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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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From Grover Norquist's RNC Chairman debate. I swear watching this thing was like being able to watch a car wreck in slow motion. You know you shouldn't look but somehow you just can't take your eyes off of it. During one of Grover's "lightening rounds" the group of potential heads of the RNC are asked who their favorite and least favorite Republican Presidents are. They all of course pounce on Reagan as their favorite...lol. They'd have raised his dead corpse up this last election to run if they'd thought the voters would have gone for it. But when asked who was the worst Republican President most of them had a bit more trouble answering the question.

Hey here's one for you.....GEORGE BUSH. Blackwell actually gets some applause for this statement:

Hoover because he opened the door to big government and activism and I think that unfortunately President Bush in the last few months has opened up the door to Mr. Obama's big government...activism.

So what Hoover did wrong was to open the door for FDR to come in behind him and have the public support for the ability to try to clean up his mess? I see Hooverism is still alive and well in the Republican Party.

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Don Lemon talks to Reid Wilson and Lynn Sweet about the CD distributed by Chip Saltsman which included the Barack the Magic Negro song. The absolute tone deafness out of Saltsman is pretty astounding given that the GOP pretends that they would like to figure out how to improve race relations within their ranks and with voters and become more inclusive. This just set them back a step as noted by Wilson and Sweet. If they want be the party that embraces Rush Limbaugh and his racist "jokes" I look forward to them continuing to shrink those red spots on the electoral map until there's little or nothing left of them.

Over at MSNBC another African American news anchor, Tamron Hall, was not quite as reserved as Don Lemon on CNN with her criticism of the CD and portraying it as a "parody". She let conservative pundit Kate Obershain know just how listening to this garbage made her feel as reported by Think Progress.

Full transcript and video of Hall from Think Progress below the fold.

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