Limbaugh realizes Obama is black, warns nation (LAT)

[kskiska]

Right-wing blowhard Rush Limbaugh has been having a ball throwing the N-word at presidential candidate Barak Obama—that's N as in "Negro." Limbaugh, who calls Obama "Halfrican American," has been airing a song by Paul Franklin on his radio show called "Barak the Magic Negro," which is to be sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon."

The shock jock legitimizes his use of the phrase "magic negro" by noting he plucked it came from an Op-Ed by commentator David Ehrenstein that ran in the L.A. Times. Ehrenstein wrote, in a nuanced argument, that Obama fulfills the classic Hollywood role of a "noble, healing Negro" who assuages white guilt over slavery and segregation....

"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."

Demonstrating the principle that there's no aesthetic woolgathering so rarefied it can't be turned into a raspberry, Limbaugh uses the phrase mainly to emphasize that, in case you didn't notice, Obama is black. Oh, and Al Sharpton is black too. The song actually mocks Sharpton more than Obama, having the phony Sharpton sing that he has more street credibility and is therefore is more authentically black than the senator.

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http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/05/limbaugh_realiz.html

[The Count]

1. Frankly, the LA Times source was quite disgusting on its own, but Rush

of course, went light years lower....

[wake.up.america]

2. America still has its share of narrow-minded individuals. I could care less if a person is green ...

with purple stripes. It makes me ill people try to scare people away from Obama based on skin pigmentation.

[nevergiveup]

3. I have a business

acquaintance who loves Rush and thinks this is so funny. Every time he mentions it to me I send Obama $25.00.