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If you make fun of Obama you are insulting the presidency. If you call GW a liar and a murdurer you are exercising free speech? I thought the song was funny and echoed black sentiment voiced early in Obama's campaign. Many blacks fretted over his- Obama's- lack of street cred.

The song reminds of the same satire of one Tina Fey portraying Sarah Palin. Now that was funny!! So is this song!!! Where can I get a copy?

I think Saltsman is preparing the GOP for their next gig - sideshow carnival act.

Bonjour,

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I think people need to read the LA Times article before commenting so they can understand the context in which it was written. That article was written almost a year ago - where was the outrage then?
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Who cares where it was then. Can we deal in the 'now'? The context of this song matters about as much as the context of rev wright's sermons. I've considered both and find Wright right and Saltsman wrong.

jimbo,

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Obama told us that "he is the one we have been waiting for.'" So let the magic begin !!!!! He has no clue and this country is in big trouble.
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Please provide a direct quote, cited. I hear Hannity and other 'magic' pundits doing what you have just done. It only works on their lemmings, though.

"The author puts forth that Will Smith is an asexual figure. I have a wager for him, that the majority of women -- black, white, or hispanic -- would deem him as an acceptable consort. Ditto for Poitier in his prime."

Not the actual actors, the characters they play in movies. In The Legend of Bagger Vance, Will Smith's character was a "magical negro" as defined in film theory.

Dave---i found and posted 8 racist quotations Limbaugh has made. the post was removed probably because of the hate-speech quoted. so to even quote Limbaugh is difficult because of his bellicose, crass, racist, misogynist, xenophobic comments.

Dave---whatever feelings he had in 1948, Johnson was committed to civil rights by 1965.

Hugo Black was a justice on the US Supreme Court, once a member of the KKK, but later an architect of integration/desegregation and numerous civil rights opninions and was a liberal member of the court along with Brennan, Warren, Stevens, Marshall,...

i'm not arguing that Limbaugh is the only racist in the country, just that he is a racist. you can bring up all kinds of different scenarios but the issue is a song and Limbaugh's complicity in it.

that you don't think he's racist is your opinion. the test is would he go shoot his mouth off in any large inner-city? could he say "Barack the Magic Negro" or "i'll talk to you after you remove the bone through your nose." you know the answer. that you might claim not to know is another matter.

David---"that the majority of women -- black, white, or hispanic." you seem to have an amazing insight into the sexual proclivities of women of all races. don't confuse your own tastes with women's. but then perhaps i was not sensitive enough to think that "Dave" can be a womean's name too.

Rush Limbaugh is a Pied Piper for idiots. Period.

Ha, ha.

The author puts forth that Will Smith is an asexual figure. I have a wager for him, that the majority of women -- black, white, or hispanic -- would deem him as an acceptable consort. Ditto for Poitier in his prime.
Flawed premise.

Paul Wall

I love it when liberals bring up LBJ as a great leader in the civil rights movement. Here are 2 quotes from the great LBJ.....

President Truman's civil rights program "is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. . .. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill."

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
--Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1948
U.S. Senator, 1949-61
Senate Majority Leader, 1955-61
President, 1963-69

just google Limbaugh and racism and your web will light up like a christmas tree. or watch his pathetic, idiotic and racist drivel on you tube. laugh as you like. there nothing funny about it to me.

Dave---let's quit fooling around. is "Puff the Magic Negro" racist? is "call back when you remove the bone through your nose" the guy is a racist. he is a bigot. what part of these comments do you not find offensive. well, of course you are not african-american...you are caucasian so it can be funny right? just don't make fun of you, right?

political parties change. the democratic party is now the party that is inclusive. LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act just to see it gutted bt republican administrations throughout the decades.

the post is about an offensive song and Limbaugh's involvement. either you like what he said or your condemn it. i condemn the bigot.

downsteamJim, Ehrenstein's essay is racist. i remember feeling Biden's remarks were racist. i believe President Clinton's comments were racist. the difference is that people have different intents. they apologize. Limbaugh is in another league and you know it. he is after that moronic gut-chuckle from racists. he thrives on fomenting racial hatred, ethnic divisions, racial superiority. he is the worst in what america is...he judges and condemns others when he lives in the glass house of drug-abuse and white privilege.

GREAT SONG..... VERY FUNNY... RUSH IS A GREAT MAN... Some people don't like him because HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH.... Something most democrats don't understand!

Paul Wall: Your 10:22 a.m. post this day was the best spin of the day. When I asked you why the quotes from V.P. elect Biden and lib from the LATimes were not racist when they made them, but when the parody was written the one who quoted them became the racist. You completely dodged the question.

Anyone with at least two brain cells fighting each other for survival privately knows, even if they won't publicly admit it, Rush is a blowhard, racist person.

Dave- There are so many examples of Limbaugh's hate speak posted throughout these posts (a few in response to yours) and you can't bother to read it - much less acknowledge it.?

Sad indeed.

Please read Jake's explanation of the term. It is a common description in film studies. The black man who absolves the conflicted white man. A socially engineered character type whose job is to make black men less threatening to make whites feel absolution. It is appropriate to compare the film characters to PEBO even in satire.

If one asks voters (black or white) why they voted for Barack, they will tell you because he was black and will take care of us in a thoughtful and caring manner and to make us feel good about ourselves again. Right out of the movie scripts.

"The point of the op-ed was to dissect the fabled 'Magic Negro' in postmodern folk culture -- a person "there to assuage white 'guilt' (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest. As might be expected, this figure is chiefly CINEMATIC (my emphasis)-- embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is 'Magic.'"

The song is satire. We are living in postmodern Americana with a newly elected racially mixed president.

It is also okay to poke fun at PEBO, he said so himself:

"I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind folks poking fun at me," Obama said. "That's part of the job."

Why are some of you more upset about this than Obama?