ICYMI: Have you seen the video of Blake Masters in ‘war paint’ rapping? No, I’m not kidding [Arizona Republic – Opinion]

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Arizona Republic (Opinion): Have you seen the video of Blake Masters in ‘war paint’ rapping? No, I’m not kidding

By EJ Montini

September 2, 2022

Key Points:

• A lengthy profile of Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters published last month in Mother Jones included a leaked video of a younger Masters wearing war paint and awkwardly rapping lines that included:

“How bout we talk about the way that I look/ Everybody knows that it’s off the hook/ I’ve got the war paint on, as you can see/ Who said what about cultural insensitivity?”

• In a colossally cringeworthy way Masters manages in the video to come off as both creepy and racist. Not an easy feat.

• What’s disturbing about the war paint rapper’s digital performance – in addition to the creepy racist vibe – is that the Blake Masters portrayed in the video … doesn’t seem to be all that different from the Masters of today. His attitude hasn’t seemed to change much.

• One difference – not in a particularly good way – is that the politician Masters morphed into is a major league flip-flopper. The saddest, most cowardly variety.

• GOP Senate candidate Masters was a vehement anti-abortion hardliner during the primary campaign, and then scrubbed his website of that view after he won… knowing it wasn’t playing well with many voters.

• Likewise, primary candidate Masters spouted the Big Lie about the 2020 election being stolen from former President Donald Trump and heaped praise on Trump, then scrubbed much of that after the primary as well.

• As if no one would notice.

• And while Masters may have wiped off the war paint from his younger self he hasn’t exactly scrubbed away his xenophobic attitude, having fallen in with those who spread the ugly “great replacement” conspiracy, claiming that there is an effort (by Democrats, of course) to replace white Americans with people of color.

• And yes, there are receipts, most provided by Masters, a fully grown man who loves filming himself as much as that self-absorbed younger guy with the goofy red smears on his face.

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