Puff the Magic Dragon Offended by ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ Song, President-elect Not So Much

Seems to me the republicans are trying to destroy themselves. Oh well, only one worth a darn is Ron Paul so they can implode for all I care.

“and this song insults the office of the Presidency, the people who voted for him, as well as those who did not…”
Oh, please stop!
Insult the President, the office and the people who voted for him? I cannot imagine that happening to Bush and his supporters, can you?
Liberals are sometimes colossally stupid.

drjohn – I believe the republicans need to be a little smarter next time. A person making such a song should consult a black person within the party to see if the song is a good idea. I realize that the republican party is pretty pale so you may have to reach across party lines for advice.

If the GOP elects Saltsman as their national chairman, then it will lose many more elections – local and national. This action shows his true racial bias.

OK, it is satire and Bush had more than his share from the media and comedians. Was he offended? Obama says he’s not so why all the fuss?
Actually, it must be the use of the word, “Negro”, which some still interpret as a put down. Even the US Census doesn’t use Negro as a race anymore. Only the anthropologists use the term as a category of race.
We must be PC conscious and not offend anyone. Except for Republicans.

Saw Saltsman photo. He looks like a pig just like Rove. He should lose some weight – maybe it would help his self esteem – or maybe he doesn’t need to lose weight and just has a pig face. In either case, the GOP is not doing itself a favor by continuing to act childish (Palin set the standard). At least they’ll hold on to the Rovepubican base – that should guarantee them about 25% of the popular vote.

If they come out with a song about Obamas BIG ears.. then i would be offended

I love it and I am going to tell you why … it is political suicide and they will have their own stupidity to thank. They will not have Barack Obama to use for this one. I think we should all become’magic negroes’ and make this party disappear.

And the GOP really has to wonder why it’s losing ground and is widely viewed as a party exclusively for southern white men? Look at Saltsman himself, for crying out loud…

Calis:
It is not only the “CD” it is the “contents”. The words used were not filtered at all!

Wait a minute… Puff the Magic Dragon was a “a children’s song”? I thought it was a hippy song about growing up and having to eventually stop getting stoned all the time.
“Meet the Parents”:
(In the car listening to “Puff the Magic Dragon”]
Greg Focker: Who’d have thought it wasn’t about a dragon.
Jack Byrnes: Huh?
Greg Focker: Well some people think that ‘to puff the magic dragon’ means to… puff… smoke… a marijuana cigarette.
Jack Byrnes: Puff is just the name of the boy’s magical dragon… You a pothead, Focker?
Greg Focker: No, I pass on grass always. Well not always.
Jack Byrnes: Yes or no?
Greg Focker: No, um, yes, um…

His presidency will be a puff because it will go up in smoke with all the other dreams he had.

“Only the anthropologists use the term as a category of race.”
Anthropologists have discarded the entire concept of race as having no scientific validity. Sociologists might use it, but only as a cultural construct, i.e. how we categorize ourselves and others on the basis of superficial morphological variations.
Anybody who pretends there’s no difference between a serious deconstruction of a literary archetype and misapropriating the terms of that analysis as a form of racist mockery is either being deliberately disingenuous or has a severe denial issue.

Discusting how u can’r even criticze this yokel. Its obvious he is way in over his head. The poor dude thought all he had to do was bring the troops home while he concentarted on his GQ image. Now he is finding out that these problems we face are insurmountable and that he will most likely fall short.
It is eveident in the speeches he now gives. He looks timid, apprehensive, less confident, soft spoken. Gone is the BS soaring rhetoric he once had.
He looks scared because he is scared.
He won’t have time now to work on his rock star image. Now he must actually do something. It will such a pity when he is voted out in 4 years. Not to be reelected would be a set back for blacks.
Well be prepared for the setback.

Jack—majotity of americans think otherwise. can you imagine Palin and McCain heading into the presidency? i’ll take Obama anyday.

sorry Dr John, i meant you don’t think Limbaugh is a racist?

C’est moi—i respect that. and i think your pointing it out that when liberals do it it’s not cool either is on point. liberals can’t take the high ground and say “well we’re not racists so no harm done.” racism and perpetuation of stereotypes against blacks is probably as much as a liberal issue than a conservative issue. david chappel’s show is disgusting and perpetuates divisions.

Angie, chill out and stop using that racist phrase. You offend the magical one.

Don’t blame bush, blame the “people” that voted for Bush!

if a simple song offends president obama he wont last long in power. beside what would he make of the statement Jesus Christ said when he quoted all men are liars would his pride get the better of him. super nerd

Sick sick sick along with the ones who wrote and the ones who think this is funny. Pretty juvenile of supposedly adult and educated people.
Obama is just as qualified as any of our other presidents, and those who have also run. How much experience did Bush, (both Bushes), Reagon or Nixon??????????
Give the man a chance, he isn’t even in office and everyong is condemning him, and saying he hasn’t done a think since being elected. HE IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT – HE HAS NOT BEEN SWORN IN YET AS PRESIDENT.
Rush Limbaugh is obnoxious and I don’t think he could say anything nice about anyone. I would hate to be that bigotted.

Get over it. Obama won. And for those comparing it to the Dixie Chicks:At the time of the song ,Obama was just a candidate and the Dixie Chicks denounced a sitting President at a foreign concert. Probably would have been more tolerated if the concert had been domestic.And for those attacking the looks of Saltsman, your hypocrisy is appalling.

I think this Chip Saltsman guy should end his run for RNC Chair and run for President. He represents the Republican Party quite well.
But in his defense, he is Republican folks, come on. They are sooooo out touch. Yet living in the 60′s they would believe that such a parody was funny.
Hey…. ole Chip was just having an old knee slapping good ole time with some of his partners.
He’s so out of touch, he believes that folk still look the other way and decide that hey…. that just the way “things” are.
VOTE FOR CHIP. POTUS ’12
Chip…. hey that sounds folksy enough to win an election. Folksy like Dubya.
Does Chip have a ranch. Can he give a mean squinted stare? Does he have that southern twang? Shooot yeah!!!
CHIP FOR PRES.

