Republican National Committee Candidate Hands Out CD’s With “Barack the Magic Negro”
Is this the kind of “change in direction” the GOP has been saying it will undertake as a result of the last two elections? Even more racially charged divisive than before?
RNC candidate Chip Saltsman’s Christmas greeting to committee members includes a music CD with lyrics from a song called “Barack the Magic Negro,” first played on Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show.
Saltsman, a personal friend of conservative satirist Paul Shanklin, sent a 41-track CD along with a note to national committee members.
“I look forward to working together in the New Year,” Saltsman wrote. “Please enjoy the enclosed CD by my friend Paul Shanklin of the Rush Limbaugh Show.”
The CD, called “We Hate the USA,” lampoons liberals with such songs as “John Edwards’ Poverty Tour,” “Wright place, wrong pastor,” “Love Client #9,” “Ivory and Ebony” and “The Star Spanglish banner.”
Several of the track titles, including “Barack the Magic Negro,” are written in bold font. - TheHill.com
Classy. And the tired defense that this is “all in good fun” is entirely predictable.
Maybe he felt outdone in the racist department by Katon Dawson, the South Carolina GOP chairman who is also running for Chair of the RNC and until very recently was a member of a golf club that doesn’t - in 2008! - allow black members.
Two real agents of change there…
December 26, 2008 3:02 pm 
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
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“a Christmas gift”
Hmmmh! Let’s see, A long time ago only Jews were God’s chosen people, then comes Jesus and teaches people about the love of God for his creation, he is crucified, dies and rises from the dead and promises to come back to judge humanity, his 12 disciples convert people regardless of race and ethnicity and we have a universal church.
Then we get the Christian(followers of Christ) right and they judge people by the color of their skin, they talk to God daily but do not have the humility that the saints had after talking to the Lord of time, space and creation, they think he is their personal genie, “name it and claim it” They become increasingly xenophobic and spread their hate around the world even on Christmas day, the birth day of the aforementioned savior who died for the sins of the world. It is indeed a shame. “And Jesus wept.” For this reason there will be final judgment when humanity will realize how we have wronged God and each other by abusing his creation.
After forty years of being a Republican I left the party during the shameful performance of the Bush Administration and I feel clean for the first time in my life. No I’m not a Democrat but an Independent mostly voting Democrat. You Rush Lovin GOPers are a bunch closed minded, flag waving morons. I’m a retired Air Force Officer and after the past 8 years I am ashamed of our government and yes our country. I loved Capitalism until it became a money grab of greedy Republican CEOs and bankers. Thank God for Obama and your rhetoric no longer flies. YOU LOST BEFORE YOU DESERVED TO
Dan, how come you don’t do more positive reports on what the democrats are doing rather than worrying about silly stuff being done by some republicans?
The biggest thing I have seen, that seems to indicate that Obama might really been different, is the openness of his transition. He is making a lot of stuff public that no president has ever done previously.
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So much self-righteous puffery, Sarah Palin must be laughing. How does one satirize Obama without be labelled a racist?
Here we go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxVkLhlu5s
Don’t satirize him just because of his race. That would be a start.
While reading the above discussion, one thing came to my mind. Did anybody actually listen to the song? People seem to think the song is a direct parody of Barack Obama, but click the link above and listen to the whole song. The person truly being satirized is the Rev. Al Sharpton, after an opinion piece appeared in the LA Times by David Ehrenstein talking about how Barack would serve as the “Magic Negro” to guilty whites (read it: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center)and made reference to comments made by Joe Biden during the primaries referring to Mr. Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” (Read about it here: http://www.observer.com/node/36658) After the opinion piece came out, poor Rev. Al was left standing there saying “Hey! Remember me?! Democratic presidential candidate in ‘04?!” Aww, poor Rev. Al. ;) Well, now that you actually know what this thing is really about, let’s have a good discussion!!!
Considering all the hate the left has sprung on Bush and you complain about this. Wow. I guess the calling for Bush’s murder, t-shirts saying F- Bush are just innocent misunderstandings.
BTW, do you know where the term “magic negro” came from?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story
From what I can see, he is quite the liberal.
Why don;t worry about the hate coming from your own party?
Wow! Three days and not so much as one comment from the left? Boy, the easiest way to disperse a pack of libs bashing Republicans is to throw in an ounce of truth and logic. The same can be said the other way around, too, but no response!? I’m surprised!