RNC chairman candidate defends 'Barack the Magic Negro' song (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Rebecca Sinderbrand
CNN

(CNN) -- A candidate for the Republican National Committee chairmanship said Friday the CD he sent committee members for Christmas -- which included a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro" -- was clearly intended as a joke.

"I think most people recognize political satire when they see it," Tennessee Republican Chip Saltsman told CNN. "I think RNC members understand that."

The song, set to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon," was first played on conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh's radio show in 2007.

Its title was drawn from a Los Angeles Times column that suggested President-elect Barack Obama appealed to those who feel guilty about the nation's history of mistreatment of African-Americans. Saltsman said the song, penned by his longtime friend Paul Shanklin, should be easily recognized as satire directed at the Times.

The CD sent to RNC members, first reported by The Hill on Friday, is titled "We Hate the USA" and also includes songs referencing former presidential candidate John Edwards and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, among other targets.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/26/rnc.obama.satire/index.html

[ananda]

1. That is SO sick.

And it shows how far the Reeps have been
allowed to go in the last eight years.

America is way too tolerant of the base
and intolerable.

[helderheid]

8. AGREED.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Yeah, well....Obama kicked his ass and up and down ticket.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "up and down ticket" ... well, yes -- yes, he did. *contented sigh* nt

[jobycom]

3. The lasts gasps of an antique worldview. The wrong side of the history books await them.

They are so disgusting it's hard to even be angry anymore. You just want to flush and move on.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Republicons are sooo out of touch with America & Americans

Back to the occult underworld with you, Chip, you troglodyte, excuse-making, hate monger. America has spoken. America is sick of republicon fear, hate, corruption, low morality, and FAIL. Crawl back under your rocks.

[niyad]

5. I understand political satire when I see it--I also understand cruelty, stupidity, racism and blind,

ignorant hatred when I see it.

[niyad]

7. i wonder what he would say if someone had come up with a song about grumpy mcinsane being a senile,

disabled idiot.

[TomClash]

9. Sing away! Wait until . . .

. . . Barack helps to get the economy back on track and wins re-election with 60% of the popular vote. Then he'll be one hell of a magician and we'll make you sing that song IN PRAYER. :rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. What a fucking twit

How damn stupid do you have to be to be RNC chair?

[Deja Q]

11. More reason for Obama to succeed in the next 24 months

As he does, he'll have earned political capital to remind the population what not to vote for.

[peacetalksforall]

12. 30% of this country - hard core bigots and Christ or God followers..

They certainly know how to draw attention to themselves.

[southern_dem]

13. Saltsman is obviously

stuck in the 1960s. He's a perfect choice for RNC Chair. What a freaking tool...

[CurtEastPoint]

15. Here's the Chipper w/his big ole gun on his facebook page.

But it's a closed group, that 'draft Chip' group. Too bad. I SO wanted to join.

[Trajan]

14. American voters flocked in droves to Obama's message of community

They believed in his vision of the common humanity, rising as one, to meet the challenges we face ....

These assholes are all about division and hatred .... They have allowed themselves to sink into the pit they themselves have dug ... It does not register with them that their divisive rhetoric condemns their public image to a scrap heap ...

They paid out the rope, they placed the noose around their own necks, and now they dance upon the end of that rope in perverse glee ...

Fuck'm .... They are done ...

[GrantDem]

16. Well, good to see that they are off to a roaring start at reforming their party...

Idiots!

[Judi Lynn]

17. Oh, we just hate them for their right-wing brilliance. We're whipped, and we should admit it.

We're just too small-minded to accept hate-filled spew, spun and bent into the shape of what they remarkably view as "satire."

They have learned through trial and error that the rest of the world doesn't seem to be impressed when they dress in white sheets and burn crosses, and throw fire bombs into the homes of families they don't like for whatever reason, so their next best bet is to try to work all that pasty-faced, doughy, thin-skinned flabbly white pride into jingles, and easily remembered slogans.

Just one look at these noble faces will tell you we're all on the wrong side, since true greatness of character and mind apparently only can be found within the Republican Party!

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John "Chip" Saltzman

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song's lyric re-writer, "Political humorist," Rush Limbaugh associate, Paul Shanklin

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