I can find enough blogs on the web with nasty comments about President Bush to read for weeks, but oddly enough, on those blogs, no one is called a racist for bashing President Bush, white, black, Hispanic, Asian…not one person called racist. WHY?
Posted by: opec | Dec 29, 2008 2:26:04 PM
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opec
when you produce the song “Dubya the magic white man”, then I will se your point.
did you read the lyric of the song.
wake up and get a grip. ignorance is NOT bliss

Not having read the column that supposedly started all of this or listened to the song that was sent around, I can’t judge the level of racism or “irresponsibility” involved. There is a definitely legitimate discussion to be had of the “Magical Negro” concept – it’s a frequent recurring theme in pop culture movies and books where hapless white characters are rescued or guided by wise black characters who sometimes even sacrifice themselves to achieve said rescue. Spike Lee has some definite opinions on it. I think there’s some room for joking about the parallels between fiction and reality that have occurred recently.
All of that said, this guy Saltsman has nevertheless proved himself utterly unqualified for the position at the top of the RNC. I mean, seriously, how tone deaf do you have to be? Seeing the names of the songs on the CD, I was struck by their juvenile and irresponsible nature. To accuse half of the U.S. of hating America seems utterly ridiculous,divisive and hateful. I would hope the RNC would look to be guided by an adult who wants what’s best for ALL the citizens of this country and respects their opinions. Frankly, in its current state, the RNC cannot afford to have someone with such an inappropriate and puerile sense of humor in the top position. Yeesh.

While I realize that libs have a problem with free speech, I wish they would listen to the parody before commenting.
Posted by: downsteamJim | Dec 29, 2008 2:34:33 PM
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Sorry downstream Jim
You kinda ended your point “midstream”.
I did read and heard the lyrics and they are REPULSIVE.
Racism is free speech. But does that make it good or right??
Being an idiot is free speech too? But does that make it something that is valued in America?
Those were rhetorical questions.

if you comment on this foolish thing then you know it is true if you dont then you know it is *********

But let somebody poke fun at their messiah, and they come out with their usual, baseless racism, bad-taste, etc, etc charges.
To the loony-left: stop this double standard and lighten-up.
Posted by: ALEX H. | Dec 29, 2008 2:41:07 PM
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Is this enough base for you??????
…Said he makes guilty whites feel good..
…Cause he’s black, but not authentically…
…A white interloper’s dream…!
AND THAT’S NOT THE HALF OF IT.

Puff the TRAGIC republicans lived on their tax-breaks for the rich
They frolicked in the setting sun, as bush & cheney rode off forever…

Omentum: So it is your opinion that Joe Biden’s comments which are quoted in the song are REPULSIVE. Why did you vote for him?
Posted by: downsteamJim | Dec 29, 2008 2:59:37 PM
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If you know something different, I thought I voted for Barack Obama… I think he was running for President. O’ great wealth of knowledge…. please tell me I wasn’t mistaken.
You mean I voted for Joe Biden to be President, someone who I am not raving excited about but made a comment off the cuff without any forthought (which he often does) opposed to old Chip who had time to sit and listen and listen and listen and package up this crap and send it off his friends knowing full well the lyrics of the song.
don’t spin yourself silly OK.

There is no defense for this. We’re talking about people who are running for office that want to represent all the citizens in their states or districts. This is indefensible. They should apologize and go crawl into a hole. I guess the Republicans haven’t learned their lesson and will have to be shell-shocked into submission once again in 2010.

Why should anyone care that the word “negro” was used to describe barry. Barry obviously has no problem with that word since he sat in the rev racist’s church for 20 years where that word was rampant every sunday.
Barry also used the rapper ludacris at one of his political rallies. Ludacris uses racists words to describe blacks in just about every “song” he performs.
I swear, MLK would be rolling around in his grave if he knew all of the low-lifes barry has used to further his political career.
Posted by: liberalsaresocialists | Dec 29, 2008 2:50:44 PM
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Your argument is whimsical at best.
Last time I checked Ludacris was not running for chairman of the DNC.
Positions have requirements. Being a racist is should not be a requirement to be a Chairman of a political party. Well unless it is the RNC.
Point taken.

“I guess the Republicans haven’t learned their lesson and will have to be shell-shocked into submission once again in 2010.”
And many of the Democrats haven’t yet tumbled to the fact that their political party’s been hijacked.
And we’ll ALL be “shell-shocked” soon enough — even those of us who voted for Ralph Nader! — if this “Gaza” business goes about an inch further.

Why should anyone care that the word “negro” was used to describe barry. Barry obviously has no problem with that word since he sat in the rev racist’s church for 20 years where that word was rampant every sunday.
Barry also used the rapper ludacris at one of his political rallies. Ludacris uses racists words to describe blacks in just about every “song” he performs.
I swear, MLK would be rolling around in his grave if he knew all of the low-lifes barry has used to further his political career.
Posted by: liberalsaresocialists | Dec 29, 2008 2:50:44 PM
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Excuse me “liberalsaresocialists” “the rapper ludacris” were also used by Sarah Palin at the Georgia elections recently held December 2008.
Get you facts together.

Omentum, whether its put to a tune or not doesn’t qualify it as racist. When its done in fun, like, say, the lynching of Palin at Halloween then its not racist, its fun. Right? That wasn’t racist, white gays did that so it was a funny parody? I sure remember all you gay libs defending it.
I’d bet that I could record the song “Dubya the magic white man”, about Bush and it would not be considered racist, not even by one as righteous as yourself. I may do that, I have connections, I’d like to see how it goes.
Posted by: opec | Dec 29, 2008 3:17:52 PM
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Racism, by its simplest definition, is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences.
so
to imply that Barack is somewhat “magical negro” to have achieved this milestone in history
IS RACIST sir!!!!

The alacrity with which mostly-”white” liberals leap to equate any non-worship of “Obama” with “racism” is just stupid, especially when we’re all at risk of being vaporized by the ruling crusaders’ — including The One, with his forgettable DNA — determination to whip racism against Arabs and Muslims past the point of no return.
Why The One’s idiotic remarks in “Pebo Reax to Gaza” aren’t at the top of this list, instead of some stupid rewrite of “Puff”, is hard to figure out.

Omentum
Racism is the cornerstone of the DEMOCRATIC party. Have you ever heard of George Wallace, Senator Byrd, ect? Thomas Jefferson and the democrats built their party to ensure the survival of slavery. Abe Lincoln and MLK have been fighting as great repunblicans to kill slavery and racism in this country.
Democrats only got on board with the whole civil rights thing in the 60′s when they realized entitlements=votes (and ever since then blacks have seen their standard of living sharply decline).
My point was that barry is a snake that has used whoever he needed to get ahead, whether it be rev racist or ludacris.
Posted by: liberalsaresocialists | Dec 29, 2008 3:27:13 PM
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your logic baffles me……
Thomas Jefferson??????? are u kidding me. You use that as your argument. Hey lets stay in the 1900′s at least to prove a point.
Byrd apologized for his shortcomings. That is what its all about. CHANGE.
But hey I guess what you are saying (and what the Republican is demonstrating) is to make the Republican party a part that is exclusively focus on issues valued by a certain race. Lead by a certain race, governed by a certain race, and exclude, ridicule, and decry every other race or issue that is not valued.
Look at your party sir.
now
look at the essence of America
A beacon of hope for all
A nation of immigrants
hmmmmmm.
But please don’t listen to one word I say. I appreciate you staying out of touch. I decreases our mission to make America match up to its true essence.
Thank you.

Omentum
Byrd was part of the KKK, he “changed” to get elected. Some of you obamabots are down right scary…
Again, my point was that the democratic party was founded to continue slavery, thus, it is also the party of an incredible amount of racists. Democrats didn’t start getting the votes of blacks until they started shoving entitlements down their throats in the 60′s.
Now the democrats have devised a new form of slavery- welfare. It keeps the black man held down and gets democrats elected.
As I said earlier, MLK, the great REPUBLICAN, is rolling over in his grave right now.

Omentum, Wow, thats heavy, not to mention a lot of cutting and pasting. I submit to you that not 1 in 10 people who voted for o would give a different answer when asked why they voted for o than the following 3 that I overwhelmingly got in local polls:
1. Change, 2. Hope, 3. He’s black, I’m black.
Now, in the heat of the campaign I often asked people to describe #1 Change: Answer: Not sure, but we need some, he’s not Bush. #2 Answer: Not sure, but he gives me some, he’s not republican, #3: well the answer there is racism. I submit most people didn’t vote for o they voted against the republicans, who deserved no less.

“We Hate the USA?” That’s kind of bizarre. I guess the Republicans are trying to extend the “Democrats are not Patriotic” meme from the campaign. Judging by the results of the election, they may want to find a new theme.

“I submit most people didn’t vote for o they voted against the republicans, who deserved no less.”
But — a big oops! for which we can thank the Jonathan Alter wing of the MSM and the celebrity “left” — they inadvertently voted for the uh Chicago organization that hijacked the former “Democratic Party”.
NOW what?

To liberalsaresocialists: Because of grammatical errors, I reiterate:
When you finally are forced to see yourself for the first time, you will regret the things you have so fiercely defended, and the attacks you have so hastily made.
Your anger is a putrid biproduct of a much deeper and more incidious infection.
PS: I am an Iamonite; not an Obama worshipper as you and so many like you fool yourselves into believing, simply because I choose to voice my opinion on the continually present voices of social injustice…
Mr. Saltzman’s symphony is quite appropriately entitled: “I hate America,” which he has proven to be. The true haters of America are those who cannot and will not change, for their own good; let alone for the good of the nation.

Omentum, Wow, thats heavy, not to mention a lot of cutting and pasting. I submit to you that not 1 in 10 people who voted for o would give a different answer when asked why they voted for o than the following 3 that I overwhelmingly got in local polls:
1. Change, 2. Hope, 3. He’s black, I’m black.
Now, in the heat of the campaign I often asked people to describe #1 Change: Answer: Not sure, but we need some, he’s not Bush. #2 Answer: Not sure, but he gives me some, he’s not republican, #3: well the answer there is racism. I submit most people didn’t vote for o they voted against the republicans, who deserved no less.
Posted by: opec | Dec 29, 2008 4:06:15 PM
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One cut out the dictionary and ONE paste.
Well don’t know who you asked but I know you didn’t ask me.
1. Change. Noticing that the country is heading in the wrong diretion and noticing that the policies in place are not improving our country.
2. Hope. Letting folks know that they can be an active participant in helping to make this country become the true essence of what it stands for.
3. He’s black. No. Now that’s where you show your ignorance and undertones of racist bigotry. My answer was… He was the best person for the job. Not someone who picks an inept person for VP and he is a 72 year old cancer survivor with lingering issues. or that he REPEATEDLY states that the fundamentals of the economy is strong or that (just to name a couple of many).
Also the African American ALWAYS go 90+ percent for Democrats so toss that argument in the garbage. So you can say that Blacks always vote Democrat but never notice why the south votes overwhelmingly republican. let the hypocrisy cease.
Again you show your ignorance. In order to become president you don’t win iwith JUST the African American vote. More caucasian and most hispanics voted for Obama.
What does that say for McCain.

its official .
the republican party is done ,stick a fork in them…
Posted by: bwahah | Dec 29, 2008 4:32:14 PM
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Agree totally
The dumb leading the dumber.

And to no doubt prove what an arrogant jerk you are as well.

Bill 0
Calling me a jerk is not very open- minded of you..
As for me calling obamabots ignorant, sorry, but sometimes the truth hurts.

To use a few favorite Republican talking points:
Republicans will just have to accept defeat. Pull yourselves up by your political bootstraps. Relearn what a congressional steamroll is gonna feel like. Obama’s got a mandate. This election was a referendum on Republicanism. America has been and always will be a center-left nation. You’ve got to support our new President, Barack Hussein Obama. God bless our commander-in-chief. We’ll be a wartime President. President (Obama), VP (Biden), Speaker of the House (Pelosi), the most powerful trinity on Earth.

oh please both sides our a bunch of morons plain and simple.

Funny song!! LOL
Posted by: Noel | Dec 29, 2008 4:58:43 PM
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Glad you are amused. Like to see happy people.
Not glad WHY you are amused but
That you are Happy.
Smile on!!! have a great day

liberalsaresocialists – funny how times change huh? That ideology, that way of thinking, now resides (not exclusively, but largely)in the Republican party. See what happened at the 1948 Democratic Convention.

Liberals ARE socialists.
You just elected a man that ran on a spread the wealth around platform. He has promised to triple the size of the federal gov’t. Sounds a little socialistic to me…
Barney Frank said last week on larry king that we need “income equality” throughout America. Sounds a little socialistic to me…
Micheal Moore just said on larry king several weeks ago that we are seeing the end of capitalism and good riddance. Sounds a little socialistic to me….
Since you are so bravely calling conservatives facsists, please cite some facsists leaning quotes given by a recent republican president, a high ranking republican member of congress, and a conservative high-profile talk radio host.
For the record, our founding fathers were conservatives. They basic principles were….
-Small gov’t
-small taxes for everyone
-big military
-citizen self- reliance
You liberal commies stand for everything opposite of what I just listed.

I was basically a republican in the past but is this idiot the best they can do. Lord help us. A disgrace.

To liberalsaresocialists:
Why do you do so much name-calling?
This speaks of cowardice.
This reaks of the inability to express a valid individual thought, outside of repeating those home-spun parodies from others venomous mouths.
Just listen to yourself.
Are you pleased with what you hear, with what you say, or even what you stand for.
You know for a fact that if the economic crisis continues, as it is going, you may find that things you have taken for granted may be hard to come by. You may even find yourself being relieved that someone cares to “share the wealth.”
The globalistic ideals that you would like to blame Mr. Obama for, have a far greater far-reaching history than you obviously are aware of. The nationalism of the banks, thus the socialism of the United States, has already happened, and is happening as we speak, before Mr. Obama has even taken the reins; or perhaps you are incapabale of digesting such a reality.
Nationalism = socialism much more than you realize.

I have yet to see a liberal say that the quotes made by the LATimes reporter or Joe Biden were racists. Why?

..to add to my previous post. No black americans are fully black. There is so much mixing that goes on that people are not willing to admit to that over 90% of blacks have at least 3 white descendants. Look it up. I heard it on a PBS special. I was surprized. I mean you have to go way back to find a African family member on the ancestry tree.

Wow, the stupidity of the republican party is almost unbelievable.

Liberalsaresocialists – you are misinformed. Most “Liberals” are not “Commies” who think the US military should be disbanded. It’s true we disagree with Conservatives about taxes and don’t think the Bush Administration’s interpretation of Supply Side Economics worked for America over the past 8 years – we don’t think tax cuts should be disproportionately given to the wealthy. We believe all Americans deserve equitable taxation, and taxes should be spent on programs which aid the poor and Middle Class, such as education, job training, rehabilitation, health care, and social security – it helps us all to become “self reliant”. Liberals also disagree with Conservatives about the extent of “small government” or deregulation. We think specific government oversight and regulation of business and industry is needed to protect Americans from the abuse, cheating, and exploitation that arise any time corporations are allowed to operate unchecked. (Ring a bell?) And Liberals, along with many centrist Republicans, are sickened by the divisive hate politics used by the Republican Party over the past 8 years. Unless the Conservatives figure this out, the Republican Party will become isolated to Evangelical zealots and the low end of the IQ bell curve.

mimem:
your judgment of me because of my post name speaks volumes of the party you support. Profiling…..Prejudice….Sterotypes….sounds familar, bud?
I am so glad that president elect Obama has selected an African Americam (Eric Holder) to head the Justice Department…..so glad…
Hopefully under the Obama administration we will see less police brutality against Blacks and stupid profiling of the same….
You don’t know me, bud…..so, stand down….and get back….

pssh. i say let them try to explain it all away. allow republicans to continue to find it funny. Let them parody all sorts of songs that only appeal to their shrinking base of older white men and their wives. As america gets more educated and increasingly more brown the GOP will be forced to deal with a changing demographic that wont find their parodies too funny.

Hey Republicans!
Please lick the bowl clean on your way down!
Make sure to get under the rim, too!
Keep up the race baiting and the immigrant bashing.
Then, nominate Sarah Palin for President in 2012.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Keep doin’ what you’re doin’.
You betcha!

The Rush Limbaugh Brand of Republican seems on its way to become “an extremist rump, full of sarcasism with a racist overtune and obsessed with causes that seem not to matter to the general public”.
Keep Rush Limbaugh on the hate radio representing the Republican Party. They are in a time warp. They have been totally out of touch and overtaken by social forces and are absolutely clueless as to how to respond.

BruhMan,
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It’s not a matter of what someone calls you…it’s a matter of what you answer to. And, at 12:01, January 20, 2009…the only thing Chip Saltsman can call Barack Hussein Obama that he’ll answer to is “Mr. President” You’ve go about 3 more weeks of stupidity “Chip”.
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Amen, BruhMan. Can I get a witness (or more like 4 million witnesses)?! :-)

angie,
“I love it and I am going to tell you why … it is political suicide and they will have their own stupidity to thank. They will not have Barack Obama to use for this one. I think we should all become’magic negroes’ and make this party disappear.”
LOL! I agree. This tops “Joe the Plumber”. This tops the expresssion “republicans eat their own”. Saltsman just ate himself, Steele, and any other contenders with this one. Guess he figured he couldn’t win, so nobody should.
Never thought I’d like anybody better than Bush. BUT…I like Bush better than Saltsman. Gosh, I hope Obama makes it legal to throw shoes at political exploiters.

Misleading headline, as one would think from reading it that Obama had made that quote recently, not 7 months ago during the campaign, and not even having heard the song!!
Also, next time maybe you could do better than quoting seven white people and one African-American for a story about a song called “The Magic Negro”.

Hate to break it to you. But gays voted mostly republican this year. Everyone is assuming they voted Democrat but that was simply not true.
More gays voted for McCain than they did for Bush. Seriously. So there may be some payback in Obama’s decision..

Danny,
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Also, next time maybe you could do better than quoting seven white people and one African-American for a story about a song called “The Magic Negro”.
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Your point was well taken. However, I don’t think white folks appreciated Saltsman’s crassness either. Black perspective isn’t necessary here because whites are equally offended by this ignorant “parody”.

angie,
They don’t know about “the box”! LOL
Plus, republicans probably think Beonce is chinese.

I am not surprised that people find this offensive. What I do find funny is that people talk about ‘respecting the office’ and how the repubs are ‘racist.’ I seem to remember years of bashing Bush and even in these comments people are commenting about ‘old white men’ which is a label I have been hearing the entire election. You should hold yourselves to the same standards you hold everyone else to.
Posted by: Jon | Dec 29, 2008 9:46:06 PM
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People bashed Bush NOT because of his race because he has proven to be the worst president in history. PROOF. No Republican would touch him with a ten foot pole this election season. McCain would not even let him come to the Convention.
Folks are bashing Obama because???????????
Really. ask yourself why.
This rancid song suggests because he is
a non-authentic negro (whatever that means)
he’s only successful because of guilt
not from the “hood”
is a white interlopers dream
(interloper – someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission)
wow. how graphic can a bigot be.

So it is not racist when La times and Obama himself mentions it.
But it is racist when RNC mentions it?
Go figure.

I think it is great that the Republicans did this; it shows them to bethe ignorant, racist, crackers that they really are.

Re jms’s comment: You seem to assume that all things are equal and that if it is OK to bash a group of privileged white men who never did a day of productive work in their lives (Bush, Cheney), it is OK to disparage a group of people whose ancestors were brought here against their will and held as slaves for a couple of hundred years. Whatever. I’ll bet you deny that there was a Holocaust too.

My mother is a liberal Democrat, and she likes to help poor folks, as long as they don’t live in her neighborhood.

omentum,
The repubs didn’t want to touch him with a 10 foot pole not because he was the worst pres but because the population’s opinion was that he was the worst pres.
People in this country seem to only see one side of the story. IE economy: People blame Bush for the economic collapse and asked why his administration did not do more to prevent the problems, yet no one seems to acknowledge that the administration tried MULTIPLE times to reform GSEs (I know only one part of the problem but a huge one) and was shot down repeatedly by congress…
And a famous quote by the dems: ‘If it aint broke don’t fix it’
Wow look where that got us :)
And I’m not justifying the song (if you’d read my entire comment you’d see) I’m merely stating it’s funny what a double standard people hold. (you only responded to the half of my comment that you wanted to and not what I actually said IE old white people comment?)

So it is not racist when La times and Obama himself mentions it.
But it is racist when RNC mentions it?
Go figure.
Posted by: Greg h | Dec 29, 2008 10:35:33 PM
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Is this a trick question? Do you really have to Go Figure?
I guess I answered my own question.
Do you know what racism is? Get a dictionary. Better yet … let me give it to you….
Racism, by its simplest definition, is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences.
Compare that to the LA Times and Obama, this song and determine if it is racist or not.
Racism is racism no matter who uses it. In the text here we are talking about a song that says that Obama is MAGICAL because he got a nation to election him president.
Have the previous 43 presidents been every characterized as MAGICAL?
The song is explicitly saying he is a MAGICAL NEGRO because Sharpton didn’t have the success that Obama had.
Then the song suggest its because of
white guilt
and he’s not authentic
and he’s not from the hood.
again … how graphic can a bigot be.
what is amazing is that yet and still some of you are bigots and don’t even know it.
If you defend this song… you sir or maam ARE A BIGOT.
bigot – a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

omentum,
The repubs didn’t want to touch him with a 10 foot pole not because he was the worst pres but because the population’s opinion was that he was the worst pres.
People in this country seem to only see one side of the story. IE economy: People blame Bush for the economic collapse and asked why his administration did not do more to prevent the problems, yet no one seems to acknowledge that the administration tried MULTIPLE times to reform GSEs (I know only one part of the problem but a huge one) and was shot down repeatedly by congress…
And a famous quote by the dems: ‘If it aint broke don’t fix it’
Wow look where that got us :)
And I’m not justifying the song (if you’d read my entire comment you’d see) I’m merely stating it’s funny what a double standard people hold. (you only responded to the half of my comment that you wanted to and not what I actually said IE old white people comment?)
Posted by: Jon | Dec 29, 2008 11:12:19 PM
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Jon
First of all when you have facts you don’t need opinions.
It took America 200 years to get 5 trillion in debt
It took Bush less than 8 years to double that
Bush is responsible for 4000+ American lives and untold Iraqi/Afghan lives. FOR WHAT…. Just to say WE WON….. sickening
Bush has used a failed economic policy.
Bush abolished science and did NOTHING to decrease our dependency on foreign energy.
I don’t want to bore you but I can go on and on forever on how inept this president has been.
No president has had shoes thrown at him in a country he “liberated” liberated …. ha … what a joke.
Bush. Now here is what you get when you give kids everything they want.
As for answering the second part of your question.
Old white men is a generality. Not specifically pointing to Bush. The generality is true. Old white men are usually the ones at the pennacles of government, business, religion, etc. you name it. Do you not agree?
But ONLY Barack is being characterized as MAGICAL. Magical is placing Obama in a new box. not authentic, not a hoodie, but Magical… why … because he had defied what some would call reality. Negros can’t run for President and have a serious chance without being MAGICAL.

Hi Common Sense (that has a nice ring to it)–your point is well taken as well.
Though I think this blog downplays the seriousness of the issue by mentioning Obama didn’t take offense when “entertainer” Rush Limbaugh played the song.
But would Obama and/or his team approve of the head of a major political party spreading that stuff around to other party leaders? A very different subject in my opinion, and one that Obama was not dealing with back in May when he commented on the song.
I think the whole point is that it’s not as offensive in the context of “entertainment,” on the rather outlandish and obnoxious Rush Limbaugh show. But it is universally offensive when done in a more formal political situation.
Yet Jake’s blog misleadingly applies Obama’s comments to both situations.
And thus perhaps this blog is suggesting Obama *is* actually playing the role the song describes, with his comments from May.
Perhaps Jake likes that idea of Obama excusing insensitive jokes at his expense, since he sometimes seems a bit behind the curve (heh) on these kinds of issues. At least to me.

Omentum, the only Obama is is a LIAR! He is far from magical. How is he going to place his hand on that bible when he can’t even tell the truth.
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Liar? what the heck are you talking about

Omentum,
In response to a comment you replied to that I didn’t see.
President Bush AND the members of congress can share that responsibility please remember. And I disagree with the ‘we won’ argument. I know I am not privy to all the intelligence that was gathered that led to the attack of Iraq and if I was I wouldn’t consider myself the person who could judge whether we should or should not attack but I do know that once we went, and we attacked, and we made promises to the Iraqi people, we have no choice but to stay until they are a stable nation.
Don’t forget that Osama Bin Laden and his lackies were allies trained and armed by the CIA to fight a proxy war against the Soviets and much of the hate they have for us is due to the broken promises of our country. Let’s not let history repeat itself please.
As far as the economy, don’t forget all the factors that have damaged our economy over the past decade. And please also don’t forget the attempts by the administration to make reforms that were SHOT DOWN by the Dems in congress until it was too late. (Now they say why didn’t we do more sooner)
People seem to forget the checks and balances in this country are here for a reason and that the office is just another office that has a very specific role that is far from all encompassing power.
And again, sorry bro but saying old white people haven’t worked a productive day in their lives and that somehow they don’t deserve what they have is…. well, in my opinion pretty racist…
Oh and I don’t think Obama is magical by the way. I think he got elected because the Democrats have done an astounding job of smearing the republican name (with the help of other republicans) and because voting for Obama was the cool thing to do.
I don’t like Obama’s policies. I’ve looked at change.gov and wow, I work for a small business and windfall profit taxes are going to crush us. Awesome. I live in a state that relies on coal and he wants to make coal unprofitable and to bankrupt people who build coal plants. Awesome for me. He wants to raise minimum wage every year. Wow that’s going to do wonders as my job that I got because I am paying 30k back in student loans back for has the same pay as McDonalds.
Sorry, taxing the people who write my paychecks, the people who I buy my products from, and the people who make this country profitable is stupid.
I have seen how my peers squander the opportunities this country gives them and sorry, but I don’t feel like distributing my hard earned wages to people who did not take advantage of the fact that you can go to school and have the same opportunity as everyone else in this country.
Please let’s hurry up and get the next 4 years over with…
Please

jon
that was an excellent recounting of losing republican talking points for the 2008 election..
nice work

I find the actions of Mr Saltsman displays a complete lack of respect and mockery of PEOB. The Republicans still don’t understand why they are a party in decline and perceived as divisive, out of touch and totally inept. With Leadership like this the Reps will fall further in support from the electorate.

Does Obama know Puff personally? That is probably why he doesn’t give it thought. I didn’t…………………………….

I think everybody’s missing the point here. For a member of the RNC to even do such a thing clearly shows his lack of maturity, integrity and common sense. Furthermore, there are too many others just like him fumbling around, practically brain-dead trying to run this country. No wonder we’re in big trouble.

saltsman is a direct representative of the republican base that supported palin and mccain. too bad that what saltsman did can’t get him arrested and executed. words that come to mind in describing saltsman are: ignorant, idiot, twit, moron, jerk, stupid, well you get the idea.

“When I found out what this was about I had to ask, ‘boy, what’s the big deal here?’ because there wasn’t any.”
– Mark Ellis, Chairman of the Maine Republican Party
Mr Ellis, you are an imbecile of colossal proportions if it doesn’t compute in your troglodytic brain that disseminating a song with the title “Barack The Magic Negro” is a racist, hateful, sophomoric act.
But that’s just it: Deep-seated ignorance and ethnocentrism like this stunts one’s sense of morality, perpetuates stupidity, and leaves one not knowing what one doesn’t know. So yes, I’m sure you think this is perfectly harmless.
I can’t wait until all you ethnic puritan-maniacs are retired, voted out, or six feet under. This mindset is so played.

Gerard—would you think it was funny if someone wrote a song about you and called you a “cracker”, “poor white trash”, “honkey?”
not so funny all of a sudden is it?

After that pathetic display of a campaign, and republicans want to come out with something like this.
What the *#$@ is wrong with you people?
It’s like you are intentionally sabotageing any chance of ever getting in the White House again.

Paul Wall: Is it your contention that the LATimes reporter and V.P. elect Joe Biden are racists?

I have been a registered Republican for over 30 years and have never seen a party imlode like this. I can’t take it any more.
Great goin guys, you just lost ANOTHER member !!!!

it’s plain and simple: racism is NOT cool. defy it, don’t defend it. that this song is “funny” and “not racist” is ignorance in it’s purest form.
only a racist would think the use of the word “Negro”, with it’s history in this nation, is funny.
many people have opinions about Obama that are hateful but not racist. this song isn’t one of them.
Posted by: Paul Wall | Dec 30, 2008 8:36:30 AM
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Well said
But unfortunately we are surrounded by bigots and idiots that have not and will come to the conclusion that they are as such.
I tell my debaters not to be ashamed of being a racist. Racist have a lot to keep them busy in a land of many colors such as America. PLEASE NOTE!!!! I am not talking about one race. Anybody regardless of race can be a racist.
If you are …. Congrats. You’re a racist. Take a bow!!!

Omentum—i agree with you. african-americans can be racists too, and i’m not sure their numbers are small. you are right…anyone can be racist. the mark of a real human is to find that racism in oneself and extinguish it.

Paul Wall: So you contention is that when the V.P. elect Joe Biden and lib LATimes reporter made the statements they were not racists statements. But when their quotes were used in a Parody, they suddenly became racist. Please explain.

Oh and I don’t think Obama is magical by the way. I think he got elected because the Democrats have done an astounding job of smearing the republican name (with the help of other republicans) and because voting for Obama was the cool thing to do.
I don’t like Obama’s policies. I’ve looked at change and wow, I work for a small business and windfall profit taxes are going to crush us. Awesome. I live in a state that relies on coal and he wants to make coal unprofitable and to bankrupt people who build coal plants. Awesome for me. He wants to raise minimum wage every year. Wow that’s going to do wonders as my job that I got because I am paying 30k back in student loans back for has the same pay as McDonalds.
Sorry, taxing the people who write my paychecks, the people who I buy my products from, and the people who make this country profitable is stupid.
I have seen how my peers squander the opportunities this country gives them and sorry, but I don’t feel like distributing my hard earned wages to people who did not take advantage of the fact that you can go to school and have the same opportunity as everyone else in this country.
Please let’s hurry up and get the next 4 years over with…
Please
Posted by: Jon | Dec 30, 2008 12:42:31 AM
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Oh Jon
Your argument is so incoherrent, i don’t know where to start.
I don’t think Obama is magical either. The song has been out there for a while now. I heard it months ago. Bigots within the conforts of their own space and listen to it and enjoy it and have a good ole knee slapping rofl time. But this guy is taking on a position where he has to meet a threshhold of decency, representative of a MAJOR political party in the flagship country in the world. And you say it is OK for him to disseminate a song that denegrates the President Elect and a whole race of people.
Please. No one more than me hopes this guy gets to be RNC chair. Heck, I wish he get the republican nomination and runs against Obama in 2012.
Let’s not hurry the next 4 years. Lets slow down the clock and savor the next four years. I will. After 8 years of pure hell, the next four years will be a breath of fresh air.
I see you have Joe the Plummer’s talking points down to a science. Be crushed. Crushed by you own flawed logic.
good day

downsteamJim—i just read Ehrenstein’s article in the LA Times. it’s uncool. i think it is more analytical in tone and i’m not sure that what he wrote was intended to be hurtful. but whether it’s hateful and hurtful (Limbaugh) or almost academic (LA Times article) it’s wrong and should be condemned. Limbaugh has a history of gut hatred toward minorities and he made the song out of hatred not “fun.” or should i say racism for Limbaugh is fun…he delights in it.

easy, Dwayne…it’s an issue that deserves attention. some people aren’t here to hate but listen to people with other perspectives. don’t be so angry, man. easy with the “!!!”. it’s not so serious.

In response to Duncan’s quote (“clearly does not move us in the right direction.”): Yes, it does! It moves the Republican Party further out of modern American politics. Keep it up, guys, and as John Kerry once said, “don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”

One other thing. As a white man. I didn’t vote for Obama because I felt any guilt. In fact I voted for Hillary in the Primary’s. And I always said that If Hill didn’t get in then I was going to vote for Obama. In fact in the end of the Prim. i didn’t like the way Hill was running her camp. I was over her. So I am soo happy and proud to vote for Mr. Obama. for President. When he won I cried along with everyone else. I was that happy. I beleive that Mr. Obama will be one of the Greatest Presidents of our time. And everyone that I know voted for him voted for the same reason. So Saltsmen doesn’t talk for me No way No how. GET OUT SALTSMEN. DO THE RIGHT THING. AND LEAVE… YOU ARE NOT FUNNY.

my friends —– hahahahahahaha
i said thanks but no thanks to that
bridge to nowhere —— mercy mercy uncle stop stop

I think people need to read the LA Times article before commenting so they can understand the context in which it was written. That article was written almost a year ago – where was the outrage then?

so i will lay it down pretty simple:
whether or not you think that the song/parody is in good taste or whether or not it is actually funny, it IS fine that the artist recorded it.
whether or not you think that the LA Times article is in good taste or whether or not it holds any merit, it IS fine that the author wrote it.
whether or not you think that Rush Limbaugh is a bloviated, racist, idiot, it IS fine that he played the song on his radio show.
what is NOT fine is that Saltzman, who is vying to be the chairman of the RNC decided to give this as a gift to all of his friends. it is not illegal, but it is tasteless. it shows a lack of character and judgement that should be required of someone who is trying to hold such a powerful national position.
the end.

The GOP takes another giant shot in the foot. Soon they won’t be able to walk at all.

What gets me is that the republican party will not give up the nerve of this man and then there are the neo cons who see nothing wrong with it of course they don’t hey look at who they picked Sara Palin what a joke now thats funny you betcha :):):):)

bushed the usa—i agree with you completely. i am a liberal (who sides with conservatives on some issues) but do see dangers in a one party country. i hope we can can have a governement like the UK and France where there are multiple parties who seek to make coalitions. really the US should have a green party. i think the main obstacle is money, unfortunately. two parties are better than one. and three parties is better than two.

The term “Magic Negro” is a racist insult. As would be: the Magic Jew, the Magic Whitey, or the Magic Redneck. There are so many other things you can say about a person WITHOUT saying anything about their race.
Society is so quick to call issues like these “Black Sensitivity”, time and time again, when if it were said about their race, there would be an immediate uproar. There is no term “White Sensitivity.” Any offense is immediately seen as racism, so why is it different for Blacks? Because (though not true of every non-Black person) there is basically a deep seeded hatred that Blacks even exist. And yet, we’re fine for sports and the military (but even that was years of challenges).
With the world looking to us for leadership, what does that say about our country? Racism is a stain that needs to be washed away, not continually accepted as a joke.

Paul
Limbaugh is taped day in and day out, he has been for 20 years or so. Please cite some examples of Rush’s supposed hate speech. If they exist, they should be VERY easy to find.
Rev Racist Wright, however, was taped once a week and his following comments were sold in the church lobby as propaganda.
“Goddang America”
“America is the worst terrorist nation in the world”
“America is run by greedy rich white folk” (although the good rev now lives in a 10,000 sq foot mansion that is surrounded by greedy rich white folk”
“America created the AIDS virus”
“America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
He also used the “n word” often in his sermons, but that’s okay because he is black, right?
As i said earlier, liberals couldn’t care less about his comments because they are directed against whites and America.

Dave—i am so sorry i don’t have the time to find exact quotations for you. i have heard, myself, with my own ears, Limbaugh make homophobic, racist, xenophobic comments. please don’t think that because i can’t give you an example that people will assume Limbaugh is a first rate journalist. he is divisive and hateful person of bad character (his drug abuse and his encouraging his listeners to vote in the democratic primaries to alter an election outcome). Rev. Wright is twice the American Limbaugh will ever be. his own neologism that you use “feminazi” (several times in the same post!) is an example. it is a term to denigrate, belittle someone you don’t disagree with. Limbaugh get belly laughs whenever he spews this stuff forth. laughing out of genuine humor, no laughing to belittle people, like bullies. pick on the weak and make fun of them. he is a bully.
since you obviously listen to his show often maybe you would be so kind to quote uplifting messages he his made about blacks, jews, homosexuals, women, hispanics,… (you get where i’m going).

Paul Wall
I agree with you on rev racist but not on Limbaugh.
I think you have been listening to far-left loons about limbaugh, he is not a racist bigot. Because he is against the liberal’s new form of slavery through wealth redistribution, the left calls him every name in the book.
As for his encouragement to vote for hillary, you can look at that one of two ways. The first is he did it to combat the media’s hand-pick of mccain to be the republican canidate. The MSM elevated him throughout the primaries, only to drop him on his head once it got down to him vs. the socialist.
The second reason he did it was because hillary was by FAR the lesser of two evils, so if she won, big deal!
I have never questioned hillary’s patriotism nor i have I ever thought she would have brought chelsea to hear “America created the AIDS virus” like barry brought his kids to hear.
Mccain and hillary were basically the same canidate, many conservatives really wouldn’t have cared who won between the two.

