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  • { Jimmy Naifeh } Tenn. House speaker calls out GOP on Obama-Dragon parody

    12/30/2008 11:15:50 AM PST · by SmithL · 18 replies · 1,252+ views
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Democratic House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh is calling on Tennessee Republican leaders to renounce former state GOP leader Chip Saltsman in the wake of a music parody of President-elect Barack Obama. . . . He sent committee members a CD this Christmas featuring a 2007 song called "Barack the Magic Negro." The parody is sung to the music of "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
  • 'Magic Negro' flap might help Saltsman bid ( Conservative opportunity alert! )

    12/30/2008 3:43:16 AM PST · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 18 replies · 1,114+ views
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    The media created controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chair candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it. 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,”...