But when you get down into the details, you notice that the Times attributes every other dirty trick or hardball tactic described to Republicans and - sure enough - manages to work in an allusion to the KKK:
- In that very Connecticut race in which the Dem's wrist is slapped, the Republican is also cited for a misleading claim.
- "An ad for black voters in six states misrepresenting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s politics in a staged chat between two black women: .Dr. King was a real man,' says one actress. 'You know he was a Republican,' the other chimes in." I'm wondering if the Times wrote an outraged editorial when in 2000 the NAACP analogized George Bush to someone dragging a black man behind his pickup?
- "Democrats in more than two dozen races are being falsely accused of wanting to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants."
- "One web site coated with obvious racism and xenophobia is MuchasGraciasDebbie.com, which skewers Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, dressing her digitally in a sombrero, grinning and declaring, 'No problema!'”
- "Lincoln is being falsely quoted by [presumably Republican] defenders of the Iraq war. The 16th president never said that Congressional critics who damage wartime morale 'should be arrested, exiled or hanged.'”
- And then there's the Klan accusation. The paper describes a letter circulating in California warning immigrants that voting in a federal election is a crime as "a contemporary spin on a classic scare tactic from torchlight politics." 'Klan' you get it?
UPDATE - The Vietnamese Klansman? The Times omitted an inconvenient fact. The candidate whose campaign is accused of circulating that torchlight-tactic scare letter is Tan Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American. Has the Klan been undergoing some diversity training of its own?
