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At last count, Barack Obama has publicly repudiated Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Wayne Williams, Michael Jackson, and the entire starting five of the 1966 Texas Western basketball team. But is that enough? Aw hellz naw, says Evan Gahr at Human Events. Sure, there’s a horrible war, and the economy is in the toilet, and no one can afford health care, and gas rationing and food riots are just around the corner, but what’s foremost in Evan’s mind? In order to even be considered for leadership of the free world, Obama must denounce all rappers:
Although the media has finally exposed Barack Obama’s ties to the unhinged pastor his support from rappers who propagate equally pernicious nonsense has gone almost entirely unnoticed.
Quick, someone bust a 12-bar containing the phrase ‘propagate equally pernicious nonsense’. I’m going to compose a letter to Mr. Gahr explaining the difference between not noticing something and not caring about it. Meanwhile, back to the article:
Rappers are gaga over Obama. The superstar Jay-Z, who raps about “b——,” “hoes” and “n—–,“ even urged voters to support Obama in a robo-call for the March 4 Ohio primary and caucus.
I think it’s sorta curious that “bitch” and “nigga” get blanked out, but “ho” gets left intact. Not that this says anything at all about Mr. Gahr’s psychological makeup, goodness no.
The equally foul-mouthed rapper Will.I.am, whose hit songs include “I love my B—-,” has hyped Obama in two widely-viewed videos posted on YouTube.
Do you know why they’re widely viewed, Evan? Because people like them. All hail the free market, right buddy?
The rappers have good reason to praise Obama. He has at times been an apologist for their “music.”
In an incredibly moving show of restraint, Gahr waits until the fourth paragraph to refer to rap as ‘music’ (in scare-quote marks), and even more astonishingly, does not say “they should call it CRAP music!” at all. Clearly we are dealing with a rare cultural mind here.
His complicity with rappers dates back to at least 2006.
That’s right, America: Barack Obama — the man who dares suggest he is fit to lead our nation! — has in fact been an accomplice, if not an outright co-conspirator, to multiple counts of aiding and abetting hip-hop, going as far back as two years! It’s a wonder he’s not on death row, let alone serving as a United States Senator.
Obama even recorded a voice over for a new album out this June from rapper Q-tip. Will it contain lyrics like these sonnets from another Q-tip song? “Close the door, ‘ight let a n—- rock. Cause we ‘bout to eat real s—, not s— slop.” Who are these members of Obama’s amen corner? Many are the industry’s leading lights, who have become rich and famous thanks to the willingness of liberals like Obama to ignore or excuse their glorification of sexism, drugs and violence. Without this kind of collaboration they would just be unemployed thugs instead of millionaires.
Yeah, when I think of thuggish, violent crackhead street criminals, my mind instantly turns to Q-Tip and Will.I.Am.
Obama thus far has equivocated on rappers. He has criticized their language, but adamantly refused to denounce the whole sordid genre as the unique cultural problem that it is.
This is pretty awesome: rap isn’t just devil jungle music created by vicious whitey-hating murderers, it is a unique cultural problem, unprecedented in the history of human endeavor, that should be uniformly denounced by everyone, especially if they happen to be colored.
“I haven’t just singled out rappers,” Obama told Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference last year, according to the New York Observer. “I’ve said I’ve heard those words [used by rappers] around the kitchen table in some homes. I hear them in the barber shop. I hear them on the basketball court. All of us have been complicit in diminishing ourselves.”
As an aside here, can you imagine the right’s reaction if Obama discussed the way white people talk when they’re alone with other white people, talking about blacks or women, and said that they have been complicit in diminishing the white race?
Obama here relies on the pro-forma defense of rap music. Yes, apologists say, it’s racist and sexist but it only reflects the racism and sexism of society. Oh, really? Where else but rap do folks talk so openly and regularly about b——, n—— and hoes? What other industry makes millions of dollars from those words? Obama says he’s heard this kind of language on the basketball court. Which one? Not any NBA game. Players who curse during games are suspended and fined.
I’m not even sure how to start with this one. Gahr is suggesting, here, that only in rap songs do young black males curse, because in NBA games, you can get fined for it! And where else would blacks play basketball except in the NBA? Nowhere that Evan Gahr has ever heard of!
Where else but rap do you hear words like these from Obama supporter Jay-Z in his song “99 Problems?”
Now once upon a time not long ago
A n—- like myself had to strong arm a hoe
This is not a hoe in the sense of having a p—
But a p—- having no God Damn sense
Going for the Wingnut Trifecta of Stupid, Ignorant and Misguided, Gahr here quotes, as evidence of hip-hop’s misogyny, a line from Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” that is actually about men. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Have any rappers donated to his campaign? Will he return the money?
It takes courage to demand the return of entirely theoretical money. But that’s just how we roll at Human Events, dog.
UPDATE: Thanks to alert reader/ashamed mother Mary Ruppert, we can now report that Brent “Walter Peck” Bozell has jumped on the “Barack Obama must publicly denounce all rappers” bandwagon. He has also brought us this vital piece of information:
Jay-Z also tells critics to kiss his whole (rectum).
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