Editor’s Note: The action component has been removed. AOL’s Political Machine is going to cross-post a portion of this response instead. — Erick.
Okay, one more on this.
That AOL guy is now claiming I am defending a “racist” song.
In this kid’s world, it is racist. But as has been stated repeatedly, the song is not a racist song (note to Chip Saltsman: that this stuff is now going on is reason number one you are not qualified to be RNC Chairman).
Now here is the thing: the guy has moved beyond claiming the parody itself is racist to claiming that any parody of Al Sharpton is racist.
He had originally contended that the song had nothing to do with Al Sharpton. I pointed out the four reasons why it very clearly has everything to do with Al Sharpton, including that Rush both introduced the song as sung by Sharpton and has used this Sharpton voice for years to mock and parody Sharpton. The guy responds with, “What he’s basically saying is that it’s okay, Limbaugh’s been putting on a minstrel show for a long time. He and Shanklin are very good at it. ”
Hit the brakes folks. We can’t take on Sharpton? That makes us racist? Good grief. He also says the song is “clearly offensive” to “the rest of us.” I guess I missed the memo that this guy has been designated taste tester for the world. Incidentally, as proof that “the rest of us” are “clearly offended”, he links to a prior post of his wherein a black man, Ken Blackwell, is not “clearly offended.” So . . . um . . . how exactly is it accurate to say “the rest of us” when clearly the rest of us are not offended? Or did the universe that comprises “the rest of us” just get reduced to this guy and his left-wing friends who have never actually paid attention to Rush Limbaugh or this song?
He continues, “he’s defending a song that is clearly racist, along with others on that CD, and it’s a big deal now because the person promoting it isn’t a xenophobic imbecile radio host. It’s the guy who wants to lead their party.”
First, the song is not racist. He thinks it is racist because he very clearly is not bright. He heard the words “magic negro” and immediately did as all liberals do. He said “A ha!, racism” while totally ignorning the fact that the phrase was derived from a newspaper column written by a homosexual black man who called Barack Obama just that.
Second, he says I’m “defending . . . others on that CD.” I didn’t realize I’d done that. I don’t, in the two other posts on this topic, remember making reference to the other songs.
Third, he goes back into liberal insultmongering by calling Rush Limbaugh “a xenophobic imbecile radio host.” Never mind that Rush Limbaugh is an ardent supporter of legal immigration, was in favor of such things as the Dubai ports deal, is a huge proponent of free trade agreements with other countries, and, sadly, is a Francophile. How exactly is he xenophobic? Oh, wait, because Tommy Christopher, Taste Tester for the World, says so.
Here’s the key take away:
AOL’s Political Machine claims it will “sort the spin.”
Instead, what we have here is some guy mouthing off left-wing talking points without any exploration of the underlying data.
The song is racist because it uses a phrase popularized by a gay black man who did not like Obama.
The song is not sung by an Al Sharpton imitator because Tommy Christopher says so.
Rush Limbaugh is xenophobic because . . . well . . . because everybody knows he is.
Facts can be added to and subtracted from outside reality just because they can.
It seems to me that AOL’s Political Machine is not sorting out the spin, so much as amplifying the spin.

Care to explain, Tommy Boy?
George Claghorn Tuesday, December 30th at 2:50PM EST (link)I too would like to know how AOL’s Political Machine is “sorting the spin.”
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They're sorting one side out of the debate while promoting the other
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Neil Stevens Tuesday, December 30th at 2:58PM EST (link)Was the first one banned?
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Because he has two personalities?
Patricia_C Tuesday, December 30th at 3:05PM EST (link)I wonder if his “left hand” knows what his OTHER left hand is doing…?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm……………..
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Geez, Tommy, did you ever have one of those days
janis Tuesday, December 30th at 3:01PM EST (link)when something seemed like such a SWELL idea so you went forward with it—and it just blew up all over you? I hate when that happens, don’t you?
LOL
Patricia_C Tuesday, December 30th at 3:07PM EST (link)Yep… Defininitely one of those Red Neck, “Hey ‘yall, watch this” moments.
Those never end gracefully.
(Disclaimer : I AM a Red Neck - so don’t yall go gittin yer overalls in a twist)
“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
Yep, redneck here, too, Patricia. So what part of redneck America do you hail from?
janis Tuesday, December 30th at 3:11PM EST (link)I’m in Tennessee. Poor Tommy, bet he’s a well-educated city boy.
Well HOWDY, feller Red Neck!
Patricia_C Tuesday, December 30th at 3:22PM EST (link)I’m a Virginia Girl!
(Halifax Virginia, that is…)
“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
Wait...if you were a redneck...you'd never ever say I AM a redneck...
AceInTX Tuesday, December 30th at 7:35PM EST (link)you’d say I ARE a redneck…
I grew up in WV…Red necks are like fleas on an old hound in WV and I ARE one!
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chuckie Wednesday, December 31st at 9:14AM EST (link)…min wet virginna rat now, nigh no whut we wood say is…
……umma redneck….
….
LOL
AceInTX Wednesday, December 31st at 12:00PM EST (link)Hey…I even had a washer on the front porch of my house trailor for a while when I was in my late 20s
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The owners of the
10ksnooker Tuesday, December 30th at 3:06PM EST (link)KKK now call everyone else racist to atone for their sins.
OK, try this — How about we call Obama chumpy and make up some cute little dress-up clothes for the monkey caricature, you know, like ‘curious George’. Is that racist?
How about — Obama-Hitler, hey wait a minute, that may not be a joke.
Should have left it at the Curious George bit
Raven Tuesday, December 30th at 3:48PM EST (link)You just ruined a good joke. A Great joke, in fact.
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Ah, yes, Al Sharpton- what's race baiting, false witness and some dead bodies
streetwise Tuesday, December 30th at 3:13PM EST (link)between friends? If they are liberal friends.
Clearly the man is sans reproche.
In charity, we should offer Tommy a third ID: "Right On, Tawana!"
streetwise Tuesday, December 30th at 3:15PM EST (link)it could spark his artistic muse.
He might be right about the other songs.
gekster Tuesday, December 30th at 3:21PM EST (link)The yugo song is anti yougoslovian, isn’t it?
No one says nothing because it isn’t a country any more.
You say Rush is xenophobic?
I had no idea he was afraid of xylophones.
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It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
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Every deer hunter in Michigan still likes to take a shot at a squirrel, rabbit, or even a troll every now and then.
Well in the 30 minutes it took me
MelZ Tuesday, December 30th at 3:34PM EST (link)to write a scathing reply to Mr. X (I am at work and all) there is a new front page story on the matter.
Well, anyway Erick I was shocked to see his lies in his new article, especially since he specifically SENT me there to read it. Knowing good and well all RedStaters would go view it, you would have thunk he would have tried to stick to the truth….
But alas, he is just another typical liberal who thinks he/she can just make the truth up as they go.
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I normally don't engage in this sort of blog war
Erick Erickson Tuesday, December 30th at 4:12PM EST (link)But I couldn’t let this go. AOL has now cross-posted my response.
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?
He doesn't care if we read it and flame his pants off
AceInTX Tuesday, December 30th at 7:42PM EST (link)and it doesn’t matter how we reply…to a liberal…facts don’t matter…something is true just because it was said by a liberal!!!
and no amount of truth that we point to matters in the least because we were the ones who pointed it up…
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Classic
Chance Haywood Tuesday, December 30th at 7:48PM EST (link)that really really was.
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Erick, Erick, Erick
JustLeaveMeAlone Tuesday, December 30th at 3:44PM EST (link)1. You are a white guy.
2. The rules clearly state the white guys can’t “take on” anyone who is non-white without being labeled racist. Heck, you can’t even say “atta boy” because that would be condescending and, thus, racist.
3. And don’t be making any comments about non-men or we’ll label you sexist too.
I hope this clears this up for you!
PS It’s frightening how many people actually think there is news on AOL, or any semblance of balance of opinion.
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This (not this thread) is a non-issue
Mark Malcolm Tuesday, December 30th at 4:40PM EST (link)We are once again allowing the left to frame the debate by talking about this at all.
IMHO we should be pointing to anyone trying to make an issue out of a CD gift and saying, ‘Idiot’, then turning the conversation to the issue(s).
Those issues, by the way, are who should lead the RNC. Erick, I respect you and your opinion, but I do not disqualify Saltsman in and of itself. That’s not to say he doesn’t disqualify himself for other reasons, but to let this issue DQ him is akin to when we allowed the MSM to make an issue out of Huckabee’s or Romney’s religion (and not Obama’s incidentally) during the primary.
If you have a legitimate reason for DQing Saltsman, lets hear it, but to me, this isn’t it.
