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

[Pronto]

Tamron, this isn't about YOU.

[honeydiva]

Is she not black? It's about HER, THEN.

[BeasleysMom]

I believe this is about, not only all black people, but all Americans, as well. You included, Pronto.

[PoliticalAmazon]

Big0try against one group is always big0try against all groups. This was exactly my point when I posted about Obama's choice for the invocation being bad for all people. Too bad it took GOP big0try against African-Americans to get Democrats to speak out against big0try. Unfortunately, now we look like hypocrites.

[mgray34]

Is it me or is it obvious that there are many in the republican party that are clearly out of touch with mainstream America? How can they expect to have a diverse party if they keep slinging crap like this? Are their heads so far up their behinds that they can't see that their party leadership and membership is made up of about 90% of one ethnicity? All you had to do is look at both conventions. Which one gave a better representation of America? Nuff said.

[Judyisacutie]

Hurray, Tamron Hall! Classy, pretty and smart. She is the face of the professional African American woman.

[Nemo99]

Tamaron is gorgeous. She looks Sri Lankan.

[dct1999]

She's a gorgeous BLACK woman.

[shel3364]

Well, if the Republicans were looking to get the attention of the African American community, I think they succeeded.

I certainly wouldn't join a party that made fun of my ethnicity like that and then defended their behavior.

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

STILL WAITING FOR THE REMIX :)P

[shel3364]

I watch her every weekday morning. The more she calls people on stupid s**t, the more I like her.

[Ides]

I'm just glad Tamron was there this week. My favorite comment about Ken Blackwell, "Sometimes they like to say, 'Well, since a black guy said it was okay it must be okay,' now, I don't necessarily agree with that statement."

Only one black person has been allowed to comment on it in the last few days other than Tamron. There's something shifty about this. Almost as shifty as their completely nonsensical headline for another story called "Palin is popular."

[rushthelibs]

R ush L imbaugh, April 26, 2007,

"Look, folks, here it is from March 19th -- I'm holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers -- "Ob ama the 'Magic Ne gro' -- The Illi nois senator lends himself to whi te America's idealized, less-than-real black man." This is the third piece in the L A Times that dealt with O bama not being "bl ack enough." It's the left that's the ra cists. It's the left that looks at people's s kin col or and doesn't see it for what it should be or what it is. They notice it. They're the ones that are ra cists out there. The guy that wrote this is a bl ack man. His name is Da vid Eh renstein. He "writes about Hollywood and politics," it says here, and the whole point of his piece here is: Who is this O bama guy? He's been around for two years in the Senate. Nobody can possibly know him well enough to be giving him all this idolatry. So he's the "magic ne gro." He fits white racists' need to assuage their guilt.

[TaiwanTim]

Free speech

[clearthinker2008]

Yeah, Free speech, you can say what you want without being sent to jail.

[IowaKid]

Good for you Tamron Hall. It's time to stop this kind of talk.

[sjk1]

quiltyer said, "Kill the prison shows."...that is a bit harsh. give 'em probation and community service!

[Misha-in-Texas]

Good job Tamron!

[smag]

I haven't heard the song and don't want to hear it. It is obvioulsy an attempt to create attention by an person with values that I do not agree with.

[Tubalcain]

I like her, she keeps it gully.