By Brad on Dec 26, 2008 in America, American Values, GOP/Republican Party, Not-so-funny | comments(2)
This kind of stuff just boggles the mind. TPM reports on a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee who has sent out a CD with the song “Barack, The Magic Negro”:
If one of the Republican Party’s challenges is how to effectively oppose the first black president without coming off as racist, one of the candidates for RNC chair is hardly off to a good start — he is now distributing a CD that includes a racially-charged song called “Barack, The Magic Negro.”
Chip Saltsman, the former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee, has distributed a goodie bag to committee members that includes a CD by Paul Shanklin, a writer of right-wing parody tunes who is often featured on Rush Limbaugh. The “Magic Negro” track, which first gathered controversy in the Spring of 2007, featured Shanklin portraying Al Sharpton as an Amos & Andy stereotype, ridiculing white liberals who support Obama.
By Brad on Aug 13, 2008 in America, Politics, Stupid Things, Things That Make You Shake Your Head | comments(0)
Politico reports that the RNC sent out this bulletin yesterday:
“The Honolulu Star Bulletin reports Barack Obama ate popcorn and watched the 3:40 showing of the Dark Knight in theater 9 yesterday.”
Seriously? This is worthy of a bulletin? It is if you’re desperately grasping for straws for anything to smear your opponent with. Jonathan Martin explains:
Seeing a summer action flick and eating popcorn is hardly elitist, but wait, there is more.
Obama has said, the RNC hastens to note, that Batman and Spiderman are his favorite superheroes, citing their “inner turmoil.”
Ahh, there it is.
Real, red-blooded Americans, evidently, are only supposed to like superheroes because they have nifty outfits and beat up the bad guys. To look beyond the surface or glean some larger meaning from the characters naturally implies Obama has the sort of egghead end effette approach to life that would leaad us to analyze our enemies instead of defeat them.
Or something like that.
It would be easier if he just went wind-surfing.
Let’s forget about the issues. Let’s concentrate all our energy on the innuendo. That’s what helps elect the best person to be the leader of the free world. It’s worked well in the past two election cycles, right?
