“Others”:http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/10/kerry-healy-niggers-are-coming.html (link includes the youtube version of the ad) have commented on the racial aspects of the Healey campaign ad criticizing Deval Patrick for having defended an “admitted cop killer”. I’d like to criticize the grammar of the ad.
The ending sentence is, “Defense attorneys have a right to defend admitted cop killers, but do we really want one for governor?”
I saw that ad twice in less than half an hour watching Channel 7 on Monday night. My guess is that anyone who spends that much money on having an ad shown, also spends a lot of money on having it written and produced. I also suspect that the people who get paid that kind of money for writing have had training in how to write clear sentences in which no pronoun has an ambiguous antecedent.
It isn’t entirely clear whether the antecedent of “one” in that sentence at the end of the ad is “defense attorneys” or “cop killers”.
I doubt that this is an accident.
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