For those of you who don't know, Rush Limbaugh played a parody song, a version of which is which is shown here. As an un-funny note, I found the line 'I am the fruits of your labor' rather disturbing. You will need audio to appreciate this.
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It is done in the voice of that race-baiter Al Sharpton. And face it, Al is a funny guy anyway.
Now, you need to know the history of the term 'Barack the Magic Negro'. It started in an editorial, in the very liberal L.A. Times. The editorial was a puff piece on The Messiah, complete with references to Sidney Poitier.
At the time, there was no liberal outrage at the term Magic Negro. Nary a peep was heard from the race baiting poverty pimps. No calls for the author's head from the NAACP. Nothing.
But. Let the right poke fun at the term Magic Negro? Now, everyone, including stupid Republicans, are 'shocked and appalled'! Really? Not just shocked. Nor, just appalled. But shocked AND appalled. Please.
The PC thought police did not mind when they called Bush stupid, a moron, a Nazi, or Bush-Hitler. But poke fun based on race? Shocked AND appalled. Well, unless of course you poked fun at Condoleezza Rice. This was done by Oliphant and ran in most major daily papers back in 2004.
But, it was OK - because she was a Republican. Call Clarence Thomas an oreo (dark on the outside, white on the inside)? No problem there because he was not 'black enough'.
People had better get used to this. If you think critics are going to back off the Messiah just because he happens to be black - forget it. And ditto for not mentioning that he is black. Politics is a tough business. No one gave Bush any slack on his personal traits - don't expect any slack for BHO either. Parody is a knife that cuts all ways in politics. Time to move beyond our differences? Not hardly. It all depends on whose ox is getting gored - and by whom.
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