Whether snark or prose, I defend his right to have the discussion. He brings detailed evidence to support his theory.

You are free to disagree, but to pull it down because you don't like the ideas is censorship.

this is a hilarious diary.   Obama's problem isn't that he's seen sharing a joke he 'didn't' make with his audience, it's that it also fits his narrative, how he plays to his base by being haughty and dismissive of her, like that time he didn't shake her hand because he didn't want to... embarrass her, or he didn't see her, or whatever, and while he was explaining how he hadn't mean to insult her, to leave her with her arm outreached and her hand flapping in the wind as he brushed past her, with a straight face, his friends were laughing.   Later that night after he didn't flip her the bird, on Colbert, he 'joked' about how Hillary wouldn't like finding out she'd fixed Stephen's monitor for Barack to use, that was also a big jolly moment.  Face it Barack supporters, you've got a very funny candidate who likes to play Chicago  Smack Down, with girl candidates, and has the desire to run them out of town, or make them cry, or something. And this is the guy who's the uniter not the divider? Now, where have we heard that before?  Hey, just laugh you think she's a joke too, no?   But there is a reason her supporters aren't all going to vote for him, and it's one that he could try to fix, rather than continue to exploit, for no good reason. he already has the Hilary Hater votes, maybe he could try for women who feel embarrassed by the way he flips her off.  

It really is hot (in a good way)! And quite hilarious.

Sure do hope we get a grown-up in the White House!

lmao........oh, it just happenned.

...and if BO's constant use, since Hillary recounted Bosnia, how many weeks has it been....is any measurement for how long we can go at it.......I'd say we have many more weeks to go, being BO just stunk up his press call yesterday playing in that gutter he's becoming so famous for.

Those tin foil hats give you mind reading powers. That's how he knew what everyone in the audience was thinking. This is bigger then Rezko, Wright, Ayers and Bittergate put together! White House here we come!

Too funny, I was posting the xray vision thing at the exact same time.  

Don't let physics get in the way of a good story!

she was watching on the monitor?  And could see his telepromptor too?  

they watch on a monitor.  

wish I could rec it twice, thanks so much for this list.  when guys act like jerks about women it's good to out them. Barack isn't being smart, and he ought to be told. He probably figured all his friends would love it, and the rest of us would be too intimidated to call attention to it. those 'insider' jokes he loves so much aren't as secret as he seems to think.  

Well, he has his opinion.  Everybody gets to have their own opinions.  

Actually, wiping dirt off your shoulders and shoes predates Jay-Z.  You didn't think Jay-Z invented that saying, did you?

P.S. I like Jay-Z, and I'm a white woman.  What of it?

"Violent Gangster Rap Song"  

Perhaps you should look in the mirror, because you are projecting.  

You might want to reassess your characterization of the song and video.  

There is no violence, none in the song or the video.  

First scene...

He drives to studio, things aren't going well, he brushes his shoulder off.

Second scene,
Girl argues with her boyfriend in beauty salon, he walks away, she brushes her shoulder off.

Third scene, two Hispanic youth are accosted by police, forced to kneel on the ground but charged with nothing, they brush their shoulder off.

Forth scene,
Beautiful young woman walks down the street is the target of "Cat" calls, brushes her shoulder off.

No guns, no sex, no violence..just your typical generalization.

By the way, this "violent gangster rapper" was CEO of 3 companies and is part owner of New Jersey Nets (NBA team)

Stuff like this make it even more amazing Obama has got as far as he has....  

Is this the "New" America?

Any other stereotypes you want to throw around?

Do you have a salient point in that post that I'm not getting?

You can't be serious, did you do know most Hip Hop/Rap is purchased by WHITE people.  It's not a race issue, it's a generational issue.  Below the topic discussed in the Wall Street Journal.  If your going to make it a Black/White issue at least do it on factual information.  Jay Z (like all hip hop) has more albums purchased by White people than all other ethnic groups combined.  I guess he was speaking to the diversity of America, no?

I guess we aren't as progressive as we thought.  

Sad day

And so my inquiries led me to MRI, where I found out that this is a statistical story with a mostly happy ending. Conventional wisdom, for once, turns out to be mostly correct -- with the caveat that there's a lot we don't know about race and rap sales.

Each year, MRI researchers go into about 25,000 homes nationwide and talk to residents for an hour about their media habits. Then they leave a thick booklet -- last year's is 104 pages -- full of questions about 6,000 brands in 500 categories. As compensation for answering all the questions about their buying habits, respondents get between $20 and $75, depending on where they live, says Anne Marie Kelly, MRI's vice president of marketing and strategic planning. The overall response rate among households that MRI initially contacts is about 40%.

Among the questions MRI asks is whether the respondent purchased pre-recorded rap audio tapes & compact discs in the last 12 months. MRI (which United Business Media PLC agreed to sell to GfK Aktiengesellschaft last month) sent me the results for 1995, 1999 and 2001, for both adults 18 to 34 and for all adults. For both groups, the percentage of recent rap buyers who are white was about 70% to 75% for all three years.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB1 11521814339424546.html

Wow, so hidden man is a woman, big deal.

This new angle shows another person who gets the joke immediately...not that you care - the woman in the top right corner of the screen reacts immediately when Obama does his finger thing.

And of course it confirms the other video - that the crowd doesn't become lively until he touches his cheek.

Thanks ashriver!