So after slogging through hours of Giuliani’s justifications for tying with Ron friggin’ Paul and McCain supporters chanting “USA! USA!” on MSNBC, I finally gave up and went to bed before the Democratic results were called in New Hampshire, only to wake up this a.m. to learn that, yes, Barry O finished second last night to Hillary C. And after he conceded, he went back to his hotel room and played “Ignorant Shit” a few dozen times while weeping into his pillow. Well, maybe.
“I gotta admit – lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Jay-Z,” he recently told BET. “This new American Gangster album is [good]. Kanye, I like. I enjoy some of the newer stuff. Honestly, I love the art of Hip-Hop. I don’t always love the message of Hip-Hop.” He’s totally one of those rock critics who turns a blind eye to gangsta rap nastiness if it’s coming from the famous guy that everyone likes! Actually to be serious for a moment (I know, I know): maybe I’m just a soft touch when it comes to folks appealing to my hope for a more nuanced discussion of art and morality in the current, particularly puritanical public sphere, but I’ll admit I think it’s totally boss that a (serious, non-crazy) presidential candidate is actually admitting to a conflict over his love for popular music that crosses traditional lines of good taste, rather than simply trashing it on its PMRC-stamped face. So boss, in fact, that I won’t even close out with a snarky one-liner. Barack Obama just melts my cynicism away like Calgon.
Obama: “I Love The Art Of Hip-Hop” [AllHipHop]
Still doesn’t hold up next to the essay Ron Paul wrote last month, entitled “Misogyny in Emo and It’s Relationship to Postmodern Feminism.”
@SuperUnison: link plz?
It is really hard not to be cynical about him, especially with his “Yes We Can” ish. I always feel like I can end world poverty and international conflict whenever I hear him speak.
It’s a shame that Jay-Z won’t return the favor and endorse him.
“Wu-Tang” finally can achieve world domination
I’m wondering what he actually said that needed to be paraphrased with “[good]“. “Fire”? “The shit”? “The return to form I was hoping he’d make since Kingdom Come was such a letdown”?
If you’re havin’ caucus problems, I feel bad for you son…
No! Too far!
Obama got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one. Well, actually…
@rina: quality!
@natepatrin: “the shizzle, mah nizzle. Fo rizzle.”
Obama sounds so much like The Rock that it throws me off everytime he speaks. I keep expecting him to ask us if we can smell what he is cooking.
@brasstax: I was being faceitious. I do wish that existed though.
@SuperUnison: I was too.
@SuperUnison:
Ron Paul have written some crazy stuff about race supremacists in his time, but even he thinks emo is a little too white.
@rina: Ha. I will play this if Barry O wins Super Tuesday, like I am hoping he will.
@Nicolars: Yes.
I long to be his Monica Lewinsky.
@Nicolars: You and me both, baby.
John Edwards, we don’t believe you, you need more people.
Does this mean Barry O is going to do the job in November?