Tennessee Republican Chip Saltaman is in a bit of trouble after recently distributing a CD containing the parody song “Barack the Magic Negro.”
The uproar over the song, which Saltsman defended as political satire of a 2007 column in the Los Angeles Times that used “Magic Negro” in the headline and text, shows evidence of a double standard, Saltsman said Saturday.
“Liberal Democrats and their allies in the media didn’t utter a word about David Ehrenstein’s irresponsible column in the Los Angeles Times last March,” Saltsman said in a statement e-mailed by his spokesman, Stephen Smith. “But now, of course, they’re shocked and appalled by its parody on The Rush Limbaugh Show.”
Limbaugh, of course, picked up the line and ran with it, knowing the media and liberals would express outrage over the apparent racism on the right. After all, liberals are always outraged over something, and so the Maha Rushie wanted to prove a point — that the left would ignore the Magic Negro line when it was created by a liberal, but would become indignant once it was parroted by a conservative. Sure enough, the left fell for it. And so the joke is on them.
Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin has a great deal more on the parody flap and the hypocrisy of the left.
