RedState Chief Defends Racist 'Magic Negro' Song

What a bunch of tripe, Tommy. It is clearly *not* a racist song. It is clearly a *parody* if racist Democrats doing their thing.

Your claiming the song (and the defense) as racist shows that you, like Al Sharpton et al, are perfectly willing to play the race card any time you can tar a Republican with it. Either that or you are a humorless twat. Probably both.

So just pardon the HELL out of Republicans who find Democrat racism amusing and ironic.

TC: Step back, take a deep breath and relax. When Limbaugh, Saltsman and Erickson come forward and go public with their s--t, they stroke their base, but offend independents and moderates on both the left and right, and that it a good thing because contrary to Rove's claim that there "no longer is a middle", there still is a substantive one and it went for Obama. So, the aforementioned jerks are doing us a BIG favor and frankly, I hope they keep it up.

Here's are some pretty simple tests which definitively prove whether "Puff The Magic Negro" is racist:

Would the Marshall band play and sing this song to their audience?

Would The Harlem Globetrotters make their entrance into a stadium with "Puff The Magic Negro" as their theme music?

Would proponents of the song have the stones to play the song to the Marshall football team or the Harlem Globetrotters on their boombox to their faces live?

Before I finish reading THE GUY'S column, I think it important to note THE GUY'S name (intrinsically) has been a subject of debate before. How can parents name their GUY ERICK ERICKSON. Ok, I'm almost done reading this GUY'S article, but, that friggin' bothers me.

Thanks,
Cube Cubenstein.

Cube2:48PMDec 30th 2008
Here's are some pretty simple tests which definitively prove whether "Puff The Magic Negro" is racist:

Would the Marshall band play and sing this song to their audience?

Would The Harlem Globetrotters make their entrance into a stadium with "Puff The Magic Negro" as their theme music?

Would proponents of the song have the stones to play the song to the Marshall football team or the Harlem Globetrotters on their boombox to their faces live?
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In keeping with your thread Cube: Will the RNC play the song at their national convention in 2012?

I don't think the RNC has money to hire a band or sound equipment anymore.

You may be right on that.

Cube at 2:48

Nah. That is bull. Is that your standard for how you 'definitively prove' something? To wit, whatever the Marshall football team or the Harlem Globetrotters say is racist, is racist? You are a moron.

Here's a homework assignment for the thinking impaired. Watch this ad:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/mccain_commericial

Did you think it was racist? If yes, explain to me why you thought it was racist, because I'd sure like to hear that. If no, then how about you explain to me why 58% of black Americans thought it was a racist ad.

I would LOVE to hear that one.

PS -- your #3 -- If you gave me 10 minutes to talk and do show-and-tell before I ran the ad, unfiltered, without some leftist Nazi in my face, I would be perfectly willing to show that ad to the Marshall football team. So eat it.

The Republican Party is defending this song as not being racist because they are racist and do not want to admit being racist. They will never get a vote of mine and that is the last word I have to say on this matter.

What a bunch of tripe, Tommy. It is clearly *not* a racist song. It is clearly a *parody* if racist Democrats doing their thing.

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Republicans have spoken! Whites who hate blacks are parody-ers but blacks hated by whites are racist!

It was so simple it evaded me!

Figuring the consequences for the republicanist party is also pretty simple.

On one hand you have voters that are offended enough to kick your party off the cliff and they will just get more firmly resolved and pissed off the more republicans try to excuse their position by explaining the joke. (You'll never get a laugh by 'explaining a joke'-laughter is involuntary and almost completely dependent on timing, something that evades would be conservative comics.)

This would be anyone who believes that a white man who is in a party that openly hates black enfranchisement and has repeatedly caged their votes singing a song in an atrocious minstrel show ebonic accent about the first black president in white stereotypes of blacks is not mocking and diminishing his heritage.

Similarly, any Hispanic person who is offended by the same baiting from the spanglish mockery is apparently cast off from the republican base for the same reason.

I think your loose cannon is completely justified in his cavalier dismissal of ethnic voters for the purpose of providing a little schadenfreude to the have mores who actually benefit from party philosophy and the have nothings whom they manipulate and play off one another. But being justified is far from being savvy.

It seems like a dopey strategy to exclude minorities by pissing on them at will and offending their families and heritage, but it certainly shines a light on the 2500 pound elephant we all know from the smell that they keep in the room.

They don't want to be called racist, and have in fact now rebadged their victims as 'racist', so their aryan purity of purpose or whatever remains intact to them. Their motivation doesn't matter to the outcome.

They want to pay the price in ethnic support of the party, but in a country where old white males are in an ever shrinking minority, offending blacks, gays, hispanics and women to please them actually seems like the democrats have been controlling their behavior.

Man, talk about a circular firing squad.

without some leftist Nazi in my face

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who was a christian muslim buddhist and it rained all night the day he left, the weather it was dry, and the sun so hot he froze to death, right?

Jesus, is rush giving you all instructions in home trephining with power tools these days?

They will never get a vote of mine and that is the last word I have to say on this matter.

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but, but, but, but, but,


take heed, heffalumps. You won't jolly them back into the fold by explaining yourselves even deeper into the hole.

