sized_mccain_spoof.jpgBelow is a music video parody of John McCain rapping about his controversial vice presidential choice to the tune of Snoop Dogg’s “Murder Was The Case.” I post this clip not because it’s particularly funny—it’s not—or because it offers anything more than the usual tired slew of McPalin jokes—it doesn’t—but because I think now is an ideal time to propose a moratorium on white-folks-rapping parody songs.
Seriously, people in comedy, we get it: Senator McCain is rich, white, Republican, and old, therefore it is unexpected that he would spontaneously break out into a hot sixteen. What a hoot! Amy Poehler is a short white woman from Burlington, Massachusetts, but—check it out—she’s cuffing the mike and spitting like Kanye West. Isn’t that hilarious?
Not necessarily. (MORE)