Chip the Magic Racist

Chip Saltsman, 40, is a right-wing operative who has chaired the Republicans in Tennessee. And he's as vicious as the rest of the right-wing brain trust (such as it is).

Saltsman is now a candidate to become head of the Republican National Committee. He's endorsed by Mike Huckabee, Bill Frist, and other sorryasses.

To celebrate Christmas, Saltsman gave a CD to RNC members that included an unfunny parody of the song "Puff The Magic Dragon" titled "Barack The Magic Negro." The tune was first aired on Rush Limpballs's program last year.

The Republicans sure are obsessed with race, aren't they?

If I failed to go back in time to retroactively prevent someone else from saying something racist, I'd be assailed by critics as the worst bigot since Trent Lott. But Chip Saltsman gets a free pass for this?

Worse, Saltsman now defends the song. Apologists for the parody keep praising it as just a commentary on an earlier Los Angeles Times piece. But that's roo gas. The satire got played on talk-shit radio precisely because it has some appeal to right-wing listeners' racism.

This controversy speaks volumes about what's become of the GOP.

It's amazing that a few people try to unfairly play the race card against my blog and others' similar endeavors, but anything the Republicans do is considered "art" no matter how racist it is.

(Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/26/rnc.obama.satire)