Saltsman Blames the "Barack the Magic Negro" Controversy On The Media
By Heather Wednesday Jan 28, 2009 11:00am
h/t Scarce
Contessa Brewer does a good job of taking RNC Chairman wanna' be Chip Saltsman to task when he attempts to blame the controversy over the CD containing the racist song "Barack the Magic Negro" he distributed, on the media.
Brewer: Chip the analysts though say you can't win an election on white votes alone now. It's impossible to do and you sent RNC members a Christmas CD that included the parody, that song Barack the Magic Negro. I mean how in the world could you lead Republicans in appealing to minority voters when you did something that even Newt Gingrich called so inappropriate it should disqualify any Republican National Committee candidate who would do this?
Saltsman: You know I think it highlighted a couple things. One that we're definitely not playing on a level playing ground with the media on that issue. I mean there was no outrage when the L.A. Times article coined that phrase and I don't remember the national media calling David... (crosstalk)
Brewer: You're blaming the media for bringing attention to it?
Saltsman: Contessa I'm asking you. Were you outraged when you read the article in the L.A. Times a year and a half ago? (crosstalk)
Brewer: I'm asking you what you were thinking when you sent that CD out?
Saltsman: It was a parody Christmas gift and I sent it out without even thinking about what was on it. I've been friends with Paul Shanklin for a lot of years and sent out a lot of his stuff over the years. Obviously when you do something like that you don't want to offend a lot of people when you do. That's something you don't want to do um and you know hopefully we'll move on, talk about the future of the party but this is obviously something that wasn't helpful.
Brewer: Can you understand why?
Saltsman: Sure. Oh absolutely Contessa. Absolutely. Absolutely. But I think we've also got to understand as you look at the media's reaction to it there is no level playing ground because this was a, this was a parody based on a newspaper article...(crosstalk).
Brewer: There's not going to be an opportunity to shoot the messenger. It was an offensive CD to send out and people I think are right to be offended by it.
Saltsman: Well.
Brewer: Alright. Thank you.
Saltsman: I think there's some people that, yeah, I understand that.
Brewer: Good luck in your race for the Chairmanship of the RNC. Thank you for your time.
Saltsman. Good. Thank you. Yes ma'am.
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that it would be good if he got to be the head of the GOP.
But then I realized he is no better or no worse then any other republican fool they could come up with!
"there is no level playing ground"
Perhaps if he went on KKKToday Morning Show he'd have a level playing ground.
I'm sure he thinks "Faux and Friends" is "level". But man, I love the way Contessa just slapped him down.
Think! Think! I don't think, Contessa! I'm a right wing $hit Haid..............
Think! Think! I don't think, Contessa! I'm a right wing $hit Haid..............
PWNED
The "No Black Vote" Republican Party. The Klan will be so proud.
Contessa shoulda spanked him.
She did everything but put him over her knee.
What Chip Saltzman said: "there is no level playing ground"
What Chip Saltsman REALLY wanted to say:"Darnit....If it wasn't for that pesky librul media, us REAL Americans...you know...Conservitive Republicans, could get our racial hatred on in the OPEN, and we wouldn't have to hide our TRUE feelings about them fur'ners and non-white people in order to get elected."
the truth shall not be spoken
Every once in a while she scores one for our side. Most of the time it is the other way around.
Thats how the last 8 years should have sounded ...
We would have gotten more nuggets like:
"Obviously when you do something like that you don't want to offend a lot of people when you do. That's something you don't want to do um ..."
and the angle Ol Chippy was trying to play is that EVERY story has two sides. The fact that no one was there to say Chip wasn't a racist is what he meant by no level playing field, facts be damned.
It's an old tired argument that the evil deed is not the issue but rather objecting to the evil deed that is the problem.
Republican hate mongers wouldn't be such hate mongers if people would just stop objecting to their hate mongering. Then we could all just get along.
why are all of these Repub db's (Boehner et al.) dead ringers for Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons ..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRcRIbExrfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMYZtN_-rQ&fe...
....don't waste your time with us black voters. We truly want to punish you mother fuckers.
And BTW, 4% of blacks voted for Grandpa and that challenged lady? BULLSHIT! It had to be in the low thousands.
the magic negro song was merely a "parody"... this is the explanation chipper klansman gives?
so, what are burning crosses? practical jokes?
today's GOP: racism in good spirit
Saltsman: It was a parody Christmas gift and I sent it out without even thinking about what was on it. I've been friends with Paul Shanklin for a lot of years and sent out a lot of his stuff over the years. Obviously when you do something like that you don't want to offend a lot of people when you do. That's something you don't want to do um and you know hopefully we'll move on, talk about the future of the party but this is obviously something that wasn't helpful
Without Even Thinking..
I think that sums up the last 8 years.
Standard Republican excuses:
- Someone else did it first.
- The media's to blame.
- Move along, move along.
- Look! Over there! It's Elvis!
I'm sure Ken Blackwell and Micheal Steele both enjoyed listening to "Barack the Magic Negro" on Christmas Day while sitting around the tree and opening presents with their families. Or was it that Blackwell and Steele didn't happen to receive that particular gift from Saltsman.
Blackwell brushed it off, blaming it on "hypersensitivity in the press in the matters of race." In other words, "hee hee hee, Massa sho' is funny!"
Without. Even. Thinking.
RIP, Republican Party,
sends out this "parody" without "even thinking about it", exactly what is he spending his time thinking about?
What is "the future of the party" code for? Anyone?
"Barack the Magic Ni**er" but thought that might just offend someone.
Idiot.
He actually is the PERFECT person to lead the Republican Party! He represents them to a T.
and accepted as parody, the title of the song should have been "Puff The Magic Person of Color.
And don't spit it out.
in order for something to work as a parody, doesn't one have to have put thought into it, pretty much by definition? how many successful, non-thinking attempts at parody has anyone around here made? not so many for me...
Saltzman, Boehner, Cantor, Limbaugh, etc. - what's the difference?? Substitute one for the other and you get the same thing - HOT AIR...
Only place any of them have any clout is running their respective Klan meetings on Saturdays...
Saltsman: It was a parody Christmas gift and I sent it out without even thinking about what was on it. I've been friends with Paul Shanklin for a lot of years and sent out a lot of his stuff over the years. Obviously when you do something like that you don't want to offend a lot of people when you do. That's something you don't want to do um and you know hopefully we'll move on, talk about the future of the party but this is obviously something that wasn't helpful
Without Even Thinking..
I think that sums up the last 8 years.
I agree with you, but wouldn't that count alot for what some among us call "satire," be it a New Yorker cover, or an SNL skit on torture?
I really haven't listened to the song to offer a true analysis of what the song includes. However, there appears to be the impression of this construct:
PARODY
Taking an existing song (Puff the magic dragon)
and insert a conservative image (president, candidate, movie star, tycoon, etc.) and change the image to something opposite or lampoonish.
Add in high political theater (President Obama), throw in a old rascist term (Negroe, Black, African-American, N------, Spic, Kyke, Wetback, etc)
and you have some knee-slapping funny stuff....if you happen to be a good-humored rascist frat boy drinking brewskis with your other good-humored rascist frat boys.
Puff the Magic Dragon was itself controversial. Critics refer to the title and refrain, and little Johnny Paper to say it was advocating smoking weed.
One of the bandmembers produced a parody of The National Anthem in Response, "Oh say can you see..." See he said C, the National anthem's referring to Cocaine.
Seems like after funerals a lot of bereaved wives would be stoned on their widow's weeds.
I wonder what would happen if I was running for office, and people found out I own a copy of John Lennon's Shaved Fish?
and explain it Blago style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Gw5qkl6_U
A sure sign that the GOP will soon be a decimated party is if Saltsman becomes head of the RNC. This guy's a disgrace to this country. Let's face it: The RNC has absolutely no identity right now other than a corrupt cabal of criminals in the eyes of the american people.
As for Contessa, she's developing herself as a truth seeker tackling these jackasses every day. She emasculates them with the flick of her tongue. Way to go, Contessa, and keep up the great work of outing these frauds, criminals, and charlatans.
The CCoC (CCC) is the new acronym for the republican party from this day forward.
Perhaps someone needs to do a counter to Saltsman's piece of garbage and entitle it: Saltsman: The white american douchebag?
Chip, the racist asshole
Just doesn't see
The problem with his racist speech
As he heads the R-N-C
Little Rushie Limbaugh
Loved that rascal Chip
He aired the racist ditty
And laughed it off as hip
Hatred lives a long time
When fed by racist lies
Perhaps one day we'll all wake up
And see these bastards die ...
and the Oxycontin junkie's song are one and the same.
Well they're not!
Just proves reality isn't going to effect a Repuplic.
just as everyone needs to get behind a palin for prez candidacy
if the repugs want to self destruct...let them
let's not discourage these folks when they decide to make asses of themselves in public.
usually Ms. Brewer can be found falling all over herself so as to be able to agree with crap like what this guy was saying as fast as humanly possible. maybe she was exposed to radiation recently?
...Israelis and Palestinians...seriously. The Republicans have zero clue to the generating hatred that we feel for them. Now let them go after the first black President. Lol.
Brewer: I'm asking you what you were thinking when you sent that CD out?
He was thinking that he knew exactly what type of people he was trying to attract. He knew some people would find it offensive, but he would never get their support anyway, so screw 'em. He is now hoping that eventually those people will STFU about him as soon as another racist says or does something racist.
At least that's the context I got from his muddled answer.
I have nothing but comtempt for Saltsman, but why is it the place of Brewer to express an opinion on the matter. I am content to allow viewers to make up their own minds.
The "news" programs seem to take the view that they must express a view about everything. The weather reporter has to comment on weather the weather is good or bad, or whether we need the rain, or ... The sweater girl reporters seems it is their office to tell us whether the approve or disapprove of everything that they report. The worst among these is insufferable Mika B. who moans, groans, sighs, makes faces and generally imposes her approval of disapproval of everything that is said on her show.
Why not present the facts objectively -- yes, ask a pointed, tough question -- but why not let the viewers decide?
