From the Washington Examiner: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has accused Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.,
of waging a "war on women," but he yieled his spot on stage at a
Wisconsin rally to a rapper who sang a misogynistic song even as
Barrett greeted voters.
Barrett wrote a column
Wednesday alleging that "under Walker, a war on women has been waged
that has weakened protections for equal pay for equal work, and
jeopardized women’s health and reproductive freedom."
He took that message, more generally, to a rally organized on his behalf by Van Jones -- President Obama's former green czar -- and his organization Rebuild the Dream.
"This is for our state, our values," Barrett said last weekend,
after telling Milwaukee voters that "We don't need a governor who is
going to listen to the billionaires and not listen to us."
In Barrett, voters get a governor who has listened to "Sucka MC" by
the rapper "Prophetic." Described as "pretty dope" by the Rebuild the
Dream representative who introduced him, "Proph" performed the first
song on his new album. The video of the rally shows Tom Barrett shaking hands and talking to voters as Proph prepares to sing a couple songs.
The song includes
lyrics such as "b**ches who ride me, I want to see how far I can take
her." It appears that Proph self-censored at least part of the word
"b**ches," though he completed the rest of the phrase.
In the recorded song (the video of the rally ends before this part
of the song, Proph also declares that "cash makes the women shake their
[derrières]."
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/barrett-rally-rapper-sings-btches-who-ride-me/563406
You just can't make this stuff up. What Wisconsin is watching is the most amateurish campaign run by Barrett and the only people buying it are a bunch of tin foil hat wearing fools.
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