Limbaugh Plays "Barack The Magic Negro" on His Show

Imus was an easy target because his show sucked and barely anyone cared.

Limbaugh has a huge following compared to Imus and he'll have to do a lot more than play a song on the radio to be taken down. Actually, he HAS already done MANY things more outrageous than that over the years and he's still on the air.

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Well, that song is probably offensive to Al Sharpton, as pretty much the whole thing is making fun of him.

However, the song doesn't seem particularly offensive (or particularly anti-Obama), unless you think it agrees with the statements made by its narrator. Limbaugh listeners are quite dense, but they don't strike me as the most likely people to blindly agree with a parodic version of Al Sharpton.

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"Ateo," the first poster, has the answer of course. Imus made relatively meager profits for his corporate masters. Limbaugh rakes in millions. His physical and verbal mocking of Michael J. Fox's medical condition barely received attention. Rosie O'Donnell's blatantly racist impression of the Chinese language got many laughs from her dopey audience. Imus' slur against the Rutgers basketball players was surely obscene, but this unkind society is saturated with the likes of Imus, Limbaugh, and O'Donnell. Some of them are in our workplaces, schools, and families. Others make lots of money as broadcasters, politicians, or writers.

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Who does one contact to put a stop to this so-called man's lies and insults? Enough is enough. Too many people listen to Limbaugh and take his word as gospel, too many sheeple don't have enough brains to think for themselves and therefore believe anything this disgusting lowlife says. Isn't there enough hate in this world already.

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He knows his core audience consists of racist rednecks in the Deep South where the word “nigger” became “Negro” because of political correctness but was (and is) pronounced “Neegra” with emphasis on the “a” to show contempt for black people.

The word “magic” is merely an operative term, although it’s insulting as well with the implication (I guess) that Senator Barack either smokes dope or is one.

It’s time for decent Americans to tune Rush off the air, assuming they haven't done so already. Like flies on horseshit, the racists will stick to him to the smelly end.

Hugh E. Scott, editor of King-George.biz -- the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

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The ruling class is wildly laughing at the goings on 'down there'. There's a whole lotta bickering going on, and a whole lot more going bad-- and they've got their fortress and their moat pretty well legislated by now, just putting on the finishing touches to make it look pretty from the outside.

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Why is Rush Limbaugh still on the air? That was a rhetorical question, right? Here's why Don Imus was kicked off the air: he was targeted - and all it took was a hypocritical little piece of shit like Al Sharpton to act as their stooge.

No one in the main stream media was calling the Bush administration to account for their crimes against humanity more than the I-man. While it can be safely sain that Imus often approached the troth, he rarely drank the kool-aid. Crude humor aside (what he said was uncalled for), that he is no longer on the air is America's loss.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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It's actually simple: If enough citizens boycott every product of every one of Rush's sponsors, he's off the air. There is no group of people in this world more powerful than the American consumer. Our learned helplessness has us fuming on forums and behaving as if the solution is in someone else's hands. Just find out who his sponsors are and start writing letters; get everyone you know to do the same. Uprisings start one person at a time and this might be the outrage that finally knocks the wind out of that gasbag.

We will have precisely the kind of country we are willing to be uncomfortable enough to have. If we can do without a few of whatever Rush's sponsors sell (I can't stand to listen to the creep, so I don't know. But you can bet I'll find out), we can delete his pollution from the airwaves.

Question: What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
Answer: One's an overinflated gasbag and the other's a dirigible.

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It's scary when wingers try to be funny--like watching a dog walk on its hind legs.

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Let's be real Rush do not have the media power he use to have four years ago. He's a drug head and he married this young girl who took him for his money and left him for a younger man. And Rush is now looking for some way to regain the popularity he once had. His big days are over and
like a drug addict looking for that 'Hit' and you need it real bad the same with Rush, he needs that media 'Hit" or one day they will hit him with those words 'It's over and we don't need you anymore, you are now a 'Has Been'. And with Bush and his 'no-bodies' going out as the worst administration that ever was, Rush days are over. So enjoy the fall of a clown, like the Emperor who was sold the new suit of clothes and found out he was butt naked, so is Rush a butt naked fool.

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In the company of my father, who's been taken down the road by Rush to become someone who lacks complete trust in humanity except for those Rush sanctions: Fox News, the Republican Party, etc.

He really believes that shit Rush spews...so sad. Rush was able to take the white male angst over changing socio-economic conditions and changing power structures in the US and turn it into a political movement that took the legislative branch and began handing over the government to the corporations (privatization) and dismantling the social safety net (Personal Responsibility Act) all because Rush convinced these displaced white males that 1. Government is bad, and 2. People using government programs are lazy (esp. the black welfare queens who keep having kids you have to pay for).

The wealthy are laughing themselves silly at our expense while taking huge chunks of our economy for themselves (ie - laughing all the way to the bank). Fortunately people many people may be starting to wake up about this, and with the far rights political influence waning, maybe we can reverse this trend.

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He owns the company.

Yesterday he said the shooter at Virgina Tech was a LIBERAL.

Rush is a sick person.

Ed Graham

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The attack by Imus was on a team of university basketball players who otherwise were private people and therefore was that much more disgusting. Rush is making an attack on Barack Obama, a candidate for president and public figure who has his own platform to respond if he feels he wants to dignify what Rush said. On the otherhand, both were vile, hatefilled racist comments that should never be tolerated and neither can be excused on whether or not the victims of such an attack are capable of defending themselves. The appropriate public response to racism should be public condemnation and intolerance of such hate talk.

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listen. everyone needs to quit with all the name calling and freaking out over who said this and who said that nonsense. you say you want free speech and then freak out at Rush. well, i dont personally agree with the pill poppin hater of equality myself, but he has as much of a right to say what he wants as does Imus (who shouldnt be off the air either). fact is, everyone is absolutely to blame for all our problems. we are all off our rocker and in serious need of strong coffee, good sex, intelligent humor, and HONEST SPIRITUALITY.

have fun freinds. please.

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That as my favorite song when I five years old. I have to give somebody credit for picking such a catchy tune.

If that silly song really bothers people, they must have pretty thin skin. It is in bad taste though. Is there anything rush has ever done that wasn't in bad taste? Rush as with Imus is probably better ignored and avoided (boycotted). Raising a big stink is probably just as likely to backfire as it is to help anything.

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Thanks for posting this.

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'Cuz Rupert Murdoch owns Rush, and bottom-line amorality is the basis of all Big Media's policies. Greed...plu$ $tupid, ignorant 'Murrican listeners.

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The reason jerks like Limbaugh and others like him are on the airwaves is because they are a useful tool for the ruling class in this country.

Reason: the crap that Limbaugh spews, together with similar stuff from the religious right, serves to keep people diverted from real issues. Rather than have the proletariat worry about such things as unionization, no health care, shrinking real earnings, etc; better to have them clue into the racisim and fear of lib'rals and gays and the ACLU and Ayrab ter'ists and the coming Rapture.

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Free speech is intended to allow all people to speak their minds on social, political, religious issues, etc, without fear of suffering some form of state interference (imprisonment, torture, etc.).

Where you use language that is utterly vile and reprehensible, whether it be a bunch of neo-nazis ignorantly chastizing all Jews or it be the KKK lambasting "blacks", they should not face state sanction and be forcibly shut up. The usual slippery slope argument applies, and should cause apprehension in all of us when free speech is challenged.

However, that doesn't mean that people in the exercise of their occupations, in particular, powerful voices in the media can say sexist, racist, homophobic things without good old fashioned revolt against them by concerned citizens who do not want their public airwaves polluted by this garbage.

What Rush said is perfectly legal, but in a democratic society your platform can be quickly undercut if youre acting outrageously and speaking in an objectively unethical fashion (i.e., subjectively racist whites don't see the harm, objectively african americans and regular decent folks of any skin pigment do)

Please!!!!!!

I'm Begging some of us here to refrain from the grade 7 level defence of racists on public airwaves, by saying they should not be impugned for being overt racists because were free to say what we want.......

We are free to say what we want without fear of imprisonment (provided it is not violent speech), however, we are not free from having public opinions expressed against us when we say vile, offensive things.

Free speech does not mean our speech is not to have repercussions amongst those of us we call neighbours and fellow citizens. That is infantile logic at best to belive free speech means our speech has no consequences amongst each other.

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Is there any doubt whatsoever why Rush is still on the air? He's a GOP squawk box who happens to have the ears, NO, hearts and minds of millions of mindless Republican minions. Rush says get behind Giuliani, McCain, etc. and so goes the vote of his many drones. It's almost as if you people forget who is the great decider in this country (hint - it isn't Bush). Rush has sponsors who will never abandon him so long as his listenership remains steady and Pfizer, Chevy and pyramid schemers have an outlet to hawk their useless wares to your average American twat with a negative savings rate.

If we actually lived in that same righteous and morally upstanding society the pundits would have us believe, then Mr. Oxycontin would have been yanked long ago, rotting in some prison cell along with blacks who have been caught with far fewer Rx meds on their persons than him. The hypocrisy is great but America's apathy and utter tolerance of the kleptocracy and its aspiring sycophants is more powerful still.

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MSNBC is reporting Rosie's gone...

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The problem is not Rush,it is your constant insistence that the
Left must tag along with the hatefull right by parroting their
hate speach immediately,constantly and word for evil word, kind of like Talking Points,right? Be Different or be quite and be noticed by being quiet and having some dignity.

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Find out exactly WHO sponsors his show, and then DON'T buy their products. Make sure that you send them a letter, so that they'll know WHY you're not spending money on them.

Have your friends and family* join you in this. Spread the word.

*If you have family like mine...my father and two of my bothers are reich-wingers...don't tell them what you're doing. Don't say a word to them.

If Rush's sponsors see a drop in their profits...they'll drop Rush Limpd**k.

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Magical Negro.

The magical negro is typically "in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint," often a janitor or prisoner.[5] He has no past; he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist.[6] He is the black stereotype, "prone to criminality and laziness."[7] To counterbalance this, he has some sort of magical power, "rather vaguely defined but not the sort of thing one typically encounters."[6] They are patient and wise, often dispensing various words of wisdom, and are "closer to the earth."[3]

Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Whoopie Goldberg, etc. have played magic negroes.

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Rush is still on the air, because his sponsors need him to continue poisoning the minds of the non-thinking masses.
We, the people, could stop the money flow and THAT would move the sponsors to drop Rush!

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I have to admit that I don't like Rush so much, other than entertaining myself occasionally when driving. However, as a non-white male born in a communist country and raised in a socialist nation, I do find the leftists in America quite naiively dangerous. I am becoming a citizen soon and if I have to choose a side, I rather choose the right, moderate right. The left is spoiled by the freedom in this great nation and after years of observation I am convinced that they will never learn the lesson until they turn America into a Communist United States. This is my two cents as an outsider-in!

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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT A BUNCH OF COLLEGE KIDS AND A GROWN MAN RUNNING FOR OFFICE. AS TASTELESS AS THESE THINGS BOTH ARE WE CAN NOT GIVE UP FREE SPEACH BECAUSE WE MIGHT FIND SOMETHING OFFENSIVE. WHAT ONE PERSON FINDS OFFENSIVE ANOTHER DOES NOT. WHERE WOULD EACH OF US DRAW THE LINE, YOU CAN'T TELL A JOKE ABOUT A BLACK BUT A JEWISH JOKE IS OK IF YOU SAY A JEWISH JOKE ISN'T HOW ABOUT IRISH, BLONDES, SHORT PEOPLE, PEOPLE WITH LARGE NOSES? YOU CAN DRAW THAT LINE AT ANYTHING, EXCEPT EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S OK TO MAKE FUN OF FAT BALD WHITE MEN, WELL EXCEPT FOR FAT BALD WHITE MEN.

HERE IS AN IDEA IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T LISTEN TO IT, WATCH IT OR READ ABOUT IT. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE DO THIS LESS OF IT IS DONE.

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That was no where near as insulting as calling those basketball players "hoes". You would think that Rush knows better than to actually use the N word. It really just poked fun at Al Sharpton and how bitter he must feel that people are embracing Obama and never embraced him.

Why anyone would even listen to this crap is beyond me. But don't take this too far or they will cry "free speech" and one of our beloved civil liberties will become the radical right's battle cry in the name of hate.

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There comes a point in our development as spiritual beings when we as individuals are able to know by something inside of ourselves that we are facing is something that demands we make a statement, take a stand, or not.
If this video is such a thing then the collective response of our individual consciousness will respond anda thin gs will change in the way we need - if not then it won't.

I find the personal remarks I've read on the board more hurtful than that video.

And on that note let me say that every time we play / show that video, or any thing like it we are contributing to the climate that fosters the very thing we claim we are railing against.

Anger, Hate, racism, sexism, any-ism crave expression. Give any one or all of them a platform whether it be for or against and you've fed it the fuel it needs to live another day.
Be neither for nor against and you will find that it (the ism) arises and passes away has no meaning.
This is true for all things - even me
see "poof"
I'm fading....

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What is wrong with this guy?

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The analysis of the insulting song about Obama got its usual thoroughgoing and perceptive breakdown by the erudite and often humorous responses of Alternet readers. One thing not stressed here is the desperation of the rethugs. Since they have NOTHING POSITIVE to recount during the last six years, they resort to the only thing their middling minds can think of, and that's ridicule, derision, and the untrue smearing of their opposition. This crap is (as usual) aimed at the Homer Simpsons among us. Let's hope that most of us are on to the vile lies we've been force-fed over that time and, come election day, we actually THINK about our choices.

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"ABC daytime has announced it was unable to come to a contractual agreement with 'The View' co-host Rosie O'Donnell," ABC News reports today. "As a result, her duties on the show will come to an end mid-June."

O'Donnell has been perhaps the most outspoken liberal on the show. Of late, she has often discussed the impeachment of President George W. Bush. Speaking about the US attorney scandal, she said, "It's Watergate exponentially increased, because Watergate was Nixon and a bunch of guys who broke into his competitor's building to see what their plans were."

"...That's mob tactics," she added. "That's Tony Soprano. We’re going to lean on people. That's what the president’s doing. That’s scary."

O'Donnell also recently said on her blog she was conducting her own investigation into the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

"The falling of the twin towers served to remind me that many of the assumptions Americans have about their lives are rooted in false feelings of security," O'Donnell wrote. "In light of this reminder, I have begun doing exactly what this country, at its best, allows for me to do: inquire. Investigate. America is great in so many ways, one of which is the freedom to speak, and indeed think, freely. I have, of late, begun exercising the rights bestowed upon me by the democratic system I value, and the exercising of these rights has taken the form of an inquiry into what happened five years ago, an inquiry that resists the dominant explanations and that dares to entertain ideas that push me to the edge of what is bearable. I have come to no conclusions and, given the scope of the subject, will not for some time."

"If the very act of asking is so destabilizing for people, than I have to wonder whether the fabric of our democracy is indeed so raveled it is beyond salvage," she added. "My own belief is that the act of asking is itself reparative, because it brings to life the values on which our constitution rests. I am, therefore, pledging my allegiance, hand over heart, trying, as always, for a rigorous truth."

ABC made no mention of impeachment or 9/11 talk in their article announcing her departure.

rawstory.com

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Not only from the LA Times, but from an African American columnist, David Ehrenstein. And the term, "Magic Negro," that was coined by Spike Lee.

(Thanks to the poster to linked to Wikipedia. I had a feeling only a minority would click on that link, much less read it, so I felt I should bring some of that information back here.)

Now, don't get me wrong. I am not a Limbaugh apologist. Nor do I think unacceptable speech should be criminalized. But there is a broad spectrum of responses between those two poles.

In any event, this is not as clear cut as the original poster would have you believe. The term "magical Negro" was used and perpetuated by African Americans. Clearly, it was done with different intent, but, much as it pains me to admit it, the appellation has some validity.

I can actually see how Obama could be viewed as a variation on the "magic Negro" stereotype. I think for any African American to achieve the presidency will require supernatural abilities of some sort. They will have to enchant the contentious, self-abnegating left, while simultaneously shapechanging into a being whose non-whiteness can be overlooked by the racist elements to the right. And then they will have to have a magical force field protecting them for their full term, to keep the truly hateful Grand Wizards and warriors of the Army of God and their minions from taking his life.

To paraphrase Wikipedia, "Although [Obama] seems to be showing African-Americans in a positive light, he is still ultimately subordinate to whites. He is also regarded as an exception, allowing white America to 'like individual black people but not black culture.'"

Chew on that for a moment, and then come back to me and let me know, exactly, how Rush Limbaugh is the problem here. He's a symptom of a far more pernicious and invasive infection although, like all parasites, he wants to keep his "host body" around as long as possible for his own uses.

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In 1988, I went to the Texas State Democratic Convention in
Houston as a Jackson Delegate. It was obvious that he was
not going to win the nomination and I thought that the show
at the convention was a sickening display of the degree to
which intellectual rot had set in with the Democratic Party.

When Jackson spoke, the applause was so thunderous,
your ears quit working. People were standing on their
chairs because he told the truth in way astounding to
hear in public. Activists who had spent years fighting
frustrating conditions were in tears to hear somebody
finally talking about what was real.

But then the nomination process confirmed Dukakis. By
contrast, when he spoke it was in a dry monotone and
he didn't actually say anything. The balloon drop with
applause that followed needed cheerleading. It was a
fake.

Now, there is a sense that the country is going down the
wrong track and finally everyone seems to be waking
up to the need for intellectual vigor to replace the hacks
and consultants that have been stultifying the process.

