MSNBC Anchor: I Wouldn't Find It "Funny" If Someone Called Me "Tamron Hall The Magic Negro Anchor Lady" (VIDEO)

Chip Saltsman stirred controversy when, in his campaign to be the next RNC chairman, he distributed copies of a song called "Barack the Magic Negro." The song originally aired on Rush Limbaugh's talk radio show. MSNBC's Tamron Hall weighed in on the controversy, saying she wouldn't find it funny if someone called her "Tamron Hall the Magic Negro Anchor Lady."

Watch it below (via ThinkProgress).

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Comments

[Loculi]

Wow, her shrill over-the-top refutations really did a lot to put everything into perspective for me. The humility and rationalizations displayed by Republicans when they are called out on their blatant racism is admirable! Now I feel sorry for these misunderstood bigots, cut 'em a break guys! :|

[ChescoMom]

wtf?

[wonkguy]

Sorry, not sure what that story was about, I was concentrating on Tamron Hall.

[hopefull2008]

Back off wonkguy .. I saw her first !

[BIG JOHN]

SHE'S MINE YOU TWO PERVS. LMAO.

[obama4eva]

nuh uh! shes mine! lol...i love her! she a double threat! beauty and brains!!!

[swift goat pet for truth]

I know what you mean. Sometimes I find it hard to hear her because I'm so busy looking.

[carlgt1]

this seems to have been a right-wing exercise in "exposing the RINO's" (i.e. those Repubs who actually are aghast that the "base" wants a return to 1857).

[Casey Gane-McCalla - Huffpost Blogger]

The Parody defense is ridiculous. If Limbaugh was like Sasha Baron Cohen, playing Borat the Bigot it might run. But every body knows Limbaugh's a bigot. It high time we put Limbaugh in his place, I'm still not sure why Sharpton went after Imus and not Rush

The GOP Must Denounce Limbaugh The Rest of Us Should Boycott Clear Channel
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/nation/opinion-the-gop-and-usa-must-condemn-limbaugh/

Top 10 Racist Rush Limbaugh Quotes
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

[Nancy84]

Wow, I haven't listened to Rush since the Clinton years and your Top 10 was a real eye-opener. (I especially appreciated the commentary by the Turks) I knew Rush was vile but this stuff makes me sick to my stomach. To know that he has such a following.­... sick....si­ck....sick­.

[swift goat pet for truth]

No.

GOPers should embrace Limbaugh so we can clearly see what they are.

[Luvnumber9]

I can't believe the other woman was defending Limbaugh. Limbaugh's a bigot. I can't wait until he does something that will ruin his career.

[mckinley]

Let's see...

Rush failed to disclose having lost his hearing when he was negotiating the renewal of his his radio contract..­.

He's been divorced 3 times...

He made fun of Michael J. Fox's medical condition and accused him of playing it up for political purposes..­.

He's been a drug addict, who was "man enough" to send his maid out to hustle the stuff for him...

Nope, according to his Christian Republican fan base, even this all added up aren't career busters!!

[Nancy84]

She's defending Rush Limbaugh??? That's the worse thing she could have said to help make me understand her point.

[Uosdwis]

MSNBC needs a long needle jabbed in their heart, ala Pulp Fiction. They are overdosing on the "breaking news!" Every damn thing now is BREAKING NEWS. Unless it's the absolute first time you report it, it's no longer breaking news, it's "continuing coverage."

[cowman]

Good point, not relevant to this story but it's a good point.

[lost in az]

Good point, as well, cowman.

[swift goat pet for truth]

Are you the original Cowman who did the first couple Triathalons?

Cowman Cowman Cowman?

[haval2]

I'm one of those non african americans they refer to who finds the song disgusting and racist in every way...kate can scream "parody" all she wants ... it's racist and ugly and has a warm comfortable home in the conservative end of the Republican. You go girl...wel­l done Tamron, no way this is anything but wrong. Welcome these fools to 2008, we have a black president and that's a good thing!

[clearthinker2008]

Why oh why everytime some white person thinks a black woman has done something well they say "you go girl"? Please stop.

[jdmba]

LOL! Yes, you're right, but give her an "A" for effort. She's trying to relate and we're on the same side of this issue!

[AnonymousDissenter]

Same reason all the d00dz upthread said they didn't hear what the anchor said because they were too busy fantasizing about what they'd like to do to her.

Black women are supposed to feel complimented when they are called children and sexualized. It's all meant in the *best* possible way, right? Just like the "parody" song. I suppose we can't expect better from a country that still sells Aunt Jemima syrup in every grocery store.

[cowman]

If someone lit a cross on fire and called it parody would she be okay with that too? Parody isn't a magic safe word.

[jackson1015]

Tamron is the Halle Berry of broadcast news....ve­ry beautiful. Kudos to Olbermann for giving her a break on his program.

[IowaKid]

And she done a GREAT job on filling in for Keith.

[clearthinker2008]

Yeah, I hope she gets to do it again...Ol­bermann vacations more than Bush lol.

[zanbama]

She's just supporting Rush L. MMM hmmm yeah!

[11907281]

I'm not sure which is worse?

[iBlog4Food]

Hall is quite pleasant to listen to and look at. Anyway, this really makes me wonder about the likes of Ron Christie and Juan Williams. Are they just really delusional ?

[toppergem]

Yes, Ron and Juan are just that delusional.

[clearthinker2008]

Yes, and have been since birth.

[Last-LiberalRepublicans]

Ron Christie and Juan Williams have been eating the hatefill FAR Right Wing-Nut bread and drinking the delusional koolaid. Therefore, NOTHING they say makes sense or should surprises anyone.

[modernsage]

Whatever the explanation, this video is a testimony to the fact that the core of the Republican Party is made up of stone cold morons, plain and simple,the kind that give you a knot in the stomach.Th­ey drove the country into a ditch and now this is what their "great minds" can come up with as a solution to the unmitigated disaster that was their eights years in power.They claimed to be the christian party,but what they did in reality is they dragged the name of God through the mud and are still doing it.In this last election the party was shaken, so that the dirt that was hidden in the bottom,was brought to the surface for all to see.RNC please end the negativity.

[dawlishgal]

The Republicans love to try to strip away people's dignity, then laugh at their own cleverness. Maybe if they were in 4th grade, they could get away with this kind of childish behavior., but they are supposed to be behaving as grownups.

Limbaugh is the role model/poster boy for all of the stunted mental growth twerps in the party. Remember when they said his mocking of Michael J. Fox was only parody too? It is good to have it all out in the open now, so that people will finally begin to notice how Republicans have destroyed their party by allowing themselves to be led by their lowest common denominators.

[jdmba]

I love how she is yelling while they laugh in her face.

[clearthinker2008]

lol, good point. She doesn't like to be laughed at, even while explaining why racist parodies are cool for neocon radio host.

[LolaP]

sorry but that song is blatantly racist, there's no way to talk yourself out of that one gop

[clearthinker2008]

come on, you have to give them props for trying lol.

[OriginalScreenName]

Using GOP logic:

Obama using nuance to better articulate policy = bad
Using nuance to defend Limbaugh (who probably wouldn't know the meaning of the word if it smacked his cigar out of his mouth) = good

[bobtr900]

This is the same kind of endless crap that comes from the entire Repub party and their right wing theocracy, including my own religion.