Okay, so we have a bit more for you on that "jungle drums" ad we reported on yesterday: The Corker campaign is trying to knock down the charges made by radio talk show hosts and a radio producer in Tennessee who suggest the ads are "racist." The Associated Press reports:

The Corker campaign said it was preposterous to suggest the radio spot had a coded racial message. The same music, with drums, appears in a Corker TV commercial that doesn't mention Ford.

But does it? More after the jump.

We checked in with the Corker campaign to ask which ad not mentioning Ford had the "same music, with drums." The campaign sent us to this TV ad.

Give it a listen. While it's true that the same music is playing in the ad, and it's true that there is some sort of drumming audible, it's still dramatically different from the radio ad, which pumps up the very loud rumble of drums every single time Ford's name is mentioned. They're just not comparable. That doesn't necessarily prove the Corker campaign deliberately included the drums as racial coding, of course. It just means the drums in the radio ad aren't anything like the other spot.

What's more, we asked Corker communications director Todd Womack twice if the campaign's position was that the drums were comparable in the two spots. He declined to answer both times, just reiterating the claim that the charge is "ridiculous."

Meanwhile, you'd think that Bill Lockhart, the program director for WGOW radio in Tennessee who spoke to us yesterday, would have heard or seem all of Corker's ads. Nonetheless, the radio one leapt out at him. Just to recap, here's what he told us yesterday:

"They're freaking jungle-drums. It's racist -- it tries to conjure up deep, dark African moods. Yeah, it's overtly racial."

So that's where we are. If you feel like it, give that other ad a listen, and let us know what you think.