Limbaugh is a throwback to the era of hacks. If he
needs to be more and more shocking to get an
audience of people who want the wool pulled over
their eyes, then that is a sign that things are finally
changing for the better.

I think that anyone who wants to criticize Rush for
the humbug he is, should do so and vigorously.
Use any forum possible.

But keep in mind that the less well known talk show
hosts out there, like the truck driver host out of
Dallas, are guffawing about Barack Obama's funny
name every day. This is because they can't figure
out how to deal with the real debate on substance.

That this is going on and that Obama continues to
develop as a candidate, is generally a positive thing.

After the destruction wrought by the Bush neocons
people like Limbaugh are wearing out their welcome
with the more serious and sensible among the
shopping mall crowd.

Remember how close the 2000 and 2004 elections
were. A shift of a few percentage points will change
everything. It would seem to be in the works, and
Limbaugh's increased screeching is a good sign that
it might really be.

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a distinction without a difference.....particularly regarding
anything connected to the Black communuity.
Much interference was run for white male defenders of
Imus by elitist racist white females who repeatedly spewed
racist rhetoric condemning the black community as having
brought it (Imus) upon itself by somehow tolerating 'gangsta
rap'.......go figure..........

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We have to let the advertizers know that we will not put up with these racists remarks. By pulling the money plug we can get Rush off the air.

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Rush is nothing but a racist, Nazi redneck, just like his hickey-smoked, tobacco-spitting, blackman-bashing, ignorant boyfriend Don Anus.

In a 'civilized' nation it is amazing we still allow racists and biggots to pollute the airwaves and our children's minds.

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Rush told us mindless robot minions that this would happen.
LA Times writer David Ehrenstein in March wrote that Obama, "is fulfilling the role of the "Magic Negro," a cultural construct that hypes the virtue of certain black figures so that whites can feel good about themselves."

The LA TIMES called Obama the "Magic Negro"
As a result, Limbaugh's Parody division came up with a very clever paraody song to point out the real racism and hypocracy of the Liberal Media. The term originated with the LA Times.

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OK, it was offensive - DON'T LISTEN TO IT! You don't like Rush Limbagh (I agree, he's a jerk) - DON'T LISTEN TO HIM. How hard is it to push the "off" button on your radio?

CNN and Fox News and MSNBC and the rest of them offend me over their mistreatment of Palestinians in the Israel/Palestine conflict. You don't see me wondering why they are all still on the air - the reason - there are a bunch of idiots out there who like it - and that's their RIGHT.

it's called FREEDOM OF SPEECH people!! Without that, we are lost!

You people calling for Rush to just be kicked off the air are worse than Rush himself - cencorship will (is?) destroy (destroying?) this country. Let Rush, Imus, and all the rest say what they want so that you will continue to be allowed to say what you want. They will lose their own audiences soon enough.

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Rush Limpbough should have his show pulled from every network that carries it NOW!!! Or Don Imus should be given his job back with back pay. This is a corrupt double standard. Where are the Rutgers ladies basketball team. probably in Aruba on a Bush funded vacation. Maybe they do fit the description that Imus used and they are serving their customer now. Rush is just a Rove-puppet and needs to be equally punished as Imus, NOW!!

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first thought brought to mind...shame, shame for this display of racism shrouded in a cloak of humor. I am a conservative Demorat working in conservative pro Bush work environment; and am lambasted with derisive comments towards liberals and Democrats. I do not "buy" the talking points of this admnistration. The realisty is; I must at least respects their feelings. Respect the winds of change; will you still have a sense of humor, as too many Republicans gloat derisvely about Democrats?

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Amazing how small the world is in the blogsphere. simple Google search shows that Limbaugh is mearly repeating the LA Times story Obama the 'Magic Negro' By David Ehrenstein March 19, 2007
satire is good

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Wow. The images of Dr. King slumped on that motel balcony and Medgar Evers gunned down in his own driveway with his family in the house spring to mind.

Remember the flap when Rush was trying to be a TV sports guy and he revealed his true feelings with his comments about the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb being (paraphrased) not quite as smart as white quarterbacks?

Methinks the Right is happy to have Rush out there doing the work they can't do with any public profile attached to it. That would make them look like racists, wouldn't it?

This reminds me of the last Republican National Convention and the way they "salted the mine" with token blacks the night Laura Bush spoke. All the other nights, you might see two or three black folks in the background of any camera angle they used. When Laura spoke, it looked more like the real racial balance in America as far as audience composition in those shots.

The true racists that I've ever met are very low key and low profile. While Rush is neither one of those, he skirts the edge of just calling any black person on the Left a nigger. He also is very good at using other people to basically make his statements for him so he doesn't have to directly take the criticism head on.

In fact, he'd make a good Klansman.... if he isn't one already.

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Stop whining.

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I think the satire is right on the mark and highlights the hypocrisy of the Left. The comments on this blog also go a long way in proving the points that Rush made.

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Is truth whining?? See the hearings regarding Jessica Lynch and Pat tillman

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Rush has become hysterical at the prospect of an American who is black becoming president of the United States.

I think Obama would make a great president, but so would John Edwards and a host of other Democratic candidates.

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What's the problem? Mere offensiveness should not be punished, especially in political commentary. Parody and satire are specifically meant to offend.

Why shouldn't Barack and Sharpton be taunted by Limbaugh from the right when Bush and Cheney are skewered far more mercilessly not only by the Daily Show and Colbert Report but even by Leno and Letterman?

The song is stupid, and its level of wit very low, but its subject matter has been chewed over in "respectable" pundit forums for nearly a year. If Sharpton were not Black, would anyone object to making fun of his speech patterns -- the way Bush's speech patterns have been prodied for years?

The fact is, Sharton does talk that way. And it is clear, from his public statements, that he feels that way, too. Being Black should not protect you from ridicule, unless you are being ridiculed BECAUSE you are Black. And while Limbaugh and the songwriter may be racists, the song in itself, no matter what its motivation, is legitimate satire.

It ridicules public figures who are well able to defend themselves in the public arena, and does so on issues that are and have been legitimate topics of debate for some time. Imus, on the other hand, attacked non-public figures who had no comparable means of defending themselves in the public arena (although, as it turned out, the public arena, turned the tables on Imus) and attacked them with gratuitously racist stereotypes.

Yes, Rush Limbaugh is a racist, a far worse and more dishonest one than Imus, and the airwaves would be cleaner and fresher without him. But playing this song was absolutely fair and legitimate (from his side of the political spectrum), and not grounds for shutting him down.

Turnabout is fair play.

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I don't listen to Rush Limburger any way. That he is a drug addict & still on the air is also another situation. If he had smoked cannabis instead of being addicted to syn pharmas's killer drugs maybe then he would be fired. That Rush is an idiot was made very plain when he called those who advocate for the RE legalization of cannabis stinky hippies (or something along those lines). He needs to read Jack Herer's "The Emperor Has No Clothes". You can find it at: http://jackherer.com/

If people are upset by the Nappy Headed Ho remark & the song about Oboma they should go totally ballistic by what is said by rapsters. Talk about denigration of women! My kid used to listen to a lot of rap & I heard some stuff that is so far over the top...If people are going after I'manass & Limburger for their remarks then they should advocate that the rap "music" industry be shut down. Side by side the rapsters far out weigh these two in the macho sexist no respect for women vile & filthy language still in the mental dark ages department.

Freedom of speech? Fine. Just turn these fools off. Freedom to change the channel exists as well.

SamFox

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The Limbaughs are naricissists who depend on supine, adoring audiences. Little independent thought is required or desired for that matter, from the listeners.

Rush is a slimy distorter of facts, but he is a self-admitted partisan, and if you want to hear the news, you know that you find the "objective" truth elsewhere(original sources).

But he is a wildly successful businessman. His business is making some people feel "good" and validated. His audience needs someone to bash Barak on racial grounds, through what the Dittoheads no doubt believe is "acceptable" behavior. Laugh at the homo, laugh at the black, laugh at the liberal, it's all just good fun(don't you have a sense of humor?)

As with Imus, laughing at people because of inherent characteristics is not funny. Rush will not be canned short of using the n word which he is too smart to use. As someone who (so far) finds Obama shallow and a bit of a dodger on basic philosophy, I find Rush's latest wink wink moment to be an out of bounds attack on a politician who happens to have an African father.

I used to be tempted to make fun of W in part because he was from Texas, until I realized that was disrespectful of the many good people in Texas. Obama may be as shallow as he initially appears to be, or substance may eventually fill him out. In any event, there are plenty of flaws to poke fun at in Obama and in all the other would be saviors who, as usual, promote the latest election as the most important in a generation.

Now if you can't dump on someone who uses a trite title like "The Audacity of Hope", who can you dump on?

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Put the shoe on the other foot. Why is OK to make fun of Bush junior and not OK to make fun of the other guy?

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A segment, a very large segment, of the US population which is backwards, racist, sexist, homophobic, and VERY concerned about the relative decline (using "decline" loosely) of White Male Priviledge. Not saying the ole' boys aren't running the show (they are), but they are being forced to deal with different perspectives as the marginalized are not longer content with "shutting the fuck up."

That said...

I find the man absolutely repulsive and a big hypocrite. Don't be a drug addict then talk shit about other ones! I think though, we're better served with facing reality: we haven't come as far as we like to pat ourselves on the back and think!

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We all know Limpnutz is a fat headed blow hard pig. He knows how to rile up the Left so he does it. I believe he aims this stuff at us just to sit back and watch everyone run around in circles uselessly trying to do something about him. Don't bother. Ignore that pig. You are feeding into his ego.

What is more troubling is that he has such a large audience. That says volumes about the USA.

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According to a recent PEW research center poll approx 8% of Americans indicate they get their news from Limbaugh radio program. It would appear that Limbaugh is still up to his old tricks of character assignation and “we” – or at least 8% of us believe him and find it humorous.

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... Limbaugh's use of 'mere' Negro.
EXACTLY WTF IS THE DIFFERENCE...any thoughts on this from some of you fat mouthing racist hypocrites?
If Alternet can 'sex up' the (banner) appeal of a column by exploiting the word 'NIGGER'...then what is the problem with
Limbaugh's exploitation???
Oh...I know (first excuse): He used 'igger',,without the 'n'..tell ya what... call one of these 'feminists' a racist 'unt' or some zionist jew a rabid 'ike'....Is THAT a problem zionists and
women of Alternet???
Ahhhhh..the smell of napalm in the morning....the stench of hypocrisy in the afternoon..which is worse??
Obama, "magical 'igger"?
Posted by Evan Derkacz at 9:30 AM on March 22, 2007. A Guest post by novelist John Ridley; first appeared on Huffington Post.
..........My wife hates it when I use the word nigger.......
Here is the hyperlink to the 3/22/07 Derkacz article...see for yourself:

DER

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Apparently, you cannot email Rush Limbaugh unless you have a paid membership to his show. No way will I give that man a cent, so I'm posting this because I've left Al Sharpton a message about Barack the Magic Negro and I wanted to send a get off the air message to Rush. There really should be a movement, just like the one that got Imus.

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There was a time when it was a pleasure to read AlterNet. The articles were well thought and researched, and the comments were intelligent and led people to think and maybe look a little deeper than the mainstream media for the truth.

But lately, AlterNet seems to have become the same as everyplace else --- just a bunch of namecalling and slander from BOTH sides.

To be honest, as much as I despise Rush Limbaugh, I'd rather listen to him than read the comments of mindless idiots who would rather point fingers than search for truth, or idiot sheep who do nothing more than follow the herd, whether that herd be progressive or liberal or conservative.

To those who still think and treat each other with respect, I apologize if my words offend. To the rest of you, every word is quite sincere, and I am off to another place where respect and truth are more important than the crap I see around here lately.

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why is Limbaugh still on the air? could it possibly have something to do with the millions of people who listen to, some of whom are led by him, others who swear by him, and the sponsors of his program that tolerate him because of the money he generates?

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If only Satan didn't protect his own so well, Limbaugh, the amazing abominable Nazi prick would have been food for worms a long, long, long time ago, right along with DeLay, Coulter, and a handful of others.

What God has planned for him and indeed, for all of them, is infinitely worse.

There will be justice; have no fear. Their time IS coming.

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Rush Limbaugh should have gone off the air years ago, but we do have free speech, even for fat idiots. What is even worse are the people who waste their time listening to Rush belching invective and platitudes when they could listen to something worthwhile such as NPR. By the way, the term Negro went out during the 1960s. And we persons of the African Diaspora will call ourselves what we choose; we will define ourselves. The correct term is African American, thank you very much.

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My concern is that every single time someone says anything that can be remotely construed as bigoted, racist, homophobic, or otherwise politically incorrect, people are questioning why they are still allowed to air publicly their views or worse demanding that they not be allowed to air their opinions at all. Imus (in my Opinion) is a moron and Limbaugh a blowhard, but doesn't anyone have trouble with the concept of censoring what they say? I despise the clichéd slippery slope argument, but this truly fits the cliché if anything ever did. I wonder if Lenny Bruce could identify with any of the people making these calls for restrictions on speech. And how about South Park? That show manages to offend everyone, or is that OK then since they do offend everyone? Being selective in your offensive comments deprives one of the right to make them? Be sure to be an equal opportunity jerk? Or has society in general become so emotionally bankrupt and intellectually sanctimonious that inane drivel from the likes of Imus can “scar me for life” while during the same week hundreds of people die in Iraq and has no impact on me? If we took every what each one of us considered offensive piece of spoken or written words out of the public domain we wouldn’t be reading this web page right now. Battle stupid speech with intelligent speech, not by restricting the right to be stupid.

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...is not Imus or Rush or Prager or Hannity or O'Reilly. The real problem is that there are still enough mouth-breathing, knuckle-walking Amerikkkans just damn delighted to tune into their shows and get shit stuffed in their ears.

Hey, is that Lee Greenwood I hear? Mmmmmm. Patriotism.

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Thinking it over, and speaking as a composer of satirical songs, I cannot equate Don Imus' gratuitous "nappy headed ho's" remark with "Barack, The Magic Negro." This song was a timely and provocative response to two items in the news: The L.A. Times editorial, "Barack Obama and the Myth of the Magic Negro," and Al Sharpton's recent questioning of Obama's "street cred." The song thus arises directly out of current events, and aims its shafts at two very public figures, who are more than capable of defending themselves should they feel the need. Also, the lyrics take the original tune, lines and rhymes of "Puff, the Magic Dragon" well into account, instead of riding roughshod over them as do a lot of political song parodies. "B the M N" is thus actually multi-layered and clever, far removed qualitatively from the Imus slur. Rush Limbaugh usually makes me cringe and gripe, but this song actually raised a smile. It is legitimate satire. There must be many, much better reasons to call for a Rush-ectomy.

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Watching the big 3 we constantly saw OJ, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Charlie Rangel. Who hasn't gotten sick of them?

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it sure seems to apply here too. Call it a filksong:

My Country, ‘Tis of Thee

My country, ‘tis of thee:
Sad land of bigotry
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Now where the pres’dent lies;
On every dark-skinned hide,
He blames everything!

Once Guardian of the Poor,
Now we kick down their doors
And cardboard homes.
Our rulers scream, “Pro-life!”
While starving children die,
Their parents both in jail for life
For a planted weed

While cowards twist the news:
To homes and four-wheeled pews,
High Priests of scum
Who ran when called to serve,
Now put down heroes’ words,
And chickenhawks spend troops with verve:
Blood for oil is fine!

Real news is hid away
Switched for new lies each day
While Truth is lost.
It happened oh, so slow,
And so how could we know
That Evil, crying, “Praise the Lord!”
Has now taken o’er?

My country, ‘twas of thee
That once I used to sing;
My throat has closed.
They sing, “We’re Freedom’s Light!
None just need fear our might.”
No land or folk sleep safe tonight:
For here greed reigns.

A god I never knew
They say is my god too,
I have no voice.
Embedded in the Law,
To make us, one and all,
Kneel down before this monstrous doll,
It’s voice the priesthood’s own.

My land, I grieve for thee
We valued liberty, compassion, love.
They call our needy “thieves”,
Won’t spend our tax to feed,
Nor give them anything they need;
God says "Let them die".

Too soon now, all will know:
Our Army’s guns will show,
All aimed at us!
Our “rights” will all be gone,
Elections too, anon
All living-wages, healthcare lost,
With our dignity.

Back where we started then,
‘Neath a King George again,
Just as insane.
Elections nevermore,
Foreverafter war,
Illegal to be sick or poor,
So we’ll all be slaves.


Ian MacLeod
April 26th, 2007
Oregon

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As has already been stated, it was not Rush who called Obama this, it was the LA times.
LA Times Article Link

Furthermore, it was Joseph Biden (D for Democrat) that called Obama the first "Clean" Black candidate.
YouTube Link

Rush is not a racist, nor are his listeners "dumb southern white racist rednecks" as quoted from a previous post (and you claim conservatives hold onto racist stereotypes). They are in fact the most educated audience in history (look it up). What Rush is railing against is the fact that Democrats (i.e. Liberals) can say anything they want with no repercussions, yet when a conservative repeats the very same words spoken by the elite ruling class liberals, they are racist. As can be seen here in the hate filled responses, it proves his point.

