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Rappers or Republicans?

Posted by Ben Westhoff

August 5, 2008 11:33 AM

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In May, we posited that southern hip hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you're still not convinced that Southern rap and Fox News are one and the same, consider the countless Southern rap odes to big cars and the wasteful misuse of fossil fuel, an indulgence the global-warming deniers on Fox News certainly endorse.

Lo and behold, seven weeks later who should jump on the bandwagon but The Daily Show, via this report from “senior political image consultant” Wyatt Cenac. Cenac responds to a clip of Virginia Republican congressman Virgil Goode riding in a Hummer at a parade by showing a clip from Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” video, in which the emcee rides around in a limousine semi. “It’s got a Hummer limo inside of it where they’re shooting a Jay-Z video,” he says.

“Rappers, Republicans, what’s the difference?” he goes on. “They both love money, they both love guns, gay people scare the sh-t out of them, every other word out of their mouth is n-gger!”

When we see John McCain in Timbalands, we’ll know this trend has legs.

 

Comments (1)

  1. KFP says:
    August 5, 2008 16:41

    Well, it seems like one Republican's approach is to ignore the entire hip hop community entirely. Really smart?

    Sometimes you just can't make this stuff up, and unfortunately for the State of Virginia truth is more frightening than fiction.

    Shortly after the 4th of July, a video emerged on the blogespher entitled "Virgil Goode Grief." The video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOi7iWwnYuI ) started to make its way around the block and just when you thought people in Virginia had enough of this disturbing imagery......

    The Daily Show used the video for a bit called "Rappers or Republicans" with Wyatt Cenac, a new addition to the show: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=178008&title=rappers-or-republicans

    Congressman Goode just couldn't seem to offer any intelligible response to a reporter's questioning of him in response to the piece. Virgil reported that a.) He never watched "The Jon Stewart Show" (ok, I'll let that slide – he's a Republican) and b.) he admitted that "I don't know what a rapper is."

    One more time Virgil: "I don't know what a rapper is." http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/virgil_goode_unhappy_with_the_daily_show_clip/7112/#When:04:01:00Z

    The Hummer in the 4th of July parade was hilarious, the Daily Show jab was priceless, the fact that this Republican Congressman doesn't know what a rapper is, well is just depressing.

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