In case you needed another excuse to support Rep. Alan Grayson.....

GOP House candidate runs TV ad calling for racial profiling

You absolutely have to see this TV ad that a House GOP candidate hoping to take on Dem Rep Alan Grayson has run in Florida. It not only supports racial profiling, but urges it as a matter of policy -- and even suggests explicitly that darker people are more likely to be terrorists.

In an interview,the candidate, Naval and airline pilot Dan Fanelli, insisted that the spot wasn't meant to argue that those with darker skin are more inclined towards terror. Watch the spot for yourself:

link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgdALsV6AmI&feature=player_embedded

In the spot, which ran over the weekend on a Fox affiliate in central Florida, Fanelli stands between a middle-aged white man and a younger, swarthy fellow. "Does this look like a terrorist?" he asks, gesturing towards the white. Then, pointing to the darker dude, he adds: "Or this?

"It's time to stop this political correctness in the invasion of our privacy," Fanelli says, an apparent call for racial profiling in the searching of those deemed to be potential terrorists.

In an interview, I asked Fanelli if the message of the spot was that darker people are more likely to be terrorists. He said it wasn't, claiming that the ad's point was that people from countries like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakisan and Syria "require a higher level of security."

"You can be light and from those countries," he said, adding that the actor who played the terrorist in the commercial agreed with him.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/05/gop_house_candidate_runs_tv_ad.html