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Racial Parody Provokes RNC ControversyPosted on Dec 27, 2008
The inclusion of a racially charged satirical song about President-elect Barack Obama in a holiday-themed CD compiled by one Chip Saltsman, former Mike Huckabee aide and current candidate for Republican National Committee chair, has drawn sharp criticism from within GOP ranks, but others have come to Saltsman’s defense.
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By Trigger Finger, December 30, 2008 at 11:30 am #
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This was meant to be FUNNY. It was funny. I still have a smile on my face about it.
Report thisWhat would be really funny, hilarious actually, would be if four “magic Negro” bikers would drag this funny man out into the middle of the forrest and prove once and for all that “If a tree falls in the forrest, it doesn’t make a sound”. Three could watch and laugh while the forth does the proving! Ha Ha Ha!
By cyrena, December 30, 2008 at 9:31 am #
“It is time for the republican party to expand its base by facing the issues and discard their formula of name calling and attacks on their neighbors.”
Redhound,
You had me in complete agreement until this last part above.
I have to say that this is NOT time for the repigs to ‘expand’ their base, but rather the opposite. I wanna see them finish drifting into oblivion, never to be seen or heard from again.
Hopefully, this is an indication that they’re in their ‘last throes’ (pun intended).
Report thisBy AppxAm, December 30, 2008 at 1:12 am #
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Way to go, RePuz; that’s how to get the black vote, I guess.
Hey!!! Why not dig up Lee Atwater and start a new band with him playing the lead guitar and Chip in lead, and call themselves the “Willie Horton Boyz”-or “It’s Just Satire”. Yeah…that’ll make us jion them in 2012!
Report thisBy ApprxAm, December 30, 2008 at 12:14 am #
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I can’t imagine anyone being surprised by the RePugz “racist” singy-songz, I mean really!
Ken Blackwell, though, is the most kind of dangerous racist. A black man that hates black people, not so strange. But this kat will do anything for masa-GOP! Rig vote machines in Ohio, short black district’s access to ballots with long lines and fear tactics. This is the kind of dangerous individual that one would have a hard time seeing.
About the MSM not picking on Rush…the man has no fear except that of being ignored and would love the pub. NBC playing the extended version isn’t so strange, but expecting them not to sensationalize such is equally surprising.
Report thisBy Louise, December 29, 2008 at 3:06 pm #
No need to point out all the obvious reasons why Saltsman believed this bit of “parody” would appeal to the repub base.
But I will anyway.
He knows they have ...
No sense of humor.
No sense of taste.
No sense of value.
No sense of direction.
No sense. Period.
But in re-reading, I had a second thought. Desparation!
He isn’t a preacher. He isn’t a pediphile. And he hasn’t been convicted of corruption.
Report thisSo how on earth can the man hope to be named Republican National Committee chair, without the proper resume?
By HelenWheels, December 29, 2008 at 1:26 pm #
I find it truly disturbing that these people don’t seem to realize how blatantly racist they are when they do things like this:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/16/obama-bucks/
Even more grotesque than the “obama bucks” itself, is the justification by the idiotic GOP woman whose brain-child it was.
“The president of the organization, Diane Fedele, didn’t understand the charges of racism: “I didn’t see it the way that it’s being taken. I never connected. It was just food to me.”
How do people this out of touch even get into public office in the first place?
I hope this guy suffers the same fate as “Macaca” Allen.
And I agree that Rush Limpballs ought to be in just as much hot water as Imus was.
Report thisBy Stephen Smoliar, December 29, 2008 at 12:33 pm #
Did anyone notice that the excerpts played last night on NBC NEWS (along with the text displayed on the screen) were far more extensive than those reported in THE WASHINGTON POST? Did NBC think we would not get the point with a brief sample; or was this their way of encouraging the Limbaugh set under the pretext of “thoroughness?” Enquiring minds want to know!
Report thisBy redhound, December 29, 2008 at 7:07 am #
The article in the LA Times was a serious article on race relations and perceptions of race in the US. This “Parody” is another example of republican racial politics. Republicans have lost on all the major issues ,ie: human rights for all Americans, no wars for profit, and an open and responsive government. The failed policies of the Reagan revolution have driven out any sane,tolerant, intellectually curious voters from the republican party. It is time for the republican party to expand its base by facing the issues and discard their formula of name calling and attacks on their neighbors.
Report thisBy cyrena, December 28, 2008 at 10:49 pm #
By Louise, December 28 at 7:44 am #
They’re just jealous. ‘Cause the only color the repubs can claim as their own is the yellow streak down their back!
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Louise,
I LOVE this!!
It’s SOOOO true.
Ya gotta admit though, the odor from that yellow streak would put a real skunk out of his own league.
Only a republican can out-skunk a skunk.
Report thisBy David S. McQueen, December 28, 2008 at 7:37 pm #
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This musical parody’s seminal event was many months ago when a writer for the LA Times newspaper called Obama “The Magic Negro”. Paul Shanklin used the “Magic Negro” in his parody song lyrics and used the music “Puff the Magic Dragon”.
If you have a problem with “Barack the Magic Negro”, blame the ultra-liberal LA Times newspaper. Oh, yeah, that’s right: you can’t handle the truth.
Report thisBy Mormon Mystic, December 28, 2008 at 5:48 pm #
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What’s that? The chickens continue to come home to roost? The good ol’ boys and girls who style themselves as conservatives and are really bigots and racists, need to form their own party. They are neither conservative nor republican. How much longer will the Rupulicans of yesteryear put up with this outrageous behavior? Oh yeah! They are protecting the unborn and saving marriage.
Report thisBy Rick in NC, December 28, 2008 at 5:19 pm #
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There’s a maxim that implies that the longer and more strained explanations or excuses for an action become, chances are that the action was wrong or hurtful or inappropriate—-and the more unlikely an apology will follow.
The response by former OH Sec’y of State Ken Blackwell, the man who orchestrated unbalanced voting machine placement within Ohio’s Democratic-dominated precincts, is especially disturbing.
If you can’t win with your ideas, you pander to your uneducated constituents’ fears.
Report thisBy Jim Yell, December 28, 2008 at 5:14 pm #
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Considering what the right wing aka Republican Party says about progressives and liberals I think it is only right to ask “why does the Republican Party Hate America?” “Why does the Republican Party hate Democracy?”
We know this is true because how else can you explain the disrespect to America that has been a constant with the willfulness in which the Republicans have tried to destroy the nation and the democracy. We know they hate America because of the way they treat the working poor and the lies they tell to steal our natl treasure.
What a bunch of assholes.
Report thisBy sophrosyne, December 28, 2008 at 3:55 pm #
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Republicans have lost their way. The honorable Party that once stood for protection of civil liberties, caution in foreign affairs and diplomatic realism, small government, protection of privacy rights and balanced budgets has chosen plutocracy and war against America. The religious boobs with their errorneous and simplistic theology have come to be easy dupes for the money power and Zionists that pull the strings.
Report thisBy Stephen Smoliar, December 28, 2008 at 2:02 pm #
I am less interested in the media going after Saltsman and more interested in why they are not going after Limbaugh the way they went after Don Imus a year ago for his comments on women’s basketball:
http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2008/12/damage-causing-damage-control.html
Report thisBy Vaughn Donaldson, December 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm #
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I think Pastor Rick is a closet minister of the Brokeback church, which explains why all the closet Republicians like him so much.
Report thisBy mill, December 28, 2008 at 1:54 pm #
Love parody, read “The Onion” every week. Love humor offered at the expense of the comic.
Heard the “Obama the magic negro” audio. It is not funny to me. Infantile comes to mind. Racist too.
Even idiots and bigots have free speech rights. That a Republican would use bigoted free speech about the political opposition to promote his elevation to national chair of the Republican party says a lot about Republican values
... along with Sarah Palin’s soft bigotry about everybody not like her,
... and former Virginia Senator Allen’s (hey, Macaca!) values about people who don’t look like Americans to him apparently. Hell, throw in David Duke (of Republican candidate and Ku Klux Klan fame)
Republican values ... first and foremost - who should we hate? How intensely should we hate them?
Report thisBy Thomthum, December 28, 2008 at 1:38 pm #
Note to all politicos inside and outside the Beltway: Stop this freaking nonsense and get to work! This doosha-bag probably stayed up late licking envelopes to make sure the racist Xmas cards got out on time, while the rest of us can’t afford postage stamps!
Report thisBy Don Knutsen, December 28, 2008 at 1:18 pm #
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The republican party has become, under the current leadership, nothing more then a mafioso styled platform that represents the interests of large corporations only. Any responcibility for representing the interests of the people has many years ago gone the way of regulating our envirommental, fiscal, or health industry as a country. Todays republicans fall into two categories. The wealthiest amongst us whose greed trumps all else and the stubborn ignorant religous right that have never had a grasp of what the teachings were of the prophet they hypocritically say they follow. Our jails are full with no room for these criminals. Not untill we realize that these republicans of today deserve nothing but our contempt and vote them out of office because its for the good of us all, do we stand a chance of addressing all of the ills of our “Greed-is-good” capitalist society. Whenever legislation is brought before Congress to try and deal with our problems, its always the republicans who block those efforts in their zeal to give buisness whatever it wants. The republican party is full of those same sentiments that created this racist Obama ditty. To pretend that this was an anomoly, that this person who couldn’t have risen to within the top RNC position without the backing of many more republicans all along the way is ridiculous. Ofcourse this song represents their views. Racism is alive and flourishing still in America within the republican party. The place its always been nutured.
Report thisBy Louise, December 28, 2008 at 12:44 pm #
They’re just jealous. ‘Cause the only color the repubs can claim as their own is the yellow streak down their back!
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