An historic night on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour as both presidential hopefuls called in with a final message to voters.

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Around the 19:00 mark of last night’s show, Senator John McCain (R-AZ)  dialed in sounding upbeat, chipper and somewhat giggly which he admitted was due to him sneaking into his wife Cindy’s medicine cabinet.

“Whatever happens,” he said, “I won’t feel it until Sunday.”

Two minutes later, his opponent, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), joined McCain on the show, fresh off a basketball game with some neighborhood kids and also feeling positive.

“People say that this is a big day for black people,” Obama said, “but more so it’s a big day for half black people.”

But when the two engaged, it seemed old habits from the campaign trail die hard.  The two argued over taxes, celebrity endorsements and fought over who was better friends with Lando Calrissian.

At one point, McCain accused Obama of being a “Sith Lord.”

Of course none of this would have been made possible if not for two men.  David “John McFake” Siegel and Jordan “Barack Fauxbama” Carlos, two talented comedians and impressionists from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.

http://siegelcomedy.com
http://www.myspace.com/jordancarlos

Well, it took about ten days, but finally the phrase “nappy headed hos” is funny and a viable punch line.

On April 4 Don Imus mumbled the phrase when speaking about the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team. It was over in about 1.1 seconds and then the sound of his garbled, old-man voice muttering those words disappeared into the atmosphere where now, going by the speed of sound, those words are approximately 293,760,000 million miles away–or 3 times the distance that exists between between the Earth and Sun.

But as Hans Solo and C3PO are just now hearing Imus say “nappy headed hos” in a galaxy far, far away, we’ve heard it about thousand additional times.

We’ve heard Matt Lauer say it and we’ve heard Al Sharpton say it. We’ve heard our local news anchors say it and we’ve heard the deli guy say it. Its been said for 10 days at water coolers all across the country. We’ve heard white people say it and we’ve heard black people say it and now we may hear someone in the Dagobah system say it.

The point is, its been heard so much over the past ten days that it hardly means anything anymore. We’ll be seeing it on t-shirts, as a name of a band and countless guys have probably already renamed their fantasy baseball teams “The Nappy Headed Hos.” Google gives you about 2,370,000 results when you search for “nappy headed hos”!

Instead of condemning it and moving on, we’ve harped on it. We’ve repeated the phrase to the point that we don’t mind the phrase anymore–in fact, we may start hearing it on the street and in our music. We may start to use “nappy headed ho” as a term of endearment.

If a word or phrase is so hurtful and so damaging then stop saying it. Stop drawing attention to it. And, above all, stop introducing to people who haven’t heard it yet.