Wasn't it Edward Kennedy (D for Democrat) who called Obama ... Osama. Are you calling for his resignation?
YouTube Link

Wasn't it Senator Bird (D Democrat) who was a member of the KKK, and what was that word he used several times on national television? Are you calling for his resignation?
FreeRepublic Link

The examples of this hypocrisy are too numerous to list.

So this isn't so much about racism as it is about politics. If the speaker's politics match yours, they get a pass. If not, they must be silenced. This selective outrage doesn't so much speak to conservatives or racism as it does to your motives.

Rush crazy? Maybe... like a fox!

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Of course it's funny! ...and after the Tawana Brawley affair, not undeserved. It's about Sharpton, not Obama.

Just because Rush Limbaugh is a huge, drug-addled hypocrite of a scumbag doesn't mean he can't be funny sometimes. Wagner was a notorious anti-Semite, but he could still write great music.

Check this out: 100% Black Obama . . . and I'm a liberal.

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As reported in the Des Moines Register, Obama is pro-Palestinian,

"Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," Obama said while on the final leg of his weekend trip to eastern Iowa.

"If we could get some movement among Palestinian leadership, what I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people," he added.

Source: Obama Urges More Compassion in Mideast

This means Obama has one week to apologize for this outrageous faux pas. If he does nothing the media honeymoon will end and his 15 minutes will be up. This outburst by Rush Limbaugh is just a first salvo of what's coming unless he follows the Zionist line.

American Democracy: Vote Zionist A or Zionist B

The Bush-Kerry presidential debate:

George W. Bush: “A free Iraq will be an ally in the war on terror, and that’s essential. A free Iraq will set a powerful example in the part of the world that is desperate for freedom. A free Iraq will help secure Israel. A free Iraq will enforce the hopes and aspirations of the reformers in places like Iran. A free Iraq is essential for the security of this country.”

John Kerry: “Soldiers know over there that this isn’t being done right yet. I’m going to get it right for those soldiers, because it’s important to Israel, it’s important to America, it’s important to the world, it’s important to the fight on terror.”

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Bob's Riddle

All anti-white racists agree that it's ok for whites to become minorities in their own countries. All anti-white racists also agree that a Japanese person who wants to become a minority in his own country is either a traitor or clinically insane. Therefore, what is an anti-white racist? Answer

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I'm not sure who gets credit for this inspired piece of video. I don't want to give Rush any credit he doesn't deserve. But it is his show, so since he would get all the blame he should get the credit too.

This is a really good piece of work. I know there are a bunch of people who are going to be highly offended by this, but that is so very short sighted. Get off your high horse for just a moment and look at it clinically. Rush's agenda is to drive as many wedges and holes into the Obama campaign as he possibly can. Rush is also big on maintaining white corporate control of the world, as he has so obviously benefited from the status quo. So people like Al Sharpton, who live to dismantle the status quo, must also be marginalized at all costs.

With this masterful video, and lyrics stripped straight from the headlines set to a delightful children's song, Rush manages to b*#ch slap Obama and Sharpton with the same backhand! Any true pimp can't help but appreciate the form and award style points for the flourish at the end.

Now I don't agree with anything that I have ever heard Rush the lush say. This is no different. But just because I disagree with his position doesn't mean he should be ostracized for having an opinion. Not only should he not get in trouble for it, this video may actually be deserving of an honorable mention at this year's Pimp of the Year banquet, and whatever awards show they do for radio.

I don't get mad every time somebody white says something derogatory about a particular Black person or Blacks in general. If I did I wouldn't have time for anything else but being mad. What I do is analyze people's statements critically instead of emotionally, and LEARN something about those who work to keep my people as down and out as possible. You have to understand tactics to devise strategies to overcome those tactics.

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This scum sucking, lizard faced demon isn't going anywhere. He is protected by the facist demons garding the gate to hell which this landscape is soon to become.

A wastland filled with moronic loons singing songs about niggers, spics, gooks, kikes, japs, krauts, whops, guinnees, sand-niggah hadji fucks....ooops did I leave anyone out? Never fear there'll be another singer along soon to remind me of someone else I need to hate!

Oddly and what very few have ever noticed is that both parties are doing this to each other and while the public sees the demoncrats as heroic the republican neocons shout their rebuke and we go running to the demoncrats for help- then back when they do the same shit we run back to the republicans. back and forth- on and on we ride on this carousel of shit-spewing destruction.

Its all such a fucking lie!

Wake up! It doesn't matter anymore!

Bomb, bomb, bomb...bombbomb Iran- Bomb Iranaaan that was just sung by McCain himself!

What musicians we have in our midst- or is it the other way around?

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This is shooting at a charging rhino w/a literal pea shooter. The passion is admirable, but makes little intellectual sense. Facts do matter & in this case you need to go back over a month to the LA Times for context. David Ehrenstein wrote an op-ed entitled "Obama the Magic Negro." I won't bother trying to educate those of you who like being ignorant, but do your "cause" a favor & turn down the hysteria. It's embarrassing to see so many so worked up over something so small, but then again, it seems that small minds can only grasp small ideas. Ignorance the magic dragon?

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It is amazing how the American public would fund such stupidity as the Rush Limbaugh Magic Show by purchasing those goods and services that are advertised on his show. He should be under the "big top" at Ringly's circus, then the public could see him in his proper context. It tells us a lot about the advertisers who pay to keep such a farse on the radio. Rush is just a loud mouth, who puts out "fire starting" remarks that are baseless.

I am not sure why I am was wasting my time dealing with someone who is as ignorant as Rush, the Magic Klan's man is. I pitty him, because he really believes the "trash" he heaps on the public every day.

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Just what we knew. You blast something that you have not even heard. You just told what type of person you are.....

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That just proves how weak your argument is. Get a clue! The song was written by an Afro-American and no one seemed to mind until Rush decided to put it on the air. I suggest you do your homework before pointing fingers!

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I going to blast every blogger on this threat who thinks Rush didn't cross the line of responsible broadcasting with his race-baiting, white supremacy song.

Stay tuned.

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Rush is going beyond Don Imus, and again what is happening? Is it because we had opened to door for these comments from lack of stopping them in the first place?

Racism is still here but Don Imus is not the issue the most important one is below and I am black and can get no policing agent to investigate corruption and or criminal acts. I am also seeking letters for others who are black who have had racist issue in the times in order to show patterns on this issue. Blacks themselves are on hold and have opened the backdoor to allow for these comments to comeback, there is a greater issue that affects us and thats the lack of creditabitity we have and the lack of police power whereby if there are crimes in our neighborhoods and we report them the police do not respond as they would with whites and its far worse now because wer are in 2007 and we are still not fighting agressively to change this why?

My father Dan Burley was the real father of the Rap Industry thou now this point of history has been twisted to others Dan Burley authored the Harlem Handbook of Jive, and was involved in the then musican entertainment industry with Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway and others who made the then Black Hiphop JIve via smooth talk within rythms, some of the music today is great while others are just making a buck and the style and way much is being done is modeled out of the white industry because the money always flows upward. I got letters within my archieve of how many major publications in the past wanted to reform Blacks in music style and dress to make they act in a way that was or acceptive. But we think today that the style we have is not built around another agenda please! While we are in the music and in the dress, we are losing careers, jobs, and business via nafta and other hidden agenda's we can not see and or will not be a part of, and much of this is because our Black Leadership is not on this issues.

I am one of the very few Blacks if there are any within the media addressing the issue of the WTC, Ok City, Waco ( which had 40 or more blacks living there) and all of the other world issues that if it comes into being Blacks think its bad now just want. Because whites are complainting and are effected. Look at New Orleans folks there still in some areas have no water or electric, and they are lying about the grants. So if we are no gathering dollars and committing to one another where are we going to be in the future.

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There is the issue of driving while Black, going to work while black, reporting crimes while black. And the black press is not going there why? what is controlling our media whereby stories are not getting out again? I am hearing this from all over the place I am speaking of radio and television reporters.

And here I will stop and have you read the following again if you see acts of terrorism while black and they do nothing then why do you think they will come to your home and investigate your daughter being raped and or a murder without saying that its a crime that you committed yourself - Peace! D'Anne Burley
I am a former Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois, I know much about law enforce and clout, and before that I worked over 35 yrs within Corporate America as an Accountant, Computer Programmer/Analysis, did some actuary work relating to removing employees who got close to retirement age, Developed Businesses, I worked as a para legal from Friedman and Koven which was the second in it's day Law Firm in the World within Conflict of Interest international, also for United States Gypsum, Navistar, FMC Corp, Harris Bank, First National Bank, Argonne National Lab's as Assistant Editor in the Bio lab, and many other larger than live Corporations within their Controllers Dept and World Headquarters, and in the Mortgage Industry of over 8 years seeing already formed terrorist cell operating from withn the Suburb of Palos Hills, Palos Heights, Broadview, Chicago and other neighoring communities. The scandal involved the use of International Drivers Licenses to falsify Identity and create other false ID's such as Drivers License, Corporations, Bank Accounts in order to move and laundery money into Jihad and Al-Qauda cells all over the globe.

Drug Trafficking occured over Operation Mountain Express, which had netted over 52 mega tons of drugs, and drug making material to use to place on the streets and in the hands of mintories, our youth date rape drugs and other nightmare subtances to fund Terror across the world. In Illinois the Illinois trucking scandal was involved because the truck were involved within a operation to move the drugs, laundered money and also guns in and out of the hands of criminal within the KKK and aryan nation and other hate groups. All who were being used as part of the funded Bin Laden Operation, and that was really the involved of Bin Laden. Sept 11, 2001 was a part of a mock terrorist drill which was designed to cover-up the fact that the WTC had design defects that were brought to the port of Authority when it was being built but NYC had no rights to the business plans and could do nothing in the courts because it was alleged that the Port was not governed by the City and or State Regulations and laws because it fell under Marine laws only. In addition because of the first failed attempted to bomb the buildings in 1993 by so-called Islamic Extremist and due to the injuries, death, and claims filed against Lloyds of London in England, Lloyds was on the brick of Bankruptcy and was the Port of Authority, which also would have effected NYC itself in paying off huge amounts of money which would had totally bankrupt the city and the state.

As within the plot of the Savings and Loan Scandal years before as the failed savings institutes had not enough money to pay back the people who had accounts within within the federal Reserve, in both cases I alleged that conspirators from within and outside the government conspired to commit fraud by turning these events into cases for insurance.

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In the savings and loan scandal during that time there were mounting numbers of "Bank Robberies in the Midwest and across the US.

The robberies I saw began in the late 80's but expanded into 1990 whereby while I worked within the Courts there was the alleged ex-police officer out of Hoffman Estate called the Bearded Bandit, who with his wife alleged robbed banks all over the suburban area of Chicago Illinois. There were some elements of this case which were not true in fact and covered up for one the wife never shot herself in the front of a home in Streamwood she was shot by special unit op's from what division I am not sure. Then her husband who was capture was killed in a shoot out but what I alleged was that he was gunned down so that he would not share information of the insurance scam. The same issue was happened in areas around Ok City and that could be the reason why Jesse Tredue's brother was allegedly murdered within his prison cell the cover-up the real reason behind the bank robberies.

John Gary Peeler a former CIA/BATF/FBI agent was undercover within the KKK he has been on my program and his son John Christropher Peeler is being held in a Ark prison without parole for a crime of murder where there is no body, no crime scene and no evidence nothing to shutup Peeler. Peeler Sr. worked with Timothy McVeigh while undercover within the KKK working on bombing the Ok City Building, he knew about the bank robberies, the plot to take down the building and was able to stop one, but could do nothing about the WTC because no one would listen to him, his story as those of Eric Shine Merchant Marine Presidential Appointed by George Bush Sr., , Mary Schneider who worked 30 yrs within the INS and saw the florida connection of agents allowing Middle Easterns to gain entrance into the US that area of Fla was where the flight school was involved with the alleged training of terrorist cells at the same time I saw within my then office which was a place I was bought to to setup a new business to do Islamic Interest Loans for homes (Noriba) on the wall a huge picture of a boeing 747 class plane which I was told that being use as a picture to explan how to flight within a flight school which operated out of the Palos Hills area with ties into FL prior to 9/11/01.

The story was my nightmare, the government via clouted government officials and those who I had alleged were involved in a major sleeper cell used terrorism against me and my children. By sending in spooks, attempting to setup my bank account with counterfeit money orders, blackball me so I can not work and so that my children can not, criminalized by young son, use traffick tickets and others working within the policing agencies to cover-up and not investigation major corruption and criminals acts within DuPage County in order to shut be up and down and make me homeless. This is the same pattern that had been used on all whistleblowers and then causing them not to have equal rigthts under the amendments of the constitutional.

I am 55 yrs old and I have seen every level of corruption over a spam of 45 years including how entertainers and others were taken out in the same fashion in the 1940's-62 while my father was involvcd as a publisher and reporter.Within his archieve were letters of this and then I was told by other creatible sources over the years of how they watched Mohammad X, who was a friend of my fathers, Joe Louis for saying good things about Jimmy Hoffa, and my father knew Jack Ruby prior to my father's death. My father's name was within the Warren Commission Report of the Death of JFK and my father help Kennedy to get elected within the chains of press he was involved in within the Black Community.

Because of all this I had been watched, and as they attempted to do with Mohammad X's daughter they attempted to set me up over the years.

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But you see I saw things when I was very young and knew how they operated. Please read on thanks D'Anne Burley
I need your help and support, with a attorney, money and anything else because the attack at hand is a nightmare. Within hospital settings I was given the wrong meds I feel with intent. I attempted to sue many times but attorneys turned down anything I bought to them as it is within the pattern of all whistleblowers. And if the case goes into the courts they Gag them to stop all further action. My journal exposes this with the top professionals in the World, scientist, journalist, Government Agents, Business Owners and all having information but can do nothing with it because of the corruption from within the policing forces who are allegedly being told not to do there job and or by racial bias which maybe true in my case.

D'Anne Burley
Call me at 1-630-930-9782 or 1-630-812-0171


My father was Dan Burley who was a Managing Editor for many publications, he was a journalist and friends to three Presidents going back to the Roosevelt's, and the King of Ethophian, plus a well known Musician. Dan took the very first Black USO Troop overseas to Burma during WWII under Bob Hope and was a good friend of Walter Winchell and others. When I was born my birth appeared in Walter Winchell's Column, At the age of 10 I had a column called "Thats a Fact" which appeared in two newspapers.

We are indeed in a nightmare and unless the people watch and understand and recover this government from thieves, murders and conspirators we will see something worse than Hitlers Germany in maybe less than one year.

My nightmare is told within the link and I am adding more as I go because if you read this and really understand this government as developing this platform for years and decades. The goal was to remove the constitution replace the people with foreigners who are less expensive for business spending, dumb down the nation and worse. My programs are all involved with showing the ties together. I am one of many whistleblowers who all link into one another many had been within former government agencies, or private businesses

Those within the mainstream press get fired if they go against their owners look at Don Imus he was getting ready to talk about WTC and had covered Ok City. Now its Rosie O'Donnell whose next.

You can call me at any time as well and if you know of any stories needed to be shared please sent it to me because I cover all that no one else will touch - Peace !

Sincerely yours D'Anne Burley Forensic Journalist Talk Show Host featured on truthradio.com rbnlive.com, in your face radio out of South America, Blogtalkradio, and others. Peace!

1-630-930-9782 after 7pm

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Before you start goose stepping perhaps you should do some research into the subject. The term Magic Negro was used by the LA Times in an Op-Ed piece. Rush often uses the rope the libs provide and lets them hang themselves.

Im sure you have some idiotic event to march to now.

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The freedom of speech includes all forms of speech, but there are limits on this right. Some obvious but rarely enforced restrictions are profanity and pornography limitations. Libel and slanderous remarks that attack a person's credibility or honor without evidence to back up their claims are against the constitution. I've heard and seen many people directly attack President Bush's character, intelligence, and honesty without direct actual evidence. He can't actually sue all these people, he doesn't have time and it would be seen by the left as trying to shut people up. Attack policies all you want, not the person. So, I ask you did the parody that Mr. Limbaugh's show aired actually say anything that was directly attacking the honor or character of Obama or Sharpton? Wasn't it showing the possible disgust someone like Sharpton, Jackson, or Farrakan might have after working in the trenches for years to get elected and here comes a fairer skinned Obama in for the kill. Ya think blacks don't discrimminate against their own? Well, I've heard black woman say he's too black, meaning his skin is too black. Americans, especially the left need to stop calling for apologies, removals etc for speech they deem racist or bigoted. Just because you don't agree with what was said, doesn't mean it was racist or bigoted. I find that the liberals can say and be very racist and homophobic, but if a person is white or conservative and say the same thing they are chastised. If you don't beleive me read Michelle Malkins book, "Unhinged-Liberals gone wild"

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Well Folks... the truth is this was first said by a "black guy" who no one had a problem with until Rush used it. I wonder if you are mad that Rush pinpointed the discrepancy in the arguement or that he's right? The truth is that Barack is absolutely unqualified to be president if we hold him to the same standards that we hold any Republican to, and we all know that if he was running as a Republican, no one would care what Rush Limbaugh may have said about him. The truth is hard...Do any of you even know that Spike Lee coined the phrase "Magic Negro".... does that mean Rush can't use it because he's white?

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I have listened to Rush Limbaugh's radio show daily since 9/11, and I have never heard him say any thing that I would consider to be racist. People who think he is racist do not know him. All they know is what they see on the flaming liberal blogs and some extreme liberal TV NEWS people. They quote him out of context, so that if you were not a regular listener, you might agree with them.

