Call Blocker
By Wells Dunbar, 12:47PM, Fri. Nov. 10, 2006
And so it turns out the the most divisive figure of the campaign season
is none other than Austin actress Johanna Goldsmith. Appearing in the
Republican National Committee's smear ad against Tennessee Senate
candidate (and African-American) Harold Ford Jr., her sign off at the
end – "Harold! Call me!" – was widely decried as needling Whitey's
racist fears of black sexual prowess.
On her role as the 2006 Willie Horton (with boobs and a melanin
deficiency, natch), Goldsmith told the Statesman "I didn't see
anything provocative about it... I've dated every nationality under the
sun, so why would there be a problem?"
We hope this quote from her agent is accurate: "She's not a bimbo,
but she plays one on TV."
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