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Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magic Negro,” blatantly racist
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by levmyshkin | April 30, 2007 at 09:38 am
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If you haven't heard this audio clip yet, you need to. Limbaugh's blatant racism is despicable. Anyone who hears this--conservative or liberal--without feeling a sense of profound shame and outrage has no sense of decency.
An audio clip of the original broadcast segment is available to the right of this post.
I've been told that they have held meetings internally to deal with a ground swell of anger at Rush because of this. UPDATE: I've anonymously confirmed that stations around the country who carry the show are having concerns expressed by listeners and even their own workers of color about the Obama parody, and the ensuing controversy in the media, and that respective managements are considering ways to address the matter with as little Imus-like backlash as possible. This is starting to boil over…
UPDATED: Rush Limbaugh has angered many black employees over this parody song called "Barack the Magic Negro."
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at 11:04 on April 30th, 2007
Doesn't anyone watch South Park?
Sharpton and Rush are lightweights at this.
The news media was doing stories on Barack and asking if he was black enough, Limbaugh was making fun of the media coverage and their "blatant racism is despicable." he used humor to make the point that the "Media" was being racist. He never put forth the original "IDEA" that Barack wasn't black enough. That was someone else... Limbaugh just picked up on it in the daily News cycle. He was calling the MEDIA racist.
I'm Not defending, just getting it streight, because the truth is important.