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Of course, there is no mention of the original liberal LA Times article for "The Magic Negro" in this report, is there?

Didn't think so. Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center>

1 posted on 05/06/2007 9:29:37 AM PDT by melt
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I guess they missed Obama himself saying he wasn’t offended by it.


36 posted on 05/06/2007 9:48:34 AM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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"Everybody's a racist."
38 posted on 05/06/2007 9:49:55 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (<--- "Crazy Aunt" Conservative)
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Hmmm. Wasn’t it AL SHARPTON who first called Barack Obama, “The Magic Negro”? If so, then the Chicago Tribune ought to take this up with him, rather than Limbaugh, who is parodying Sharpton, not Obama.


39 posted on 05/06/2007 9:50:50 AM PDT by SuziQ
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46 posted on 05/06/2007 9:56:29 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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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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“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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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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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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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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The headline needed a barf alert. Even in the LYRICS of the song it is all explained. A liberal writer of the L.A. Times called Barak the Magic Negro, not Rush. And it is the Rev. Al in the song saying that Barak hasn’t walked the walk, not Rush. Rush is no Imus.


62 posted on 05/06/2007 10:37:54 AM PDT by Yaelle
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The plan will of course be to shout down any criticism of Obama as racist. Rush I believe wants Obama’s people yelling this early, and often, against any form of criticism. There has to be no hesitation, by next summer, if he is the guy, it has to be about Obama, not about color.

I expect to hear the opposite from the Obama camp, that this election is “bigger than all of us”,and about “What this means for America”. Obama as Fullfillment of MLK’s dream,healing, lots of healing, hope and the mountain within reach (cue the choir).

The guilty liberal feely-feel vote will be easy,corralling the black vote as a bloc would secure the nomination, with or without the peace-niks.

This could play successfully. Regular Americans are feeling a bit insecure right now. Folks are shook by the war,hate this nation building business as much as we do, they too are tired of the constant tale of woe from the media,which constantly plays up how “hated we are” all over the world. Bring on some feel good.

Oprah has already signed on,to tell us the Secret of Happiness in America will be Vote for Barrack, millions will comply. The Right thing to do. It is going to be very rough.

Some good news, is the leftist culture war experts must pounce on each other first. Clintonista bareknuclers do not play nice, and it could get very real, very fast.
Hopefully that will be a horribly divisive and extended,
expensive bloody battle.


64 posted on 05/06/2007 10:53:47 AM PDT by pending (TODAY)
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That word that liberal blacks throw around so often, their magic shield, “Racist”.

But to quote J.C. Watts:

“They said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they’re race-hustling poverty pimps.”

Thank you Mr. Watts.


68 posted on 05/06/2007 11:05:12 AM PDT by Screamname (The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
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Limbaugh’s critics

Who would that be?! Admitted LIAR David Brock (George Soros mouthpiece) and his morons?!

69 posted on 05/06/2007 11:05:17 AM PDT by kcvl
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This parody has been playing for well over a month. The Left is just now slamming Rush for it because, on the heels of Imus being removed from the air, they are hoping it can be used against Rush. This whole topic was discussed in the DUmmie FUnnies and it shows how the Left is merely using this parody as a way to Hush Rush.
71 posted on 05/06/2007 11:09:14 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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The parody was making fun of the L.A. Times article with that title. The song was not the source of this. The author of this piece and the Obama campaign have problems with being factual.


78 posted on 05/06/2007 11:25:02 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Lil Black Obama does the Samba, dancin with one foot on each side of the Conga line.


83 posted on 05/06/2007 11:59:04 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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As is the wont of liberals the personality (Rush) becomes the issue and not the fact that a LA Times black columnist expressed an opinion on "white feelings of guilt" (I believe) by using the term "magic Negro."

The threadbare response by conservatives will be begging for forgiveness and a promise to "watch it" from now on. Though I believe Rush just may be up to the challenge but the rest of the conservatives in the public's eye how about them?

84 posted on 05/06/2007 12:10:11 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Obama the 'Magic Negro' The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man.
By David Ehrenstein, L.A.-based DAVID EHRENSTEIN writes about Hollywood and politics. March 19, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center

How odd ! The LEFTIST rag in Kansas City somehow omitted that the ORIGINAL was in the La Slimes.
86 posted on 05/06/2007 12:20:22 PM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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Those LA Times fools.

It is AL SHAPRTON SINGING ON THE BULLHORN!

Its the bullhorn that makes it magical!


88 posted on 05/06/2007 12:26:42 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Nice halo effect by the LA Times, think a little photo spin there?

Just like the horns on time magazine’s picture of GWB.


90 posted on 05/06/2007 12:32:50 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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