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GOP chair 'appalled' by 'Magic Negro' CD (Politico)

 

Published 12/27/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

Politico - Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan issued a statement Saturday distancing the party’s leadership from one of the GOP’s best-known operatives, Chip Saltsman, who distributed a CD containing “Barack the Magic Negro” as part of his campaign to be elected chairman of the Republican National Committee next month. (link)

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