Gag-worthy: Bipartisan indignance over “Barack the Magic Negro” parody
Oh, give me a super-sized break.
Leftie ’60s leftover/songwriter Peter Yarrow at the Huffington Post fumes over the “Barack the Magic Negro” parody that has RNC candidate Chip Saltsman in hot water.
All of sudden — after eight years of “F**k Bush” bumper stickers and “Kill Bush” assassination chic and Bush-or-Chimp parodies — the left is concerned about insulting the office of the Presidency?
Now, they are concerned with protecting the dignity of the office and with forging “commong ground and mutual respect?”:
The sending of a Christmas greeting by Chip Saltsman to the members of the Republican National Committee that includes a recording of the so-called parody, “Barack the Magic Negro” is not only offensive, it is shocking and saddening in the extreme. It flies in the face of America’s deeply held hope for a new era in which common ground and mutual respect characterize the exchanges between our national leaders.
I and my co-writer of “Puff,” Lenny Lipton, have been eagerly awaiting an end to the mean-spiritedness, outright disrespect and bigotry that was commonplace prior to this last presidential election. What might have been wearily accepted as “the way it was” in the campaign, is now unacceptable. Obama is not a candidate. He is the President-Elect, and this song insults the office of the Presidency, the people who voted for him, as well as those who did not — and taking a children’s song and twisting it in such vulgar, mean-spirited way, is a slur to our entire country and our common agreement to move beyond racism.
If the song “insults the office of the Presidency,” what about the 2007 Los Angeles Times op-ed by David Ehrenstein that inspired the parody in the first place?
AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.
But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.”
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .
He’s there to assuage white “guilt” (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest…
…Obama’s fame right now has little to do with his political record or what he’s written in his two (count ‘em) books, or even what he’s actually said in those stem-winders. It’s the way he’s said it that counts the most. It’s his manner, which, as presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is “articulate.” His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn’t called his opponents names (despite being baited by the media).
Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn’t project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.
The hysterical rush to protect magical Obama from ridicule only proves Ehrenstein’s point. And the parody is as much, if not more, a satire of race-mongering demagogue Al Sharpton than it is of Obama:
As much as I am nauseated by the left’s reaction, the overreaction of some on the right is even more gag-worthy. Current RNC chair Mike Duncan professes to be “shocked” and “appalled.” Others are assailing Saltsman’s lack of “sensitivity” and “tone-deafness” in sending out a joke CD by his good friend Paul Shanklin. Still others argue that even though the parody is not racist and is totally defensible, it’s just too much work to defend it.
If that’s the kind of GOP “leadership” we’re in for the next four years, it’s going to a long, long four years.
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Liberalism is a disease.
Dave Barry’s end of the Year Lampooning of the Press and Their Sappy Love Affair with Obama is spot on.
Peter Yarrow is still alive? Who knew?
Saltsman should have known better. Not because the song is offensive, but because shoddy MSM reporting will use it to support their GOP racists meme.
This isn’t the kind of decision making the GOP needs right now.
Like a sissy bully, the left can dish it out, but can not take it. One shot and they’re running home cryin’ to momma.
Taylork – You miss the point. It doesn’t matter what Conservaitves say or do because the real racists in the MSM are already using it to support their GOP racists meme. And if that doesn’t work they’ll just fabricate something out of whole cloth to support their meme.
Saltsman did nothing wrong and to try and smack him down for this is exactly what that very same MSM wants you to do because it perfectly fits their racist GOP meme.
Wait. What? B. Hussein Obama is not magical? When did that happen?
Stop listening to the corrupt media.
Don’t apologize.
Go on offense.
Isn’t this the same song/parody that Rush Limbaugh played on his radio program several months ago? The one with the imitation Al Sharpton voice sung to the tune of ‘Puff The Magic Dragon’?
Is the left scraping the same old crap off the wall and throwing it again?
But….but….but….Barack HUSSEIN Obama is The ONE! Even Cold virus’ refuse to infect him out of respect!
Leftist simpletons….
To borrow a phrase from Boston Legal’s Denny Crane, “Nancy Pansy”.
It’s worse than namby pamby.
It actually dates back to spring 2007.
Where were all the dogooders back in the 1980s when Pete Seeger spoke and sang at an antiIsrael conference and lambasted Israel with every word? Seeger tried to speak to his audience in Arabic and then smiled and said:
” Better to butcher a language than to butcher a people.” For all practical purposes Seeger was accusing Israel of genocide. It was an evil, sickening charge but Seeger’s audience lapped it up. I would bet that Seeger and Yarrow are quite buddy-buddy.
What Saltsman did wrong was not predict the obvious when he sent out the tapes.
He’s not a racist, he was just stupid. Right now, the GOP needs a chess-master, not another bungler who can’t even play Candyland correctly.
It is known that they are.
taylork, you are the man.
as always, Michelle, you’re “spot on”….methinks the left doth protest too much, especially since it was a Black, left-wing LA Times reporter who wrote an aritcle using “the magic Negro” term. You’re also right about the namby, pamby, whiny Republican leadership. To borrow from another Peter, Paul and Mary tune, “Where have all the flowers gone”, where have all the give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death Patrick Henrys gone?
This is emblematic of the problem, the GOP always concedes to the left instead of making the case for reason, common sense, and tolerance.
Instead of saying, “No way is this racist, the Democrats need to get a sense of humor,” the GOP just concedes. “Yeah, we’re racists, and we’re sorry about it.” So, they lose not only African American voters, but also the bloc of people who won’t vote for wimps.
IIRC Peter Yarrow was convicted of child molestation back in 1970 or thereabouts.
I wonder if Michelle and Barry would allow him (now a Dirty Old Man) alone with their kids for a few moments.
I wonder if Peter Yarrow and Frank Davis were friends.
I’d have to agree with that assessment. There’s more than a full plate’s worth of things to disagree with, criticize and refuse to support Hope-a-Dope for without any injection of race at all; the only thing this “Magic Negro” reference does is to give his pod-people supporters something to latch onto in Alan Colmes-ian fashion to divert attention away from those other issues.
Mental disorder is more like it; liberalism/leftism isn’t something you can catch, like Leprosy; it’s a state of mind, more like brainwashing induced by simple and/or willful ignorance coupled with allowing oneself to be goverened by the negative emotions instead of governing them.
Libs/lefties believe that perhaps the greatest character fault is hypocrisy, which is why they relish any opportunity to spear conservatives who fall from their espoused ideals. The hobgoblin of libs/lefties is the double standard, which is glaringly revealed through Michelle’s post here.
Exhibit A:
– In other words, only now has it become unacceptable to show “disrespect and bigotry” toward the presidency. I’d challenge anyone to find a similar display of indignation on the part of Peter Yarrow between 2000 and November of this year. No need to bother looking; you know it doesn’t exist.
The problem with the double standard is that ultimately it leads to having no principles. What was horrible before now becomes desirable, what used to be disgusting becomes praiseworthy — and vice-versa — based solely on whether the individual concerned has a (D) or an (R) after his name.
The problem with having no principles is that every consideration becomes nothing more than a tactical exercise, and every issue becomes “negotiable” (i.e., “nuance”). This is how, for example, “dissent” is going to transform in January from “the highest form of patriotism” to “hate.”
I don’t know who Frank Davis is, but if he was a 60’s communist radical revolutionary, then yes, they were friends.
Translation: “I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.”
“GOP Leadership” is an oxymoron.
Of course they would. What Peter Yarrow did was before Barack’s time, so it doesn’t count! Remember W. Ayers? By the way, The only thing worse than liberal hypocracy is their memories. Anything they have said about GW that disrespected the Presidency is forgotten because they were talking about a Republican. Now that there is a democrat President, the office must be respected. This is not even mildly surprising.
how dare anyone refer to the mighty and all powerful PEBO as merely magical . when in fact he is the chosen onethe all powerful.
Time for a rousing chorus of “Pete the Magic Douchebag.”
Methinks that if someone had taken a Peter, Paul & Mary song and changed it into a cruel personal attack on Bush, Mr. Yarrow would have said/written not a word.
“Respect for the Office of the Presidency” be d!#*ed.
The hypocricy is pretty mind-blowing.
The RNC is proving how irrelevent it is.
Palin runs the underground now. Hail to the Queen.
“it’s just too much work to defend it.”
It seems like everything is just to much work to defend, when it comes to GOP leadership. What will you defend? Certainly not my right to keep what I earn! Certainly not our immigration laws! Certainly not our Constitution! Avast ye bilge sum! Arrrgghhhhh!
sum = scum
Pete the magic douchebag
Loved to snort the “C”
And sang for kids and stroked their ids
In a land called Hollywee
Pete the magic douchebag
leaned to the left
He never liked a candidate
With an ounce of wisdom heft
(go on boys and girls, sing along!)
It’s to hard to type pirate.
So, have any of these shocked and appalled people ever seen an episode of Chapelle’s Show?
Or South Park, SNL, anything on tv?
How do we collectively fire Mike Duncan? I didn’t vote for him to lead the RNC? Did you? Who did it?
We need LEADERS right now not sniveling cowards like Mike Duncan because there’s NOTHING better than being able to take something the liberals dropped on the ground and rub their noses in it.
On December 29th, 2008 at 2:06 pm, Socky said:
So, have any of these shocked and appalled people ever seen an episode of Chapelle’s Show?
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If Chappelle had done it, it would have been not only acceptable but funny because he happens to be black himself.
I know, I know, tough to keep up with the double-standard of what is or is not RRRAAAACCCCISSSTT!.
The whole GOP leadership is stupid. And ok, I’ll say it – I think the song was out of place. See “stupid” above. Why give them ammo?
SUCK IT UP Loonie Lefties, we are just getting started here.
On December 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm, AlohaGuy said:
And ok, I’ll say it – I think the song was out of place. See “stupid” above. Why give them ammo?
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Agreed, Dumb Campaign Move Of The Year. Even if you don’t think anyone SHOULD be offended, wouldn’t it cross the mind (of anyone who had one) that someone else MIGHT BE? And it does, indeed, give the opposition “ammo”.
PS – How was Christmas in Paradise?
Message to Duncan – Shut the heck up and develop a sense of humor you nitwit. “Oh my God, the parody song might offend someone! The horror, the horror!”
Grow a backbone and tell the idiot MSM that it is a PARODY song and get over it.
But no, let’s throw a fellow repub under the bus rather than risk offense to our new socialist overlords.
What Michelle said about the F*ck Bush nonsense being tolerated is so true. I went to youtube to find the Magic Negro song and came across several postings that had been removed “due to violations of use policy”…so I tried F*ck Bush and found plenty of postings that are alive and well.
My favorite title: “F*ck You Failure George F*cking W. Bush, You F*cking F*cked F*cktard F*cker Fraud!” It’s amazing that these people are ever taken seriously.
Wanted: GOP leadership with half-a-brain. Must be able to:
-Take subway without help
-Beat an infant at Checkers, Scrabble, and Chutes and ladders. Chess a plus.
-Not use the phrase “My friends” every other sentence.
-Not say inflammatory or idiotic things just to get your face on TV or sell books.
Nice – followed by an 18 hour electrical blackout of the island. We all went over to Obama’s vacation compound and read by the glow of his personage.
On December 29th, 2008 at 2:20 pm, postobitum said:
My favorite title: “F*ck You Failure George F*cking W. Bush, You F*cking F*cked F*cktard F*cker Fraud!” It’s amazing that these people are ever taken seriously.
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Ahhhh, such eloquence. It’s no wonder Dubya seems crushed by the cutting, effective arguments of the haters.
Sarc/
On December 29th, 2008 at 2:23 pm, AlohaGuy said:
PS – How was Christmas in Paradise?
Nice – followed by an 18 hour electrical blackout of the island. We all went over to Obama’s vacation compound and read by the glow of his personage.
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We lucked out here in MO with the weather. Ice on Christmas Eve-Eve, but the 24th turned sunny, warmer and dry. Stayed with Mom & Pop til yesterday afternoon.
Sorry about the long blackout where you were – what a pain! But, as you said, you had the Obama Glow to give you light.
Nice false equivalence you’ve got there. You are equating the actions of an elected official with those of “the left” — a large, ambiguously defined collection of people who you are representing with a handful of protesters with tasteless signs.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of “the left” is a convenient way to invent something to write about — it’s not that difficult to find inconsistencies among the actions of a few people when there are millions of them to choose from. Hell, Ann Coulter has made an entire career out of this kind of thing. But it is not a legitimate argument.
Show me an elected Democrat with a kill Bush bumper sticker and you might have a point. Even better, if the DNC put an image of Bush’s severed head on their Christmas cards your equivalency would make sense. Until then, you are grasping at strawmen.
(I should also mention that in your attempt to prove “the left’s” hypocrisy, you are defending language and behavior that is extremely inappropriate for our elected officials, and in the process proving “the left” right.)
Huffpo needs to look in the mirror, liberal David Ehrenstein (whose column provides most of the lyrics) writes for them as well as the LA Times.
The Shanklin CD in question is called “We Hate the USA”. That song features Shanklin impersonating various Democrat luminaries expounding how they hate America to the tune of “God Bless the U.S.A”. That evidently doesn’t bother them.
I am not sure faraway, but I believe he was “friends” with Tyrone,The Love Log, Davis who was his roomie when he did 3 months of a 1 to 5 for showing off the little fella to a 14 year old girl.
This part:
sure sounds just like a phrase devious genocidal
chimerasunicornsgriffinsmoderate Muslims like to use when bul*s**tting to the “world community”.This just convinces me even further that our socialists are indeed fellow travelers of, and useful idiots for, our jihadi mortal enemies.
Look for it to be a crime to insult Lord Obama in the near future.
Wrong, Huggybear.
The huffpo crowd are plenty outraged about this stuff, bit never seem to scold their fellow brownshirts when they cross the line. IF you can find me a huffpo article that chastises the assassination chic, then you may have a point.
Furthermore, there are plenty of congressmen and woman who’ve called bush a war criminal, idiot, Lord of the Sith, etc., etc. If Dennis Kucinich had a car I’m sure he’d have that crap all over it. And what about resident nutcase Cynthia McKinney who’s now going over to Israel to help Hamas?
Liberals have always been HYPOCRITES…like the book Do as I say…Not as I do………
Ted Kennedy a prime example…..
huggybear:
Murtha. Pelosi. Reid. Frank. Schumer.
They may not have the bumper stickers, but they’ve each said things that fit the mold of hypocrisy that MM has cast here. Of course, the most notable, and the saddest based on his history, is Murtha.
Whether it’s direct attacks at Bush, or undermining the efforts of the president in order to further political agendas and pander to the fringe, in my eyes, it’s the same.
You may have a point with Coulter, but I don’t recall her calling for Pelosi’s head on a pike. I’ll review her recent writings to verify.
(Then again, the dignity of the Office of President is different than the dignity of the Office of Protected Congresswoman representing a gerrymandered liberal California district–mostly because there is no dignity in that.)
Boo-freakin-hoo. The song is funny. Grow a pair of cojones and a sense of humor, libtard crybabies.
As for the RNC leadership, they could do with some stones, as well. Mike Duncan should be at the head of the line.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!
I recall a painting of the black mayor of a liberal city that depicted said mayor in cross-dress. Of course, the outcry was so great the painting was withdrawn and never again saw the light of day.
However, any “art” depicting the hated Republicans is OK because it is just “art” and shows how tolerant we are…
I see little wrong with insulting people stupid, uncaring or corrupt enough to vote for the super-liberal, empty suit Obama. The truth is the truth.
Once again, for the record, the song is about Sharpton and the LA Times, not Obama.
huggybear:
Get back to us when a city wants to arrest Obama if he sets foot within their limits. Oh, and let’s not forget Pillosee who stated impeachment of Bush was off the table and continues to let the left bring up the process.
I hope this does not surprise anyone. All this is, is one more example of how narrow minded, two faced, and self serving the left is.
I wonder how many examples there are in the last 20 years. I may not be able to list them all myself but I would bet they count well into the thousands.
hmmmm –
Rahm in Africa, Barry Soetero in Hawaii and the electricity goes out.
Wasn’t there also a power outage at the Watergate Hotel a number of years ago?
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
( i don’t think we could even make up all the dirt that b hussein & co. has actually been involved in for the past 2 decades)
“Respect the OFFICE of the PRESIDENCY”.. uttered by the left.
Now THAT is precious.
It sure isn’t ammunition to them if we shoot them with it FIRST! Apologizing is the only thing that makes it ammo against us – which side are you on?
Everything in that parody is based on things LIBERALS said! It has the oft celebrated Al Sharpton singing the song and some liberals did indeed whine that Obama wasn’t an ‘authentic black’ like Sharpton or Jackson. Time Magazine even had an article,“Is Obama Black Enough?”.
MSM lets liberals get away with using the race card over and over again; this song holds their collective feet to the fire for it.
It puts it right in their face and say smear them with it.
It seems that Michelle Malkin firmly believes that a good defense is a great offense, as she always goes down this path when someone from her side of the isle does something idiotic.
Isn’t the Republican party supposed to be the party of personal responsibility? Guess not.
Regarding the song itself, it’s offensive not because of the particular lyrics per ce, but because it’s so base. It’s not “Obama the Magic Liberal”, or even “Obama the Magic Communist”, but “Obama the Magic Negro”. It pokes fun at one of the only things the man didn’t have a choice in. It’s not racist song, but it’s obviously racial and just dumb. It’s dumb, as an official of the party, to support and distribute it, and it’s sad to see so many people defending it.
And to compare this to Dave Chappelle? That’s just idiotic.
OFF TOPIC, but interesting.
Earthquake swarm in yellowstone. All within literaly a few miles of each other.
mpchops, Seriously, after the lefts crap of the last 8 years, you have no room to talk. In fact you can shove your selective “outrage”. Not buying it.
Again, apples and oranges. Painting “the left” in a broad brush stroke just like you did the entire “librul media”. Those anti-Bush instances you cited did not come from Democratic Party leaders, nor candidates for the DNC chairmanship. The DNC did not print up the “Kill Bush” bumper stickers or make those signs.
Please go back to J-school or grow a brain.
They say if you have to explain a joke, it is not funny.
I don’t find this joke funny, and just makes Republicans look petty. Worse yet, it reinforces the common notion that Obama is a Negro. He is NOT. HE is biracial. The labeling a biracial person a Negro goes back to the days of slavery when a 1/16th “taint” was required to be a Negro (and therefore a slave). If we want to get out of the old master/slave mentality we must accept that he is biracial, and quit calling Obama black (even if he does himself).
Don’t worry. Our top scientists, who were originally alerted to the problem by a 16 year old amateur seismologist, are all over this and have secretly developed (with the cooperation of the Russians, Chinese, and Franch) a large drilling vehicle which will carry Hillary Swank and Bruce Willis to the Earth’s core, where they will set off some bombs that will heal the earth.
But you didn’t hear that from me.
Seriously, how have you not picked up on that? Either you’re not reading the comments, or you decided to not do your homework and find out the about the story behind the song.
It pokes fun at the LA Times column that first referred to BO as the “magic negro.”
Please explain to me how you make a parody song about a stupid,racist editorial, if you don’t actually reference what was stupid or racist about the editorial?
Chops, you demonstrated perfectly why it was stupid for Saltsman to give distribute the CD. The media predictably made a big deal out of the song, without providing in information on what the song was about, and people like you were too lazy to do any additional research. The result, is that more people are spoon-fed a mis-information from a media that’s hostile to the GOP.
