Rap rap: who's der?

The rap star Mos Def (real name: Dante Smith), often honored by critics as one of those “socially conscious” rappers, recently unloaded a rant that seemed designed to demonstrate he was almost mentally unconscious. To wit, he claimed:


1. George Washington “and all them dudes” that founded America “was terrorists as far as the Queen was concerned.”


2. “The Catholic Church’s stance about child molestation is a form of terrorism in and of itself.”


3. Was Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11? “Absolutely not...highly educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory.” (Presumably, this includes highly educated scientists like Rosie O’Donnell.)


4. Terrorism is a natural response to murderous American imperialism. “There are valid reasons even to a lot of terrorists' arguments – quote-unquote, terrorists' arguments – about why are they frustrated with colonial presence, imperial presence. The way that this government has pursued its foreign interests has been meddlesome, murderously meddlesome."


5. The American space program is a fraud, too. “I don't believe these [maternal expletive deleted] have been to the moon either.”


This man doesn’t need a microphone. He needs medication.

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