I may not agree with what you say but I’ll defend your right to say it to the very death.
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding!
candoo2 (dkos funluvn1) Tuesday, December 30th at 6:53PM EST (link)You got it right on the first try!
The entire issue is internal to the Republican party and the more people push, push, push it, the more play it gets. It makes us look rather stupid in the end when we have to spend our time defending a silly parody piece.
Just say “it’s not racist, it’s a parody” if asked, and move on.
There are many fights to engage in. This is certainly not one of them.
I make crude sexual jokes about conservatives.
Agreed
Chance Haywood Tuesday, December 30th at 7:05PM EST (link)We too often allow the opposition frame the debate. We need to start being the one on the offense and stop being the ones reacting.
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Being on offense means when they attack you...you kick the ever living crap out of them
AceInTX Tuesday, December 30th at 7:57PM EST (link)it doesn’t mean you sit back and let them continue to hammer away at you without a response…
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I couldn't disagree more..
AceInTX Tuesday, December 30th at 7:55PM EST (link)this is the kind of thing the Democrats and the flaming left have gotten away with for far too long because Republicans insist on taking an “I’m so above this I’m not going to defend the truth if it means sinking to the lefties level” approach.
So they get to tell their lies…and frame the debate and spin there caricatures of who and what Conservatives/Republicans are and indoctrinating the public in their lies…and we lose…
Perception is reality…and a lie that goes unchallenged becomes the perception…We need to engage these jerks and biXXh
slap them at every opportunity and expose them for the empty, Vacuous and despicable fools and liars they are…it’s time we started shaping the public’s perceptions of them as what they are…empty headed grievance hustlers and misery pimps!
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I'm all for the offensive
Mark Malcolm Tuesday, December 30th at 10:28PM EST (link)In fact, I prefer it.
The trap you fall into here is once you respond with a bonafide response, you’ve legitimized the issue. It’s not a legitimate issue, so therefore deserves no response other than, ‘idiot’ (to the left accuser, not yourself).
We fell into that trap with McCain and look what it got us. If we fall into that trap with the RNC chair we’ll end up with Duncan again.
I choose to ignore the morons in the MSM who are trying to make a mountain, and thus a news story, out of a mole hill.
I may not agree with what you say but I’ll defend your right to say it to the very death.
I see your point...but I think the time for what you are saying has long since past
AceInTX Wednesday, December 31st at 1:25AM EST (link)our silence in the face of these smears is our consent and a tacit admission of the charge in my mind and I am sick of sitting quietly by while the other side engages in it un-challenged…
I understand the concept that responding to it gives it legitimacy I just don’t agree to it…
Take our friend Tommy here…Erick has engaged him and he’s popped his head into two threads now and proven what an empty headed moron he is. On top of that…Erick’s response to his first pack of lies has been posted at AOL so his credibility is not only being challenged at AOL and his imbecilic lack of even a rudimentary intilect has been laid bare in front of his own audience…
Had he not been challenged…everyone would just nod their head and move on believing the lies he laid out…so IMHO engaging him did far more for Erick than it did for Tommy Boy!
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$peciallist Wednesday, December 31st at 1:30AM EST (link)good night!
I disagree; "an allegation unchallenged is an allegation believed."
Martin Knight Wednesday, December 31st at 5:05AM EST (link)A lot of things that work on a person to person level like “I’ll not dignify that with a response” don’t work when it comes to politics.
Bush steadfastly took this approach - the New Tone™ and look what happened to his Presidency.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
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NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”
Okay, in that light I'll concede the point
Mark Malcolm Friday, January 2nd at 10:52AM EST (link)and go with the best defense is a good offense.
I may not agree with what you say but I’ll defend your right to say it to the very death.
5. My sentiments exactly, aceintx. [nt]
Martin Knight Wednesday, December 31st at 4:59AM EST (link)To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
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How'd that "action component" work out
Tommy Christopher Tuesday, December 30th at 6:54PM EST (link)for ya?
I’m disappointed that you deleted the last sentence of this post, it would have looked great framed on my wall.
Thanks for the hits, you’re welcome for the ones I sent you.
What happened to your other account Tommy?...nt
Attack Mode Tuesday, December 30th at 6:59PM EST (link)“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
He's using it.
George Claghorn Tuesday, December 30th at 11:15PM EST (link)His original posts here were from the username “tommyXtoper.” These posts are from his old username.
By the way, Tommy, real classy hit and run post.
