. . . that you end up in rather ridiculous situations like this one:
In my column about Barack Obama’s health care speech yesterday, I described the president’s “we will call you out” warning to lying Republicans as “a nearly Snoop Doggesque display,” linking to a great new Snoop video whose chorus is “we will shut you down.”
DING! DING! DING! We have a racial nut! Salon Editor in Chief Joan Walsh is on the case:
Every time I think I’m exaggerating the nature of the racial nuttiness that Obama faces, an ostensibly tolerant, smart guy like Welch does something boneheaded like this. What in God’s name does Snoop Dogg have to do with Barack Obama (besides the obvious). Snoop’s chorus is some variation on, “I run this town, act loud, get wild, we’ll shut you down!” Oh, I get it: Obama runs Washington, and he threatened to call out people who lie about his proposals, and…that’s the same thing?
