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OK, it's official--I've had enough. This whole bruhaha started when former Mike Huckabee campaign chair, Chip Saltsman, gave his staff members, as a private Christmas gift, a CD of political parodies from the Rush Limbaugh show, written and performed by Paul Shanklin. Because the CD had one track (out of 41 tracks) on it titled "Barack The Magic Negro", Saltsman promptly was called a "racist" by the MSM, the lefty blogs, and by some members of the RNC. In fact, AOL Political Machine blogger, Tommy Christopher, has stated in a column that Chip Saltsman has "given the gift of racism" and that our own Erick Erickson has "presented an outright defense of the racist song". Here is Erick's response to Tommy. However, now that I have had a chance to digest this whole exercise in silliness, I would like the chance to address Tommy Christopher myself. So, here goes:

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OK, it’s official. Maureen Dowd is the worst New York Times op-ed columnist of the 2008 election year. Folks, that’s a big accomplishment because, as you all know, she had some pretty stiff competition from the likes of Frank Rich, Bob Herbert, and Nicholas Kristof. So, without further delay, please allow me to explain exactly what Maureen Dowd did to merit her award.

First of all, Maureen Dowd wrote a column yesterday that was literally about how white people and black people are talking for the first time in DC, because Barack Obama won—and she even mentioned how she asked her black mailman if he was excited because of Obama’s victory (I’m not making this up). Now, I don’t know about Ms. Dowd and her friends, but I’ve been talking to African-Americans my entire life, and would have continued to do so with or without an Obama win.