of creativity and fun ads and we had another ad from chrysler about how we're coming back and pete hoekstrasite direction. yet here's what hoekstra had to say on fox news earlier. here it is. >> the bottom line is when deputy stde debbie stabenow can't defend her record, they will move to the race cards. >> are they playing the race card every opportunity they get? >> not at all to. see race as a card is misleading, if you see it as a card, the republicans have been dealing from the bottom of the deck from the very beginning. so to claim debbie stabenow and those who find offense thif ad as playing the race card is to shuffle along a trajectory of ignorance and really object stupidity about what is racist and what ain't. we get it, we know, the signifiers are out there. we understand what you're saying. >> hoekstra is in a primary fight and some of the republicans in michigan certainly don't think he is fit as a candidate. that is "the ed show" i'm ed

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it just doesn't seem worthy of pete hoekstra.me this was child and given that you know what, the republic party has all these problems because it's almost an all-whited party and got all these issues with immigration, minorities, mocking people. i just don't think that was an effect forgive add for pete. it creates problems and crosses the line. >> bill: asian and pacific islanders vote group nonpartisan group, mary katharine says quote, it's very disturbing that mr. hoekstra's campaign shows harmful stereotypes encourage anti-asian sentiment. what do you think of that? >> i think it was not a smart ad. delve into something that's going to get a racial conversation started not a good situation. you can talk about china without going there it felt dated. it did not feel. >> bill: it wasn't china it was almost veems viewpoint vietnamese with rice patties. asian woman happy her economy is doing much better at the expense of the american economy and speaking broken english which is, of course, a cliche. i don't know if that's a smart

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pete hoekstra is standing by the spot that depicts a young asian woman speaking in broken xwlish. it first aired in local markets during the super bowl. asian americans say it plays into stereotypes. >> thank you, michigan senator. debbie spent so much american money, you borrowed more and more from us. your economy get very weak before ours get very good. we take your jobs. thank you, debbie spend it now. >> i think this race for u.s. at some is between debbie spend it now and pete spend it not. approve this message. >> the ad links viewers to a separate website featuring chinese writing with images of teapots, asian currency. hoekstra says the commercial's aim is clear. >> the only group of people that this ad is anti, it's anti the spending policies of the liberal left. but there's nothing in here that has racial tint at all. >> the $150,000 ad buy will run in the state of michigan for the next two weeks. >>> still ahead here on "way too early," gisele sticks up for her man. but she takes a shot at tom brady's teammates in the process. if you haven't heard what she told those f

. >> another good example of this is the spot that pete hoekstra ran in michigan. that spot pretty negative, racist if you will, but the response to it was so furious is it may end up destroying the man's campaign and i think that's a good argument for letting the market sort of regulate itself, everybody who's concerned about it. i tell my students to ask, how do you know when you've gone too far? you'll know, they'll let you know. >> it's a sort of long in infomerci infomercial, the pro beans super-pac as well did not have its intended effect. >> it kind of a boomerang. >> people picked it apart immediately, they asked them how they were interviewed, the people in the ad stepped away from it and said this is who we meant to talk about, it was good for us and so because of social media and how easy it is to find it these days as well. >> it needs to be picked apart, examined further than it was four years ago, usually it's the ad that hits and you can almost have a predictable reaction period where it was post vetted. >> i think youtube has revolutionized that bef

. >> this was an ad by pete hoekstra during the super bowl, nader michigan where hoekstra is running for senator. he spores the ad and says it highlights how deficit spending is helping china's economy, but community activists are calling the commercial blatantly racist because the character speaks in broken english. the asian-pacific islander american vote group issued this statement -- the hoekstra campaign says the ad will continue to run for two weeks. >>> what we are presuming you watched it the most watched tv event in history, more than 113 million viewers for last night's super bowl on nbc. >> but we did more than just watch it we tweeted, we tivoed. nbc bay area's business and tech reporter scott budman has the numbers for us. scott, which commercial was number one? >> january it had to do with a dog. we saw a lot of dogs last night, we saw madonna, m & m's, quite a bit of david beckham. we watched and rewatched as technology took control of the game. tens of thousands of us watched and rewatched this ad during the super bowl, making it the top tivoed commercial of the day.

