• Chip Saltsman

    Chip Saltsman Withdraws from RNC Chairman Race

    January 29, 2009 /

    Barack the Magic Negro, a 2007 parody song aired by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh

    Chip Saltsman has withdrawn as a candidate for Republican National Committee Chairman.

    Chip Saltsman, whose bid for RNC Chairman was derailed and defined by distributing (and defending) the “Barack the Magic Negro” song, has dropped out.

    “While my travels make me confident in our party’s future, I wanted you to be first to know that I have decided to withdraw my candidacy to become your next chairman,” he wrote supporters.

    After distributing that Christmas CD with “Barack The Magic Negro” on it, he never really had a chance.

    What poor judgment.

  • Barack Obama,  Chip Saltsman

    Chip Saltsman Commits a BONER with Barack The Magic Negro

    December 28, 2008 /
    Barack the Magic Negro, a 2007 parody song aired by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh

    Does the Republican National Committee Chairmanship race bring out the worst in the GOP?

    Chip Saltsman, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent committee members this month a holiday music CD that included “Barack the Magic Negro,” a parody song first aired in 2007 by talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

    Created by conservative satirist Paul Shanklin, the song puts new lyrics to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and it is performed as if black activist Al Sharpton were singing it. Limbaugh played it after the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece with the same title.

    “A guy from the LA paper said it made guilty whites feel good, they’ll vote for him and not for me cuz he’s not from the hood,” the song goes. “Oh, Barack the magic negro lives in DC, the LA Times they called him that because he’s black but not authentically.”

    The CD accompanied holiday greetings from Saltsman, a Tennessee resident who managed former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s campaign for president. Saltsman announced his bid to lead the Republican Party this month.

    Saltsman should be embarassed and quit the race. Chip is NOT Rush Limbaugh.

    Now, the parody is just tired, trite and mean-spirited.

    Bye, Bye Chip.