naked race-baiting of her "illegal aliens" ads -- especially not when she's in a room full of Latino students.
She was called on the race-baiting this weekend, and she tried two different dodges:
-- Those weren't Latinos in those ads, which really were about security on our northern border.
-- What's the difference between Latinos and Asians anyway? We're all just a big melting pot, right?
No, really. That's what she said.
Jon Ralston at the Las Vegas Sun has the gory details:
Question: Why is it that in all of your commercials you have the image of Latinos? What do you see when you hear, and I quote, “illegal aliens?”
Angle: I think that you’re misinterpreting those commercials. I’m not sure that those are Latinos in that commercial. What it is, is a fence and there are people coming across that fence. What we know is that our northern border is where the terrorists came through. That’s the most porous border that we have. We cannot allow terrorists; we cannot allow anyone to come across our border if we don’t know why they’re coming. So we have to secure all of our borders and that’s what that was about, is border security. Not just our southern border, but our coastal border and our northern border.
Yeah, who could have gotten the idea those were Latinos in that commercial, eh? Silly of them, really. But then, if you wanted to check for yourself, you might have a problem since Angle was so proud of the ad she took it down from YouTube.
Fortunately, we still have it here: