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RNC chairman candidate defends 'Barack the Magic Negro' song
Chip Saltsman sent out the CD to committee members for Christmas Saltsman: "I think most people recognize political satire when they see it" Song to tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon" first played on Rush Limbaugh's show Saltsman said song is satire of a Los Angeles Times article
(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 about President-elect Barack Obama's appeal to those who feel guilty about the nation's history of mistreatment of African-Americans. Saltsman said the song, penned by 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.
According to The Hill, other song titles, some of which were in bold font, were: "John Edwards' Poverty Tour," "Wright place, wrong pastor," "Love Client #9," "Ivory and Ebony" and "The Star Spanglish Banner."
Saltsman was national campaign manager for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential bid in 2007 and 2008. Before that, he held a variety of posts, including a number of positions under former Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee.
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In the early 1940s, Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan, which he had seen holding parades as a child. He "recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the Grand Dragon Joel L. Baskin for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, West Virginia to officially organize the chapter... "When it came time to choose the Exalted Cyclops, the top officer in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously."[1] Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, though he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd's recollection, Baskin told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities. I was only 23 or 24, and the thought of a political career had never struck me. But strike me that night, it did." [2]
He participated in the KKK for a period of time during World War II, holding the titles "Kleagle", which indicated a Klan recruiter, and "Exalted Cyclops." Byrd did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore shipyard, assembling warships.
When running for Congress in 1952, he announced, "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." During this campaign, "Byrd went on the radio to acknowledge that he belonged to the Klan from 'mid-1942 to early 1943,' according to newspaper accounts. He explained that he had joined 'because it offered excitement and because it was strongly opposed to communism.' " ibid.
Byrd has often referred to his Klan membership as a mistake of his youth. As recently as 1997, he told an interviewer he'd encourage young people to become involved in politics, but with this warning: "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena." Conservatives repeatedly point up his KKK membership to discredit him today, and his fellow Democratic Senators, as hypocritical. [3]
During the campaign, Byrd's Republican opponent "uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to [...] the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- when Byrd was 29 years old and long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. 'The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia,' Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period."ibid
During his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1958, when Byrd was 41 years old, Byrd defended the Klan. He argued that the KKK had been incorrectly blamed for much of the violence in the South. [4]
In the 1960 Presidential election primaries, Byrd, a close ally of Lyndon B. Johnson, then Senate Majority Leader, tried to derail the Democratic front-runner and ultimately successful candidate John F. Kennedy in the crucial West Virginia primary. "Kennedy allies retaliated with leaks to the press about Byrd's work as a Klan organizer." [5]
Byrd later joined with other southern Democrats to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Byrd filibustered the bill for more than 14 hours, saying it abrogated principles of federalism. He also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which was a substantially more controversial bill than the previous two as it made racial discrimination in selling homes and renting out apartments illegal.
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Personally, I think the song is hilarious, as are many of Rush's other parities. As I recall, it was the leftist media that not only named Obama "the magic negro", but also questioned whether he was "black enough". I didn't hear any outcry by you lefties over that!
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Yah, I think CCM has lost his mind... the 1940's, 50's etc.. were different times... if he wants to talk about the KKK then he has to look no further then David Duke who became a Louisiana state Rep as a Republican...
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: Personally, I think the song is hilarious, as are many of Rush's other parities. As I recall, it was the leftist media that not only named Obama "the magic negro", but also questioned whether he was "black enough". I didn't hear any outcry by you lefties over that!
As always your an idiot... go back to the sewer where you came from...
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: Personally, I think the song is hilarious, as are many of Rush's other parities. As I recall, it was the leftist media that not only named Obama "the magic negro", but also questioned whether he was "black enough". I didn't hear any outcry by you lefties over that!
"More than all this, though, Byrd's decision to stand with Obama deserves notice as a sign of one man's evolution.
As is noted in virtually every lengthy story about Byrd, as a young man he joined the Ku Klux Klan. There has been an ongoing dispute about the length of his membership and his commitment to the Klan's racist cause -- Byrd over the years has minimized his involvement; others have said that in doing so he ignores the facts.
The issue was examined by the Washington Post in a 2005 article headlined "A Senator's Shame."
What has not been in dispute is Byrd's mea culpas. The Post piece ended with this quote from him:
"I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."
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I'm a bit reluctant to add to this particular, small branch of the overall, larger problem. However, in the interest of bending-over-phukkkkkkking-backward...I give you the nut of Wally's post, following:
"What has not been in dispute is Byrd's mea culpas. The Post piece ended with this quote from him:
quote:"I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."
Hellooooo?
So far the Bushie crowd's mea culpa seems to be 1) "Gee, golly, no-sirree-you-betchya we-love-us-some-unregulated-market or 2) DADBLAME that durn Fannie Mae! ...DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T TELL YOU!"
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quote:Originally posted by T e x: glass, look up one response, please.
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you mean about Byrd? people make mistakes. whether they learn from them or not is the important issue. first step is acknowledging the mistake.
Byrd might be a Dem, but nobody has ever accused him of being liberal. He and Strom Thurmond are "of an age"- Strom was Dem at first, then switched parties in the midsixties. he was adamantly opposed to "civil rights"...
after he died? his half-negro daughter came forward and identified herself.... she was born on the twenties... apparently he had always treated her as member of his family, but never acknowledged her publicly- go figure...
in the fifties? the GOP was more "liberal" than the Dems (IMO) Eisenhower had come out of the army where real desegregation was first implemented... Eisenhower sent the troops to Little Rock to enforce the desegregation of the Little Rock schools.
as for the magic song? i'm not even going to load the thing on my 'puter. i don't need to hear it to get the drift...
some people think flies on turds are funny too. i just think they smell bad.
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This is a sick racist song that has now place in American politics. I find it in very bad taste anybody that would find this funny would have to be a racist and have a bugs bunny sense of humor
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