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PSA on Obama: He's Not That Black, Right?

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

Senator Barack Obama's race continued to dominate the presidential campaign trail conversation in the last moments leading up to the Illinois senator's campaign victory in the Mississippi primary this evening.

Perhaps the cleverest response on the state of affairs to date has been this wicked -- and timely -- parody posted on YouTube this morning by a group of actors and comedians based in Los Angeles.

A group of former colleagues at Second City in Chicago, they've created a comedy troupe called The Public Service Administration and a channel on YouTube called Election08. The goal is to create one episode of biting political satire every week.

They've entitled the two-minute parody "Don't Think of A Black Man," in reference to cognitive scientist George Lakoff's New York Times bestseller "Don't Think of An Elephant:"

See Also:

• Did The Clinton Campaign Doctor Its TV Ad To Make Obama "Blacker?"
• Is the Obama Campaign Really Different?
• Obama: A Pop Cultural Hero?

Full post as published by Threat Level on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).