Beastie Boys Gate! Impeach! Impeach!

Posted on May 7, 2012 at 3:56 pm by Bob Cesca

This is an actual headline from the Washington Times:

“Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama says not a word”

MCA’s passing was very sad, but what the hell?

If this is a serious line of questioning, I’m looking forward to Mitt Romney’s frozen, unknowing, go-with-a-smile expression when the Washington Times asks him if he’s aware of the Beastie Boys. If he knows at all, my money is on Romney using the term “hip-hoppers.”

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  • GrafZeppelin127

    I’ve got some more:

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama refuses to comment.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama refuses to offer condolences to family.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama refuses to comfort grieving fans.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obamacare could not save rapper’s life.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obamacare the cause?

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; would have died in 2004 under Obamacare.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama targeting Vanilla Ice?

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama celebrates death of white rapper.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama laments popularity of white rapper.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama seeks regulation of recording industry.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama plays golf.

    Hip-hop legend MCA passes on; Obama refuses to show real birth certificate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663669914 Sean Richardson

    I assume that the implicit point is “because they were only *white* hip-hop singers,” right? I’m not sure what else it’s meant to be saying.

    • Clancy

      Not implicit at all, it’s pretty explicit that race is central to Curl’s “argument.” I’ve never read anything else by Curl, but from this editorial, I can assure you he knows very little about Yauch, music in general, or much more than race-baiting for the mouth-breathers in the Washington Times’ comments section. Curl immediately stresses that Obama is “half-White,” but that his blackness is a figment of the imagination of the “MSM.” He even throws in an obligatory Trayvon Martin criticism. . . because that clearly is related to Yauch’s music and cultural presence.

      • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

        The Wash Times politics section is all about race and party. Nothing more.

        • Clancy

          True. Sometimes, they like to harangue against “The Gays” as well. . .

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663669914 Sean Richardson

        Clancy – I only meant implicit in the headline. From the headline, I figured the article (it didn’t even register for me that it was an editorial) was not worth reading.

  • joseph2004

    It is a little interesting that the Left spares very few opportunities to suggest that race is at the center of it all. Note the recent brouhaha over Nets co-owner Jay-Z, who was pilloried by a New York Post columnist primarily for his song lyrics (you know, the sort of lyrics I doubt even our president would allow his daughters to listen to, you’d think). But no, this site and others were quick to point out that the only real reason Jay-Z had been criticized was – yep – because he is black (which makes you wonder just how much a die-hard Cesca-ite is willing to ignore about a person’s other non-race traits just to keep race – and being victimized because of it – front and center).
    Ashby said it right here.
    Which led to the totally over-the-top claim by several here that black NBA players earning $100′s of thousands to multi-millions$$$ a year, not to mention endorsement fees, are being treated as “slaves.”
    What a laugh!
    So when a right-wing newspaper satires the Left’s knee-jerk use of the race-card, suggesting in kind that, Hey! Why is O silent here but not there…
    suddenly Obama supporters and lefty race-baiters feign incredulity. “What?!? You’re suggesting that Barack Obama is a racist for ignoring the death of a white hip-hopper?!?”
    You guys do it all the time, but you only see the stupidity of it when someone else is doing it, missing your reflection when it’s staring you squarely in the face.

    Most Americans I’m sure have no idea who, by name, Adam Yauch is or was. Many more had heard of the Bestie Boys, but how many among them were familiar with their music, in the least? Enough to justify public comment by the POTUS? Good point, Washington Times.
    Even Whitney Houston, who was arguably a household name to just about everybody. Why would the president of the United States make any sort of national comment about her? Who pushed him to do so, if anybody? Was it his way of “helping” the African American community, a community that suffers not at all in the realm of sports and entertainment mega superstars (Instead he ingratiates himself with rich liberal Hollywood types who for decades have stereotyped African Americans as the bad guy toughs mugging you or murdering you or dealing you drugs or stealing your car or holding up a local drug store)?

    • http://twitter.com/corey_smith80 Corey Smith

      The New York Post columist wasn’t criticizing Jay-Z for his lyrics, he was supposed to be criticizing him for the image his decided to choose for the team in which he owns. The fact that he brought Jay-Z’s other profession into the equation was unnecessary and on top of it he just relys on lazy stereotypes of hip hop culture to make his point. As far as the article…maybe it’s just satire but we could never tell with right wing crackpots when they never miss an opportunity to spout some outlandish proclaimation or accusastion about the president (some of which are laughable and racist in nature). So if so called “lefty race-baiters” get annoyed or upset at a headline its because when it comes to the right wing its hard to distinguish parody from reality

    • GrafZeppelin127

      Mushnick didn’t “pillory” Jay-Z for anything. He suggested that since Jay-Z is a part-owner of the Nets and is involved in designing the team’s new brand identity, the team might as well be renamed the “New York N*****s” and change its logo to a pistol with spent shells scattered around it.

      Which is ridiculous no matter how you interpret it.

      I don’t recall Mushnick (or anyone else) suggesting, when Woody Johnson bought the Jets, that the team should change its name to the New York Baby Shampoos and change its logo to a big yellow teardrop.

      If Mushnick doesn’t like hip-hop lyrics or themes, or thinks that hip-hop artists shouldn’t own sports franchises or design their logos, he should say so and he should explain why.

    • villemar

      I think you should buy a box of tissues and cry about it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663669914 Sean Richardson

      “You guys do it all the time, but you only see the stupidity of it when someone else is doing it”

      This sentence is hilariously ironic in light of the rest of your post.

  • Brutlyhonest

    And if the President had said a word, they’d bitch about that.

    Also, too: Great, your stalker is back.

  • BuffaloBuckeye

    “…my money is on Romney using the term “hip-hoppers.”

    hip-hoppers for flip-floppers.

  • D_C_Wilson

    “even though he was talking to college kids that day, but make no mistake,”

    Because today’s college students are so down with rappers who made their mark when I was in high school back in the 1980s.

    • villemar

      I just heard Melle Mel from the Sugerhill Gang passed away today and that Islamo-ACORN Kenyan Communofascist has said absolutely NOTHING. WHY DOES OBAMA HATE AMERICA SO MUCH??11?!!?!?11?!?!?11

      • http://twitter.com/AlanFors Alan Fors

        I know! And no Whitehouse statement on the passing of our beloved Goober from Mayberry either!

  • mrbrink

    The president could have praised The Beastie’s for pioneering our right to party.

    Wasted opportunity.

    • Brutlyhonest

      But then the firebaggers would have criticized the President for not fighting for our right to party :P