Pete Hoekstra campaign’s racially insensitive Super Bowl ad draws calls for apology

I'm sure she's going to backtrack her statement if Pete Hoekstra wins. She'll also take the credit for his win. I'd have more respect for her if she stuck to her guns and said "yes I did it...you don't like it...get out there and vote...don't cry from the sidelines."

Hmm, I wonder which parts of the ad she feels so "horrible" and ashamed about? The part about us spending too much money or the part about us borrowing from China so we can spend more money or the part about our economy being weak while theirs is good or the part about them taking our jobs? You'd think she had posed naked for playboy or something. What a big bowl of steaming #$%$

not sure how the ad is racist towards asian americans when it doesn't portray an asian american. The character portrayed is a chinese national, in a rice paddy, in china. If you wanted to be totally PC about it you could have had her speaking mandarin with subtitles, but come on, it's michigan. You can't ask them to read and then expect them to still vote for you

Blame Corporate America, the none tax paying billionaires.

Strange nobody expects all the Mexicans in this country to speak perfect English yet an Asian woman speaking broken English is a "stereotype"?? Give me a break!

Mystery Babylon(Amerikkka) the great is falling.

Since when is China a race.

Re: "...and speaking broken English"
That is offensive in a nation of "Press 2 for Spanish"?

Actually, if Pete ever paid any attention he'd notice that China's criticisms of our spending is in line with his own thinking and views on the issue (as is his support for free trade and membership of the WTO). Oh, well, I guess it's only patriotic when bashing someone else.

What's wrong with this ad? It's telling the truth. I worked for a document processing company that got a part of the stimulus package....to stimulate jobs....yeah, they were stimulated...in the Philippines; my job went overseas, because labor there is cheaper and I was forced to the unemployment office.

Racially insensitve? Where?

What ever happened to freedom of speech? If enough voters feel it was racist and unwarranted, they will vote for his opponent. If he gets elected, the people of his state may be sending a message to all those who want to restrict people stating how they feel, even if it offends some.

Looks like an effective ad to me. I like how liberals accuse republicans of being racially insensitive. Liberals like to forget about the fact that they've destroyed the black family in American and how they've turned blacks into slaves to the democrat party. That's slightly worse than insensitive; it's criminal.

The two worst problems this country has are a monstrous imbalance of trade and too many idiots calling out for political correctness in everything that is said or done.

Most of the whiners that are always yelling out racism are doing so for their own gain. The rest grew up as spoiled rich kids and are trying to find something to stand for to give their life meaning. Most of them are probably card carrying PETA members as well.

Economic problems and Political Correctness are ruining this country. The intention of the commercial was to call attention to what's destroying this country. It's our own spending! We as a country are spending money that we don't have. We are buying and borrowing from China without having the money to pay them back. We print more money and devalue what little money we have. This includes yours and my savings.

China is focusing on the United States in every way they can think of. They are even requiring their children to learn ENGLISH. Obviously the Chinese have some kind of plan for us or for our country!!! We have needed someone to point this out to the majority of people in the U.S.A. for quite some time! Instead of criticizing him, we all should be thanking Mr. Hoekstra and his Campaign staff for doing so.

God Bless America!!!

I am sick to death of hearing about racism! All the cries of racism make people MORE racist! Get over it already, not everything is about race!

We don't need another jerk Republican from Michigan in office. We have produced enough of them at the state and national level.

If the ad had featured that Asian girl in Full Metal Jacket, that would have been racially insensitive.

Not this.

Typical leftist propaganda from critics who have larger chips on their shoulders than brains in their heads: wage personal attacks when they can't answer the issues. Trying to describe this as racist because of the character's broken English is silly. The actress is portraying a native of China. Leftists are "shocked" that this character doesn't speak the Queen's English in the middle of a Chinese rice paddy, but they have no response for her message.

Truth hurts sometimes.

The damage, if thats what it is, is not China's fault. The ppl we voted in office were the ones who allowed it to happen. In other words, WE allowed it to happen.