Some Outrage for Rush "Parody" Of Obama

ctblogger points to C&L concerning some noise coming from employees that are outraged by Oxy-Rush Limbaugh's insulting parody:

Oh, this man has lost his mind.

Rush Limbaugh has angered many black employees over this parody song called "Barack the Magic Negro"

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I've been told that they have held meetings internally to deal with a ground swell of anger at Rush because of this…A caller noticed there was a disclaimer added to the station she listens to and asks Rush why.

If you are unsure what this is about, I posted this about Oxy-Rush the other day:

Via Stormbear at A Town Called Dobson:

This is a head-shaker. Imus gets canned for calling some college women basketball players “nappy-headed hos” and yet Rush Limbaugh plays “Barack The Magic Negro” on his show and he is still on the air?

How is that even possible?

To hear the song yourself, hit this YouTube link.

It is a parody by Paul Shanklin impersonating Al Sharpton and based on the Peter, Paul, and Mary hit song “Puff, the Magic Dragon”. I am really at a loss of words. I heard it for the first time yesterday on the radio and was sickened.

Again, how is this man on the air?

Here is a YouTube of the song Oxy-Rush calls a parody:



It is sad to think that Oxy-Rush is just playing to his base of support in playing up this statement. But the fact is Oxy-Rush didn't invent the term:

LIMBAUGH: David Ehrenstein, the L.A. Times today, "Obama the 'Magic Negro.' " It's just infuriating. It is the left that continues to besmirch these people. It's the left that continues to question their so-called authenticity. These people are all human beings. Talk about Sharpton, Reverend [Jesse] Jackson, these people are all human beings. Now some of them are in the race business. I understand that. But look at who it is that keeps focusing on whether they're authentic enough. Authenticity based on skin color. Who is it doing this? It's the left. You know what, I got a suggestion for those of you at the L.A. Times. Let's cut to the chase. Go get an old-fashioned auction book and put it in the town square. Put it somewhere where it looks like it's real and just bring all these black people up there and auction them off and find out who it is that sells for the highest price. That's essentially what you're doing with all of these nonsensical categorizations -- Obama's not black enough, Obama doesn't have -- he's not down for the struggle, Obama doesn't have a legitimate civil rights -- civil right background. Obama's ears don't look like a black person's ears, they're too big, Obama doesn't sound like a black person, he's clean and articulate. The left's saying all these things. Now he's the "Magic Negro," which is a convenient trick for the L.A. Times to blame a bunch of white people for being racist. OK. Let's find out who the -- just get an auction block and grab as many blacks as you want to put them up there and let's start the sales, L.A. Times, and let's see who it is that fetches the highest prices. Isn't that essentially the way they're approaching this? These are commodities. These human beings are simply commodities, and they are there for some purpose other than their own human existence? You doubt the racism and the groupthink and the superiority of the leftists in this country, you'd be making a grave error.

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LIMBAUGH: For example, you could take 10 seconds of me saying, "Obama is the Magic Negro" and make it look like I said it, rather than the fact that I'm repeating it from an L.A. Times column today.

10 seconds? How's about years of playing to his racist listeners? He talks about it from the point of view that the left says "Obama's not black enough"??? We could just point to the fact that Oxy-Rush Limbaugh refered to Obama as a "Halfrican American":

LIMBAUGH: Hey, Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry. "As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans," Obama said.

He didn't say it, but -- anyway, there are those out there -- greetings.

Trying to pawn this off on the left when his own words betray Oxy-Rush Limbaugh's deep seeded bigotry, and the way he perpetuates this bigotry for his bigoted listeners "benefit", is pitiful and disgarceful.

Keep talking Limbaugh... The left understands that you really do want to own these words even if you didn't say it first. It plays to your listeners ingrained bigoted beliefs BUT it also publically exposes the true nature of you and your listeners beliefs to everyone.

Maybe Rush has had his final "Imus moment"?