This must be the silly season. The Republicans are now trying to blame Barack Obama for some lyrics in a song by the popular rapper, Ludacris. Just because Obama has said in the past that he likes the music of Ludacris, the brain-dead right-wing thinks they can now hold him responsible for every lyric Ludacris writes.In his song, Ludacris had some harsh words for George Bush, John McCain, Jesse Jackson and Hillary Clinton. Frankly, although the lyrics are pretty raw, they contain a lot of truth. Personally, I also like the music of Ludacris. But that doesn't mean I am responsible for his lyrics. Neither is Obama.
But while they condemn the lyrics of Ludacris, the rabid right doesn't seem to have any problem with the lyrics of McCain supporter Toby Keith. As The Field Negro points out, the Toby Keith lyrics glorify lynching. His song contains the following words:
"Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son A man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done Take all the rope in Texas Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys Hang them high in the street For all the people to see..."
Glorifying lynching seems to me to be far worse than anything Ludacris said, but no one on the right is trying to hold McCain responsible for those lyrics. That's because he's not responsible. Only Toby Keith is responsible. By the same token, only Ludacris is responsible for his lyrics -- not Obama or anyone else.
Sometimes the right-wing just maxes out on stupidity.
The people whining about the Ludacris lyrics are the same asshats whose blogs compare Obama to Hitler, even though, well, there isn't a single thing alike between Obama and Hitler other than the fact that they were both born as members of the species Homo Sapiens. Common sense isn't so common amongst tighty righties. I think it's their tighty whities cutting off the flow of blood to their brains, which are located between their legs.
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