The new "Know Nothings"
There is an ad from the Louisiana Democrat Party currently running against Bobby Jindal that is extremely misleading even by political ad standards.
The Rothernberg Political Report notes:
In one of the hardest hitting – Republicans will undoubtedly say “dirtiest” – television ads aired in history, the Louisiana Democratic Party is accusing Rep. Bobby Jindal of being anti-Protestant.
The bizarre charge is delivered by an unidentified woman in a new Louisiana Democratic Party TV ad produced by Carvin/Seder Communications, a Louisiana-based consulting firm whose clients have included former Governor Edwin Edwards (D-La.), Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D) and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (D).
In the TV spot, the announcer charges that Jindal wrote articles that “insulted thousands of Louisiana Protestants,” and she holds up an article in which she says Jindal “doubts the morals and questions the beliefs of Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Pentecostals and other Protestant religions.”
Captain Ed took a look at the New Oxford Review article the ad was partially based on and found their accusations to have no merit. The article itself is behind a subscription firewall so it is not easy for most people to verify the accusations without paying for the article.
However, the Democrats have proven themselves intellectually dishonest in this attack on Jindal. Their website lies about what Jindal has written, hiding behind NOR's subscription-only skirts to throw mud at Jindal. The party which sells itself on its supposed tolerance wants to pillory Jindal for his Catholicism and scare up anti-Catholic bigotry through lies and deceit.
You can see the YouTube version of the ad here.
The misleading tactics against this Catholic politician reminds me of another organization.
It also reminds me of the two anti-Catholic bloggers who worked for
the John Edward's campaign before they got fired.
HotAir reports that Jindal’s Wikipedia page is being edited with this smear.
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The sad thing is that the Democrats are trying to smear a candidate that the majority of the state actually wants as their governor. He is far smarter than the current governor of Louisiana.
Only in Louisiana will the state not elect a Rhodes scholar. Clearly he wasn't smart enough.
Thanks for this, Jeff. I was going to blog on the idiocy, ran into your post...and realized I didn't have to.
Utterly amazing.
While what happened to Jindias is very sad, I think the second saddest thing about this story is that it will generate all sorts of interest in the New Oxford Review. The Vree family ruined that magazine a few years ago, and I am fearful that the Jindias story will send people to their site to pay for the privilage of reading the original article, thus enriching the Vree's and their enterprise.
WAC
As a member of America's most distrusted minority, welcome to my world. Thankfully, we've secularized enough as a society that a return to religious war of the 1850s is unlikely.
It's not a hate-filled screed. But it's not 100% accurate about either Catholicism or Calvinism.
People should be more careful when they talk about religion.
I wish I could make parody Chick tracts with such skill and poignancy
Funny,
I agree with all of the cartoon saying about protesters...except wanting to run them over...
protestantism and it's core belief of personal interpretation of Scripture is at the root of most of today's evils in the
Christian world.
Tbhis only proves that anti-Catholicism is very much alive and well in N. Louisiana! The truly sad thing is the fact that some protestants will believe this and not vote for a man who is clearly head and shoulders above the rest of the candidates!
The New Oxford Review is a disaster. Yes, it's "orthodox"; so's Satan. The NOR is sophomoric; it's edited as though it keeps score by how many names it can call people it disagrees with, especially homosexuals. (Called out once on its use of the word "faggot," it mounted a lengthy and pompous defense, rather than admitting it made a verbal error and getting back to the point).
Fervently pro-JP2 in the early '80s, by the early '00s it was printing anti-JP2 screeds that could almost have come from Lefebvrites. The NOR has become its own magisterium, and a rude one at that.
Also, if you happen to be a Scott Hahn fan, stand by to be excommunicated by the NOR. It would just as gladly pick fights with other defensores fidei as with actual heretics, and Hahn was a favorite target for a while (may still be).
I'll bet it egged Jindal on, or even added words to his piece.
Correction: It's the Louisiana Phlegm 'n Crap Party.