan’s (AHIP) new ad blitz attacking Democratic health reform plans.
Alex Castellanos’ racist “Hands” ad for segregationist Jesse Helms:

Near the end of the 1990 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, Castellanos produced an advertisement for incumbent Republican Senator Jesse Helms, who was then trailing Democratic challenger and Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, an African-American. The ad shows the hands of a white man crumpling a job application rejection notice as a narrator intones, “You needed that job. But they had to give it to a minority. The ad then references Gantt’s supposed support for racial quotas and Helms’s opposition. No other part of the actor’s body is shown.
Same old, same old, GOP.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/11/23/new-rnc-comm-director-is-insurance-industry-lackey-creator-of-racist-ad/

[Barack_America]

1. Will he still be with CNN?

[Bleacher Creature]

4. You beat me to it.

Considering how longit took to get rid of Lou Dobbs, I wouldn't be suprised to see him on some CNN panel being passed off as some sort of independent observer.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. Were you joking?

Cause if so, the joke's on all of us.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/cnn-keeps-castellanos-dems-hit-back.php?ref=fpb

[jefferson_dem]

2. FLASHBACK: Castellanos on Clinton as "white bitch" (May 2008)

UPDATED: CNN's Castellanos on Clinton as "white bitch": "ome women, by the way, are named that and it's accurate"

http://mediamatters.org/research/200805210002

[IndianaGreen]

3. Perhaps he will join Dana Perino in the Obama Administration

Apparently we don't have enough qualified Democrats for jobs in this Administration.

[playboyj305]

5. When i read this i thought about this.

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