Pawlenty: The GOP should be ‘just like Eminem.’

On Friday night, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) gave the keynote address at the College Republicans National Convention. Perhaps seeking cache with his young audience, he referred to a stunt at the recent MTV Movie Awards, and suggested that the Republican Party should be “just like” the rapper Eminem:

Opening his remarks with a reference to NBC’s “Inside the Obama White House” special, Pawlenty told the gathering of about 200 students, “I haven’t seen something that staged since that half-naked Austrian fell onto the face of Eminem at the MTV music awards.”

“Eminem was mad,” he continued, to laughter and applause. “And so, just like Eminem getting dumped on, we’ve got to kind of regroup. We’ve got to continue to fight. And we’ve got some things worth fighting for.”

Considering Eminem has been criticized for sexism and homophobia, perhaps he is already serving as a model for the modern conservative movement.

Update: Was Pawlenty aware that Eminem's current single features a line about his desire to "nail" Sarah Palin and tell her, "Baby say hello to my little friend"?

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Maybe he should send his message out on the ethernet.

just stop, GOP.

Goodbye GOP!

Is the GOP stating they should fake a response for the sake of popular television for the 18 and under demographic?

Yeah I watched E! News waiting for Adventures in Babysitting to come on. Very funny movie IMO.

I don't care that it was staged. Eminem still looked like the fool, something Pawlenty and his party are certainly familiar with.

Obama White House thing. TOTALLY.

Pawlenty's an idiot and I hope he's their nominee in four years so we can demolish him.

"Party of Lincoln" - *buzz*
"Party of fiscal responsibility" - you've got to be kidding!!!!
"Party of family values" - NOT!!!
"Party that cozies up to filth" - one out of four isn't bad...

Tea bagging douchebags!

Yes, I know it's Sasha

the green one? The red one? the yellow one? maybe that new blue one?

for pawlenty? Thought they could relate to college republicans?:silly:

That's what comes of being out of touch.

Republicans feed off of hate, power, greed, and illusion. They haven't misinterpretted the pop culture, they've just targeted their general audience, (who, we shall agree, are "out of touch")

nt

what's with pawlenty and steele?

"Staged"?..poor jealous shit.

Talk about seeing something staged.

In response to the first black president and a news story about his life in the white house, the GOP comes out talking about a white rapper who had an ass fall on his face? There is absolutely NO correlation between President Obama and Eminem, so what could possibly be the motivation for such a comparison?

I think it's to "rowdy" their biggest base - the racist, sexist, homophobic, and bigots. :shrug: