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State Dept. Webcast Features Guest Who Called Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice 'Uncle Toms'
Weekly standard ^
| Jan 31, 2014
| JERYL BIER
Posted on 01/31/2014 8:45:06 AM PST by RicocheT
The State Department is presenting a global webcast on February 4, titled "From the Street to Mainstream: The Evolution of Rap/Hip Hop Music." The host of the webcast, rapper and State Department Music Ambassador Toni Blackman, will be joined by Pras Michel, [snip] Some of Michel's more inflammatory comments in the past raise questions about the appropriateness of his appearance with the U.S.'s music ambassador on a government-sponsored webcast representing America to the world.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cronycapitalism; fascism; hatedepartment; obamunism; pravdamedia; rapper; statedepartment; statedept; staterunmedia
No bias here! The State Dept. hires and pays a "Music Ambassador"? No wonder Benghazi was such a mess up.
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posted on
01/31/2014 8:45:06 AM PST
by
RicocheT
To: RicocheT; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
State Department Music Ambassador No wonder mainstream music sucks so badly today. It sucks worse than in the Carter administration or even the first president Bush!
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posted on
01/31/2014 8:47:48 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: RicocheT
No wonder Benghazi was such a mess up. Heck, they spent 630K on Facebook "Likes" and then claimed they didn't have any money to provide security at Benghazi.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-bureau-spent-630000-on-facebook-likes/article/2532629
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posted on
01/31/2014 8:55:31 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: tacticalogic
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posted on
01/31/2014 8:55:52 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: RicocheT
The only context in which the racist term "Uncle Tom" makes any sense is if the user of that term wishes to foment a race war.
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posted on
01/31/2014 8:57:01 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
To: tacticalogic
-long stretch of stunned silence-/
everytime I mistakenly assume that Ive heard it all......I’d wrong.
The Taxpayer Funded Facebook likes ALONE...should be enough to can the entire cadre of steaming piles
there wont likely be freebies from the so called.. music ambassador
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posted on
01/31/2014 8:58:00 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
To: RicocheT
Rap/Hip Hop Music Oxymoron.......................
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posted on
01/31/2014 9:02:16 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: RicocheT
Rap is how illiterates spell Crap
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posted on
01/31/2014 9:15:43 AM PST
by
lormand
(Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
To: RicocheT
Rap music? The State Department is sure busy. I thought their dance card was full peddling the wonderfulness of homosexuality.
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posted on
01/31/2014 9:38:02 AM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Red Badger
“Rap/Hip Hop Music
Oxymoron....................... ”
Vs. An accomplished classical pianist. What a joke.
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posted on
01/31/2014 10:36:58 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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