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		<title>Asian American Actress in Hoekstra Ad Apologizes: &#8216;It Was Absolutely A Mistake&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Huffington Post&#8217;s Amanda Terkel reports that Lisa Chan, the actress who appeared in Pete Hoekstra&#8217;s racially-charged ad, has apologized, calling her participation &#8220;a mistake.&#8221; The commercial was widely criticized for its cultural insensitivity and furthering negative stereotypes of Asian-Americans. It ran on Super Bowl Sunday but was pull down a couple of days later. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/16/asian-american-actress-in-hoekstra-ad-apologizes-it-was-absolutely-a-mistake/</link>
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		<title>Public Policy Polling Shows Stabenow Leading Hoekstra by 14 percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report from Public Policy Polling (PPP) of Raleigh, NC, shows Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow has taken her biggest lead yet in the four polls conducted by PPP on the Michigan U.S. Senate race dating back to December of 2010. She now leads former U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra by 14 points, 51-37, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/14/public-policy-polling-shows-stabenow-leading-hoekstra-by-14-percent/</link>
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		<title>LINSANITY and Pete Hoekstra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Linsanity&#8221; has erupted in New York City over Jeremy Lin, a point guard for the New York Knicks who has come out of nowhere to lead the team to five consecutive victories. He came off the bench to score 25 in a win over New Jersey last Saturday, scored 28 in his first career start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/12/linsanity-and-pete-hoekstra/</link>
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		<title>Detroit News: &#8220;Hoekstra Backs off Super Bowl Ad&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marisa Schultz of the Detroit News reports &#8220;Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra has taken down a controversial Chinese-themed website and is phasing in a new TV commercial in the slot of his original Super Bowl ad that was panned as racially insensitive.&#8221; When Schultz asked Hoekstra campaign spokesman Paul Ciaramitaro about dropping the old, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/10/detroit-news-hoekstra-backs-off-super-bowl-ad/</link>
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		<title>Hoekstra out with New TV Commercial and Fundraising Appeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pete Hoekstra for U.S. Senate supporters received an email Thursday morning, announcing the launch of a new television ad: &#160; Thankfully, this time around, there is no racially-charged imagery or Chinese-American actresses speaking fake splintered English. Here&#8217;s the original commercial: &#160; One quick note: Hoekstra originally posted the offensive ad on YouTube and as soon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/09/hoekstra-out-with-new-tv-commercial-and-fundraising-appeal/</link>
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		<title>Hoekstra Bows to Public Pressure &#8211; Pulls Racist Ad and Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public Outcry 1, Pete Hoekstra 0. In a matter of roughly 72 hours, Pants-on-Fire Pete Hoekstra went from calling his &#8220;Debbie Spend-it-Now&#8221; Super Bowl ad &#8220;overwhelmingly positive&#8221; to replacing the racially-charged commercial with a new, non-culturally insensitive ad and pulling down the debbiespenditnow.com site entirely. Visitors who go to www.debbiespenditnow.com are automatically redirected to petespenditnot.com. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/09/hoekstra-bows-to-public-pressure-pulls-racist-ad-and-website/</link>
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		<title>Weapons of Mass Disinformation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Editor&#8217;s Note: Another guest post from our long-time reader and new PeteHoekstra.com contributor.) With Rick Santorum&#8217;s caucus and primary victories in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, we&#8217;re reminded of one of Pete Hoekstra&#8217;s &#8220;greatest hits,&#8221; back when he was chair of the House intelligence committee. It was in June, 2006 that the senator from Pennsylvania Santorum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/09/weapons-of-mass-disinformation/</link>
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		<title>The Chinese are Not Amused</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WashingtonPost foreign correspondent Keith Richburg reports, &#8220;The now-infamous Super Bowl ad by Michigan senate candidate Pete Hoekstra has attracted as much curiosity as outright criticism here in China, the intended &#8216;subject&#8217; of the ad.&#8221; Richburg says the popular Web site Shanghaiist called the ad &#8220;creepy&#8221; and &#8220;racist,&#8221;and he points out something we&#8217;ve been thinking the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/08/the-chinese-are-not-amused/</link>
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		<title>Another Batch of Angry Emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much for &#8220;overwhelmingly positive!&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Your Superbowl Sunday ad was tasteless and racist. What a moron that you are.&#8221; &#8220;Your Superbowl ad displays your ignorance and bigotry.  At what point does the US own up to their own shortcomings?  Why not attack the companies who manipulate Chinese labor, etc&#8230;and you have CEOs making hundreds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/08/another-batch-of-angry-emails/</link>
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		<title>Central Michigan Life Editorial: Hoekstra Should Drop Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Editorial Board of Central Michigan Life is out with an Editorial this morning calling for Pete Hoekstra to end his Senate campaign. &#8220;There is no acceptable move Hoekstra can make other than to withdraw from running for the nomination,&#8221; the Board writes.&#8221;Instead of trotting out evasive half-apologies or jingoistic defenses, it’s time for Hoekstra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.petehoekstra.com/2012/02/08/central-michigan-life-hoekstra-should-drop-out/</link>
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