If you want a shot, an abject apology is about your only option, and that one's fading fast. People don't let this kind of shit go.

Considering I'm Jewish, I'd like to think I'm not a Nazi, but, stereotyping others with the most heinous piece of history is totally groovy by me.

Yes. The Marshall Band test and the Harlem Globetrotter test are standard bearers in political philosophy. Must... look up... hyperbole...!

You know what, I think I've changed my mind. Thanks Paul Fuller. You have inspired critical metaphysical thinking for me. Screw empathy. I think the G.O.P. should use "Puff The Magic Negro" at all upcoming rallies.

When Lynn Swann comes to a rally, play "Puff the Magic Negro." Go to urban areas, with a car styled after The Blues Brothers outfitted with a huge megaphone, and blast the "Negro" song in Compton to garner more votes. Please. I encourage the continued use. I AM HEALED!

This "conservative" line of thought (despite advocacy of such a song is anything but conservative) reminds me of what happened to, "Rex Kramer: Danger Seeker." A man willing to risk his life, for the sake of adventure. I suggest taking on his tactics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7S5BP-tvR8

You have also inspired me to get a haircut like Moe and a tiny mustache. THANKS MAN!

(P.S. the above clip is real satire)

To be perfectly honest, I believe magic was involved to get obama elected......certainly wasn't his expierence, patriotism, nor his close ties to questionalble folks.....I hope he does well for the sake of us americans, if not, then we may just go to the extreme right....and that my friends is a vicious cycle, we just can't seem to get away from

More drivel, more screeching accusations with no basis, and not enough mop to sop it all up with.

And still, nobody taking on the homework assignment....

Let's use the cold-calculated test of politics espoused by some... the potential harm test. Is there any potential gain by utilizing the song and defending it? No. Those who think it is morally upright and suitable for children of all ages are in a small piece of the pie that will always vote Republican.

Is there potential harm by defending it's use? Yes. Votes could potentially be lost (see last election) for racist vitriol and xenophobic behavior. There is absolutely nothing to gain by advocating the "Negro" song. And that's what I'm calling it. The "Negro" song. Does taking "Puff" from the title change things? No. Only to an idiot. It's like sprinkling sugar on shit. It's still shit.

Despite idiots who still try to defend it, ask yourself, you think by cheering on the "Negro" song more swing states will come to the Republican party? I hope so. Do those who defend this (what would have been a minor story but for those who defended it rather than calling it out for what it was) really think that doing so is good for the G.O.P.? If you do, you are destined for the same results in 2012. There is absolutely, from a pure utilitarian and "potential harm" analysis, nothing at all to be gained by supporting it. Simply have a greater chilling effect at diversifying the Republican Party. Even Huckabees soft criticism of it is better than Todd Toddson's Red State article. Way to deter diverse voter turnout for the G.O.P.

Funny. When I went to Red State to read Chris Chistophersons piece, at the top was a banner to support Newt Gingrich. Wonder what he might say...

All that being said, it is objectively wrong. There are right and wrong answers in the moral universe. Some we know. Others we do not. I know the right answer. "Negro" songs are bad.

@Paul... Way to respond to the analysis provide. "More drivel."

As for your "Homework Assignment," this much I know... THAT DIDN'T WORK? The celebrity ad. Negro was used throughout it. Effective campaign for McCain. Use it again. I don't dig on abbreviations like LMFAO, but seriously, I laughed. Yup. Use the old playbook. It really works. You can only help matters by using, "The Negro Song."

Cube: "Yes. The Marshall Band test and the Harlem Globetrotter test are standard bearers in political philosophy. Must... look up... hyperbole...!"

Clif Kuplen: "If you want a shot, an abject apology is about your only option, and that one's fading fast. People don't let this kind of shit go."
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Yes, I agree! You can't debate away something that's so glaringly obvious, any more than you can suddenly undergo a humour transplant for the purposes of buttressing your weak argument. Since when did Repukes develop a sense of humour, anyway? (Caleb notwithstanding....love 'ya, bud).

BTW, Cube - my first thought when I heard Mr. Erickson's name was about his Psychosocial Theory of Human Development (Psych 101). You remember, the stages like Industry v. Inferiority, Generativity v. Stagnation (Hmmmm, which one is he stuck on?). Anyway, I'm sure it's become a great conversation piece at cocktail parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson

Thanks Diana. I think I got a friend request from the show... Is that you? Cool! I'll activate it, but I'm lazy. Tonight I have a charity poker tournament with some cool pros and celebs. It's not to boost sales of "Puff The Magic Negro" though. Of course, I would hope Paul "The Hitler Card" will call in. Tomorrow right?

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Unusable-Signal

Cube --

(1) You as the arbiter of moral absolutes = fail.
(2) What analysis? Was that the 'You have inspired critical metaphysical thinking for me' part, or the '"Negro" songs are bad' part? It's difficult to parse what is hyperbole from you and what is an attempt at analysis. They look rather the same.
(3) So your answer to the homework: 'Negro' was used throughout it [the McCain 'celebrity' ad]. That says it all. You see racism when a Republican person merely exhales.