CKC

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They are a bit dimwitted , so speak slowly and enunciate your words. Poor things, when you got George W and his racist cabal as your heroes you're bound to be infected by their stupidity.
God's punishment for being a racist bigoted troll?

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Oops, was that racist?

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also, nobody calls them lumberjacks, dude, they're loggers, sorry, they were loggers

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I think it is so sad that he is still on the radio. Seems like there is a double standard for some and not for others. He needs to be dismissed!!

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The LA Times Created it....

Rush made a Joke of it...

and ALL the Liberals Missed, AGAIN...

The Point simpletons, is that When a Black man make racist remarks and destroys lives, (Duke Lacross ring a bell)

When Feminists defend Bill Clinton for raping and groping.

When striking down a barbaric procedure such as Partial Birth Abortion is considered just as sad as the Virginia tech shootings (its OK to slaughter babies, but BAD to shoot college kids?) What up with that? Both are Tragic

The Defenders of all that is Moral and Right - The Liberals are strangely silent.

You Liberals better wake up, I guess 9/11 (thanks to your Idol Bill incompetent Clinton) wasn't enough.

If the they ain't fighting in Iraq, they be Suicide bombing in Times Square.... But like the Communists and Socialist before you, you will cut your nose to spite your face.

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Two things:
1) The only person that can fire Rush is Rush, he works for himself – duh…

And number 2) The parody was written about an LA Times article by David Ehrenstein, a “Negro” himself. This is the third piece in the LA Times that dealt with Obama not being "black enough." It's the left that's the racists. It's the left that looks at people's skin color and doesn't see it for what it should be or what it is. Anyway here are the words of the song:

Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper
Said he makes guilty whites feel good
They’ll vote for him, and not for me
‘Cause he’s not from the hood.

See, real black men, like Snoop Dog,
Or me, or Farrakhan
Have talked the talk, and walked the walk.
Not come in late and won!

Refrain:
Oh, Barack the Magic Negro, lives in D.C.
The L.A. Times, they called him that
‘Cause he’s black, but not authentically.

(repeat Refrain)

Some say Barack’s "articulate"
And bright and new and "clean"
The media sure loves this guy,
A white interloper’s dream!

But, when you vote for president,
Watch out, and don’t be fooled!
Don’t vote the Magic Negro in
‘Cause... (music stops, Sharpton rants, music returns)

(background vocalists repeat refrain & finish song)

Try listening to Rush today from 11 to 2 central, then maybe lots of you won’t sound like idiots by not knowing what you are talking about, oh, but be careful you just might find yourself agreeing with him. – OH NO!!!

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Please, please, please let this story die a quiet, uncelebrated death. The worst thing for Rush Limbaugh would be for him to promote something this outrageous and not be noticed. This would mean him and his message were obsolete. People like Rush Limbaugh live for bad publicity because in the end, good or bad, publicity is publicity. Before the Imus uproar most black people didn't even know who John Imus was. Let's not give these knuclkleheaded personalities an even larger platform. Let 's save our enrergy to take to task our policy makers.

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I think rush limbraugh is a very hateful man. He is a disgrace to the American people of any color. Shame on you,rush.

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Go Rush!! I trust no one with the middle name of 'Hussein'..Obama Bin Ladimn

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What would be great is if the people who are in charge of the Peter, Paul and Mary royalties got ahold of this and sued the crap out of Limbaugh to the tune that he was no longer able to broadcase due to the sizeable amount of legal fees he will have to pay! Or, why aren't they suing the radio stations that broadcast him?

Who has their number???

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The very idea that one goup or person could be eliminated from the airwaves is offensive. When you stary limiting speech to only those who fit your guidelines, you begin to limit the freedom we all enjoy. If it can be done to them then it can be done to you. When I went to see Norman Lincoln Rockwell(founder of the American Nazi party) in 1967 at Rice University, he was more offensive than almost anyone I have ever heard but he was allowed to speak.
The comment that if you say nothing when free speech is curtailed because you don't like that speech, you are beginning to put nails in the coffin of free speech is very true.
What is also funny is that this song was played weeks ago. The song is the a putting into words a column by an Afro American writer for the LA Times. Who on this board is now going to call for a boycott of the LA Times.?

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It seems we only support free speach when it fits into our "ideal" way of thinking, but others have a right to express their views as well. Let's not be hypocrites!

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This is all about the First Amendment. Let's not follow the gov't down the path of censorship. After all, censorship is becoming America's favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (even for Limbaugh).
Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)

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Most people crack jokes when they are nervous. I hope that Limbaugh is expressing his subconscious fear of the rise of the influential individual who just happens to be a Black man and what power in his hands could actually begin to produce in terms of systemic changes in this corrupt and imbalanced country where mainstream media plays their audiences like puppets on a stream.Spending this much time and energy to produce this parody just demonstrates what happens to a mind that allows hatred to shape it and direct it.Folks like him paint themselves into their own limited corners. How pitiful, immature and weak he and his followers are.

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I have news for all of you under educated people. Every single person on earth is racist. How can you point the finger at anyone else when you are more than likely a lot worse. Limbaugh has a large following and his listeners are among the most intelligent people in this country. Must be a hard pill to swallow but I see a lot worse coming from the so called "Politically Correct" group.

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First and foremost R-E-A-D Ehrenstein's LA Times column:
Here it is....
Obama the 'Magic Negro'
The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man.
By David Ehrenstein, L.A.-based DAVID EHRENSTEIN writes about Hollywood and politics.
March 19, 2007
AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.
But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .
He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic."
Poitier really poured on the "magic" in "Lilies of the Field" (for which he won a best actor Oscar) and "To Sir, With Love" (which, along with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," made him a No. 1 box-office attraction). In these films, Poitier triumphs through yeoman service to his white benefactors. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is particularly striking in this regard, as it posits miscegenation without evoking sex. (Talk about magic!)
The same can't quite be said of Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy," "Seven" and the seemingly endless series of films in which he plays ersatz paterfamilias to a white woman bedeviled by a serial killer. But at least he survives, unlike Crothers in "The Shining," in which psychic premonitions inspire him to rescue a white family he barely knows and get killed for his trouble. This heart-tug trope is parodied in Gus Van Sant's "Elephant." The film's sole black student at a Columbine-like high school arrives in the midst of a slaughter, helps a girl escape and is immediately gunned down. See what helping the white man gets you?
And what does the white man get out of the bargain? That's a question asked by John Guare in "Six Degrees of Separation," his brilliant retelling of the true saga of David Hampton — a young, personable gay con man who in the 1980s passed himself off as the son of none other than the real Sidney Poitier. Though he started small, using the ruse to get into Studio 54, Hampton discovered that countless gullible, well-heeled New Yorkers, vulnerable to the Magic Negro myth, were only too eager to believe in his baroque fantasy. (One of the few who wasn't fooled was Andy Warhol, who was astonished his underlings believed Hampton's whoppers. Clearly Warhol had no need for the accouterment of interracial "goodwill.")
But the same can't be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded. That's where Obama comes in: as Poitier's "real" fake son.

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It is time for Rush Limbaugh and others like him who spew VENOM in their talk or dissertations to be removed from the airwaves. If you listen CLOSELY their is an energy that comes out of him...his voice box...that is quite filled with negativity. If you listen carefully to the SPINS of persons who share the same ideological "values" you hear the same energetic modulations. It is NOT HEALTHY. I was appalled to see and view this. Nothing wrong in saying Negro...Lord blacks should be PROUD of that now...they have immeasureably moved forth into their power. ANd it has been challenging. There is racism...more importantly there is facism...and that affects ALL of us regardless of RACE or RELIGION.

I guess we each of us has permitted the violence to be on the airwaves...because we feel violence and powerlessness within ourselves. Yet what we do is give up our power by permitting others to control us and that the media does well.

It is TIME for each of us to rise up and say NO to violence of thought, deed and emotion. I guess we do that out of Fear..we are it and we are equal...if we want a new world...let us rise up and do it...and peacefully get rid of those who gain profitaly from putting us in Fear. I say...Russ Limbaugh and those of like you who choose to be egoistic...who want power OVER rather than POWER EQUAL you days are numbered...not in terms of life or death....but in terms of the DISRESPECT for others that you spread. Hey peoples hearts and souls are hearing a better way to relate with each other and a better way to do business.

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Why do that keep that pig on the air? Because he pushes the Republican agenda for one thing.
(1) He's a drug addict and probably still taking prescription drugs and more.
(2) He is obviously a racist - his comments have proven that already - not just this racist junk - what does he contribute that is worthwhile? Jerry Springer has a better show than he does.
People have fought and died for equality and freedom. The Civil Rights movement of the 50's and 1960's was done in a peaceful way, but they were beaten, murdered, attacked by dogs, knocked down with fire hoses and on and on. It wasn't just blacks either - there were many white Americans who stood up and suffered and lost their lives in the name of equal rights and equality.

People like him talk about how Christian they are. It makes me sick to my stomach - like all those other so-called Christian leaders who blame the deaths of all those innocent people at the Twin Towers on sin - well, I don't know why a lightening bolt doesn't come out of the skies and knock these evil fools deader than doornail. I'm not a Christian, but I do know there is a spirit world and in the afterlife they will have to answer for every evil and hateful thing they have done to other people.

This makes me sick to my stomach and anyone who finds this sort of thing humorous has humor twisted up with something that is nowhere near funny. It makes me very sad at times to see such blatant hatred, based upon the color of a person's skin, or their religious beliefs. America was once the greatest country in the world but it seems as each year passes, it is people like Limbaugh that weaken the good in America and encourage people to show the worse side of themselves.

I never watch this how and never would - but I still think along with Imus they should throw him off the air too.

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...even if it's offensive. You don't have a right not to be offended, it's not in the constitution or the bill of rights. We do have the right of free speech though.

The far right and far left can say whatever they want. We're getting way too sensitive. Imus shouldn't have been kicked off. So he called those girls "nappy headed hos" big deal. Senator Byrd of West Virginia is a former member of the KKK. Why is he still a senator? Where's Sharpton? Where's Jesse?

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When did this happen? what show? was it only once? or did he repeat it?
i ask because, other than here, i can find no reference to it anywhere. i telephoned the naacp and had to leave a message.
i did not see any reaction.

could this be a hoax?
if not then why is it not reported? why is Sharpton silent?

this needs more investigation.

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I don't why so many are making such a fuss over this song, Rush didn't write it nor did he sing it. All he is doing is playing a song that was sung by another black person.
If a black can call another black the "N" word, then why can't one black person sing a parody of another black person?.
I think that most liberals would like nothing more than to see Rush Limbaugh off the air. I myself hope that he weathers this "Storm in a tea cup".

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If he wants to keep making himself look like toilet slush, let him.

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Obama is a liar, who takes all the credit for the hard work of Black Chicago residents, all the credit not due Obama.

Another perspective, the information being.........

Theft by Court

If Reality Could Speak

Like Any Soldier Knows.......

The Craze Lies Elsewhere, and Credit In This Instance Does Not Include Dr. Martin Luther King, etc.!


I Can't Speak for Any Member of Any Black Conservative Organization Because I'm Not Affiliated With One!

The Days of Has Been Black Preachers, Fake Black Leaders, the Clintons, an Obama, Civil Rights Rhetoric, etc., to Control the Black Vote are Numbered!

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The song is a parody a LA Times column that coined the phrase that you find so offensive. Does the columnist have to go too?

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To understand the parody you must know that the following three statements were made by LIBERAL DEMOCRATS:

1. LA Times article by David Ehrenstein, a black man, headlined his column on Barack Obama, “The Magic Negro”:
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http://www.latimes.com/
news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.
story?coll=la-opinion-center

2. Patronizing white Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) articulating what distinguishes his current Democratic presidential rival from previous black candidates: “Obama is clean and articulate.”

3. To which, Rev. Al Sharpton replied: “What’s the matter? I shower every morning.”

Or, you could just listen to Rush yourself and you would have known this on your own, rather than pay the drive-by media to read their lies about him.
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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/
home/daily/site_050207/content/
01125108.guest.html

After all, you’re paying the media every time you read or listen to their lies, paying the very firewall between you and the truth. Frankly, I no longer pay people to lie to me. Been there, done that.



Special bonus, today only:
Rev. Al Sharpton and others: “Is Obama black enough?”

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ha-ha, silly liberals. You are silent when LA Times offensively calls Obama a "magic negro", but when Rush parodies it you fall into his trap. Rush did this to prove how hipocritical and racist you are....RACISTS !!!

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First of all this is a PARODY! Limbaugh is making fun of what the LA TIMES wrote. If anyone is racist try the LA TIMES. They are the ones who said it in the first place.

If anyone is racist, its the dumb Demis.

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I Kid you Not. While some detractors from within the Black community want you believe that this is a lie or fabrication.....

........ that the typical elected Black leadership and/or those in the Black community who praise them are not disgraceful........

........the reality of it speaks strongly, in the direction that these individuals are as guilty as guilty can get!


Deadly errors and politics betray a hospital’s promise, both a decades long and an L.A. Times reality. Mind you, many people living in South Central Los Angeles and beyond gave MLK its well deserved alias, the alias Butcher/Killer King Hospital! When this area was predominately Black, Black people commonly referred to MLK County Hospital, as Killer/Butcher King Hospital, namely because of the many wrongs to patients by doctors, nurses, and Hospital Administrators that have occured there, for well over twenty years, while no good Brentwood Burke, Merv Dymally, Kerosene Waters and their sleazy Black middleclass friends remain silent.

The Los Angeles Times is not racist. The Los Angeles Times, has published the truth about conditions that truly exist in the Black community, the failure of Killer/Butcher King Hospital. Published and well documented material about the sleaze, greed, and blatant incompetence of far too many Black elected officials, and/or those who praise them.

Time and time again, the dsyfunctional in the Black community give praise and support to misfits, while individuals truly deserving of honor are condemned, ignored, have their good name trashed, etc., etc., by guess who!!!!

Mind you, I'm willling to bet my bottom dollar that the "guess who" is neither racist Caucasians, the Los Angeles Times, the KKK, the Aryan Nation, Rush Limbaugh, etc., etc., but rather that misfit set that most surely exists within the Black community!

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I'm pretty good at picking up on subtleties; and I get the feeling you people don't like Rush very much. After a quick glance through this site, I'm sure I won't get a lot of support here, but I just had to post something after reading all the tripe written here about him. It's obvious most of you have never listened to him, or you wouldn't say the things you do. You repeat the things you hear on Air America radio or read on mindless blogs like Arianna Huffington’s. If you’d listen to Rush, you may not agree with him, but I guarantee you wouldn’t have the same hatred you do now for him. Anyway, if you want to hear Rush’s side of the “Magic Negro” song, go to
www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_050707 /content/01125110.guest.html

Note: If you copy and paste this, put your cursor before the / after 707 and backspace. I couldn't post it since it was too many characters. Or go to RushLimbaugh.com and click on Monday and look for it.
He explains the origins of the song, and where he got the ideas. Hint: it wasn’t from Republicans. If you want to combat racists, look to Al Sharpton (Jewish diamond merchants, bloodsucking Jews, white interlopers, Greek homos, and cracker lovers), Jesse Jackson (Hymietown, “I used to spit in white people’s soup”) and Charles Barron ("I want to go up to the closest white person and say 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health”). You want to fight racism? There are 3 places for you to start.

Again, I don’t expect you to read this and suddenly become Republicans, but try listening to the other side for a change instead of repeating lies and half truths you hear on some kook left wing sites. If I can force myself to listen to true hate radio (Air America) I don’t think listening to or reading a little Rush will kill you. Hear his side of the story and judge for yourselves who the REAL racists are.

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Now, if you listened to Rush's show, you'd know what was going on. This has nothing to do with being racist or anything, the whole point of this song was a spoof on an article from the LA Times. They started the "Magic Negro" term. So before all of you go flipping out, get the facts first.

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Why Blame Rush Limbaugh for information that is true....

The Only Thing Growing in the Black Community is Sleaze and Criminal Activity!

In that Obama, the typical Congressional Black Caucus, far too many poverty pimpin' Black preachers, etc., are liars, thieves, untrustworthy, truly un-American, and/or disgraceful!

....and I'm one of many law abiding Black males, who actually lives in the inner-city, specifically South Central Los Angeles who knows this is true, and I will not bite my tongue saying so!

Sincerely,

Michael Lofton

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For many reasons I think Rush Limbaugh should be taken off the air, not just for this song. He spreads hatred.

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yes, limbuagh spreads "hate". there is so much sweetness and light spread around on here to balance it out. funny thing is, you puke liberal fascists spread a whole lot more hate than the fat bastard ever has. there's this thing in the mental health sciences called "projection" - please check it out.

hey, here's a funny one: libs like the "right" of free speech just like they like the "right" to an abortion: safe, legal but RARE! hee hee hee ho ho ho. you go libs. when you're done, there wont be any of the bill of rights left. you're sooooo american!

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Our No Good Fake Leaders, and/or Those Who Praise Them, are the True Enemy to People Who Look Like Me"

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To listen to all the crybabies on this thread go on and on about something far less offensive than half the garbage we are exposed to on a daily basis like Tokyo Rosie calling our service-members terrorists, and that the President of the United States was behind the WTC attack on a national TV show she happens to co-host, proves that you not only have NO sense of humor (even Obama said he thought Shanklin's parody was funny) but that you think free-speach is a one-way street. Not to mention you don't seem to care about facts, or the future of our country and the Western World!

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