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Republican ‘birther’ rappers perform at 9/12 rally.

Self-professed “Republican rapper” Hi-Caliber made an appearance at the anti-Obama 9/12 march on Saturday. Demonstrating his imperfect understanding of Russian history, Hi-Caliber railed against the “communist czars” he perceived to be operating in President Obama’s administration. Not only that, the crowd cheered at a line questioning Obama’s birth certificate:

We need tanks and hummers, not hybrid cars!
We need honest politicians, not communist czars!
USA, not the USSR.
We need more Ann Coulter and less Bill Maher.
[…]
I don’t need another lecture from the Socialistic hypocrite.
Tuesday was your birthday, but where’s your birth certificate?

Watch it:

Hi-Caliber has said his conservative views were formed by right-wing talker Michael Savage. “Here was this guy Michael Savage screaming and ranting and raving about illegal immigration Islamofascism and you know it all started to click and make sense,” explained Hi-Caliber to the Daily Beast’s Max Blumenthal earlier this year.



101 Responses to “Republican ‘birther’ rappers perform at 9/12 rally.”

  1. RantingTommy says:

    wow

    rap is almost as easy as country/western

    and these morons can’t even do that well

    right wingers are quickly becoming a parody of themselves


  2. P.D. says:

    Conservative, Republican Rappers? Dear God. SERENITY NOW!


  3. Fred says:

    P.D. says:
    Conservative, Republican Rappers? Dear God. SERENITY NOW!

    don’t forget WHITE, They’s WHITE.


  4. eyeswideopen1 says:

    Could this be another of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse?


  5. Krazny says:

    Well at least they are embracing something different. Who would have thought these people would ever like rap music.


  6. belaccifer lacca says:

    Is there nothing that the Republican’s can’t make crappy and uncool?


  7. P.D. says:

    Who the frig is that blond sitting next to Contessa Brewer? I feel like throwing something at her. Talk about a Repug Shill.


  8. Badmoodman says:

    Republican ‘birther’ rappers perform at 9/12 rally.

    – - That is the ONLY black person I’ve seen in any photos or video of the 9/12errs. Must have gotten paid well.


  9. ElBruce says:

    “…and you know it all started to click and make sense”

    That feeling is called having a psychotic break. Possibly an aneurism. The appropriate action to take is to seek medical and psychiatric help, not join the wingnuts and become a bad rapper.


  10. DallasNE says:

    Hi-Caliber is more like Low-Rent. I don’t begrudge him for trying to make a buck but he shows that he needs to stick to music to make a living. Joe the Plumber already occupies the niche he is attemping to carve out here.


  11. Mythology says:

    Wow! Eminem and Jay-Z have got nothing on this guy!


  12. A Patriotic Anopheles Acting says:

    If the birfers were looking for a horrible white rapper why didn’t they tap MC Rove for the gig?


  13. Mythology says:

    Bah, blew that joke!

    “Wow! Eminem and Jay-Z got nothing compared to this guy!”


  14. republicanSScareme says:

    Witness the obvious: People who think like Republicans eventually fry their brains.

    Just say no to hate.


  15. mary lacewing says:

    Christian heavy metal and now right-wing rap? I’m afraid to ask what’s next.


  16. P.D. says:

    Jesus. Everyone there is white. Depressing. It looks like a ‘White Bread Jamboree’. LOL! It IS a ‘White Bread Jamboree’! A bunch of sad white folks surrounded by racists and mediocre talent!


  17. Buckie Boy says:

    Conservatives are stupid and that’s a FACT

    They are old and are gonna have a heart ATTACK

    They are Unamerican that’s for sure

    An Anthrax attack could be the cure

    They are ignorant as a rock

    They should just suck my …..

    Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party


  18. P.D. says:

    Mary@15, Maybe ‘Conservative Rappin’ Grannies’


  19. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    i knew we’d rue the day conservatives

    invented rap and hi-hop.

    :(


  20. ElBruce says:

    Badmoodman says:

    – – That is the ONLY black person I’ve seen in any photos or video of the 9/12errs

    Look closer. Here’s a clearer picture of the idiot.

    And another video.


  21. LibertyLover says:

    Ah. the Status Quo, that these people don’t seem to understand is unsustainable. The Status Quo is just sitting there on the railroad tracks. Not going one way or the other. It will get you run over by the train.

    What is that old axiom — Lead, Follow, or Just the #*$@ Get Out of the Way?


  22. joe cantwell says:

  23. Luis Chapulin M says:

    mary lacewing says:
    Christian heavy metal and now right-wing rap? I’m afraid to ask what’s next.

