Bryan D. Brown

Have you seen the video of Karl “MC” Rove dancing and hip-hopping at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner that was held this week?

Normally, nothing is funnier than a 56-year old Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush butchering an impersonation of his perceived notion of black culture. Normally, it would be hysterical - until you realize that Rove is largely credited with derailing John McCain’s bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2000 by race-baiting McCain’s child. After Bush lost the primary in New Hampshire to McCain, a rumor was spread in the following South Carolina primary that McCain had fathered an “illegitimate black baby”, a rumor that’s largely attributed to Karl Rove - a rumor that misrepresents the child from Bangladesh that McCain and his wife did adopt. That’s class right there, for you.

Still, there is MC Rove - dancing and prancing like he’s part of N.W.A. Hey Rove, you’re no Stephen Colbert. Maybe we’ll all get lucky and Cheney will take you quail hunting.

Here’s this weeks TTL:

Song, Artist, Album
10. Franco Un-American, NOFX, War on Errorism
9. Dirty Old Town, The Pogues, Rum Sodomy And Lash
8. Seven Nation Army, Nostalgia 77, The Garden
7. Gimmie Five Feet, Aceyalone, Fat Jack Cater to the DJ
6. What’s Mine Is Yours, Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
5. Cries Of Arkansas, Lord Invader, Calypso In New York
4. Respiration, Blackstar (feat. Common), Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Blackstar
3. I Against I, Bad Brains, (title track)
2. Don’t Call Me Nigger Whitey, Sly & The Family Stone, Anthology
1. Ain’t No New Thing, Gil Scott-Heron, Free Will