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RUSH: I gotta play you this audio sound bite. I don't know where Cookie comes up with this stuff. I don't know how in the world we found a sound bite from WJAR TV in Providence, Rhode Island, but she found it. I don't know how in the world... I mean, I know we have satellite dishes and all kinds of stuff that records, but how in the world we would get this! It's irrelevant because we have it. It's an NBC affiliate, and the Sunrise News anchor, Frank Coletta [or Gene Valicenti, they look alike], reported this.
COLETTA or VALICENTI: Rush Limbaugh's latest dust up. The conservative talk king has been playing a song called, "Barack the Magic Negro" and now some critics say he should be fired just like Imus. Limbaugh's staff says he's been using the song parody for months and that the title is a direct quote [sic] from the Reverend Al Sharpton and that the uproar is unwarranted.
RUSH: It's not "a direct quote" from the Reverend Sharpton! We have been playing it for months, maybe weeks. It might be a month or a month and a half. Look, folks, here it is from March 19th -- I'm holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers -- "Obama the 'Magic Negro' -- The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man." This is the third piece in the LA Times that dealt with Obama not being "black enough." It's the left that's the racists. It's the left that looks at people's skin color and doesn't see it for what it should be or what it is. They notice it. They're the ones that are racists out there. The guy that wrote this is a black man. His name is David Ehrenstein. He "writes about Hollywood and politics," it says here, and the whole point of his piece here is: Who is this Obama guy? He's been around for two years in the Senate. Nobody can possibly know him well enough to be giving him all this idolatry. So he's the "magic negro." He fits white racists' need to assuage their guilt.
So we see stuff like this, and it's a gold mine. Now, H.R., did you talk to anybody here from WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, ever? Never have. So you couldn't have told them that this is "a direct quote" from the Reverend Sharpton. No, they didn't quote you, but I think they listened to the parody. It's classic. They didn't hear it on the program. They don't hear the days or hours or even the minutes of that particular show setting this up. They're like all these other lib people in the media. They sit out there and they go to other places to find out what happens on this show and others. They hear the song front-to-back without knowing anything about it and say, "My God!" They're even ripping Paul Shanklin now. He's a "white comedian." Oh, yeah, Paul Shanklin. Here, you have the song? Here, let's listen. If you people in the media think that this is gonna lead to anything other than my getting even bigger and more popular, you have another thing coming. Just to give you a little taste of it. Listen to the lyrics, if any lib media people are here, as the lyrics explain the whole bit. They explain the whole tune.
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SHARPTON IMPRESSIONIST PAUL SHANKLIN: Barack the Magic Negro lives in D.C.
The L.A. Times, they called him that
‘Cause he’s not authentic like me.
RUSH: See?
SHANKLIN: Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper
 Said he makes guilty whites feel good
They’ll vote for him, and not for me
‘Cause he’s not from the hood.
See, real black men, like Snoop Dog,
Or me, or Farrakhan
Have talked the talk, and walked the walk.
Not come in late and won!
Refrain:
Oh, Barack the Magic Negro, lives in D.C.
The L.A. Times, they called him that
‘Cause he’s black, but not authentically.
(repeat Refrain)
Some say Barack’s "articulate"
And bright and new and "clean"
The media sure loves this guy,
A white interloper’s dream!
RUSH: Stop the tape a minute. By the way, one of the things I'm reading is that this is a lousy Sharpton impersonation. This is a fabulous Sharpton impersonation, and it's through the bullhorn. I'll tell you, it's one thing to deal with the liberalism of the Drive-Bys, but their stupidity is what's really frustrating.
SHANKLIN: But, when you vote for president,
Watch out, and don’t be fooled!
Don’t vote the Magic Negro in
‘Cause... (music stops, Sharpton rants, music returns)
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He can't even stick with the lyric line in the song. He starts protesting and the chorus there keeps singing the song, they follow the music. Here's what we're going to do on this. We're going to play this again sometime today. I don't know when. We've been playing it since March 21st. Who is this guy? What's his name? It's Frank Coletta from the powerhouse WJAR TV, the NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island. We'll play it again here. We've been playing it since March 21st, not months, just barely over a month, obviously, the calendar count backwards, and you can find just a little over 30 days here. This is the 26th, yeah, so 35 days. We're going to play it again, perhaps, later on in the program today.