    Urban Contemporary KKK Gospels.
    Bible Belt Mariachi Music.


  24. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Kool…
    … They hit all the talking points.

    Sure nuff’

    But facts…?

    .


  25. What the GOP REALLY means ... says:

    We’re a bunch of f ucking chickenhawks too afraid to use the Dual Shock feature on our Playstations, let alone operate a tank or hummer. Our abundant supply of Cheetos won’t fill the tanks of those bad boys, but maybe some day we’ll figure that out.


  26. Fred says:

    KayneWest says:
    Barry don’t like racists.

    fixed.


  27. P.D. says:

    OMG! If I hear anymore about Kayne West and the ‘Controversy’ again, I’LL SCREAM! What about the ‘Controversy’ surrounding Jow Wilson? If you haven’t heard. People are threatening to boycott good ole SC. I find that more interesting….


  28. EnnuiDivine says:

    Anyone remember Tim Robbins as Bob Roberts? Yeah.

    Also, 15.

    Dont’ knock Stryper.


  29. Little Freep Goofballs says:

    Right wingers do rap almost as well as they do comedy.

    Which is to say, very very poorly.


  30. What the GOP REALLY means ... says:

    Q: Where’s the GOP’s birth certificate?

    A: It doesn’t exist. Subhumans aren’t conferred a birth certificate.


  31. Zooey says:

    Hi-Caliber has said his conservative views were formed by right-wing talker Michael Savage. “Here was this guy Michael Savage screaming and ranting and raving about illegal immigration Islamofascism and you know it all started to click and make sense…”

    Only if you’re high.


  32. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #27

    ok fred,

    one last time,

    in caps and bold:

    IT’S TWAJIE.

    **

    got it?

    :)


  33. tombaker says:

    That’s rich beyond compare,

    Righty mouthbreathers co-opting the one thing they all agree is “destroying America”,

    to try and sell their flea-bitten dog and scabrous pony show.

    Enough you guys – the whole North American reeks of desperation and flop-sweat.


  34. Mr. Evil says:

    mary lacewing says: #15

    Progressive country music?


  35. Shayne says:

    P.D. says:

    Who the frig is that blond sitting next to Contessa Brewer? I feel like throwing something at her. Talk about a Repug Shill.

    I feel ya bro! Sorry the bad rap music got the best of me. :)


  36. SoapBox says:

    Barf.

    That’s all I have to say on this one…


  37. Mr. Evil says:

    I guess I’ve mistakenly assumed over time that being dumbed down had it’s limits. I know now that I was wrong.


  38. tombaker says:

    ["Alt Country" is Progressive Country, for all practical purposes. Some of it's pretty good stuff.]

    I suppose Righties will try to use this event to “prove” their Hissy-ism is not racially motivated.

    Sorry guys, Michael Steele doesn’t even prove that.

    You’re still sorry-assed proto-klansmen. And liars.


  39. Leftside Annie says:

    Zooey says:

    Hi-Caliber has said his conservative views were formed by right-wing talker Michael Savage. “Here was this guy Michael Savage screaming and ranting and raving about illegal immigration Islamofascism and you know it all started to click and make sense…”

    Only if you’re high.

    Or really, REALLY seriously stoopid.


  40. Shayne says:

    Luis Chapulin M says:

    mary lacewing says:
    Christian heavy metal and now right-wing rap? I’m afraid to ask what’s next.

    Urban Contemporary KKK Gospels.
    Bible Belt Mariachi Music.

    Race baiting R&B?


  41. Leftside Annie says:

    Mr. Evil says:

    mary lacewing says: #15

    Progressive country music?

    Yeah, think Dixie Chicks.


  42. Shayne says:

    Leftside Annie says:

    Only if you’re high.

    Or really, REALLY seriously stoopid.

    Both, definitely.


  43. Luis Chapulin M says:

    Mr. Evil says:
    Progressive country music?

    With such hits as:

    “My truck’s made in Mexico, but it’s still red white and blue”, “She broke my heart (but at least I have insurance)”, “I’m a smart man, and so is my husband”, “Coming home from ‘ghanistan”, “I have a dream, and Obama made it come true”, “Scary Cheney’s gone Quayle-hunting”


  44. ElBruce says:

    Little Freep Goofballs says:

    Right wingers do rap almost as well as they do comedy.

    They do comedy almost as well as they do math.

    They do math almost as well as they do law.

    They do law almost as well as they do economics.

    They do economics almost as well as they do science.

    They do science almost as well as they do history.

    “Communist czars” indeed. Pfft!


