Rachel Maddow: Sharron Angle Ad 'The Most Overtly Racist' Of 2010 (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow sharply criticized Senate candidate Sharron Angle on Sunday, saying that the Nevada Republican aired the "most overtly racist ad of this campaign season."

Speaking on "Meet the Press," Maddow excoriated the spot for "showing a group of white college students being menaced by some tough-looking Latinos." Earlier in October, Angle aired an ad called "Thanks, Pal," which many felt went too far. Fox 5 in Las Vegas described the commercial:

Sharron Angle's latest attack against Senate opponent Harry Reid features a group of white graduates celebrating and posing for pictures, presumably leaving high school for higher education.

That image is followed by a photo of three scowling Hispanic men, whom the ad suggests are trying to seize preferred college tuition rates from the students. A banner proclaiming the men "illegal aliens" accompanies the photo.

The ad, which ThinkProgress called "racially tinged," has since been removed from YouTube. But two other ads that unfavorably portray undocumented workers remain, including one that Angle struggled to defend while speaking with Nevadans earlier in the month.

Maddow also criticized Angle for "saying conservatives should be expected to use guns to try to get what they want if they don't get what they want from the election." Those remarks, which Angle referred to as "Second Amendment remedies," surfaced in June.

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Comments

[Wisco-libertarian]

09:49 AM on 10/28/2010

Liberals have nothing left to use against Angle. They've thrown everything they can at her, and she's still running neck and neck with Harry Reid. So, they resort to the cheapest and most desperate tactic -- race baiting. When all else fails, call your opponent a racist.

[Jeff Hendren]

01:53 PM on 10/28/2010

Sharon Angle is a cornucopia of wrong headed horror, the racism is just a maraschino garlic clove on the top of the durian sundae that is her campaign.

[Sharon Hunt]

03:05 PM on 10/29/2010

she isn't a racist? Take a look at what she has said. You are kidding, right?

[omega5081]

08:29 PM on 10/27/2010

If anyone has any doubts that liberal democrats want socialism. Just copy and paste this:

youtube.com/watch?v=Wkw7n9Qagu8

[ta2t2o]

12:48 AM on 10/28/2010

Thank you - I'm convinced now. I'm one of those spineless morons that can be easily swayed by a single opinion and believes everything that Fox News or Rush Limbaugh tells me. I appreciate you bringing this truth about the Democrats to my attention. I'll make sure to tell all my friends to check it out when I meet up with them at the Civil War reinactment.

[JasonJM]

06:14 AM on 10/28/2010

That was pictures of a rally....you read HP. Your see them almost every day. Just not like this.

[Chicagofan1]

01:03 AM on 10/28/2010

Thread does not work.

[PathofTotality]

04:01 PM on 10/27/2010

I like Rachel and like the statement she made about Democrats telling the voter to "Google my opponent" and it's s decent request and thought. The problem is that (and this is my personal observation) Democrats are only being listened to by other Democrats and probably most Independents. The ones that need to hear this are listening to the Becks and Limbaugh's of the world. I don't ask that everyone convert but unless you hear both sides you can't make a informative decision.

[deven61]

03:20 PM on 10/27/2010

It's too bad Harry Reid can't put this race away.

[Pauline Schneider]

02:54 PM on 10/27/2010

We need real leadership in this country to come out strongly against all this racism, sexism and bigotry. It is tearing our country apart. We are a melting pot/bowl of fruit nation that IS capable of living together harmoniously. We have the evidence of that in NY. Why then do we tolerate intolerance??? Why vote for a man or woman who spreads hate and intolerance?

We should stop thinking like white supremacists "My kin are the only ones who count, we don't need anybody else" and think, instead, like the children of the global village we truly are members of.

We all need each other. All over this amazing planet.
Like the poet said, Come Together, Right Now.

[sammy wammy]

01:30 PM on 10/29/2010

Well said. It is this white supremacy thinking that seems to be taking over the country and it is sad and disgusting. The very fact that all most people do on these blogs is name call is evidence of the sad state of things. Complete intolerance is all I see and it makes me want to cry.

[justsayno]

02:11 PM on 10/27/2010

The left always have a problem with the truth. Although the truth said out loud isnt always that pretty... it doesnt make it h8 nor not true

[retr0 act1ve]

03:51 PM on 10/27/2010

And what truth is that?

[levibatgirl]

05:46 PM on 10/27/2010

You're a f00l

[Cheri Linehan]

02:10 PM on 10/27/2010

Go Go Rachel! You Rock! And speak truth.

[jusathot]

03:41 PM on 10/28/2010

Give us Barabas!

[sanityismine]

01:44 PM on 10/27/2010

Rm is right, anyone for controlling our boarders and national sovereignty is racist. It is so obvious. It cannot be a policy disagreement it is a character flaw.

