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OK....I got the link from the Rush Limbaugh website, and the latest parody has Al Sharpton singing "Barack the Magic Negro, lives in D.C....." to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon.

I read part of the LA Times article and I just didnt catch where Al Sharpton was not in the article or what (my mind is VERY woozy this morning, I am on stronger anti-biotics and I keep having dizzy spells...)
Figures, that YOU would be listening to the Drugatic, LIMBAUGH again. what do you expect from that idiot, he can't see past his conservative thinking nose?

Oh, and least we forget that other great new's organizaation (FOX,T.V.) BUSHY'S favorite staion. I'll just bet its your's too.

While your at it go to MILITARY.COM and see how one of HALIBURTON'S ex-employees explain how UN-sanitary the water conditions are for our troops in Iraq. And of the total disreguard shown by HALIBURTON who is suppose to care, and de-contaminate the water supply there for our troops. Heck your in the Military you should be up on this! Just thought you wanted to know??

Semper Fi, (Carry on Citizen!)
Kindred_Spirit, Mee TOOOO. First I read the article, and could not find a single Al Sharpton quote, Then I looked up the author, and found a personal website with a photo gallery that did not include David Eherenstein, the author, and then I went to Wikipedia article that describes Ehrenstein as a critic who concentrates on Gay issues in the Movies. I went looking for Ehrenstein because of his comment about his own Name causing confusion. Then I went back to the article, prepared to parse it. Well in my opinion it is not worth the effort, basically it's a gossip column about how Barak Obama is percieved In the Black Community, writted by a person who is not identified by race in the references I looked at, meaning, in the good old colorblind USA, that he is White. If it doesn't say what color, it must be white, because all other races are included in the description. At least Brentenman identified the origin of the Sharpton comment as coming from Limpbaugh The Oxyconton moron who has a flock of Sheep called Ditto Heads.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time." The People you can fool all of the time are called SHEEPLE by the people who fool them.
Rush Limbaugh, unfortunately, is the "face" of the Republican Party. Every time he opens his mouth, along with Coulter, Hannity, and their ilk, intelligent people are scurrying to seek a haven in other political expressions (Independents, Democrats, write-ins, etc.) Given a choice between Sharpton vs. Limbaugh, I'd say they are about equal on the obnoxious-scale!
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Originally posted by Brentenman:
Barack the Magic Negro explained:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032307/cont...01125110.member.html

All Limbaugh is doing is illustrating absurbity.
I recall posting an archived story from the New York Times, It cost 4.95 to read, and is copyright so I was prohibited from cutting and pasting it by TimesDaily Terms of Service.
I got complaints, and I no longer post material that must be purchased. I still use it, but I use it as source material, and, occasionally footnote specific articles.
I got one complaint for posting a link that requires registration to read. Most blogs are like that.
this particular link does not go directly to the Obama Comments by Limpbough, and to search his site requires a SUBSCRIPTION THAT COSTS ALMOST FIFTY DOLLARS.
I am a Rush 24/7 member, so here is the Barack is a Magic Negro explained:

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RUSH: This is Uriah in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Greetings, sir. Nice to have you with us.

CALLER: Hey, Mr. Rush, how are you, sir? I just want to say, I really appreciate what you do as far as conservatives. It's the right thing for our country. But there's one thing that I have a question about. The other day you played a song with Al Sharpton, Sharpton portraying -- actually singing in the studio against Barack Obama. My point is that the term "negro" that was used in that song, I found to be very offensive. The reason why [is] because I feel like the term "negro" is such an archaic term, and in a society as prosperous as America that is pressing and excelling forward, you know, throughout the world, I think that you use a term like that is a term that is actually turning us around.

RUSH: You must be talking about the very popular parody, "Barack the Magic Negro" as sung by Al Sharpton through the bullhorn. Is that the one?

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: Well, let me tell you about the roots of this. There was a columnist in the Los Angeles Times named David Ehrenstein, and on Monday, he wrote a piece about Barack is the "magic negro." He claimed that there is, in the black culture, this term "magic negro." His point in this column was that Barack Obama is not authentic. He hasn't been down for the struggle. Plus he's not been around long enough for people to know what he actually stands for substance-wise, and so white people who are supporting Barack are simply doing so to assuage their white guilt over the transgressions in the past in this country, such as slavery and so forth. So his theory is that Barack coming along, he's black and that's all that matters. Nobody cares what he stands for. Nobody knows what he stands for.

It was a column, essentially, accusing white people supporting Obama of being racist because they don't care what he stands for and don't care what he's going to do. The fact that he's black is enough for them, to make them not feel guilty as long as they say they support him, and that was the definition of "magic negro." Now, on this program, we made it a big point to point out that it was -- and this columnist is black, by the way, David Ehrenstein is black, and he used the term, which is why it says so in the lyric line of the song. So we're just highlighting what the left says. I believe they're the true racists. I believe they're the ones that look at people and notice whatever is different about them from white liberals. Either they're black or they're gay or they're Hispanic or whatever. They immediately group people, and most of them happen to be victims. Yet we conservatives are the ones, Uriah, who get tarred and feathered with these allegations.

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: So this song is to illustrate that point.

CALLER: Okay. That's the first time I've actually ever heard the term "magic negro."

RUSH: Well, me, too. I never heard of it, but this guy says it's out there. It's part of black folklore.

CALLER: Okay. Yeah, so that was my question there. You know, I feel like as a country that we should definitely be propelling forward, and this generation, and bringing light to the rest of this world.

RUSH: Well, I can tell you think the term negro is inappropriate, that it's old hat and shouldn't be used, that it's divisive and this sort of thing, and you may have a point, but remember what we do on this program. We illustrate absurdity by being absurd, and the other element of this is that Sharpton has been quoted in the New York Post as being jealous that Obama is getting all this support as a black presidential candidate. Remember, Joe Biden said, "Hey, we got the first clean, articulate, intelligent black guy running for president." How do you think this makes Sharpton feel? He's run for president twice. How do you think it's going to make the Reverend Jackson feel? So the story was that there's a little jealousy out there. So, these two things just fit together. It was like a harmonic convergence here on this, Uriah. Now that you know the context and the details, let's listen together to Al Sharpton and "Barack the Magic Negro."

(Playing of "Barack the Magic Negro" parody song.)

"Don't vote for Barack. I won't have anything after all these years of sacrifice. The justice, I need justice." Sharpton stops singing, and the chorus keeps singing. Al Sharpton is abandoning the lyric line. By the way, I understand there are many people probably who don't know the historical facts about this term "magic negro." I didn't either, but who am I to dispute the LA Times and one of their esteemed columnists, David Ehrenstein? But if you're going to complain about that, isn't it time to change the name of the United Negro College Fund? Some things are just out of proportion and have no consistency here, folks, and we're happy and eager to point them out.




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