Necessary exposition included in the following Countdown segment:
Thank you, Metafilter (which also supplies some info on the rap video’s actual creator).
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I continue to be amazed that NO ONE in the media seems to be able to understand how someone named “Al Green” could have gotten the vote. WTF?!? Is it really that hard???
Maybe if it had been “Bartholomew Manilow” on the ballot the white folks could get it…
He’d have my vote.
This is among the most bizarre stories in recent memory. The more I read about it and see interviews with him, the stranger it gets.
Also, @1 pretty much has the exact right theory. I’m not sure it’s more than that, but it’s still really, really strange.
A poster on somethingawful.com forums made the rap as a joke.
@1 I remain convinced that Dubya got as many votes as he did in 2000 because thousands of dumbasses thought they were voting for his father.
“That Clinton feller ain’t no good, how ’bout we try that Bush guy agin?”
…or Jefferson Smith…
Wait. Barry Manilow’s first name is actually Bartholomew? I had no idea! He totally pwned my name.