Last One On the Bandwagon's a Rotten Opportunist

Michelle Malkin takes note of the belated chiming in by "Barry-come-lately" on the Imus flap and the media's subsequent, if begrudging, focus on the rampant misogyny and racial auto-degradation peculiar to hip-hop culture.

Here's what he said late today:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday questioned the way some rappers talk about women in songs, saying the lyrics are similar to the derogatory language used by embattled radio host Don Imus.

They are "degrading their sisters. That doesn't inspire me," Obama said of some hip-hop artists when a man in a crowd of about 1,000 questioned him. The Illinois senator was responding to a question of what inspired him, and said God and civil rights activists.

Hillary managed to secure her spot in the tsk-tsk parade back on Wednesday, when she sent out an e-mail steering supporters to the ad hoc "Respect for Rutgers" page on her campaign website.  So what took Senator Obama so long to join in this lay up of a mild liberal Sister Souljah moment?

Michelle points to Obama's 2006 youth empowerment summit with civil rights emissary and spelling enthusiast Ludacris, the troubador who brought the world such works as "Pimpin' All Over the World" ("ho" count: 2), "Move Bitch" (n-word count: 3; "ho" count: 2), "Slap" (n-word count: 40), and his magnum opus "Ho" (n-word count: 4; "ho" count: 108).

Yipes.  I guess I too would be reluctant to opportunistically feign contempt for the same rabid cultural degeneracy I'd opportunistically embraced only months ago.