Conservatives upset over rapper Common's White House invite

Sarah Palin is among the conservatives who are unhappy that the rapper Common will be part of a poetry event on Wednesday night at the White House.

Their objection stems from a 2007 YouTube video of Common flagged by The Daily Caller. In the video, Common says "tell the law, my Uzi weighs a ton" as well as "Burn a Bush cos' for peace he no push no button."

The Daily Caller story was featured on the heavily-trafficked conservative news aggregator the Drudge Report with the headline "First Lady to host rapper who talks of killing cops, burning Bush," and Fox Nation asked, "Michelle Obama Hosting Vile Rapper at White House?" Palin linked to the article in a Tweet, adding sarcastically, "Oh lovely, White House."

Common has been joking about the attention on Twitter, first writing, "So apparently Sarah Palin and Fox News doesn't like me." Later, in response to another Tweet, he wrote, "It's not funny JP. I'm dangerous!"

Other participants at the celebration of American poetry and prose, which will be hosted by President and Mrs. Obama, include Elizabeth Alexander, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, Aimee Mann and Jill Scott.

Common has been praised for his lyrics; as liberal media monitor Media Matters notes, a FoxNews.com reporter told him last October that "your music is very positive."

[Sethnicity]

Pfunk! Yeah they get my vote! FLASHLIGHT!

[Sethnicity]

Gas prices are a Global Assessed cost... I don't think Obama or his cabinet are sitting around raising you gas prices. Hey by the way if those Gas Companies were to pay their due taxes to the country they reside in it would help out money issues as well as the other major American based Businesses.

I'm sure Obama's not just thinking of ways to make us broke.. but I do think the defense budget maybe over funded, but War make money is what I hear... I'm sure you probably agree. :(

[mecury69]

Anything subject to divide the country and the American people....that's the GOP.

Divide and conquer. Unfortunately, it does nothing but degrade us as a nation.

[mecury69]

"I shot a man just to watch him die."

- Johnny Cash

[hlklky]

What does race have to do with anything who mentioned race? Looks like your the divider.

[_MrMike]

EVERYTHING offends CONservatives-except heir own brand of fascism,and misinformation......

[stinkyfeet112]

White America can cry about a rapper, but allow a foreign citizen that shot up hundreds of cops in movies,used steroids, smoked reefer, and disrespected women become a Governor or a state he cannot even pronounce? Arnold its California, oh I got it, like Cauliflower.

I rather my kids listen to all of Commons albums before I let em watch any of Arnold's movies. The number of crooked politicians, slave owners, murderers of the Natives of this country,that have walked thru the doors of the White House and you people crying over a rapper many of you prolly didn't know exist until this happen, being invited.

So what church they attended, you can never say Wright molested little Malcolm or Shay Shay.

All the problems wrong with this country, and you cry about a birth certificate and what rapper they invite to the White House.

I did not see one parent cry or ***** when Arnold got into office, he killed more Cops in Terminator one than Common has in all 8 of his albums.

In the words of the Late Great Pimp-c "get off the booboo"

[JayAdlerMusic]

What if instead of Common, Obama would have invited Andy Dick in to do some stand up? Because I never once wrote about this event as anything having to do with race or even the content of Mr. Common's performance, do you realize the same repercussions to the Obama campaign would occur. I see this entire situation as having nothing to do with race or Common's poetry although speaking about police murders is not personally what I would do anywhere. Before all of your time there was a beatnik poet from Berkley. CA named Allen Ginsberg who actually wrote a poem called America in the days of Communism who was much more ruthless than Common but so many people revered him as an exceptional poet.This simply was a bad political decision only.Please remember this next time you attempt to build this up into something it is not. Barrack Obama cannot be re elected under any condition unless he gets enough votes. When any individual, Black, White, Hispanic,Jewish and so forth, pulls the curtain at the voting booth in 2012, they can do whatever they want and nobody will ever know why they voted the way they did because lately they have been mum upon exit.Politics is a bottom line business.You have to get the votes unless you do not care. Waxing extactic about extraneous issues is not going to steer voters in 2012.A politician who wants to win, period will not do well in America as a crusading idealist.

[noloyalisti]

Who the heck cares about what the airheaded, radical moron Palin thinks, anyway? Anything that makes the ridiculous excuse of human life forms that support the failed Republicons nervous, MUST be positive.

[Ronjon7]

Good example for the Obama kids. What's wrong with this man?

[noloyalisti]

At least you are man enough to admit he is a man. Unlike the Republicons who probably want to go back to the times when a black man was 3/5.

[IWasBornFree1979]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Mj6wPgQso&feature=relmfu

"Love's Not A Mystery it's Everything!!!!!!!!!!!

[IWasBornFree1979]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTGxPiEg7iM...

"This is Rap 4real something You Feel.."

Some of you just will never understand...

[JRob1125]

They don't want to understand. Ignorance is bliss.

I'm still laughing at the of people who feel threatened by Common. I can't imagine what they'd do if they heard a song from Waka Flocka Flame.