“Limbaugh doesn’t do conservatism any good by flinging around terms like ‘Magic Negro.’ He means it as parody, but it helps the Libs’ campaign to paint conservatives as racist.”
But it’s not Limbaugh’s term — it originated with liberal David Ehrenstein at the Los Angeles Times. Rush is not “flinging around” the term, he is satirizing the liberals’ racism using their own language.
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro
http://isthatwhatyouthought.blogspot.com/2007/04/from-los-angeles-times.html