If you’ve been to a Republican Party event in pretty much any state across the country, chances are you’ve met Chip Saltsman.
You may not have actually met him, mind you, but you’ve met one of the thousands of “political operatives” like him.
Over-eager, under-informed, wearing their little candidate stickers, flag lapels and their smug, “importanter-than-thou” faces … is any of this ringing a bell?
They talk down to everybody – except those with titles in front of their names, of course, in which case they tug at sleeves and whisper in the ears of these powerful people in the hopes that we’ll think they’re powerful, too.
You know the type we’re talking about. Always looking past you to see if somebody more important has entered the room. Always offering an answer for everything … even if it’s always the same thing.
That’s why it doesn’t surprise us in the least that Chip Saltsman is the latest Republican Gomer to place a PC dunce cap on his head and an MSM ‘kick me’ sign on his back after associating himself with “Barack The Magic Negro,” a little composition he distributed over the Christmas holidays to a bunch of other white people.
It’s not that the song is even all that offensive, it’s just that whoever wrote it forgot to bring the funny.
Oh, and it’s not that Chip Saltsman is really this dumb, it’s just that there are so many of his kind out there in the GOP hinterlands that he’s actually managed to become one of the Republicans competing to lead his party.
Anyway, here’s tweedle-dum’s statement on the kerfuffle he created:
“Liberal Democrats and their allies in the media didn’t utter a word about David Ehrenstein’s irresponsible column in the Los Angeles Times last March. But now, of course, they’re shocked and appalled by its parody on the ‘Rush Limbaugh Show.’”
Huh? Is this guy living in a bubble?
We lost him after the whole “liberal democrats” thing, because to be perfectly honest if any party deserves the liberal label (where it counts, anyway, in your wallet), it’s Republicans and their bailout-happy president.
Blah-de-blah, blah, dude. Nobody heard that crap.
But Saltsman then proceeds to set the land speed record for giving a quote that’s so inside baseball and ridiculously evasive that it may actually be dumber than dropping the “little N-bomb” over the Christmas holidays.
Or thinking that doing so wouldn’t immediately become a major scandal in an Obamified, PC-crazed nation – which is where Saltsman’s judgment should really be called into question.
Dumbass.
Of course, the whole thing is good for us here in the Palmetto State, because it led directly to a New York Times piece that mentions South Carolina’s very own Chip Saltsman, SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson and his until quite recently “whites only” club membership.
Simply put, Republicans are effed even worse than we thought.
By Just the Facts Ma'am December 29, 2008 at 8:26 am
Please don omit the key fact that Barak the Magic Negro was the creation of the LA Times — not Rush, not Saltsman, not the RNC. It’s a parody of an LA Times article. Why isn’t the Times effed?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center
By Just the Facts Ma'am December 29, 2008 at 8:27 am
I know, I know. The word is don’t…
By Hal December 29, 2008 at 9:32 am
They are fakes…these guys are the worst people on the planet. And they run our party.
Katon Dawson spends 20 years in a whites only club then resigns. Like that won’t be remembered during the next election cycle?
We need to clean the GOP house.
By Silence the Noise December 29, 2008 at 10:18 am
If you were at the National Convention you would have seen what lights Dawson’s and Saltsman’s fire…..a WHITES ONLY CLUB…..save a very few African Americans that came probably out of convincing or sympathy.
The GOP is a fraud…..this is highlighted by the fact that Dawson and Saltsman are actually in the running for the head job.
What absolute jokes.
Someone should write an open letter to all of the Executive Committee members urging to end these racists hopes of heading the GOP.
By fitsnews December 29, 2008 at 11:37 am
JTF-
Judging by circulation #’s, the LA Times is effed.
FITS
By reprobate December 29, 2008 at 11:51 am
Not to worry. These guys have at least 7 years before the job and they become relevant.
By JNash December 29, 2008 at 11:54 am
Whatever you think of the LA Times article, it was just an article. You might not agree with it, but it was not even close to being hate speech.
The song, on the other hand, features a white guy singing in an exaggeration of what he obviously thinks is a “Negro Accent”. It sounds just like the minstrel shows or the skits still popular with the Klan where the white guys paint their faces to make it look like they have huge lips.
The “its just a satire on an article” line is the biggest dog-at-my-homework ever.
You would have to be from another planet not to be able to see that the song is racist garbage.
By racist dummies running republican party December 29, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Bush used the gay issue to herd the ignorant Christians into the Republican party. Now it is a simple step to herd the ill-informed redneck vote into the Republican quagmire using racist propaganda.
Any true conservative should be ashamed of pulling the Republican lever in the future. The idea that this bozo even stands a remote chance of running anything other than a corner gas station is very depressing.
By Gen. Longstreet December 29, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Just found out how to watch that video. The damn thing sounds like something Nathan Bedford Forrest would do! Now HE was one crazy dude — and they’ve got ME locked up here on Bull? Of course, if we’d had him as our “eyes” at Gettysburg instead of that joy-riding Stuart, things would’ve ended up a whole lot differently.
By CanWeYes December 29, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Can you do a post/list of these “me first” guys in South Carolina? I can think of at least a dozen.
Then, you can follow up with a “me last” list. I can think of a few people for that list too.
By Pat Hendrix December 29, 2008 at 6:33 pm
The Republican Party is a regional party, a southern party. It values ignorance, disdains science, is ideologically blinkered, constantly looks backwards and sees anyone outside their party as as a lazy, unpatriotic, volvo driving homo/welfare queen/terrorist/socialist.
