Writer Rips Obama For Forgetting Beastie Boy

President Barack Obama is probably pretty busy during his waking hours, what with his day job of being President and running for a second term. But couldn’t he have at least found the time to say a few words on the death of Beastie Boy and national treasure Adam Yauch who died Friday? It would have meant a great deal to TWT‘s Joe Curl.

Over the weekend Curl wrote a column bemoaning “half-white” Obama’s neglect to acknowledge Yauch’s passing:

“[Yauch] was the real deal, groundbreaker, up from his bootstraps, Brooklyn boy made good.

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