viewer could see it with any seriousness, there was no specificity and it's going to back fire on pete hoekstra in fact it was made bit same person as frank davis who made the wild sheep ad, and the christine o'donnell, i am not a witch ad. but it is true that there is a great a. fear out there about china. you know very well that, in full disclosure there was an ad i ran, i didn't run it but the michigan democratic party ran on my behalf, in my race for governor, and that and a few other ads evoked this notion that my opponent had cut jobs in michigan and invested in china so that china issue is effective, is it not? >> look, i think that this ad was all sizzle and no stack. -- steak. and really it's set pete up to have to explain very problematic record in terms of voting to raise the debt ceiling five times or voting to cut taxes for wealthy people, a a budget-busting scenario. >> i'm going to have you back on the war room, because you're so fantastic. unfortunately we've got to go. everybody, stay with us, because we will be >>this is outrageous! we've have no choice, we've lost our democra

in michigan, there was one that would have made the 1970 incarnation of don rickles french from pete hoekstra. drawing harsh criticism but it's not the first in race debateing. this is supposed to depict an asian woman in a rice paddy speaking with broken english. >> debby spend so much of one money you buy more and more from us. your economy get very weak. our get very good. we take your job. >> scripted very weak. acting get worse. >>> the asian-american pacific islander group said it's very disturbing mr. hoekstra's campaign chose to use harmful and negative stereotypes that use anti-sentiments. the stereo tightsthe stereotypes is counter productive. and many are asking the recall of the ad. saying quote the imagery in the ad is no different than folks who put black face on." using an actress whose broken english is not all that convincing. >> this is a young woman in china who is speaking english. that'site an achievement. >> seriously. >> and if history is any guide equally poor adjustment will encroach on the presidential race as well. the willie horton ad which helped to topple michael

senate candidate pete hoekstra books throws running against incumbent debbie debbie stabenow in michigan or as his campaign calls are spend it now and during last night's super bowl his campaign aired this ad continuing the mispronunciation of her name hello. thank you michigan senator debbie stand it now debbie stand so much and managing many more and more for much of your economy get very weak eyes get very get your job thank you defend it now i think this race for u.s. senate is between debbie spend it now and keep spending i'm pete spend it not books and i approve this message. the ad has garnered a great deal of negative press since last night with many calling it racially insensitive and just think about the national g.o.p. consultant even called the ad really really dumb here we'll just call it very very . well press is reporting that there was an incident at the occupy d.c. movement a brick thrown at a cop. parenting court they said it was just a plastic bottle but you combine that with the recent activity and alyssum in oakland and you wonder what's going on you know is this wit

hoekstra against senator stabenow of michigan. >> your economy get very weak. ours get very good. we take your jobs. thank you debbie spend it now. >> i'm pete spend it not hoekstra, and i approve this message. >> what's your next ad mr. hoekstra, something about two wongs? the new battleground in the antiunion push, arizona. while democrats wobble, on protecting the rights of transportation workers to get or stay unionized. worsts. heard about the $8 billion planned parenthood abortion plex in kansas and their new slogan no life is sacred? this louisiana congressman did and didn't realize it was an onion amplet and republicans finally have real evidence of voter fraud. an illegal voter convicted on six counts in indiana. unfortunately he's the republican secretary of state of indiana! we'll go to our saskatchewan bureau. >> it's a sausage competition that i judge. >> go to pick a dick -- pick a tick.com. >> and you thought the game was super? here's the losing quarterback's wife. >> here's the halftime show. and here's rush limbaugh in the pats' openers box picking out who's gonna win. all that and more now on countdown. >> was there any no

reason i didn't want to play it it's obvious what pete hoekstra is doing here, he's troling the media. if you're not familiar with the word "trolling" when someone intentionally says something offensive or sensationalistic to attract attention. it is working. the ad was created by the master of outrage inducing free media, a guy name fred davis. he created ads for rick snyder and christine o'donnell. this one is racist, people are saying it's racist. >> i'm not apologizing for the ad. i think it clearly drives the message. >> of course talk more about his attacks on the democratic incumbent he's trying to challenge for a senate staet in michigan. the ad ran in michigan. hoekstra is trying to raise money from the ad outrange. his campaign sent out an e-mail liberals are doing what they always do crying racism. the ad aside from the tone and outrage also makes some substantive claims, every bit as offensive in their untruthfulness. the core of the ad's argument u.s. deficits redistribute power from america to china. the mechanism by which it does that is china purchases american treasur

position. >> so let's talk more about michigan with the man who knows very well, former congressman pete hoekstrar the senate. has been hanging out with herman cain, endorsed hoekstra, that has pen an interesting journey, pete. >> it really was. herman was in michigan yesterday. we went across the state. this is a who who knows how to connect with voters. a vision where he wants the country to go, we had a great day, glad to have him as part of my team. >> talk about connecting with voters in the state. does michigan see romney as a native son right now? >> i think so. i mean clearly, mitt and anne, this is their home turf. they have a home field advantage, they can talk to people people. you can tell it by the way they talk about state and how they connect with the people of the state. >> do you think michigan will respond to the negative ads and heat santorum and romney have been throwing at each other right now? it's getting intense. >> it is getting intense. as we talked to republican and independent voters across the state over the last couple months, one of the things they are us from strai

