From Birther to Rap Sensation
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 at 4:22 pm
The song and video of “O.T.P. – One Term President” by “Wolverines” has been making the rounds — the fate of all eyebrow-raising conservative rap, I suppose. But I don’t think anyone else has pointed out the video history of rapper Molotov Mitchell, the bearded guy who rhymes “Thought I was votin’ for hope/ I was votin’ for a bum, man!” He broke into the conservative web scene with a series of videos investigating Barack Obama’s citizenship, like this one:
From there he started making videos titled “For the Record,” which appeared on WorldNetDaily.com. Here’s one of the early ones in which he urges Americans to avoid enlisting in the armed forces as long as Obama is president.
“If you want to protect your country,” says Mitchell, “start a militia.”
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20 Comments
Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 4:35 pm
Tip for all my white brethren – strikin’ poses and giving yourself a stage name with several consonants does not make you a rapper.
Teabagga’ pleez.
Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
The irony of taking an African-American medium and warping it to the will of anti-African-American extremists is stronger than the irony in a whole bottle of Geritol.
Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 6:02 pm
As music, it sucks. I've heard of gangsta rap. What is this? Hamsta rap?
These people make me think of Weird Al's “White & Nerdy”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8191780…
I would love to see Amy Pohler and Andy Samberg spoof this.
Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 10:50 pm
And circular irony isn't always a ferrous wheel.
Comment posted March 3, 2010 @ 11:08 pm
Is Eminem the ONLY white guy who can rap relatively well? These right-wing rappers make Vanilla Ice look like a fricking genius.
And on behalf of my race, I apologize to African Americans for the continued attempt to both co-opt and ruin hip hop and rap by caucasians.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 2:15 am
FACT:
Barack Hussein Obama has not proven his eligibility to be POTUS. People like this rapper are patriots.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 8:33 am
LOL, I certainly hope so, but you never know with birthers.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 9:42 am
These guys are so lame, they have handicapped plates on their tour bus.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
” Molotov Mitchell, the bearded guy who rhymes “Thought I was votin’ for hope/ I was votin’ for a bum, man!”
Beyond the inanity of this video, the more deeply irritating thing to me is that these obvious Republicans keep pretending that they voted for Obama and are now disillusioned.
It's hardly going out on a limb to assume that none of the four people in the rap video voted for Obama. So we are left with the earth-shaking conclusion that four people who did not vote for Obama will not do so in 2012. How can he possibly hold on to the White House now without these crucial supporters?
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
Unfortunately, no. In this guy's mind, the definition of “patriot” is anyone who: (1) is white; (2) hates President Obama; and (3) owns a gun
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 5:12 pm
The idea that a genre belongs to a race is ignorance at its finest. It would be like me seeing a black guy conducting an orchestra and saying “The irony of taking a caucasian-American medium and warping it to the will of African-American extremists is stronger than the irony in a whole bottle of colt .45.”
Idiot.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 6:04 pm
An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, not a musical genre. Orchestras play many different kinds of music. Or can you not tell the difference between Beethoven and Glass?
And Swami didn't say it was wrong for these sorry “whrappers” to use the rap genre for their political ends. Swami simply noted the irony of it. And it is ironic. Imagine Louis Farrakhan singing a country-western ballad about the inferiority of whites. Ironic. Get it? And probably about as horrible as “Molotov Mitchell” and his friends.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 8:20 pm
Unfortunately, no. In this guy's mind, the definition of “patriot” is anyone who: (1) is white; (2) hates President Obama; and (3) owns a gun
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 10:12 pm
The idea that a genre belongs to a race is ignorance at its finest. It would be like me seeing a black guy conducting an orchestra and saying “The irony of taking a caucasian-American medium and warping it to the will of African-American extremists is stronger than the irony in a whole bottle of colt .45.”
Idiot.
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 11:04 pm
An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, not a musical genre. Orchestras play many different kinds of music. Or can you not tell the difference between Beethoven and Glass?
And Swami didn't say it was wrong for these sorry “whrappers” to use the rap genre for their political ends. Swami simply noted the irony of it. And it is ironic. Imagine Louis Farrakhan singing a country-western ballad about the inferiority of whites. Ironic. Get it? And probably about as horrible as “Molotov Mitchell” and his friends.
Comment posted March 11, 2010 @ 4:41 pm
LOL ! !
A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting in a street café watching people entering and leaving the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people entering the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three people leaving the house. The physicist says, “The measurement wasn't accurate.” The biologist says, “They must have reproduced.” The mathematician says, “If one more person enters the house then it will be empty.”
Comment posted August 30, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
t's hardly going out on a limb to assume that none of the four people in the rap video voted for Obama. So we are left with the earth-shaking conclusion that four people who did not vote for Obama will not do so in 2012. How can he possibly hold on to the White House now without these crucial supporters?
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