[YankeeCanuck]

02:04 PM on 10/27/2010

No, the majority of dems/liberals do not think that way. Border control IS a policy disagreement. It just so happens that a lot of xenophobes climb aboard this "security" wagon. Sadly, one of them is a childhood friend, who thinks we should circle the wagons and live far from anyone else.
Some people don't get out much or have much personal experience with people who are different from them. That engenders fear. Fear is not something to build policy upon, IMHO.
And, the ad in question is fearmongering. It's pretty difficult for an "illegal" to get into college, particularly state college where your citisenship/residence is checked.
To make them look like thugs is very suspect. Yes, there is a problem and there are gangs. That ad is not addressing it in any rational way. IMHO, of course.

[sanityismine]

03:14 PM on 10/27/2010

Thoughtful well reasoned response.

What I think is going on is that this is just another issue that rational people could manage intelligently and carefully, but political people, like RM, inflame with invective, making all scurry to their positions and engage in combat.

[Sharon Hunt]

03:08 PM on 10/29/2010

I agree. Well stated response. Thanks

[cannabear]

01:40 PM on 10/27/2010

In other words, if you are dissatisfied with the results of the election, take up your guns and change 'em dangit!

[justsayno]

02:13 PM on 10/27/2010

No I believe we picked up our signs, our arses and our pens... and yes! we are going to change it! ope.. sorry

[ta2t2o]

12:55 AM on 10/28/2010

Hopefully you all take some time out to pick up your dictionaries and read a newspaper before you pick up your signs and pens next time. Our kids are stupid enough already without learning how to spell from these Tea Party rally signs.

[WayOutHere]

01:10 PM on 10/27/2010

"saying conservatives should be expected to use guns to try to get what they want if they don't get what they want from the election." What? If that's an accurate quote, isn't it sedition?

[tombartarm]

12:59 PM on 10/27/2010

All liberals think Rachel is great and a good source for news and current events. Non-liberals don't believe or listen to her at all. I have learned this from her daily article on HP.

[ramko]

03:30 PM on 10/27/2010

All conservatives think Faux is great and a good source for news and current events. Non-cons don't believe a thing they say or listen to them at all. We have learned this by having common sense and getting news from more than one source.

[DatLibrulCat]

04:01 PM on 10/27/2010

Excellent!. First fan.

[Truth Purveyor]

04:15 PM on 10/27/2010

One slight difference... Fox has a reasonable portion of the moderate audience. Rachel does not.

[Jeff Hendren]

02:05 PM on 10/28/2010

She doesn't have a daily article on HP.

[Pablo175]

12:48 PM on 10/27/2010

Candidate Sharron Angle is a ‘bitch’? Women’s groups outraged by ’sexist’ View co-host Joy Behar

[madcat007]

06:40 PM on 10/27/2010

Womens groups are outraged by the Nevada candidate that wants women to "make lemonade out of lemons" after being brutally raped.

[Andra Claudia Garcia]

11:53 AM on 10/27/2010

I love it whenever Rachel speaks politics to me.

[enlightenedgirl]

11:21 AM on 10/27/2010

Rachel is the best thing we have in Reporting today. She is armed with facts and she always has the answers. For all of those hating on her, it just goes to show your fear of the truth.

[MadamRoma]

02:12 PM on 10/27/2010

Rachel deserves more air time on NBC and MSNBC. I wonder why Morning Joe doesn't have Rachel and Keith on, they would add lots of truth and class to that charade.

[Chicagofan1]

09:23 PM on 10/27/2010

Mika is enough to tolerate in the morning.

[SGlitz]

09:55 AM on 10/27/2010

After the President's "back of the bus" comment I guess that means all of us who are not enamored by his policies must now be like Rosa Parks and defiantly sit at the front of the bus and demand our "rights".
It's only "fair" :)

[BJHenton]

10:00 AM on 10/27/2010

Just wondered, SGlitz are you a tea partier, birther, or just plain old republican. I am a little confused, since you all sound so alike. Do you really need a college degree to understand his analogy. Everything Obama says is picked apart, while yall get to say any ignorant, foolish thing that you like. What a group!

[Truth Purveyor]

10:00 AM on 10/27/2010

The guy is unbelievable. For a sitting President to say that, and to be quoted as saying "The empire is striking back...". I mean dont get me wrong, its hillarious stuff, but it is so unpresidential its pathetic. Still, one cannot help but stare at the train wreck, ya know?

[MsHumanist]

10:29 AM on 10/27/2010

Want to talk about unpresidential? Former Pres. Bush was so famous for his hilarious sayings there are web pages dedicated to oneliners. But, his famous war cry, "My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003...makes me absoutely sick.

[enlightenedgirl]

11:18 AM on 10/27/2010

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005