  45. tombaker says:

    Hank III. (no, not Jr.)


  46. EliHarold says:

    Wow, that was complete garbage. Good thing we’ve got Sage Francis,Mos Def,Talib Kwali,Dead Prez, and The Coup on our side.


  47. DRxJ says:

    Wow. That’s really really REALLY bad!
    There’s a reason Eminem, Jay Z, Dre and 50 cent have been successful.
    It’s because they have talent!
    It’s because they know how to rap and how to rhyme their lyrics to their audience base!

    Hi-Caliber and K-Fed?
    NOPE!


  48. Veronica says:

    This is not what Chuck D of Public Enemy was thinking of, when he wrote “Fight the Power.”


  49. MapleStreet says:

    The “birther” part I could chalk up to plain stupidity. But were they actually so anxious to kill people to put in the line:

    We need tanks and hummers, not hybrid cars!


  50. ElBruce says:

    So this guy thinks that Michael Savage “clicks and makes sense” to him? Let’s grab a few things Savage has said to see how much sense he makes:

    May 12 Savage nation, on Arabs:

    Right now, even people sitting on the fence would like George Bush to drop a nuclear weapon on an Arab country. They don’t even care which one it would be.

    I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity but I’ll get here a little later, I’ll move up to that. It’s the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

    Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I’d like to see done to these people

    .

    July 16 Savage nation, on autism:

    Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism, since I’m not talking about autism? A fraud, a racket. For a long while, we were hearing that every minority child had asthma. Why did they sudden — why was there an asthma epidemic amongst minority children? Because I’ll tell you why: The children got extra welfare if they were disabled, and they got extra help in school.

    You know what autism is? I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is.

    What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, “Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.”

    .

    January 29 Savage nation, when asked by a caller where AIDS comes from:

    It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science — but I don’t think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo.

    See, we don’t live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments. Something you apparently don’t know anything about. … Couldn’t use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that’s what we got. There’s multiculturalism for you. There’s immigration for you. There’s the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can’t reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head.

    I think I’ll leave it there. That ought to be enough for now.


  51. zuch says:

    Hi-Caliber has said his conservative views were formed by right-wing talker Michael Savage. “Here was this guy Michael Savage screaming and ranting and raving about illegal immigration Islamofascism and you know it all started to click and make sense,” explained Hi-Caliber to the Daily Beast’s Max Blumenthal earlier this year.

    Yes, indeed. When someone screams, rants, and raves (incessantly and repeatedly), I chalk that up to a good argument and accept it as the Gospel truth. It’s sooooo eeeaaasssssyyy being smart!

    Cheers,


  52. tarazan says:

    I wish God fulfill Hi-Caliber’s dreams by putting him once in his lifetime in a room with only 30 Ann Coulters.Hi-Caliber will know then what Hell looks like.


  53. EugeneDebs says:

    KayneWest says:

    I dont like ignorant brainwashed morons like YOU. Just STFU since you are too stupid to be taken seriously you brainwashed lemming


  54. barfly says:

    And if a teabagger met these rappers in a dark alley, he’d be scared to death of getting mugged. Their brotherhood is all about hatred, and for these guys, a large does of self-hatred – or did they miss the confederate flags flying in the crowd?

    Tuesday was your birthday, but where’s your birth certificate?

    MLK would weep for these cats.


  55. DRxJ says:

    I didn’t even know that the term Islamofacials was still being used.


  56. GreatGranny2B says:

    Michael Savage has been banned from entering Great Britain because of his racist views and hate speeches. How the heck can we deport him, Beck, Limbaugh and a few others?

    Georgia was originally a penal colony for the rejects from England, as was Australia. What island or colony do we have plopped in the middle of some ocean where we could start sending some of these idiots to? They want their country back, let’s give them one of their own.

    TP is probably the first one to call this rally what it really was – ANTI-OBAMA – every other report has termed it anti-health reform. Thanks TP!


  57. Zooey says:

    Take a look at this video:

    9.12 Geniuses

    Doesn’t it just make you want to scream, “Focus, people!!!”


  58. Zooey says:

    Crap, the link didn’t work, try again…

    9.12 Geniuses


  59. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    They call that RAP?

    .


  60. misscoleopteramolly says:

    DRxJ says
    September 15th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    I didn’t even know that the term Islamofacials was still being used.
    ____________________________________________________________

    Hadn’t heard that one. Is it a spa treatment?


  61. Perry logan says:

    I wonder what it says if you play it backwards.


  62. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    #51,

    bruce,

    that’s a whole lotta kool-aid

    and HI-COLONIC drank it all.