... told the media that facts are boring.
And America has become progressively dumber, dependent on 'expert opinion' rather than thinking for themselves.
Because a consultant ...
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:10 — Shadowgm
... told the media that facts are boring.
And America has become progressively dumber, dependent on 'expert opinion' rather than thinking for themselves.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T1LIrzsgqA
...to be outraged about.
... news is less about facts and more about ratings. It's an endless parade of consultants and new graphics looks and how to compete with the internet ...
I've seen news directors issue memos on how we need to shake things up because a former colleague pushed his buttons and kicked his arse in the ratings. Decisions are made in that wonderful isolated universe of management, where very few actually know what the hell they're doing.
However vile, racist assholes like this uneducated shit stain Saltsman have gotten away with bigoted crap like this forever, hurting many innocent people so I was glad to see Brewer confront him on his bullshit, the format be damned.
Complaining about how a racist coward got bitch slapped is relatively low on my priority list.
When the interviewers just sit there in a blizzard of Republican lies without pointing them out, then we call them out on that. So which is it?
there WAS a level of outrage when the LA Times article came out...but the LA Times doesnt print that article over and over and have it printed in other newspapers over and over.
There was some, but not much. If you read the original article, you'll see that the term "Magic Negro" wasn't being used just so he could say "Negro". He explained the term, where it came from, it's context, how it has been portrayed in the media (mostly films) and how Barack Obama fits into all this.
As typical for right wingers, they'll latch onto any excuse so thay can same something offensive, thinking they should be able to get away with it.
Thank you. That is absolutely correct. Only Rush Limbaugh's braindead listeners are unable to appreciate this distinction, and Rush knows his audience. (Limbaugh also caught heat for playing this "parody" on his show, IIRC.)
On the one hand you have a serious sociological commentary about how the first non-white President reflects a troubling charicature from American literature. On the other hand, you have a jackass trying to squeeze "Barack" and "negro" into a catchy fun tune (probably trying to decide if fart noises would work somehow) using a voice that is supposed to resemble Al Sharpton - because Al Sharpton saying "negro" is just comedy gold, apparently.
I wish there were a level playing field, Chip, because your name would be synonymous with "racist fuckwad" in any fair analysis.
Brewer didn't disassemble his argument completely, but when she was finished, I think he did have a red mark on the side of his face that looked just like the back of her hand.
fault of the LA Times that Saltsman is a non thinking racist pig.
Ah the party of personal responsibility.
Surprise, another Reslug bigot that doesn't have a clue.
...than all the Magic Negro stuff is that his proposal to win minority voters was to offer tax cuts.
Don't these clowns have ANY ideas?
these douchebags, these idiots come from?????
They all blame the media; they all defend themselves by saying things were "taken out of context.
And, to ask "where's the outrage" over the L.A. Times is an absurd excuse. Even if the LA Times had some nasty article about the "Magic Negro," that is no excuse for Saltzmann to do what he did.
Let these buffoons keep making asses of themselves, and maybe they will eventually be gone forever from the national stage.
Yes Chip, blame the media. The reason for your scandal couldn't possibly be because you're a racist pile of shit, could it!
I agree with LeftandLeft, I hope the Black community punishes the Republicans for years to come. And as a half-Latina, I hope we join you in making life and politic diffcult for the Repigs as much as possible.
The bigot who makes the slur then blames the media.
It sorta reminds me of the catholic cult blaming the media for reporting rampant pedophilia by priests.
In both cases, it's a bunch of $h1+s trying to shift blame.
1) when asked what the Republican party has to offer, "Blah-de-blah, blah, low taxes, blah, blah, opportunities for all Americans, not just minorities, blah-de-blah, low taxes, blah, blah." i.e. more rhetoric is what we have to offer.
2) yes, I sent the racist card but it's the media's fault for bringing attention to it, otherwise my friends and I could have had a good laugh at the expense of the neegras. i.e. I make no apologies for being a racist.
C'mon, elect him. The Greens will be bigger than the Republicans by 2012.
Since when have the Republicans cared about leveling the playing field? They sure like the odds stacked in their favor, so much that they are willing to do anything to keep the playing field unlevel.
But once they do something that the public rejects and/or is outraged by then they want a fair playing field...Oh, don't hit me with those hard questions, I'm just a victim here! - I would suggest Saltsman go eat a thick one, but that seems to be the only thing the Republican party does with any pride!
We don't get our voice heard because there's a liberal media bias.
We're losing in Iraq because the media doesn't report the good news.
Sarah Palin sounded stupid because the media made her sound that way.
The only reason I'm a racist is because the media focuses on my racist actions.
Seriously, forget for a moment that conservative media is firmly running this country, even they can't hide a dog turd in a crowded elevator.
Republicans need to hide their heads in shame for the next 25 years or so, you backed the wrong horse (Bush) and screwed your selfs, now you want to head the RNC with bigoted southern bastards, NOT in my lifetime. President Obama is here for the next 8 years then its time for a woman to take over and then maybe an independent.
I truly hope in my lifetime I never see another Republican as president, unless its Ron Paul.
Ya you screwed up that bad.
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