We're going to dedicate this song to the Drive-By Media and we're going to dedicate it to Reverend Sharpton, but we're going to do this. We're going to give it a countdown. We're not going to spring it on you. We're going to give you a countdown so all of you Drive-By journalists, the Drive-By Media types can get your recorders ready so that you can actually have a firsthand piece of evidence of the crime here. We'll do this as a service to you. You want to gun for me? I'm going to make it easy for you to come at me, and you can do it by actually listening to this program. I know you have your big Democrat press conference tonight, and you're all focused on that, but we want to help here. We want the Drive-By Media to be able to do their job.
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RUSH: You know, we're going to go one better. We're not just going to play "Barack the Magic Negro" again with the countdown, alerting Drive-By Media types that it's coming. We're going to put the lyrics to the song at RushLimbaugh.com so they don't have to guess. They don't even have to listen to it. They can just go to my website, look at the lyrics, and then we'll post it next to Mr. Ehrenstein's piece from the LA Times. And you know what? You're still going to get calls from people who will not have done any of that. They'll go, "Why, why, he's so incentive! Why, after that recent dustup of the Rutgers players, why, when's he going to resign?" Speaking of that, I am going to suggest here that Mr. Frank Coletta at the powerhouse NBC affiliate, WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, resign.
I'll tell you why we did this. Frank Coletta, who anchors the news there -- Channel 10 News, Sunrise News and at noon, and has been there since 1978 -- was a 2001 Columbus Day grand marshal. The parade! Well, we all know about Columbus. When you celebrate the evil Columbus, he brought racism, bigotry, homophobia, smallpox! You could trace the beginnings of Halliburton to Columbus' arrival. He brought syphilis. He introduced horses. That messed everything up. Wage inequity, yeah, and environmental destruction! Columbus brought it all. he polluted a pristine continent, North America. The Indians, the Native Americans were at one with nature. No longer! Where are they now? They're running gambling casinos. So Mr. Frank Coletta actually took part in a parade that honored this evil man, Christopher Columbus. Of course, we can never look into the backgrounds of Drive-By Media people and anchors and this kind of thing, but we did. We did a little check here. I'm guessing I'm probably going to exhibit some prejudice here, but I see his name, Coletta, and I'm assuming he's also Italian.
The Sopranos, we all know.
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RUSH: By the way, Cookie tells me we might have to issue a correction here to Frank Coletta. We went to the website of WJAR, the powerhouse NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, where they called for my dismissal last night, or today, over "Barack the Magic Negro," and it could well be that we misidentified the actual anchor who did the report. It could have been Gene Valicenti. Cookie says they look so much alike, and of course that's -- well, we have to be honest. You know, these TV anchors do look alike. There's a cookie cutter formula. They all look like Ken dolls. Have you ever seen a bald anchor? You gotta have at least a 13-inch part in your hair to get a Drive-By anchor job, even at the smallest media markets. So it may well be that we misidentified the anchor who did the report. We said it was Frank Coletta. It might have been Gene Valicenti. Cookie's note to me says, "They look so alike. I'm sorry, I'm not sure. Their website stinks. But please blame me. It was my fault, not yours." No, Cookie... (interruption) Well, they're both Italian, but I don't know that Valicenti has ever been a grand marshal of a Columbus Day parade, so what I said about Coletta is actually true. He's done this.
 But, Cookie, this would be easy for me to blame you, and a lesser boss would. But I reported it. I said it. I could have gone through the trouble to double-check it and triple-source you. I trust you so much, I just assumed that you were right. But everybody can make a mistake. Except me. I'm not allowed mistakes. They want to fire me when I make mistakes. You are safe. I'll take the hit on this, happily and proudly. Note also, folks, that the moment I find out there might have been an error, we correct it and I take the hit. I'm taking the full brunt of it. I will be a laughingstock on WJAR, the powerhouse 50,000 watt -- well, I don't know what the watts is. It's a TV station -- NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island. All I'm saying is somebody there should resign. They got the story wrong, factually incorrect. It was beneath the dignity of a Drive-By Media anchor guy. Let me grab a quick phone call here before we move on. Mark in New York City. I'm so glad you called. Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush. It's a pleasure to speak with you. I just wanted to say I'm a black male, originally from London, England. And I listened to you about ten months ago. And the reason why, actually, I listen to you is because I was so tired of the garbage on the music stations, and when I tuned in to you I had the typical pre-prejudices from what I'd heard about you. But after listening to you for about six weeks, I think it was about two months, I remember one day you did one of your great monologues that you were talking about your own struggle to attain success and the victim mentality and so forth. It just really resonated with me and struck a chord -- and, I mean, I'm a big fan of you, and I listen to you as much as possible, practically every day.