    *

    check out the right brothers,

    bush was right.

    *

    conservatism can really rock :)

    :)

    really.

    :|


  63. Peter C says:

    Can these people seriously think that the politicians who tell them they need ‘hummers and tanks’ are ‘honest’???

    These people wear their idiocy with pride. I’d hate to have them as my base.


  64. aquarius2 says:

    Talk about needing to see a shrink. Hi Caliber emulates black rap music but revers hate speech and racist Michael Savage.


  65. draftedin68 says:

    Like Rush, but different…

    WTF, “…communist czars…”? It’s clear this crowd was asleep during World History when they covered the part where the communists murdered the Czar, his wife and all of his children.

    It’s equally clear that this crowd doesn’t have a clue about what an “oxymoron” is.

    FYI, Rush’s version begins with: “oxi“.


  66. Purple State says:

    I’m sorry, y’all, no disrespect to Hi-Caliber. But MC ROVE had one of the best videos of all time!


  67. misscoleopteramolly says:

    One wonders what kind of utopia these teabaggers long for when they support this kind of drivel. My guesses:

    A world where fuel efficiency and exploration of alternative energy sources is undesirable. Much better to use up the earth’s supply of fossil fuels as fast as possible and pollute the atmosphere to show our superiority.

    A world where “education” means getting spoonfed propaganda, and people are discouraged from thinking for themselves. After all, if people were educated, they would realize that the Russian czars came BEFORE the Russian Communists, neither has anything to do with the current Obama administration, and GWB had more “czars” than Obama has. But in the minds of these yee-haws, these are just pesky details.

    A world that’s actually more like the USSR than they care to admit. They want propaganda from their leaders, they want zero tolerance for dissent or alternative views, and they want their leaders to be able to spy on anyone they want and invade any citizen’s privacy.

    A world where a non-white person could NEVER be POTUS, which is probably most important of all to them.


  68. vinylspear says:

    Hi-Caliber, let me introduce you to Vanilla ice…
    Ice, this is Caliber, Caliber, this is Ice, may your careers parallel each other.


  69. bzb says:

    Zooey says:
    Take a look at this video:

    9.12 Geniuses

    Doesn’t it just make you want to scream, “Focus, people!!!”

    “you phucking m0r0ns!” especially the ‘czar’ part how embarrassing and this is the kind of conservative education TX wants to use on it’s students in the public system?

    BTW does anyone know how much Freedom Works paid them to come up with that “silly” rap and giving Savage a shout out. I bet it was less than $5,000?


  70. Dirty Hippie says:

    GOPer rap. Can’t spell “crap” without it.


  71. Keith says:

    GreatGranny2B says:
    …Georgia was originally a penal colony for the rejects from England…

    Actually, back then it was very easy in England to get thrown into debtor’s prison for a small debt.

    Boy, that rapper is pathetic!


  72. Xisithrus says:

    We need Paulson and Summers, GOP falling stars!
    We need honest politicians, not not Beck Criers!
    U.S.S, not the GOP Liars
    We need less MAnn Coulter and more Bill Maher.
    […]
    I need another lecture from the fascist dimwits.
    Birthers deathers, but where’s high school certificates?


  73. Xisithrus says:

  74. jaymark says:

    Mr. Evil says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    mary lacewing says: #15

    Progressive country music?

    Check out Steve Earl. His anti-war antem “Just another Poor Boy (Fighting a Rich Mans War)” is chilling.


  75. jaymark says:

    sorry. “anthem”


  76. Xisithrus says:

    Actually, back then it was very easy in England to get thrown into debtor’s prison for a small debt.

    Next years gNOper movement!


  77. GeorgeandDick says:

    George says – Hehehe, that’s sure as hoot’n some sweet rapper lingo, my man, Turd Blossom he’s a great rapper, why he would dance around the Oval Office showing me his phat moves, all moon walking and stuff, talking that rap stuff, he sure had a way with the words, he always said that he had a “little black in him”, well he sure did the other night, and he was all a squealing like a little pig, he always does that, wakes up the whole place, “SQUEEEAAALLL, OINK, ONIK, ONIK, I’m your little beatch pink piggie, SQUEEEAAALLL”, it would get me all excited and I’d have to give ol’ Jeffy a call. What you say Dick?

    Dick says – I want fresh blood from cute kittens and puppies.


  78. Keith says:

    The prison industry would love it!


  79. Keith says:

    I had a friend who was a human cannonball in the circus and he was of high caliber. :)


  80. evangenital says:

    What a retard…

    What irony that he would use such a black cultural “thing” like rap to proclaim his hatred of Obama and progressives!

    What a moron…


  81. shoeless says:

    Wow, first Stalinist Nazis, and now Communist Czars. What’s next, Confederate Yankees?


  82. Innocent Bystander says:

    Why weren’t the Right Brother’s invited? I’m sure the crowd would have preferred them for their musical pandering.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8


  83. RUCerious says:

    Bye-Caliber.

    Your fifteen seconds of fame were over before you started rapping your inane crapping.


  84. Cats r Flyfishn says:

    Curious… wonder if Hi-Caliber completed high school. He certainly sounds under educated. Or is this what home schooling brings to the RAP table? More ignorance.


  85. eyesopen says:

    Here’s another couplet for right wing rap:

    We’ll keep screaming BS until we think we’re heard,
    Even if there’s only one of us who can understand our words!


  86. LiberalLinebacker says:

    There’s nothing conservative about this guy, he is embracing the doctrine of Neoconservatism. To call Obama a Communist Czar is inaccurate. He is a Corporatist Czar and no different than George W. Bush in most facets of his political philosophy and aspirations. He is owned and was put in office with the aid of those who own the Federal Reserve and the power brokers of the CFR.

    Where are the real Liberals? Where are the real conservatives?

    I am sick of Neocon goons and so-called Progressives who are the total opposite of what liberal is or used to mean, at least. Let us not embrace the Neoliberal antics of Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and embrace the politics of the late, great John F. Kennedy.

    Why the hell didn’t we nominate Gravel or Kucinich? The progressives will ruin this party, the way the Neocons destroyed the Republican Party.


  87. Mikeua26 says:

    Hi Liblinebacker,

    I like your aspirations pun. I wouldn’t go as far to call Obama a flunky of corpartism, yet. Although his banker appointments and failure to confront the Fed leaves me wondering at times.

    We need to get past our mistake of not nominating Kucinich and work with what we have. The point in your post however is not without merit.


  88. rdn says:

    Hi-Caliber? Shheeshh. Hi Calorie is more like it. What tools.


  89. rdn says:

    shoeless

    Wow, first Stalinist Nazis, and now Communist Czars. What’s next, Confederate Yankees?
    ————-
    Great!

    Union Seccesionists?
    Coal Power Environmentalists?
    Fascist Anarchists?


  90. Keith says:

    Athiest Islamofascists?


  91. ElBruce says:

    Does this qualify as multiculturalism? I look forward to Pat Buchanan’s denunciation of this guy.


  92. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    92 comments and only one troll.

    .

    sorry HI-CALONIC.

    *

    you need a posse.

    :)


  93. zuch says:

    Tuesday was your birthday, but where’s your birth certificate?

    Typo there. Should say “pass book”.

    Cheers,


  94. Mr.Duke says:

    communist czars!

    Those 2 words go together like oil and water. Not well.


  95. neoconsrscum says:

    Hi-Caliber = Low IQ


  96. ElBruce says:

    Mr.Duke says:

    communist czars!

    Those 2 words go together like oil and water. Not well.

    I suppose it could serve as a slang term for a suicidal person.


  97. wizard2000 says:

    I’ve got 10 inches. Really.

    Just like there were 2 million people at Beck’s teabagger event the other day. Really.

    This is the real reason behind the inflated numbers the right-wingers are throwing around, claiming that far more people were in attendance than were actually there…Republican impotency, Republicans losing power in Washington, the size of the Republican Party shrinking, shrinking, shrinking, with only flaccid-minded hardcore Republicans remaining.

    So, Beck, Limbaugh, Malkin, O’Reilly are trying to shoot what remains of their conservative teabagging cult followers full of Viagra, to make them even more “hard”core, but will never make any of them more than 1 or 2 inches, max.

    (Gee, I seem to have had a Rude Pundit moment).


  98. pakaal says:

    So now there’s rappers and then there’s Republican rappers, I see.

    I think this is how that whole “Liberal Media” thing got started, soon we’ll see a whole slew of conservatives decrying how the rest of the rap world is stacked against them, coin the phrase “Liberal Rappers,” then they’ll start the Conservative Rappers Organization, buy a cable station of their own….

    Hmm, so far we have:
    Hi Caliber
    McCain Girls
    Uncle Murda
    The Young Cons [...]

    Hey, does Mickey Dolenz count?


  99. DeAnnaClaudette says:

    Who cares about accuracy and intelligence? I mean really… It rhymes!


  100. jeff85 says:

    Best part is at the end of the clip:

    “Big shout out to freedom works!”


  101. karadagli61 says:

    Thank you for your sharing.!



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