Leaked Blake Masters Video: "I've Got the War Paint On"
July 18, 2022
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2:15Now PlayingLeaked Blake Masters Video: "I've Got the War Paint On"
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In a 2008 video leaked to Mother Jones, Trump-endorsed Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters rapped while wearing mock Native American face paint to deride the “political correct police.” The video is part of a new investigation into Masters’ rise from Peter Thiel’s right-hand-man to a US Senate frontrunner.
The video references Columbae, or "C-bae", a left-wing vegetarian co-op at Stanford where decisions were made by consensus. Blake Masters lived there his sophomore year and remained active in the community even after moving off campus his junior year. For a Columbae talent show that Masters couldn’t attend during his senior year, he sent a video in which he rapped while wearing what was meant to resemble Native American-style warpaint. “I’ve got the war paint on, as you can see,” he rapped over a beat. “Who said what about cultural insensitivity?”
For more from this wideranging investigation by Noah Lanard, based on interviews with more than a dozen people who’ve known Masters, old emails, deleted blog posts, a chat server for his top donors, visit Mother Jones
Correction: At 1:53 in the video, “specialty” should read “Special D,” short for "Special Dinner", the name of the talent show.
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