My Zen Arcade

I can’t help but find this whole thing vaguely amusing. Let’s put
aside any thoughts of intent, racist or otherwise.
Just sending the song was moronic, very poor judgement. After getting
booted out of congress and the white house, after showing they are
seriously out of touch with the ideals of the American People, you’d
think they’d be doing everything they could to NOT alienate anyone, to
not even have the appearance of impropriety.
But no. They
seem to not even know what they are doing.

The controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by
Republican National Committee chair candidate Chip Saltsman has not
torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it.
…
When I heard about the story I had to figure out what was going on for
myself,” said Mark Ellis, the chairman of the Maine Republican Party.
“When I found out what this was about I had to ask, ‘boy, what’s the
big deal here?’ because there wasn’t any.”

Alabama Republican committeeman Paul Reynolds said the fact the
Saltsman sent him a CD with the song on it “didn’t bother me one bit.”

“Chip probably could have thought it through a bit more, but he was
doing everyone a favor by giving us a gift,” he said. “This is just
people looking for something to make an issue of.”

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