For weeks now, we have been urging someone – anyone – in the press to ask presidential candidate Herman Cain about his role in the offensive 2006 ad campaign for an organization called America’s PAC.

The purpose of the ad campaign was to get Black and Hispanic voters to support Republican candidates via radio ads that asked why Democrats were “on the same side of the Iraq war” as a “Ku Klux Klan cracker like David Duke” and another that suggested one of the characters in the ad would never vote Republican since he supported abortion because if “you make a little mistake with one of your ‘hos,’ you’ll want to dispose of that problem tout suite, no questions asked”:

Cain served as a spokesperson for the ad campaign and even reportedly voiced some of the ads himself … but, for some reason, nobody in the press has bothered to ask Cain anything about it.

But maybe someone will actually get around to asking Cain about his role, now that we know that he spent $1 million of his own money funding them:

With the balance of power in Congress hanging in the air, a leading African American businessman says black voters in the United States should put their historical pro-life values above political party. That means voting for pro-life candidates rather than supporting Democratic candidates across the board. Herman Cain is best known as the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. He is a political commentator and was a candidate for the U.S. Senate. “More and more African Americans are pro-life,” Cain said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained. “Our message to African Americans is simple — it’s time you vote for candidates who support our values.” Cain will underscore that message with a $1 million advertising campaign in key states and congressional districts targeting black radio programs and urban radio stations young African Americans enjoy … The ads are funded by Americas PAC, a Cain-backed organization.

The Bush administration called the ads “inappropriate” and the RNC called them “racist,” and the man who paid for them is now the leading frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination … so this seems like the sort of thing that maybe someone might want to ask Cain about.