i'm pete spend it not hoekstra and i approve this message. >> wow. is standing by that 30 second spot. a young asian woman speaking in broken english. first aired in local michigan markets during the super bowl. the ad links viewers to a separate website, keeps going here, featuring chinese writing with images of teapots, dragons and asian currencies. >> what is going on? >> the great wall of debt. pete is a friend of mine there congress, so we have actually brought on dan to defeat this -- what's going on here? we like pete. what's he doing? >> he has a tough primary. >> and this helps? >> he's clearly trying to appeal to one segment of the electorate. >> what segment is that? >> i'll let pete speak for himself. i think this is explosive and he should have just stayed in congress. >> if dan won't defend it, let's let pete hoekstra defend it. >> the only group of people that this ad is anti, it's anti-debbie stabenaw and the spending policies of the liberal left. there's no racial tint at all. >> mark murphy saw this and he tweeted pete hoekstra supe

michigan republican candidate pete hoekstra ran this ad in an attempt to paint democratic debby stabenowg spending. >> and thank you, michigan senator debby spend it now. americans spend more money to buy more and more for less. and your economy gets weak, yours take ours take jobs. and thank you, debby spent it now. to the pacific islander american vote group, it's disturbing that mr. hoekstra's campaign thought to use negative stereo types that encourage anti-asian sentiment. even republican consultant murphy tweeted the ad was really, really dumb and oak extra maintained, it was care. >> we have a growth rate at 2% and china is coming off the 9% growth rate and this ad hurts the democrat where it hurts. and debt, whether referring to personal or national debt and the president is often the center of the debt discussion. it turns out he has some debt of his own. a chicago tv station reports the city of springfield, illinois, is still waiting for a $55,000 reimbursement for police overtime during a campaign event for then candidate obama in august of 2008. the city officials say they've

thank you, w spend it now. >> the ad by former republican congressman pete hoekstra, who wants to take her seat in the fall, debuted during the super bowl and it companied by a website including chinese characters like the great wall of debt. the ad campaign is being lambasted and criticized as being ratist. >> i don't think there's any lent of that at all. the only stereotyping that we do here is of liberal democrats and their spending policies. >> reporter: republican strategist mike murphy tweeted, pete hoeksment tra's ad really, really dumb. i mean, really. a group of detroit baptist ministers are calling on him to apologize and pull the ad. >> if he would save these types of things and use these types of actions, using asians than we believe the same fear tactics will be presented this regards to african-americans. >> reporter: the ad was produced by fred davis of "strategic perception" the same one that did this one with christine o'donnell "i'm not a witch." davis goes for attention-getting ad ads and he has no attention of backing down. >> i'm not apologizing for the ad. if som

the pete hoekstra add was past ph phobia, if not full on racism. it seems to have gotten worse. more of a, pointed than it has been in the last eight years. >> i agree with that. it's an easy target. look, it's a good way to score points on the campaign trail what most americans do not understand is that china is having their version of an election of year. they are having a big power change this year, and there's dissent, or signs of it within the communist party ranks. they have to stand up and say, and talk about if there's comments like the mitt romney comment. >> to pick up on that good point, it's not only this election they will face, but what is happening inside china and we only see the tip of it, is there are thousands of strikes, each year, growing in intensity. workers demanding higher wages as they see the growth in china. that and, and i understand labor in the country, why they feel it's a unlevel playing field with china subsidizing its exports, but that striking in china will effect a lift of the wages in the country more than the bashing. you know, there's also

aged woman speaking broken english is racially insensitive michigan republican senate candidate pete hoekstrademocrat debbie stabenow he says only it takes aim at spending and she is the only one who should be offended. super bowl commercials that you like usa today scientifically chosen the night belonged to the dogs. top three spots the guilty looking great dane who trades a bag of dorito's for a human's silence. couch potato dog getting in shape to chase a volkswagen beetle sketchers wearing bulldog beats a pack of greyhounds and number for another advertisement dorito's baby grabs chips from a big brother and the no. 5 spot introducing the newest character m&m's mrs. brown. tom skilling in the weather center with the seven day forecast >> those were terrific pretty clever by the way one of the viewers called to say the picture we showed or snowdrops we stand corrected thank you for the call and cloudy out there now look what happened as the night goes on when to turn and northeast lake moisture and also colder air from canada. snow showers and flurries by morning and in the evening light

just aweek or two ago you talked alot about this on msnbc, pete hoekstra, republican candidate airededibly insensitive race-baiting ad, a woman of chinese descent we take your job away, our economy very good, things like. that something like that is so obviously patently wrong, something like the call on this talk radio show you were talking about is so patently wrong we have to come down hard on that, that is not just asian americans, anybody who thinks about people simply having their own dignity. we have to come down hard. >> it hits every platform, even in entertainment. here is how conan o'brien skewed the stupidity of them using the image. >> they showed other graphics i thought were more offensive. i don't know why they weren't talking about. this one that said, he does the math to win. yeah. then, there was this one that said "taking opponents to the cleaners." >> what is your reaction to that? >> well, ed, i saw that clip and it's a reminder when we talk about race in this country, context is everything. context is everything. conan o'brien was doing a sketch he set up sayin