RNC Candidate’s Racial Flub

Here’s one candidate you can probably scratch from the running for Republican National Committee chairman: Chip Saltsman, the former national campaign manager for Mike Huckabee. Saltsman has raised some eyebrows for distributing a 41-track holiday CD to national committee members that included the not-so-classic “Barack the Magic Negro,” which Rush Limbaugh first aired in 2007. Saltsman doesn’t think, however, that he’s done anything wrong. “I think that RNC members have the good humor and good sense to recognize that [satirist and Saltsman friend Paul Shanklin's] songs for the Rush Limbaugh show are light-hearted political parodies.”