I suppose the initial narrative of the Democratic primary season–black folk verses white women folk–was becoming tiresome to the media, so they are now looking to the political leanings of mediocre MCs like 50 cent (“He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-’Malcolm X,’ and I swear to God, I’m like, ‘Yo, Obama!’”) and DMX (“Barack Obama?…That ain’t that nigga’s name.”) as a measure of public opinion; in an age when LOLNIGGERS is par for the YouTube comments course, and when there are legitimate and hilarious intersects between the hip-hop communities and Obama’s campaign, it’s a bit scary to see folks like Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan reporting on the inane gibberish of second-tier gangsta rappers alongside their usual insight.