Well, according to Joseph Curl of The Washington Times, the president hasn't personally offered a eulogy for Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, which means Obama is racist against himself -- or something like that:
... Adam Nathaniel Yauch died Friday. If you’re age 16-66 -- maybe 106 -- you know him as MCA, one-third of the Beastie Boys. He was 47. Way too young. But gone.
Now, half-white Barack Obama (exactly my age) didn't say a word, even though he was talking to college kids that day, but make no mistake, MCA was no JayZ or Kanye West. This guy was the real deal, groundbreaker, up from his bootstraps, Brooklyn boy made good. Funny the "coolest president ever" doesn't say a word about the passing of MCA. Weird and kinda sad, actually.
"Yauch was born an only child in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances, a social worker, and Noel Yauch, a painter and architect," Wikipedia says. "His father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish." Kinda like Barack, all over the place, half this, half that, and a tough life ahead from the outset. But nothing from the first half-white, half-black president (MSM has made him black -- he's not; he's half-and-half. No, Trayvon Martin wouldn't have looked like his son.) ...
So we're now getting lectures not only on rap but on genetics from this guy (who sure looks as if he knows precisely how African genes express themselves in the skin color of offspring, doesn't he)?
Um, wouldn't we be having a huge, ridiculous discussion about how Obama was trivializing and demeaning the presidency if he had said something about Yauch? Wouldn't we be hearing about the sexism of the early Beasties lyrics, the reported link between the notorious Glen Ridge rape case and the Beasties' "Paul Revere," not to mention the inflatable penis used in their early live shows and the fact that a working title for the first album was Don't Be a Faggot (never mind the fact that the Beasties repudiated much of this youthful obnoxiousness as they got older)? Did Obama need that grief? Even if the Beasties did back him in '08?
Jim Messina of the Obama campaign was among the political figures who tweeted tributes to Yauch. I think we can give the boss a pass on this one.
Short version:
ReplyDelete"Lily-white Conservative yutz berates half-black Democratic President for not being cool."
OY!
And the cries of "N*GGER! N*GGER!! N*GGER!!!" draw ever nearer.
I'm 60. I stopped paying attention to music some time back and really don't like rap/hop hop/whatever. (The beats bother my brain.) I had no idea who Adam Yauch was, what he did or anything. No one's tweets or eulogies mean anything to me.
ReplyDeleteManufactured outrage is manufactured.
Um, wouldn't we be having a huge, ridiculous discussion about how Obama was trivializing and demeaning the presidency if he had said something about Yauch?
ReplyDeleteExactly. It's heads-they-win, tails-Obama-loses; every single thing he does or says (no matter how inconsequential) will have some negative angle.
Somebody should start a wingnut parody blog posting counter-factual faux outrage at the choices the President doesn't make.
eariler today this was the most read story at the washington times
ReplyDeleteatcual headline:
CURL: Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama says not a word
weren't they just bitchin that obama is too cool? now they're complaining about his lack of hip hop cred?
sheesh
ps
down the same most read list a bit was this headline
George Lindsey: Actor who played Goober on 'The Andy Griffith Show' dies
how are they gonna react if obama "says not a word?"
pps
when did thor start writing for the watimes?
eariler today this was the most read story at the washington times
ReplyDeleteYeah, probably because it got a Drudge link. (That's how I found it.)