Don’t you have, you know, a life?
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
Hey Tommy Boy...
AceInTX Tuesday, December 30th at 8:18PM EST (link)We don’t mind attacks and debate and legitimate criticism at Red State and we’re not afraid to take each other to task when we perceive each other to be wrong…but above everything else…we the truth to be respected and try to refrain from false accusations and innuendo…Some of my best friends on this site have beat each other simple over issues and still walked away friends with a little more education because we learned something from one another and a newfound respect for each other’s intellect and debating skills
That’s the thing here…if you have the truth on your side you can make your points and stand your ground and people will respect you for it even if they don’t agree with you…
But here you are…
I normally don’t engage in name calling but from what I’m seeing here.,..you are nothing more than an empty headed and vacuous liar who wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and bit you in you pimply and crap covered ass. What I see is someone who can’t make a salient point to defend his point of view so he makes things up as he goes along. I see a petty insecure and narcissistic child who can’t make it or get attention for himself without creating false accusations and sullying the good name of someone who has achieved a recognition and status that they can only hope to achieve. I see a petty, envious little sissy that can’t best someone in honest debate and resorts to scratching at his eyeballs like a little girl who doesn’t get her way!
In short…you are a pathetic example of everything that is wrong with the left wing race baiting poverty pimps and cry baby know it alls who couldn’t make it in this world unless they find a sugar daddy to carry their sorry asses and promote them to positions they never should have gotten on their way to higher positions that will ultimately destroy them.
Happy that Erick got you some attention are ya?
Here’s a clue for you Pee Wee…Erick has his own following and doesn’t need simpletons like you to call attention to himself…all you’ve managed to accomplish here is to expose yourself for the simple minded axxhole you are!
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He my bleeding smiley is gone...
AceInTX Wednesday, December 31st at 1:12AM EST (link)I take it that was a bridge too far?
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AceInTX Wednesday, December 31st at 1:13AM EST (link)that’s weird
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This type of attack on Erick is one of the main reasons…
Mike gamecock DeVine Wednesday, December 31st at 12:03PM EST (link)This type of attack on Erick is one of the main reasons…
I have taken such a strong stand on this matter from Day One to use the Saltsman/Duncan kerfuffle to attack the liberal msm dem meme that Republicans are racist and can’t use parody by defending the song and Rush, because the whole “poor judgment” line that has been used so often on matters like this to supposedly unite the left and uppity right that fears the PC police actually ends up having conservatives implicitely affirm that we are racist!
read more here
Blackwell got it right. Let Christopher go after Blackwell. and GC
http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2008/12/30/blackwell-echos-gamecock-defends-saltsman-and-rush-parody/
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ATTENTION NEIL
George Claghorn Tuesday, December 30th at 11:16PM EST (link)We found Tommy Boy’s other account.
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
One of them anyway (nt)
zuiko Wednesday, December 31st at 1:34AM EST (link)Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
Guess he wasn't banned. Go figure. (nt)
Neil Stevens Wednesday, December 31st at 1:50AM EST (link)Want to run for conservatives? Give.
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By the way...
George Claghorn Tuesday, December 30th at 11:21PM EST (link)You said “you’re welcome for the [hits] I sent you.”
Oh, all four of them? Is one of them your mother?
By the way, Erick never said “thank you.”
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
This type of attack on Erick is one of the main reasons
Mike gamecock DeVine Wednesday, December 31st at 7:57AM EST (link)This type of attack on Erick is one of the main reasons…
I have taken such a strong stand on this matter from Day One to use the Saltsman/Duncan kerfuffle to attack the liberal msm dem meme that Republicans are racist and can’t use parody by defending the song and Rush, because the whole “poor judgment” line that has been used so often on matters like this to supposedly unite the left and uppity right that fears the PC police actually ends up having conservatives implicitely affirm that we are racist!
read more here
Blackwell got it right. Let Christopher go after Blackwell. and GC
http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2008/12/30/blackwell-echos-gamecock-defends-saltsman-and-rush-parody/
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Susannah Wednesday, December 31st at 8:05PM EST (link)I completely agree GC–which is why I had your back in previous threads about Saltsman. In America, a “racist” is one of the worst things that a person can be labeled. No one wants to join a “racist” party or vote for a “racist” candidate. Therefore, we must fight false accusations of racism from weasels, like Tommy Christopher, with every fiber of our being. Remember what Mark Twain said, “A lie gets half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on”.