RUSH: I appreciate this so much, Mark. You said something interesting. It took you six weeks.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Because you had heard all of the biting criticism.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: The lies and the distortions. I've always said to new arrivals, "It takes six weeks to get the full context of this program, the bare minimum," and you just confirmed that. Well, I'm so happy that you called. I'm so happy that this happened to you. We're honored to have you as a member of our esteemed audience.
CALLER: Yeah, it's a pleasure. I just really wish more people would listen to you and understand what you talk about, about the Drive-By Media, the liberal media, the victim mentality, and also when you did the great monologue about what's right with America rather than what's wrong with it. I'm a single parent. I mean, I hope I can call you in another year or two from now and have great news and show you how my life has totally changed and turned around.
RUSH: We'll look forward to that. We have no doubt, I have no doubt, that you're going to make it. I can tell in your attitude and your desire and because of your optimism, you're already a leg up on any number of people that might be, quote, unquote, competing with you. One thing though before we go. When you said, "I wish more people would listen," the dirty little secret is that they do. The dirty little secret is that a lot of these so-called critics do. Some of them don't, but a lot of them do, particularly the Drive-Bys. They've heard it enough to know here. It's that they don't want to report what happens here. They don't want to report on the good things that happen on this program. They don't want to report about the optimism and the inspiration and the motivation that's offered by me. They don't want to talk about and report on the very positive and uplifting aspects of this program.
So it appears to a lot of people that the program is broadcast in a vacuum. I have a monologue coming up that touches on this, and it's war out there now. The Drive-By Media has cast aside any, any pretense at objectivity. They have taken up with the Democrat Party, and they are both going to go down. They are both going to go down. The Drive-Bys are going to suffer especially. The Democrat Party is in the process of burying itself, and the Drive-Bys are with them. It's going to happen. I don't know when, I'm just telling you: they are sowing the seeds of their own embarrassment and defeat. You just sit and watch. I know this stuff, folks. I know the American people. I still have great faith in them. |
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RUSH: All right, we're fulfilling a promise made in the first hour of the program. We're giving the Drive-By Media advance warning. It's been, what, two minutes now for the Drive-Bys to get word spread, they can hear, actually hear, for themselves, with the context, "Barack the Magic Negro". It's a spin-off of an LA Times column written by a black guy in which he called Barack the Magic Negro, saying Barack's an empty vessel, he hasn't been around long enough for anybody to know what he stands for, and therefore all this white support for Barack, how can this be, asks the black columnist. How can there be so many white people supporting Barack? It's because they have so much guilt over the racial history of this country that saying they support Barack absolves them of any guilt, but they really don't support him, and he doesn't believe it. You couple this with the fact that Al Sharpton said in the New York Post some days earlier before this that he was a little upset that Barack is getting all this attention, Biden calling him articulate and not Sharpton, it made for a natural parody, and this is it.
For this, the Drive-Bys and willing accomplices out there are trying to get me to fire myself since nobody else can. But it won't happen. Here's the song for the Drive-By Media.
(Playing of "Barack the Magic Negro.")
I've been reading that they're criticizing Paul Shanklin who sings that parody as a white comedian not doing a good impersonation of Al Sharpton. You know what I think that stems from? I think the people that are criticizing are so distant and so out of touch and unfamiliar, they don't understand what we're doing. That is Reverend Sharpton through a bullhorn. It's how he came to be known, leading protests across bridges here in Manhattan and all over Harlem, and he had this bullhorn, and everything he said was through a bullhorn. |
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