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Local News | State News | National/World News Songwriter defends song about Obama McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Published: December 30. 2008 12:01AM MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A Memphis man who wrote and produced a highly controversial musical parody of President-elect Barack Obama says Republican infighting over ...
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Director and Editor of RedState.com Erick Erickson responded
to my column yesterday by defending the ra cist...
song "Barack the Magic Negro," and RNC chair candidate Chip Saltsman's gift thereof. Here's a taste: Some Moron Thinks He Knows What He's ...
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RedState Chief Defends Racist 'Magic Negro' Song
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Republicans Popping Up To Defend Saltsman For "Magic Negro" CD
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... Saltsman does have another prominent defender: Paul Shanklin, the man who actually wrote the song for Rush Limbaugh's show. "They are trying to paint Chip as some kind of racist -- which he's not," Shanklin told McClatchy. "Whether he should have sent it out, I'll let history decide. Is it provocative? Well, most political satire is. What I do for a living is major-league provocative." ...
Magic Negro songwriter says lighten up (wait, is that racist?)
five feet of fury. (global warming: the loch ness monster of weather.) —
Paul Shanklin
speaks:
Is it provocative? Well, most political satire is. What I do for a living is major-league provocative..."
"Apparently, Chairman Duncan doesn't listen to Rush Limbaugh or conservative Republicans out here in the hinterlands,"
Shanklin said as he listed Duncan's recent accomplishments: "Let's see, he's lost the presidency, the House and the Senate.
I'm kind of shocked and appalled he's still there."
Shanklin credited Saltsman with laying the framework for how far the ...
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