{"id":681543,"date":"2010-03-03T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78248"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:09:51","slug":"from-birther-to-rap-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681543","title":{"rendered":"From Birther to Rap Sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The song and video of “O.T.P. – One Term President”<\/a> by “Wolverines” has been making the rounds — the fate of all eyebrow-raising conservative rap, I suppose. But I don’t think anyone else has pointed out the video history of rapper Molotov Mitchell, the bearded guy who rhymes “Thought I was votin’ for hope\/ I was votin’ for a bum, man!” He broke into the conservative web scene with a series of videos investigating Barack Obama’s citizenship, like this one:<\/span><\/p>\n

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From there he started making videos titled “For the Record,” which appeared on WorldNetDaily.com. Here’s one of the early ones in which he urges Americans to avoid enlisting in the armed forces as long as Obama is president.<\/p>\n

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“If you want to protect your country,” says Mitchell, “start a militia.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The song and video of “O.T.P. – One Term President” by “Wolverines” has been making the rounds — the fate of all eyebrow-raising conservative rap, I suppose. But I don’t think anyone else has pointed out the video history of rapper Molotov Mitchell, the bearded guy who rhymes “Thought I was votin’ for hope\/ I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RiD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783052,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681543\/revisions\/783052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}