YOU KNOW WHAT IS SO TERRIBLE? It’s this liberal political correctness! Still! Back in the golden age of “Real America,” you could run around shouting the n-word at any given black person or piss on a Chinaman for being a Chinaman or just squeeze ladies’ boobs (“Honk Honk!” you’d say) at your workplace because THIS COUNTRY HAD CHARACTER, OK? And now the liberal media “controversy” against poor GOP chairman candidate Chip Saltsman, who tried to win party allies via the tried-and-true GOP bonding method of sharing n*gger jokes, has of course made Saltsman a hero in his own white party.
Four days after news broke that the former Tennessee GOP chairman had sent a CD that included a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” to the RNC members he is courting, some of those officials are rallying around the embattled Saltsman, with a few questioning whether the national media and his opponents are piling on.
“When I heard about the story I had to figure out what was going on for myself,” said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the Maine Republican Party. “When I found out what this was about I had to ask, ‘boy, what’s the big deal here?’ because there wasn’t any.”
Alabama Republican committeeman Paul Reynolds said the fact the Saltsman sent him a CD with the song on it “didn’t bother me one bit.”
“Chip probably could have thought it through a bit more, but he was doing everyone a favor by giving us a gift,” he said. “This is just people looking for something to make an issue of.”
That’s exactly what it is, slaveowner Paul Reynolds! We’re reading about it in Politico after all! But still, the issue has been made, and current RNC chairman Mike Duncan released this very nice, astute statement after the Controversy erupted:
The day after the story was first reported by The Hill, RNC Chairman Mike Duncan issued a statement expressing disgust over the song.
“The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party,” said Duncan, who is seeking reelection to his post. “I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate as it clearly does not move us in the right direction.”
Naturally the GOP read this statement and decided to kill Mike Duncan and his family:
Not everyone is so sure, with some RNC members contending that Anuzis and Duncan may have actually hurt their candidacies with their responses.
“Those are two guys who just eliminated themselves from this race for jumping all over Chip on this,” one committee member told Politico. “Mike Duncan is a nice guy, but he screwed up big time by pandering to the national press on this.”
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Given the photo, I’d think he’s related in some way to WALNUTS!
With Saltsman running an RNC that’s running Palin as a Presidential candidate, the next election is going to be awesome! …-ly hilarious. Can we please bring back Bob Dole to be the VP candidate? Pretty please?
I can understand the cracker from Alabama thnking this was no big deal, but the guy from Maine?
Now, I’ve been to Maine…spent a week there one day…and while it’s not exactly, errrr, diverse, there seemed to me to be an air of tolerance and education commensurate with its geographical location in the Northeast.
Is this guy an import from Mississippi?
Being a gay Spanish Hebrew, I’m just glad that I’m not the butt of the joke for once.
Get out of the GOP, Mike Duncan. Get out, before it sucks out the last vestiges of your soul.
The CD also includes “Juan the hardworking wetback”
he looks a lot like george macacca allen
[re=206539]actor212[/re]: Maine is the Mississippi of New England: poor and backwards.
[re=206542]sevenrepeat[/re]: A gay goy Golem?
This could be dangerous – the new Flatearth society….with an old/new theme: When Minorities and Facts don’t Matter!…. it’s a direct result of the Bush educational strategy, No Child Left Hanging…
Why do these GOP State chairmen have such weird names? After Gary Emineth, here now comes Saul Anuzis. My prescription would be an enimeth in the anusiz.
So I try to help get Chip elected-I go to the Maryland state GOP website- planning to use a good Republican name like Bitsy Tripper Palin – and suggest the State GOp reps vote for Chipper and find that Maryland is supporting Michael Steele. Can’t they see that Chip is the man!!
[re=206542]sevenrepeat[/re]: So, a gay Spanish Hebrew walks into a bar … “
[re=206534]FreshCliches[/re]: They have an EXTREME CLOSE-UP of that picture on the front page of Huffington Post. It’s way to early in the morning to deal with that man’s face.
BTW, I love this photo…meld of Yogi Bear, Foghorn Leghorn and Walnuts…needs to be photoshopped with a TRUCK NUTZ bowtie…
Well let’s be reasonable and remember that alot of Republicans are still angry because the blacks made Bristol Palin preggers and carved a B into that fat girls face. Also Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake. It’s all right here in this email.
He looks like George Allen’s fat twin. And acts like his twin. We sent that SOB packing in Virginia, and lets just hope the GOP continues to let these jackasses run their show. The internet is like DDT to these racist roaches. The Republicans will become the party of Texas, Mississippi, and the offices of the Wall Street Journal.
Usually Republicans are pudgy, self-satisfied, frat-boy asshats.
So Chip Saltsman is a breath of fresh air.
What, it’s not O.K. to squeeze ladies’ boobs and say Honk honk! ?
At this point, the best hope the GOP has is to start a selective breeding program. This is the only way they’ll get enough whities. It will of course require every white man getting more than one white ‘wife’ and to start inpregnations at the age of 14.
The other positive side effect will be lots of single non-white men to have gay buttsecks with.
You know a political party has it going on and is primed to win elections when they’re about to choose a leader based on who distributed the most racist novelty tune in an attempt to win over voters. Isn’t that how the Dean won the DNC job? With his funny rap about dumb Polish people and thieving Italians?
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
So… judging by the popularity of this song among Republicans, it’s safe to say that Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele don’t have a future in national Republican politics? Apart from standing outside the Republican convention hall dressed as jockeys, of course…
Remember, Republicans — if you had voted for Chip Saltsman back in 2009, maybe you wouldn’t have all that trouble later on.
Salty McChippenstein is one ugly mofo. I’m sure he hates anyone who can get laid without triple-baggin’ it (bag for you, bag for him, and a bag for the FBI agent)
[re=206553]Nigerian Business Executive[/re]: … and the cross-dressing Asian Anglican ducks!
Why does he have a face that looks like it would be fun to punch? I think in a fight he’d be the kind of guy who just cower and cry like a sissy. It’ll be fun when his GOP catches up with him & he lands up in a nice prison with people who have different views of race relations
I predict he’ll be arrested for trying to hook up with magical negro children inside of six months.
I’m just glad the CD format wasn’t around when Harvey Milk got elected. Though “Poof the Magic Faggon” is just made for easy listening.
It’s without a doubt, Glen Quagmire…
Saltsman seems crazy until you examine part two of his proposed GOP ‘Road to Victory’ plan – repealing the vote for minorities.
See, crazy like a fox.
[re=206548]Vanity Smurf[/re]: Not true, really. New Hampshire is more redneck than Maine. Portland and Portsmouth are cool and most people are openminded.
[re=206574]magic titty[/re]: Now that is a song I’d listen to again and again.
I hate this story. It took most of xmas week to get “Puff the Magic Dragon” out of my head, and then I come back to work and BAM! it’s back.
Oh, and I hate Chip Saltsman, but that’s another story, and I hope he leads the RNC right off the cliff they’ve been heading for since Reagan.
[re=206558]totoro[/re]: And don’t forget the asshatiest of all; Fux “News”…
[re=206546]Schmannity[/re]: And “Wu Dong, The Red Nosed Grocer”
[re=206557]Woodwards Friend[/re]: And speaking of the lovely Bristol, she had her baby. Then Levi’s Mom got arrested for selling Oxycontin. I’m not making this up!
[re=206561]Bruno[/re]:
Um, they already have an answer for that. It’s called Mormonism. Or, at least Mormonism in it’s original Joseph Smith founded and approved polygamicious form. The GOP just hasn’t seen the light yet. Eventually they will wake up and realize that Mittens is their great, white savior and only hope.
[re=206578]yellowdogdem[/re]: Maybe that’s my problem. I was in Portland and Bar Harbor.
Is anyone else old enough to remember the Gong Show, a tee Vee program from the second millennium? That’s what the RNC has in mind as a process for selecting a new chairman.
This definativley proves that the Republicans are the party of the Big Hood.
[re=206560]BillyClubb[/re]: The PC form is to squeeze and ask “Are those real?”
Keep up, if you want to get laid in the 21st Century…
enough already.
screw this slimy
little bagel breather,
and all others of
his scummy little
smarmy ilk — the
boner nosed bastard.
Saltsman looks like the guy who always plays the travelling sales executive stuck in a car knee deep in HoHo wrappers and Big Mac boxes, who gets eaten first by the zombie mob in the desert outside of Yuma.
[re=206585]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]:
er, polygamalicious, that is.
“I had to ask, ‘boy, what’s the big deal here?’ because there wasn’t any.”
HAHAHAhahaha!!!
“…but he was doing everyone a favor by giving us a gift”
How old are these people? Aw man, I really hope they stick by this Quagmire guy.
I don’t know why Magicians are so sensitive! (OK, Magical-Americans, now get off my back!)
[re=206560]BillyClubb[/re]: Because now that wimmins lib thing have them grabbing you back by the TRUCK NUTZ and shouting AAHOOOGA!
shit will really hit the fan when they discover he’s been frequenting a black prostitute, bonus outrage if she’s part mexican; if it’s not a child it’s simply not the republican way.
seriously, it’s only liberals and halfway decent human beings who think the average GOP constituent is offended by chip & salsa man, if anything they were reminded of their favorite uncle or friend and find him relatable and endearing.
What is it with negroes? I just don’t get it.
[re=206560]BillyClubb[/re]: I believe a single big squeeze with an “ah-OOOOOO-ga!” sound is considered correct these days.
All they want is to provoke a reaction from Obama, so they can characterize him as an “angry black man.” Therefore Obama will be too-clever-by-half and refuse to take the bait, effectively coming across as a pussy who will put up with any amount of racist abuse. And while everybody is running around wondering if “parody” and “satire” count as racism, and whether the President will tolerate being called a “magic negro” without so much as registering an opinion on the subject, the policy chiefs at the GOP will be free to run around in secret ripping people off and sucking (or getting sucked by) anyone and anything they so choose. And nobody will be the wiser.
Is he looking at his step-daughter in that picture?
[re=206585]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]: Oooh, I didn’t know Mormonism also supported the hypocritical buttsecks, well they are Republicans after all.
[re=206601]Godot[/re]: Hey, don’t try to steal my mojo, Godot!
my favorite track was ‘itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow men we killed on Bikini’
[re=206575]freakishlystrong[/re]: Sweet Christ, you’re right! That is Glenn Quagmire! Giggity giggity GOP!
[re=206558]totoro[/re]: Well in fairness, Allen was defeated rather narrowly, and succeeded in denying racist intent until the very end. He’s a bit persona non grata still, but it’s only a matter of time.
Look these assholes are going to keep pushing the racist buttons until prominent people of color start reacting angrily. And then they’ll turn around and say “whoa, what’s with the militant Black Panther attitude? You must be planning to carjack my vehicle, loot my home, and rape my virgin child, of whatever sex. Therefore you must be denied political power for another 200 years until you learn manners…”
[re=206566]Larry McAwful[/re]: It would be great to see Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele get elevated to the Magic Negro status, their ordinary Negro status is not yet compelling.
That picture just screams intelligence, sophistication and satirical genius. It also makes me think of Twinkies for some reason.
So they’re making some damn ugly humans lately.
Again, I don’t understand today’s negro. The black guy in Chip’s frat was totally cool, and so was his Dad who offered him a job in the trading firm he founded.
Take off to the Great White North, hosers.
Sure this Saltsman guy is a typical white puffy Repug douchetwit, but still: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Negro Saltsman didn’t make up the term. Its certainly inappropriate to apply it to an top-winner-alpha-dog like Obama. But the concept of “the magical negro” has been around a long time. Saltsman is merely mis-applying it in this case.
Perhaps he should have written a song about Colin Powell instead, around April 2003?
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I don’t get it. Saltsman rooted harder than anyone I know for the Ryder Cup team, even though Tiger was on it.
[re=206534]FreshCliches[/re]:
More like Randy Quaid.
What they don’t tell you is when Mark Ellis asked, “Boy, what’s the big deal here?” he was talking to Ken Blackwell.
[re=206611]Larry McAwful[/re]: And as thoughtful and bright, I’m SURE…
[re=206558]totoro[/re]: Isn’t George Allen already fat?
And isn’t it fun to watch the GOP turn itself into a regional splinter party that can’t win elections outside the Bible Belt? Aren’t these the same people that got all lathered up because Michelle Obama was rumored to have used the phrase “whitey”? Aren’t they the ones who cry “hate speech” when someone starts making fun of the fundies? Didn’t they cry “sexism” when Snowbilly Palin’s credentials were questioned? Hypocrisy, racism and just plain bullshit are such vote getters theses days. Keep it up, Republitards – it’s going to be a long, cold, quarter of a century in the politcal wilderness. Let the internal bloodletting and bickering begin. Kind of like another party that got lost in the wilderness – something by the name of Donner. Whoever gets to feast on Saltsman (and Allen) are in for a full meal.
BURP.
[re=206608]WIDTAP[/re]: Damn you and your three minutes! Cursed comment delay!
Why is it that I can look at this guy and know instinctively that he’s packing three inches or less?
[re=206599]sarcasticusername[/re]:
She? She nothing. This is the GOP we’re talking here. It’ll be a male, black and/or Mexican prostitute. She-male at the very least.
This is so unfair. Saltsman has all of the Commodores and Lionel Richie albums, plus he TiVo’d every episode of the Wayne Brady show. What do they want from him?
Douchesack looks like he ate Tim Russert for lunch. Sorry.
Too soon?
[re=206646]bitchincamaro[/re]: Let’s just say he has no problem with the “Never eat anything larger than your head” warning.
I get it this is one of those pick a caption contests – Ok, I am going with “Umm, this bag of dicks is extra chewy today”.
Do I win?
This is totally bogus. Just last night Chip was watching television with his wife and mentioned that he’d totally do Halle Berry.
[re=206534]FreshCliches[/re]: I was thinking that, in that photo, he looked like George Macaca Allen (and how appropriate)
I love the fact that Duncan might lose the election because he suggested that distributing racially inflammatory garbage might be BAD for the GOP.
Why is this shitbag from Tennessee? Why why WHY?
youtube.com took down that video, but here is one that still works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxVkLhlu5s
Self destruction is only pretty to watch when it involves douchebags like these guys. Their rage against the “media” will only get worse when their rantings and overt bigotry begin to be ignored as the country moves on…without them. They will and are beginning to be looked upon as the crazy white guys shouting and drooling in the crazy person’s corner.
FYI, this is the original LATimes opinion piece “Obama the ‘Magic Negro’”:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story
I haven’t seen the full lyrics to the song that was inspired by it, but if it’s in the same vein as the article, I don’t think it’s racist. Hate to accidentally agree with Limbaugh here, though. Counterarguments, please??
[re=206656]LBOtomist[/re]: I’m going with: “Conditions under which a biatch slap sticks forever.”
The poster child for “stranger danger.”
Anyone named Chip has gotta be full of shit. It’s like a requirement.
I hope this fat fuck gets all kinds of interesting things in HIS mailbox…by the way, what’s this douchebag’s address?
The original video was removed from Youtube for violations of Youtube policy.
Heres a link to a different post, in case you haven’t heard the song yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxVkLhlu5s
God I love this party. I don’t care if the joke is two years old, during the election I always wished to see Michael Richards on TV attacking Obama and supporting McCain; then he’d be asked why he’s supporting McCain, Richards would stammer, pause, and say “why does that matter?” or “none of your business.”
[re=206552]finallyhappy[/re]: Michael Steele? The magic negro?
[re=206674]TroutSavant[/re]: So let me get the reasoning straight:
When the man is black, he is a “magic negro”.
When he is white and as Republican as they get he is “The Teflon President”.
Now is it inherently unfair for the black guy to be “Teflon” because he must be “magic” (Which of course would not be racist at all would it? They all have a little voodoo in them, don’t they?) or is your argument that “negro” no longer stirs up racial overtones in the post election world?
Or would a singular solution, such as “The majority American People tend to ignore the faults of the politician whose policies they prefer” tend to explain both cases with having to appeal to unproven theories of white guilt, racial favoritism or a conspiratorial media bias?
Occam’s razors a bitch, huh?
His hair looks like a hat that is too small for his fat head.
One more thing – “The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party,” said Duncan, who is seeking reelection to his post. “I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate as it clearly does not move us in the right direction.”
Heh I LOVE how this guy apparently thinks that up until the 2008 election, because the Republicans tried to play to whites only it was OK to mock blacks in song. Now that black peoples’ votes matter, in 2008, it is no longer appropriate to continue openly distributing racist jokes to Republican leaders and officials.
Cmon, I’m glad there are Republicans supporting this guy, and you are too! He is the person I want to head the RNC.if you can find a way to do it(using a real name- just ot your own)- write to your state GOP office and tell them to support Chip- that the media that destroyed the lovely Sarah Palin’s chances are the ones trying to destroy this upright citizen.
[re=206699]Palin-Plumber2012[/re]: I’m pretty sure he is not magic.
[re=206674]TroutSavant[/re]: Counter argument: According to Wikipedia, “Negro is a term referring to people of Black African ancestry. Prior to the shift in the lexicon of American and worldwide classification of race and ethnicity in the late 1960s, the appellation was accepted as a normal neutral formal term both by those of Black African descent as well as non-African blacks. Now it is often considered an ethnic slur[1][2][3] although the term is considered archaic and is not common as a racist slur. ” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro). Further, the singer is white and uses a classic racist version of African-American speech (e.g. “dat” for “that”, or “dey” for they).
That said, the lyrics are not so bad, and are well within the bounds of our right to freedom of speech. I think the point is more that a person aspiring to national prominence would think that disseminating the material would enhance his position in the Repub party.
[re=206705]WIDTAP[/re]: Did you read the article?
The media has been sort of busy with that dustup over in Israel and Gaza, housing prices falling a record 18 percent, the economy melting down faster than an iceberg, Santa shooting people, Hopey in Hawaii, the NFL and college bowl games and other such mishmash. Another story that Republicans remain racist ain’t exactly big headlines…so, no, the liberal media isn’t piling on.
The GOP just stepped in another pile of their own shit and only Joe the Plumber can fix the problem.
but Hopey is NOT a magic Negro! He’s a magic mulatto!!
[re=206717]GreyPanter[/re]: I understand that the term is offensive. My point is that the song quotes a LATimes article which picks up the term “magic negro” — a term invented, or at least popularized by Spike Lee — to illustrate its suggestion that whites appreciate a black man when he appears non-threatening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_negro
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story
[re=206534]FreshCliches[/re]: No, given that photo, that bitch is related to George Felix Macacawitz.
[re=206723]TroutSavant[/re]: Yes. I read it. I’m calling Ehrenstein’s screed bullshit and now wondering why the fuck you would link it in your comment on a blog where more than one person might have at least an average IQ.
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.”
….
He’s there to assuage white “guilt”
….
The only mud that momentarily stuck was criticism (white and black alike) concerning Obama’s alleged “inauthenticty,” as compared to such sterling examples of “genuine” blackness as Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg. Speaking as an African American whose last name has led to his racial “credentials” being challenged — often several times a day — I know how pesky this sort of thing can be.
….
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.
Ehrenstein Core arguments:
- Obama’s only value is to assuage white guilt.
- The shit don’t stick to him and no one in “the media” asks pesky question.
- His writing and speeches are uninspiring.
Bullshit.
How about people were just sick and tired of bad governance and Obama was the first and best to the message of Change?
How about Economy is in serious trouble; there’s been no end in site for two concurrent wars and Obama was the first to appeal to American optimism during a crisis since FDR?
How about the turnout at his “stem winder” speeches and the exit polling during the election show each of Ehrenstein’s proposals to have no basis in fact.
How about you quit the trolling and take this crap back to Foxnews?
““Those are two guys who just eliminated themselves from this race for jumping all over Chip on this,” one committee member told Politico. “Mike Duncan is a nice guy, but he screwed up big time by pandering to the national press on this.”
Is there no Republican left who refuses to race to the bottom?
[re=206747]TroutSavant[/re]: Hahaha, Ok , there’s not a racist trace in it at all. Right.
Republicans are racist. Paul Shanklin and Rush Limbaugh are notorious for using articles and quotes like that to drive their racist “parodies.” Apologists/concern trolls like yourself also use the excuse that Rush’s production manager is black.
And wait for the Rush and ditto-head response: “blacks have no sense of humor” Fuck you, it’s racist, pure and simple.
[re=206747]TroutSavant[/re]: “GreyPanter: I understand that the term is offensive. My point is that the song quotes a LATimes article which picks up the term “magic negro” — a term invented, or at least popularized by Spike Lee — to illustrate its suggestion that whites appreciate a black man when he appears non-threatening.”
Your point is made absolutely moot by context. Rush Limbaugh is using “magic negro” to nullify the success and ability of a black man and turn him into a buffoon, to lessen him and his victory. Alternately, he’s claiming that Obama is part white and therefore “safe by being not black” and therefore this was not a victory for black america, which is equally as racist.
Your understanding of this issue is shallow and makes all sorts of unnecessary excuses and concessions.
[re=206747]TroutSavant[/re]: …a term invented, or at least popularized by Spike Lee
…because if a black person says it, it can’t be racists or even ironically racist, can it?
…to illustrate its suggestion that whites appreciate a black man when he appears non-threatening.
…to which Ehrenstein, and you by your “prove it wrong” challenge, attribute without evidence as the voting motive to a significant portion of the US electorate.
Oh but I forget, five thirty eight and all the major polling were always in the bag for Obama, weren’t they. We need to trash the data and go with whatever idea Ehrenstein can quote from a black person.
Hey, Spike Lee also referenced minstrelsy in his movies, time for all RNC leaders to come out in blackface.
WHAT, YOU LIB’RULS CAN’T TAKE A JOKE?!!
[re=206770]WIDTAP[/re]: okay okay okay. I didn’t read that whole article but I think what’s worth noting is that Rush used this song because it appealed to him and his listeners on a really base and crass level. If the title of the song were “Barack the white guilt lifter” (?) and it was set to “Ride of the Valkyries” nobody would care regardless of how funny or poignant it was. I don’t think Limbaugh’s listeners are generally clever enough to understand the satire anyways. They just like it because he says “negro” (guffaw!) and they recognize the tune.
While the “white guilt” angle may carry some water (I’m sure some idiot voted for him because he’s black) It’s way overplayed and given too much credit. The whole thing is just emblematic of how out of touch and clueless the GOP is.
Maybe the best way for RNC members to evaluate Chip Saltsman is to review his detailed, multi-page, 3,644-word “Plan for Republican Victory” on his RNC campaign website at http://www.chipsaltsman.com
This is Chip’s “plan to execute a campaign for Republicans to recapture leadership on the American political scene.”
Hmm. Chippy’s Plan includes eleven LONG paragraphs about how the RNC should reach out to Latino and young voters —
but NOT ONE SINGLE WORD about black voters or reachin’ out to them…
and also, NOT ONE SINGLE WORD about women voters or reachin’ out to them.
Hmm. It looks like Ol’ Chippy has already written off any hope of addin’ black voters or women to his Party — so, it really doesn’t matter to Chippy that he sent all the RNC members a Christmas CD with his grinnin’ face next to four ugly, song titles.
Dr. Bill Frist praises Chippy as a “thoughtful tactician for Republicans nationwide.” I reckon we”ll see how this Chip-tactic plays out in the short term when the RNC members cast their votes in January —
and in the long term, when Americans cast their votes in future elections.
[re=206796]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: “They just like it because he says “negro” (guffaw!) and they recognize the tune.”
Don’t forget that the subliterate minstrel-voice, directly tied to the song’s use of “negro”, as if we wouldn’t understand that they’re singing about blacks if they didn’t make the voice sound stupid and ebonics-ladened in some manner.
“While the “white guilt” angle may carry some water (I’m sure some idiot voted for him because he’s black) It’s way overplayed and given too much credit.”
For every “white guilt” voter there’s a hundred who voted for “anybody but the colored”, but apparently not admitting to that is the kind of “good political correctness” that the RNC follows.
Trent Lott thought it was topical and had a beat you could dance to.
[re=206770]WIDTAP[/re]: Look, I voted for Obama, and I voted for him because I generally agree with his liberal Democratic platform. I’d love it if he were more to the left, in fact. I’m not suggesting that I believe any of Ehrenstein’s points are correct, I just found it to be an interesting view. Notably, the article was written soon after Obama announced his candidacy — a point when it would be valid to say the average person knew less about his platform or record and was probably viewing him more superficially. Certainly for Saltsman to be apparently supporting Ehrenstein’s position at this point comes off as, at the very least, in bad taste.
[re=206783]Maus[/re]: Between Larry Craig, Teg Haggard and Mark Foley aren’t bottoms about the ONLY thing they race towards?
“and also, NOT ONE SINGLE WORD about women voters or reachin’ out to them.”
Women don’t *like* politics, they tend to the home, ponies and (most importantly) babies.
Palin in 2012!
Magic Negro…sounds like a Ringo Starr movie.
Um, for those of you just tuning into the United States of America and hurriedly informing us that “magical negro” is an well-known term of art used by major black people such as Spike Lee and wry white people everywhere, let me just lead you through an interesting thought experiment:
Aunt Jemima is a well known smiley-faced black lady on the side of a pancake mix box, bought by millions of hungry folk of all the colors of the rainbow. Even though General Mills took the handkerchief off her head in the 80s and shrunk down her lips a little, I would suggest that if you were to call the next middle aged black woman you see Aunt Jemima that this would not work out for you very well, unless you enjoy being fired/sued/punched in the face.
If you think the same thing would not and should not happen with that totally harmless and much trafficked magical negro sobriquet, you are a serious danger to yourself and whoever is unfortunate enough to employ you. And the “I was just quoting 2 Live Crew, Apocalypse Now, the LA Times, or whatever” defense is just more laffs for the lawyers reading your deposition transcript.
“Notably, the article was written soon after Obama announced his candidacy — a point when it would be valid to say the average person knew less about his platform or record and was probably viewing him more superficially.”
“The average person” views all politics superficially. The only thing that matters here is that Barack Obama IS beyond a doubt qualified.
The media is generally terrible, but regurgitating the GOP talking points about “liberal bias” causing their massive failure marks you as a gullible dolt regardless of whether you voted for Obama or not.
[re=206788]WIDTAP[/re]: Spike Lee intended the term to be ironic, yes, and I think Ehrenstein is using it in the same way. Whether that irony translated to Rush and his listeners I highly doubt. Nuance is undoubtedly lost on them.
“to illustrate its suggestion…”
I used ‘its suggestion’ to specify that this is not my opinion, its Ehrenstein’s opinion.
Sorry if I’ve expressed myself badly. I will now be eaten alive by the Wonkette commentariat…
[re=206685]NoWireHangers[/re]: Seriously. With a name like Chip Saltsman could your really grow up to be anything but a douchebag republican? It was destined from his birth. This is a warning to parents everywhere. If you don’t want your children to grow up to be assholes name them things other than Chip, Lindsey, Tucker, and Saxby.
[re=206824]totoro[/re]: OK, fine. Point taken.
“Spike Lee intended the term to be ironic, yes, and I think Ehrenstein is using it in the same way. Whether that irony translated to Rush and his listeners I highly doubt. Nuance is undoubtedly lost on them.”
That’s the nature of humor. Again, the GOP and Rush Limbaugh have gone out of their way to lessen Obama’s education, his ability as an orator, and they have assaulted his character without mercy.
Have you sat down and listened to the song?
Have you ever listened to a minstrel show, or at least heard racist caricatures of smart, powerful black men?
Using a stupid voice to “ebonify” educated black people is pathetically racist, whether it’s “just a joke” or not.
Back to the nature of humor, even if the prior statements were off and untrue, what separates racist jokes from “black humor” IS THE NUANCE. It’s the knowing that deep down, the storyteller knows that the people are good, and smart, and capable, and that really things are not as the joke states.
This is mean-spirited passive-aggressive cowardice under the guise of “humor”.
“I will now be eaten alive by the Wonkette commentariat…”
As well you deserve, but feel free to say the same things you say here at cocktail parties and family gatherings, so you become “that guy”
[re=206595]Colander[/re]: When he said “Boy, what’s the big deal here?”, what they don’t mention is that he was actually directing the question at one of his many black manservants.
[re=206824]totoro[/re]: Well put.
STUPID messed up comment. Why?
Is it just me or does this guy look like John Makaka Warner?
I haven’t seen the full lyrics to the song that was inspired by it, but if it’s in the same vein as the article, I don’t think it’s racist.
The song is not in the same vein as the article.
David Ehrenstein (who identifies as black) was making the point that some racist white people love Obama because they see him as fitting the Hollywood “Magic Negro” stereotype.
Paul Shanklin was making the point that Al Sharpton hates Barack Obama for being more of an Uncle Tom than he is.
Ehrenstein was criticizing white racism.
Shanklin was perpetuating white racism by portraying black politicians as infighting, ignorant buffoons.
HOW ARE YOU NOT GETTING THIS?
PS: I thought Ehrenstein’s article was silly. But not racist against his fellow black people.
[re=206593]actor212[/re]: Nah. This is the guy you see passed out in the Hooters parking lot. 7 o’clock on Tuesday night.
This whole bunch is shortlist for the Darwin award, no?
[re=206888]stopmebeforeitypeagain[/re]: Whoops. By “This whole bunch” I meant the GOPsters, not yuz guyz.
Anyway. Certain People Around Here are acting like Wonkette should get a Political Commissar. Doesn’t trashing the GOPsters give you lotso fun, with more left over for all?
The GOP is a Big Tent. A big, white, southern revival meeting lynching tent.
[re=206903]stopmebeforeitypeagain[/re]: “Anyway. Certain People Around Here are acting like Wonkette should get a Political Commissar. Doesn’t trashing the GOPsters give you lotso fun, with more left over for all?”
Eh, it’s most-all fun for me, I just have higher (misplaced) expectations for understanding from fellow Dems than Republicans.
Who knows, maybe these guys are just assburgers and don’t understand proper behavior patterns!
Chip can see black Afrinegro people from his back porch.
Isn’t this the guy Jenna Bush married?
Chip looks a lot like Quagmire.
[re=206876]IceCreamEmpress[/re]: Yes, you’re right. I get it.
It’s that everyone was pointing to the use of “Negro” in the song as the reason it was racist, when that seems to be simplifying the issue by ignoring the source. Anyway, it’s still racist, for the reasons you point out, and so I’ll shutup.
[re=206539]actor212[/re]: [re=206548]Vanity Smurf[/re]: Isn’t there a bar in Maine that’s taking bets on when our Smoking in Swim trunks-elect will be assasinated?
The discussion on politico in the comments section is what’s “magic”. It isn’t quite Free Republic caliber, but some of it comes close. The notable thing about the incident isn’t that some GOP dimwit passed around a white solidarity joke. That I expect. The notable thing is that within a party which is terminally diversity-challenged that ANYONE came to his defense. This whole incident is a Christmas present to Democrats everywhere.
OMFG, his ‘blog’ allows comments and even addresses this topic (“well DUH, if the LA Times said it first it must be OK to repeat”)!
These are moderated comments so you will need to be clever in getting stuff through, but time for a FAIL anyone?
http://www.chipsaltsman.com/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=cc9ca87e-21b2-4120-ba35-f4427f284f22&Label_id=&Year=&Month=
[re=206939]Schadenfried[/re]: Why lookie here!
This reminds me of something that happened in Montana’s GOP-controlled state legislature a couple years ago. Republicans defeated some proposed hate crime legislation to protect gays and lesbians because, they said, passing the legislation would violate freedom of religion guarantees for religious people who believe gays are sinful and immoral.
Stay classy, GOP.
The next Republican CD will be a parody of the songs of Stephen Foster. References to Barry will appear in every tune, including the gently mirthful, “Way Down Upon the Chicago River”. Thus, the humor will be inoffensive and “light-hearted” in the same way that the “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” might be seen as a repository of rib-tickling humor. But the grumpy liberal establishment be upset by the CD anyway, also.
[re=207000]S.Luggo[/re]: Shit. “will be upset”
[re=206974]Bruno[/re]: I posted my comment then passed the link along to the Politico comment thread. Chip needs all the advice he can get, and if I can remember my Free Republic id I’ll pass the link along to them too so he’ll get comments from a classier gaggle of supporters.
[re=206938]TroutSavant[/re]: “It’s that everyone was pointing to the use of “Negro” in the song as the reason it was racist, when that seems to be simplifying the issue by ignoring the source. ”
So in other words, you had no idea what we were criticizing and while confused, began attacking a straw opponent.
[re=207033]phineas_bounderby[/re]:
His Blog didn’t accept my ALL CAPS RANTY YOU GO GIRL kind of message but a helpful but crazy one went through. Therefore he does accept racist messages of support. What a guy.
[re=206903]stopmebeforeitypeagain[/re]: Ooo hey, I found my meds! Ran short when I was visiting the Repug relatives. Anything happen while I was gone?
In that photo, it looks like he’s got a cheek full of nuts. Then again, since he’s a Republican male, I’m guessing it’s not the first time he’s had a cheek full of nuts.
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