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Limbaugh’s derisive jab at Obama called racist
KansasCity.com ^ | 5/06/07 | Chicago Tribune

Posted on 05/06/2007 9:29:31 AM PDT by melt

WASHINGTON | A parody broadcast by radio personality Rush Limbaugh about Sen. Barack Obama’s popularity with many white voters is drawing fire from critics, who say that it’s racist.

The clip, “Barack the Magic Negro,” features a comedian imitating the singing voice of the Rev. Al Sharpton, bemoaning Obama’s popularity with whites who will “vote for him and not for me cause he’s not from da hood.”

Obama’s campaign called the song “dumb,” although a spokesman said that the campaign doesn’t think anyone is taking the song seriously.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; democrats; doasisaynotasido; doublestandard; firstamendment; hypocrisy; limbaugh; politicalcorrectness; rush
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To: TheDon
No doubt someone is looking for another take down after Imus.

I agree, but those light-in-the-loafers watchdogs at Media Matters are delusional if they really think they're going to take Limbaugh down.

Imus may have had a long history in the business, but lately he was a tiny fish who was a virtual nonentity outside of New York and the Beltway; it was easy for sponsors to abandon him. Rush is still the big 800 pound gorilla.

41 posted on 05/06/2007 9:52:17 AM PDT by jpl
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To: Paleo Conservative

I just sent the Chicago Trib an email at:
publiceditor@tribune.com

advising them that this term orignally came out of an LA Times article and asking them if they will clarify that.

I’m not holding my breath.


42 posted on 05/06/2007 9:53:37 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Ladysmith

Rush has been waiting for one of them to say something. Now he can make fun of them for missing the point.


43 posted on 05/06/2007 9:53:43 AM PDT by DManA
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To: MizSterious
"Anything Rush says will be called “racist,” “bigoted,” “homphobic,” or just plain “hate talk.”

You're right. Liberals always resort to name-calling when they lose arguments.

44 posted on 05/06/2007 9:54:44 AM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: Ladysmith

“I’m curious... Are they expecting an “apology” from Rush??!”

Yeah, if I were them I wouldn’t expect Rush to grovel at Al “not too” Sharpton’s feet like Imus.


45 posted on 05/06/2007 9:54:56 AM PDT by NavySon ("To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...")
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To: melt
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46 posted on 05/06/2007 9:56:29 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: melt

This is a discussion on a Boston Legal episode where they talk about Obama talking like a white man, and saying “he speaks perfect white as well as black.” Didn’t hear any furor about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4Wdz_3Ac8


47 posted on 05/06/2007 10:00:05 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: melt

“a spokesman said that the campaign doesn’t think anyone is taking the song seriously.”

This makes me laugh. You aren’t supposed to take it seriously, it’s a joke.

Media matters is always taking jokes out of context.


48 posted on 05/06/2007 10:00:59 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: EagleUSA
this idoit writer did not even realize in his fit to publish hate-crap on Rush

The writer almost certainly doesn't listen to Rush's show and probably never heard the song.

Notice the mention of Rush's "critics?" That means the story was lifted from an anti-Rush blog. Modern "reporting" at its finest.

50 posted on 05/06/2007 10:02:49 AM PDT by irv
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To: martin_fierro

You owe me a new keyboard! LMAO!!


51 posted on 05/06/2007 10:07:10 AM PDT by oakcon (America wants you: Run Fred Run!)
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To: Drango

Wow, I know e-mails sometimes get quick results, but not THAT quickly!


52 posted on 05/06/2007 10:10:10 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bobkk47

LOL....still the story in the Chigago Trib illustrates Rush’s point.


53 posted on 05/06/2007 10:14:03 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: melt
Obama, an Illinois Democrat, faces heightened security concerns fueled in part by hateful e-mails, letters and Web postings.

Probably all from Hillary's campaign.

54 posted on 05/06/2007 10:17:34 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: melt

Oh no, that photographer certainly didn’t frame THAT picture to look like some sort of 21st-century liberal Eastern Orthodox icongraphy. Nope. Not intentional at all. Barf.

}:-)4


55 posted on 05/06/2007 10:17:47 AM PDT by Moose4 ("(Rudy's) the exact same animal as Hillary only he wears a dress." --Jim Robinson)
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To: Paleo Conservative
It was a parody of an LA Times editorial.

They know that! They don't care - they know that the unwashed masses will read their tripe that Rush is a racist and the truth be damned! Rush prediced that his parody would be taken out of context and once again, he is right! Liberals are so predictable.

56 posted on 05/06/2007 10:18:01 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: EagleUSA

LOL

The only thing misssing is for is wife to show up with some type of cancer - perferably caused by something, well, non-magical anyway.


57 posted on 05/06/2007 10:24:04 AM PDT by ASOC (Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
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To: Moose4

LOL! You picked up on that photo. Here's more to dry-heave on.

58 posted on 05/06/2007 10:25:39 AM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt
I go searching for the Tribune version of the story. The one in the Kansas paper seems butchered but of course even the headline in the Tribune is to mislead but late in the opinion they finally get to the L.A. Times article:

Parody stirs racial debate

59 posted on 05/06/2007 10:29:27 AM PDT by Duke Nukum (I wish the world was a newt!)
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To: syriacus

I’m shocked. Spike Lee is the racist!!!


60 posted on 05/06/2007 10:31:41 AM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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