Of Barry's latest awsum speech, full of "pretty cool" "dogwhistles" -- one of which was giving Hillary the finger -- Spencer burbles:

Starting at 2:20, bear witness to perhaps the coolest subliminal cultural reference [to this extremely presidential Jay Z tune] in the history of American politics.

[Excuse me a minute. I just read the comments, and I need a moment to clear the images of creamed chinos from my mind. There.]

I'll just quote one comment, from reader weakervessel, who I think deserves a Unity Pony if anyone does:

Dude, I nearly swooned — SWOONED, I tell you — when I saw that. That’s one of my fave Jay-Z joints of all time. HUGE SWIRLING VORTEX OF LOVE. I could not pink-fuzzy-heart Barack one iota more.

Now, interestingly, there's been a version of what Spencer's saying out there for some time, albeit a longer one. The source will surprise you:
From the Manchester Guardian:

In the words of that Clinton adviser: "If you have a social need, you're with Hillary. If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you're young and you have no social needs, then he's cool."

Well, that Clinton adviser (Howard Wolfson?) turned out to be right on the money, didn't he? Because I don't really know how to categorize what Obama must be to Our Spencer, and his swooning acolyte, than an imaginary hip black friend. Of course, in reality, he's a Chicago politician with one national election under his belt where his opponent imploded. But let that pass. Ponies for everyone!)

But at the time, Oh the humanity! Here's WKJM, and I dare you to tell me he's not practicing up to be David Broder. I'm going to quote a great slab of bloviation here, because WKJM performs the almost incredible feat of being entirely content free and yet too, too rich!

[ed.note: TPM Media Editor & Publisher Josh Marshall wrote the following about our efforts to accurately and soberly report on this rapidly escalating controversy over race and the Clinton and Obama campaigns.]

It is remarkable, or perhaps it's not so remarkable, how rapidly this punching match over race has escalated between the Clinton and Obama camps. Even calling it that is perhaps controversial in itself.

Now, as I said, I have a bit of a hard time knowing what's going on here [with the "hip" quote]. If this is really the word the Clinton campaign wants its surrogates putting out, they're really much stupider than I could have imagined.

This has spiraled pretty far in the last 48 hours. And I'm just now taking stock of it again. Like I said, it's not completely clear to me the mix of intention, inertia and accident involved. But this is explosive. So we're going to do the best we can to tell you what's happening, not to hold anything back but also to be conscious of each step we take as we report on and thus in a real sense relay these increasingly inflammatory statements and reports.

The stylist for whom "There's no there, there" was invented. But wait! What's that burbling noise? Can it be? It sounds like a tank!

Others were more open. Tim Dickinson from Rolling Stone was curt. The Guardian's source?

A race-card dealing “Hillary adviser” who should be exposed and fired.

Even the normally sane Steve Horton:

An anonymous Clinton adviser explained what he/she sees as the difference between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters: “If you have a social need, you’re with Hillary,” the aide said. “If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you’re young and you have no social needs, then he’s cool.” I’d give it the full 5 [Willie] Hortons [the top rating], but I have no idea whether the person is a close aide or a tangential “adviser.”

And, of course, the OFB were in fine form, frothing and stamping, and cutting and pasting talking points furiously (almost as if Axelrod paid piecework rates...).

And now....

Never mind.

For our "creative class" -- Spence and Matt -- Obama is now no longer a Change agent, now not even a reasonably gifted pol from Chicago, but, precisely and exactly, "an imaginary hip black friend."

... HUGE SWIRLING VORTEX OF LOVE ...

Great.

Just what I want from a President.

Of course, this whole sorry process also smeared both Clintons as racists, but you can't grow a hipster goatee without breaking eggs.

Or something.

What a performance. The Boiz will do fine in the Village. Just fine.