True, the DNC was very carefull to ensure none of thier supporters ever openly linked them. But every single one of them was a democrat. Believe it.
J-school?
Mike Duncan is one of the big tent, big government, tax and spend asshats responsible for the Republican party being in the crapper and allowing the socialists to take over Congress with the Marxist Magic Negro in the Oval Office.
Unless we get buttheads like him out of leadership positions the party deserves to die.
The socialists didn’t get elected because the Republican party is too conservative. They got elected because the Republican party’s leaders are unprincipled liberals.
Unfortunately, that may be a fact, but not what most people think. They immediately apply it to Obama. This is just another one of those time I am glad I am a conservative and NOT a Republican.
I seem to remember liberal elected officials going to YearlyKos convention, providing sanction to Bush Lied.
The “Barack the Magic Negro” song was funny–but I don’t think it helped anything. I think off-color, racist, and stupid ads / videos / posts only make those doing them look petty and stupid.
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The O’Bummer and others (from both political parties) should be taken on for their statements, actions, and positions. Proof and backup information should be included. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Mark Levin seem to do good jobs on keeping it clean and in providing backup information. They fight it out–in a fair manner.
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John Bibb
On December 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pm, faraway said:
I seem to remember liberal elected officials going to YearlyKos convention, providing sanction to Bush Lied.
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They did indeed. You could argue that was an example of lib politicians sanctioning the kind of hatred MM was pointing out.
True to a point. But the rules were thrown out 8 years ago and see no reason to re-institue them now.
I didn’t think I sounded outraged. I just said it was dumb.
Is Terrence Howard black or bi-racial?
Is Dave Chappelle black or bi-racial?
Was Thurgood Marshall black or bi-racial?
When did black become bi-racial?
I’m still trying to figure out why Obama was half-black prior to the election, but now he’s just plain black…
Is his DNA altered?
I have a hard time caring how “black” obama the fraud is.
What goes around sometimes comes around. Some say that conservatives have no sense of humor. They can dish it out, but can not take it back.
Pitiful. I get a kick out of their mentality. This made my day.
Idiotic, just idiotic.
First, all of you allegedly outraged liberals, read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro
It is used in context with the media creation of a man of color, who, through cunning, magical powers, or spiritual superiority, pulls the white guy’s rear end out of trouble and guides him to enlightenment. It is not a racist comment directed at blacks, but a repudiation of one manifestation of “white guilt”. There are many historical examples. To feign offense is silly on just historical grounds.
Add to that the incessant drumbeat of vitriol from the left for the past eight years, and you have hypocrisy, plain and simple. Maybe our Democrats in Congress don’t have “Kill Bush” bumper stickers, but to call him a liar at every turn, obstruct everything from domestic reform to war policy, and show weakness to our enemies while showing contempt for our fighting men and women? I don’t need to see a T-shirt to know where they REALLY stand.
Wow. Deep.
Yes it was. In a top secert DNC lab they changed the rna strand to read BLACK instead of BI-RACIAL.
he he
That being said, Saltzman didn’t think before he acted. Dumb, yes. Racist, no.
The Left only gets outraged when the truth is spoken about them. We all know That One really IS their magic negro.
Ah, the E.D Hill defense. “We aren’t using the term, but just referencing the other people using the term”. Again, I didn’t say it was racist. I said it was stupidly racial.
Reason number two this was dumb on Saltsman part. Comments like these are going to be cherry-picked by the anyone with an agenda as proof that all conservatives are racist.
Maybe the use of “negro” was a poor choice of words, however, if they can’t take it, they shouldn’t dish it out. I guess it’s ok to slam anyone except their chosed one. If he’s so magical, powerful and all fixing then he can fight his own battles. What will they do when the thugs of the world call Obama nasty names?
Maybe they’ll realize he’s bi-racial…
You’ve clearly missed the point that the song was a parody of something else. Again, please tell me how you’re supposed to parody what was a clear instance of liberal racism if you donn’t reference said instance?