Posted on 01/04/2009 11:19:34 AM PST by AJKauf
Mimicking the voice of the Rev. Al Sharpton, the song — which first aired on Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio show — begins like this:
Barack the Magic Negro lives in D.C.
The L.A. Times, they called him that ‘Cause he’s not authentic like me.
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.
The tune is certainly provocative and amusing. The problem is that, for those who want to condemn it as racist — as many on the Left tried to do — it’s hard to get there with a straight line.
After all, this controversy didn’t begin with
What we should be worried about is how quickly those on the Left jump at the chance to paint the opposing camp as hostile to minorities — so they can score cheap political points, manipulate the slighted, and continue to reap a benefit that is unearned...
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Quoting an LA Times reporter, for Heaven's sake.
Plus BO only WISHES he were Negro.
Much less magic.
I’d like to hear this song.
the reporter for the LA times was the racist....
....the ditty was satire.
what friggin morons.
the reporter for the LA times was the racist....
....the ditty was satire.
what friggin morons.
But Hussein Obama, his wife, his friends, his pastor and his church ARE racists.
Not anymore than Romney is a conservative.
A good parody must have an element of truth to be successful. This parody is all truth. The left just has no sense of humor when it comes to themselves.
I think that part of the problem that the Democrats have with the Burris nomination is that Burris is the real thing, an old fashioned NAACP Black man, not an affirmative action, Magic Negro. Burris highlights everything about Obama that is not traditional African American. There no pretense there, Burris is more authentic than Sharpton or Jackson could ever hope to be.
As in the case of Rush and Donavan McNabb, the media does not ‘get it’ when they are being commented upon.
Her final quote was,” Do they think this is how they are going to win the presidential race in 2012 or 2016 is by this kind of 1950’s Klu Klux Klan crap?”
After her incredible comment, Nico Pitney from the Huffington post actually stated,” Can I just say one word of defense which, shockingly enough, is that the songwriter is an African American and it was a parody based on an LA Times op-ed piece by a progressive African American.”
Good for the Huffington Post but they are only half right. Paul Shanklin is white. Didn’t he write it?
Ruh roh...hope you have doned your flame suit...
Did Al Sharpton march on WABC and sue Rush Limbaugh?
Obviously NOT racist and the racist BS is obviously used to silence OSBAMA’s opponents and critics...
OSBAMA’s fans are obviously using the racist card which is an other way to use the race card!
Above all the song is slaming the biased brainwashing MSM advertising the Magic “Negro”’s magical mystery tour
How ‘bout a little more truth. David Ehrenstein has a job in the MSM because he was placed there by the white boys down at the DNC. The white boys need people like Ehrenstein because he can say things like “The Magic Negro” and still be immune from being called a “racist” BECAUSE HE’S AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN himself. Ehrenstein screwed up by using this term to describe Barrack Hussein Obama. Limbaugh and Shanklin did what any good American soldier would do when your enemy screws up. You exploit their mistake. This song is not “racism,” IT’S EXPLOITATION. They took Ehrenstein’s screwup to the extreme. That’s what you are supposed to do if you want to win the battle. You can’t call Limbaugh and Shanklin “racists” just because they exploited this error made by the Commie ‘RATS.
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