What happened the last time there was a regional miniority party in the South with a similiar world-view? Oh, right, that worked out great.
By Monkeydarts December 29, 2008 at 8:30 pm
That parody of Rev. Al has been around since 2007. What’s the big deal now? Even Al said he thought it was funny. No humor allowed I guess. Gotta be grimmer.
By Silence the Noise December 29, 2008 at 8:43 pm
General Longstreet……were you not responsible for the loss at Gettysburg?
I know I know….Stewart…Lee….others were respondible for the loss right? Kinda like Katon Dawson when he throws his hands up when someone asks about the current abysmal state of the GOP and says….”It aint my fault yall, I get Republicans elected, dont really give it no mind if they act a fool when they take office, that aint my job yall.”
We wouldn’t want you leading the party either…..though unlike Dawson you gave your assignment valliant effort.
By Gillon December 29, 2008 at 11:29 pm
General, Please, it’s Stuart, as in James Ewell Brown Stuart. And it wasn’t because you criticized General Lee at Gettysburg (you were right) that I didn’t like you, it’s because not only did you become a scumbag Scalawag after the War, you did worse than that–you became a Republican.
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By Earl Capps December 30, 2008 at 11:29 am
I’ll agree with your characterization of the average GOP campaign operative. Many of them are kids who got a political science degree and never held a real job in their entire life.
There is no small irony that those who claim to be advocating a “pro-business” agenda act in such a petty manner that few people in the business world would want to hire such Machiavellian creeps, much less keep them on the payroll.
In fact, it kind of reminds me of the current Governor and his brat packers, people for whom ideas can exist in a vacuum and the ends justify the means.
But maybe they’d find someone like me, who has been with my current private-sector employer for seven years, boring and “in a rut”?
By Gen. Longstreet December 30, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Mr. Gillon,
Sir, with respect, it was Mr. Silence the Noise who incorrectly referred to the besmirched cavalier as “Stewart.” I knew and served with Stuart and I don’t need “Google” or any other “Search Engine” to tell me that Jeb is actually an acronym for his Christian names. Fool.
And as for your smears regarding my post-Cause life: yes, I became a Republican and, for that matter, a scalawag. That, of course, implies — correctly, sir — that I supported Reconstruction, and that I supported changes that are doubtless an anathema to you, sir, things like abolishing slavery, protecting the legal status of the freed slaves, breaking the back of secret vigilante groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, passing amendments (the 13th, 14th, and 15th) to provide Freedman with equal rights under the law and outlawing unemployed blacks from being arrested and charged with vagrancy.
You stand against those changes, Mr. Gillon, and firmly with cretin such as Ben Tillman, may the Good Lord condemn his soul to Hell for all eternity. It shames me as a native-born South Carolinian that a grotesque monument to the father of Jim Crowe bestrides the northern lawn of our state capitol. Is that your Tradition, sir? Is that your Cause? I, for one, will have none of it. Good day, sir.
By Toyota Kawaski December 30, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Gen.Longstreet like we turned the scalawags from the north back here in Aiken we will do the same for you talking so grotesque about THE SENIOR SENATOR.Watch yourself BOY!
By Gillon December 30, 2008 at 7:43 pm
General Longstreet,
My comments were meant to be facetious, but since you seem to be in such a serious frame of mind, may I suggest that you take a closer look at the life of James Longstreet. No one would dispute his military ability. However, after the war, too much of his life smacks of opportunism. He becomes a Republican and a Scalawag, but to what end? He gained a succession of government patronage jobs from U.S. Marshall to railroad commissioner, to U.S ambassador. All obviously enriched him, but how did they promote the causes of Radical Reconstruction that you so eloquently expound upon? His only foray into the political arena was to attempt to promote within the Republican party a more moderate faction, composed of Southern whites , who could counter the influence of the Radical Republicans(those who advocated drastic change in the Southern landscape.) This would result in the traditional Southern ruling class regaining power and control the newly enfranchised black voters.(which in the end is exactly what happened)
Your last paragraph is nonsensical, jumping as you do from Longstreet to Ben Tillman. But if you’re going to criticize monuments on the State House grounds–don’t stop with Tillman. Delve also into the racial views and relations of Strom Thurmond, Wade Hampton, Jimmy Byrnes, George Washington, and J. Marion Sims, all of whom have monuments as well.
Finally, if you’re going to make outrageous accusations, at least spell them right. It’s Jim Crow, not Crowe. Don’t confuse him with Russell.
By CL December 30, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Never mind that the song is highlighting the racism of DEMOCRATS like Sharpton. But no one should let the facts interfere with their moral outrage.
By BigSweezy January 2, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Earl- your arrogance tarnishes what is otherwise a pretty good blog. If you’re so smart, why aren’t people lined up at your door to hire you? Bet that would solve your car problem.
By MDS January 3, 2009 at 5:06 pm
BigSweezy — to borrow a pet word from Kathy Griffin, before they outlaw it…
You, buddy, are a d*ck.
Bet we could solve your problem!
By anti keebler January 17, 2009 at 11:38 pm
You people need to seek Jesus and stop with the hatred. You will all go to hell! God is still in control and there is nothing that man can do about it. The last shall be first and the first shall be last. So just like white people have told other races for years, stop complaining! Next I guess you will want affirmative action. That’s what happens when you steal from other cultures.
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