Limbaugh is taped day in and day out, he has been for 20 years or so. Please cite some examples of Rush’s supposed hate speech. If they exist, they should be VERY easy to find.
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They are easy to find and Limbaugh is jet fuel to a man, like Wright, who grew up in a segregated country. Did you listen to Wright’s entire sermons are go with the Hannity and Rush sound bites?
See my post at 11:43 to get you started on just a small fraction of the Limbaugh hate speak.

I agree with you on rev racist but not on Limbaugh.
I think you have been listening to far-left loons about limbaugh,
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So when Limbaugh told a black caller to take the “bone out of his nose” and call back is not racist?
When he played the theme song to THE JEFFERSONS when Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman elected to the Senate was not racist?
When Limbaugh challenged Spike Lee who said all black school kids should get off from school to see Malcolm X that it was not a “complete education experience unless they loot the theater and blow it up on their way out” That is not racist?
All Limbaugh’s comments about QB McNabb that got him fired from his sports job?. That is not racist?
Limbaugh “dreaming of riots” in Denver for the DNC convention because that “would be the “best thing that could happen to this country”. That is not racist?
It doesn’t take a “far left-loon” to know the man is racist. Just a person living in the real world…..

Listen folks…
I don’t know why some of you insist on trying to explain to repubs that this tape was racist and totally out of line. If they haven’t learned anything from this past election, watching those ridiculous mccain/palin rallies, and continue to make excuses for this type of cd, I say let them.

There are literally millions in this country who are Republicans, proud, callous, selfish, repulsive bigots in their own right, but only one stands above the rest to earn the moniker “The Pig”. There should never be any guilt or embarrassment associated with calling Rush Limbaugh a pig, for that is just what he is. Please understand that we call him a porker not because of his pinkish pallor, beady little close together eyes and turned up snout (though these factors do help in defining just which bovine to compare him with) but solely on the grounds of the nature of his rhetoric with his daily dose of Negro bashing, Gay bashing, Women bashing, Indian bashing, Liberal bashing, Environmentalist bashing, or the raw unbridled hatred he expresses three hours a day toward the liberal, whether it be Obama, or his cabinet members, or prominent politicians, or the Clintons, for after all, that hatred is what conservatives do best. Neither is there much problem in him not permitting the airing of any opposition to anything he says because totalitarian fascism is also indicative of the conservative mindset. But Rush goes beyond the standard fare of hate directed at the enemies of conservatives – the loathsome do-gooders and bum-enablers and the dreaded out-groups – by delving into a realm of sleaze and unfairness seldom witnessed outside the pages of the American Spectator. The RNC should not be “shocked” at the “Magic Negro” song. That revulsion is manufactured and for public consumption. The real core of Republican “values” are just what are expressed in this ‘song’. They can hide behind the excuse of humor, but that doesn’t wash. It is typical Republican bigotry and therefore not surprising.

Paul Wall
Limbaugh believes, as do I, that people should enter into this country LEGALLY. That does not mean that I or Rush hates Hispanics.
The truth, my friend, is on my side. Bill O’Reilly is another great example of someone who has had their conversations recorded for 20 years via talk radio. Please cite some examples of Bill or Rush being racist/bigots. If they exist, which they don’t, should be very easy to find!
The reason you and other people hate conservatives like Bill and Rush is because that is what you have been taught to do. The left wing media is hell bent on turning this country into socialist EU. Anyone who calls for lowers taxes, more citizen responsibility, more powerful military and smaller gov’t is labeled public enemy # 1.
May I remind you that it was the republican party who ended slavery and the dems who fought for its survival. The dems who have had a KKK member elected to the senate (byrd) and george wallace, the great segregationist, almost as their presidential canidate. The democrats have been the foe of minorities all the way up until the 60′s. They became their “friends” when they realized that crippling people by killing work incentives makes those people dependent on the gov’t, and thus, dependent on the democrats!!!

Dave- There are so many examples of Limbaugh’s hate speak posted throughout these posts (a few in response to yours) and you can’t bother to read it – much less acknowledge it.?
Sad indeed.

Paul Wall: Your 10:22 a.m. post this day was the best spin of the day. When I asked you why the quotes from V.P. elect Biden and lib from the LATimes were not racist when they made them, but when the parody was written the one who quoted them became the racist. You completely dodged the question.

downsteamJim, Ehrenstein’s essay is racist. i remember feeling Biden’s remarks were racist. i believe President Clinton’s comments were racist. the difference is that people have different intents. they apologize. Limbaugh is in another league and you know it. he is after that moronic gut-chuckle from racists. he thrives on fomenting racial hatred, ethnic divisions, racial superiority. he is the worst in what america is…he judges and condemns others when he lives in the glass house of drug-abuse and white privilege.

just google Limbaugh and racism and your web will light up like a christmas tree. or watch his pathetic, idiotic and racist drivel on you tube. laugh as you like. there nothing funny about it to me.

Ha, ha.
The author puts forth that Will Smith is an asexual figure. I have a wager for him, that the majority of women — black, white, or hispanic — would deem him as an acceptable consort. Ditto for Poitier in his prime.
Flawed premise.

David—”that the majority of women — black, white, or hispanic.” you seem to have an amazing insight into the sexual proclivities of women of all races. don’t confuse your own tastes with women’s. but then perhaps i was not sensitive enough to think that “Dave” can be a womean’s name too.

Dave—i found and posted 8 racist quotations Limbaugh has made. the post was removed probably because of the hate-speech quoted. so to even quote Limbaugh is difficult because of his bellicose, crass, racist, misogynist, xenophobic comments.

jimbo,
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Obama told us that “he is the one we have been waiting for.’” So let the magic begin !!!!! He has no clue and this country is in big trouble.
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Please provide a direct quote, cited. I hear Hannity and other ‘magic’ pundits doing what you have just done. It only works on their lemmings, though.

I think Saltsman is preparing the GOP for their next gig – sideshow carnival act.

If you make fun of Obama you are insulting the presidency. If you call GW a liar and a murdurer you are exercising free speech? I thought the song was funny and echoed black sentiment voiced early in Obama’s campaign. Many blacks fretted over his- Obama’s- lack of street cred.