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Posted on 12/27/2008 8:26:17 PM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican National Committee said Saturday he was "shocked and appalled" that one of his potential successors had sent committee members a CD this Christmas featuring a 2007 parody song called "Barack the Magic Negro."
In spite of RNC Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan's sharply negative reaction, former Tennessee GOP leader Chip Saltsman said that party leaders should stand up to criticism over distributing a CD with the song. He earlier defended the tune as one of several "lighthearted political parodies" that have aired on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
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Is that “shocked” as in Casablanca? Or genuine shock? I don’t speak kneapad GOP.
Althoug I like Mike, either his time with the RNC is over, or the conservative’s time is.
What a woosie
I think it’s tacky and counterproductive. Hope he loses big. It didn’t derail his election. Why would it make any difference now.
We have to get a lot more serious about being conservative and articulating a conservative alternative to the McCain Obama axis in Washington. When everything comes apart as it did the last time the children were completely in charge in Washington, perhaps America will be ready for what seems obvious to me: “Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.”
The worst thing we could do is to try to make BO’s bills a little less worse in exchange for putting our names on them, the way McCain, Snowe and Collins will certainly do. That gives BO bipartisan cover for his agenda. The public has to know who is responsible for what is going to happen.
And, if his agenda is passed and enough Americans are happy to live that way, other alternatives will then loom unpleasantly before us.
What’s wrong with this?
Barack the magic negro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ
The version on Rush
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/50979/
I prefer the other video version.
Not to mention that the parody itself was written by a black journalist in the L.A. Times.
Duncan has all the leadership of a caboose.
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Duncan shouldn’t be running again.
What a loser.
Louis Farrakhan calls Barack Obama The Messiah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-_qUHe3HU
I don't hear any liberal criticism of Obama being the “messiah”.
Well, that just what you think! I know that that priceless parody grew out of the words written by a liberal LA Slimes reporter and Paul Shanklin, after hearing Rush talk about the reporter reporting this in the "Drive By Media" simply put the reporter's words to music as if sung by Al Sharpton to the tune of "Puff The Magic Dragon!"
Get a life!!!
Conservatives have senses of humor and are NOT all wrapped around the axel with stupid political correctness!!!
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The Times op-ed, written by cultural critic David Ehrenstein, is headlined “Obama the ‘Magic Negro.’ “ Ehrenstein invoked the cinematic trope of the “Magic Negro,” which he defined as follows:
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia [].
He’s there to assuage white “guilt” (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that’s not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is “Magic.”
Ehrenstein concluded: “Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn’t project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.”
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200703200012
Some people don’t THINK.
Ignore them.
Wow. The sure are some idiot comments on that youtube link
Hay BOB!!! Check this thread out!!! I forgot to ping you to my reply...
Dear RNC: I am appalled at Mike Duncan's severe display of being out of touch with reality.
"Barrack the Magic Negro" - was a widely circulated, and commented upon, quote from a LA Times columnist during the primaries. Rush Limbaugh turned it into a parody - and it is funny. Listen to the words.
The fact that Mike Duncan is unaware with of this bit of folklore of the party probably has more to do with our losing than any insensitivity displayed by the song. Duncan seems to be as out of touch with the party as John McCain was with Conservatives and the American People.
You want to win.....you fight with what the other side gives you - plus your own ideas. Duncan and McCain forgot the first part - and then adopted positions nearly identical to the opposition.. The RINO''s are killing us.
No, wait a minute. He needs to get another job!
What’s wrong with it? Maybe we should expect more from our so called leaders. If this is what they have to offer the country, how is that any better than what the libs offer? They are all a bunch of friggin losers.
Well... I guess I've been spoiled by the vast majority of THINKING FReepers. Sorry...
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