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...establishment." Nelson had, among other things, produced the famous, race-baiting Tennessee attack ad in which a semi-naked blond bimbo told Democratic senatorial candidate Harold Ford--an African-American--to "Call [her]." He'd run the...

In this article: John McCain, John Weaver, Rick Davis, Republican Party, Terry Nelson, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Harold Ford, and Barack Obama

In October 2006, Wal-Mart publicly ended its contract with Crosslink Strategy, after significant controversy erupted regarding Nelson's involvement with an allegedly racist campaign ad mocking Democrat Harold Ford of Tennessee. In...

In this article: Terry A. Nelson, John McCain, Wal-Mart, Harold Ford Jr., Republican National Committee, Jim Nussle, and Tom DeLay

...Mr. McCain's top adviser expressed public displeasure with an advertisement against former Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., Democrat of Tennessee, that some saw as having racist overtones for suggesting a flirtation between Mr. Ford, who is...

In this article: John McCain, George W. Bush, Mark McKinnon, John Weaver, Democratic National Committee, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Terry Nelson, Harold E. Ford Jr., and Barack Obama

...buttons. It was McCain, remember, who hired Terry Nelson as his first national campaign manager - knowing full well that Nelson's last major campaign was a 2006 Senate race in Tennessee marked by a noxious, notorious racial smear. In the...

In this article: John McCain, Barack Obama, Harold Ford, Terry Nelson, Playboy, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears

...white women. " "Remember, [McCain] hired the operative who put together the Ford/Bimbo ad," Marshall wrote, referring to McCain's onetime campaign manager, Terry Nelson, who helped produce the RNC's Tennessee spot in 2006. Nelson left the...

In this article: John McCain, Phil Bredesen, Barack Obama, Harold Ford Jr., Bob Corker, Paris Hilton, Josh Marshall, Terry Nelson, and George W. Bush

...that he was someone they could trust as a moderate or conservative Democrat, both in terms of the policies he put forward and his values," Nelson said. "We felt Tennessee voters should know both sides of the story." "They want to scare...

In this article: Wal-Mart, Terry Nelson, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Jackson, GOP, Playboy Club, and Republican National Committee

...winking and whispering, "Harold, call me." The ad is taking aim at an African American bidding to become the first black senator from Tennessee since Reconstruction, and it has set off a firestorm of debate, particularly among those who...

In this article: Wal-Mart, Harold Ford Jr., Terry Nelson, Working Families for Wal-Mart, Playboy, Real, Republican National Committee, Bob Corker, and U.N.