Hypocracy Thy name is liberalism.
Posted on 05/22/2007 1:45:44 AM PDT by Baladas
CHICAGO -- When former talk radio host Don Imus recently made racist remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team on his radio show, he lost his job.
Now, some are wondering if radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has also gone too far, NBC5 reported on Monday.
Weeks before Imus controversy, Limbaugh began airing a song about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who is running for the Democratic nomination for president. The song, a parody of the folk song "Puff The Magic Dragon," contains the line, "Barack, The Magic Negro." Some have begun to wonder if Limbaugh has been getting a free pass.
"It's insulting," said Michael Harrison, publishers of Talkers Magazine. "It's in bad taste, but it's legitimate political satire."
The voice on the song is a white political satirist imitating civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton.
"This is basically the radio equivalent of a black face minstrel show," said Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America. "You know, going back to 'Amos and Andy' and all of those kinds of racist shows."
Media watchdogs said there was no hue and cry to stop Limbaugh because he speaks to a niche audience who either expects this or was willing to let him slide, and that his target in this case is a public figure, not a college women's basketball team.
Obama said he doesn't listen to Limbaugh, but said being targeted is part of being a politician. In his broadcasts, Limbaugh suggest that the song is a parody based on a newspaper column about Obama written by journalist David Ehrenstein.
"The 'magic negro,'" was chiefly a term used when talking about films, in which you'd have black characters who would suddenly come out of nowhere and come to the rescue of white characters," Ehrenstein said. "I was just simply trying to get a conversation going. How it's gone is another question."
Waldman said Limbaugh has no excuse.
One word: Hillary.
She needed a bloody head on the Tower Gate to remind the other "journalists" what the consequences of crossing Her Queeness are in the runup to 2008.
Not only does Rush say it, the lyrics of the song say it!
Like Rush said, these clowns have to be trying to get it wrong.
Ah, you didn't want to get the conversation going, you wanted to control it. And is it now a rule, that only black satirits can imitate blacks. Can black satirists imitate whites? Is that racist?
I tell ya, this parody is really getting under their skin.
The original radio program, Amos&Andy,in thirties was so popular, that it was broadcast in the movie houses so that patrons woudn’t miss a single episode. They would have stayed home if they had to miss A&A.
barbra ann
White, black, green, or purple - "they" share one overarching skin feature...
It's all THIN!
It’s an over two month old parody that makes fun of Al Sharpton. If Al Sharpton isn’t fair game anymore then this is not a free country.
Many of us are far more offended by what passes for “news” on NBC........but it is unlikely that will make the front page of the Chicago papers.
Hypocracy Thy name is liberalism.
Time magazine cover and a movie, Falling Down.
It was Rush Limbaugh's audience, angry white men, said the wise MSM -- over and over and over. Well some in the MSM -- the ones who still have jobs -- still don't get it.
The MSM used to be the gatekeepers of news and issues. Senators don't get it either though I think they do now.
Some say goo goo ga joob too.
Rush's parody is Liberalspeak; in it's 'own' words. .. from the Lib establishment itself. It has little to do with Obama; and more to say about Alsharpton and the rest of the Lib mouth's. . .
Check the source - Waldman’s Media Matters - a liberal monitoring agency: http://mediamatters.org/about_us/
I think it was pretty funny. I think Americans should stop allowing selective censoring of material. Nobody but Hannity complained about Marr’s tasteless commnets on Jerry Falwell’s demise and this just proves Hannity’s contention about the selective outrage of libs.
Rally around Rush and tell Media Matters that they don’t matter.
He 'suggests'? These people never cease to amaze. . .
Only the shallow are ‘offended’.
Or the Clarence Thomas incident(s), where he was referred to as “a colored lawn jockey for conservative interests”,
“chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom” and a “black snake”, among other lovely invectives by the liberal media.Where was the outrage then?
LOL! Thanks, C!
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