So, in all the silly stories about RNC Chair candidate Chip* Saltsman mailing out the CD** with the song “Barack, the magic Negro” on it, KSL’s story is the most telling to me about the mind frame of the Utah Republican’ts, especially because perpetual noise machine SL-County Chair James Evans is absent from the conversation. I guess his slavish devotion the 500% interest loan making has him too busy to comment on the state of racism in the GOP.
They had to dig up Bruce Huff, former head of the Utah Republican Party, to find anyone who thinks that Saltsman is an ass. And not for sending out the song because the song’s offensive, oh, no, because it wasn’t good strategy.
Former Utah Republican Party Chair Bruce huff doesn’t think it’s funny. “It was a stupid idea. He, as a political strategist if nothing else, should have known better,” Huff said.
I guess that’s the new GOP Billboard for 2009.
Racism – Not Good Strategy Anymore!
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Admittedly I’m even further down on the list of prominent Utah Republicans than Bruce Huff, but I’m disgusted by the actions of Chip Saltsman. Admittedly I was not his biggest fan before this, but my dislike of this move is not that it’s bad strategy, but simply that it’s wrong to play to that lowest human denominator. It’s just one more evidence of why I don’t want to see him as the head of the GOP.
David … For once let me approach this without trying to bait an answer that I can jump on like a hyper active partisan chipmunk.
Out of all the political media whores in the UT GOP, why is only Huff talking about it and why wont anyone call it racist?
I love satire. I love parody. This song isn’t either of those things. It’s a racist ditty, wrapped in a hippie jingle.
The Republicans I’ve heard talking about it are all pissed that it’s bad strategy. so … wtf?
My best guess would be that it has something to do with Reagan’s 11th commandment – that and perhaps they just ignore it in the hope that the bad publicity will just melt away.