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Use of Hip-Hop in McCain Ad


I noted earlier that it seemed a little strange that an ad by McCain used a hip-hop soundtrack when showing images of 1960's hippies.  Naturally, the images contain the subtle image of a swarthy black man walking with some unwashed peaceniks, followed by a make out session segue to McCain getting shot down in his shiny, phallic jet half a world away in service to his country.

I couldn't find much notice of the racial undertones by the media at the time (nevermind the Freudian ones).  But now it is clear that this was part of a much larger strategy to freak out white America with the prospect of a basketball court under the Oval Office.


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