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RUSH: I want to beg your indulgence, because there was a Chicago Tribune story yesterday on the "Barack the Magic Negro" parody. This is May the 7th. We are over two months into this and the Drive-Bys are just now learning about it, or at least they think they found a peg, Obama needing Secret Service protection. All candidates are going to get that, eventually, trying to peg it to this tune, and these people ought to pay for that. I'm telling you I'm not going to sit around. This stuff has been going on my entire creek, Oklahoma City, trying to blame me for it, now all of this. The reason why I want you to indulge me is because I'm going to do something here that you already know, but I'm going to conduct a little tutorial for journalists, and I might say some irrelevant ragtag radio talk show hosts in various markets who themselves are trying to make hay out of this, as I want to try to help all of you for making total blithering idiots of yourselves before it's too late.
I am trying to save you for the sake of my own industry. We're all in it together, and the more idiots there are in it, the less of an image broadcasting is going to have. So what we're going to do here is this. We're going to go back and we're going to play this stupid, moronic audio sound bite from Channel 13 Sacramento from this morning, their morning show. Then we are going to play Barack the Magic Negro and stop it line by line, and I'm going to translate it, and I'm going to explain it for all of you. So if you know a journalist, call 'em up, and then we're going to do a poll on RushLimbaugh.com asking if the two journalists and the weather guy at KOVR 13 Sacramento, Chris Burrous, Lisa Gonzales, and Jeff James, are they morons who are threatening racial harmony? You simply vote yes or no, because they're doing a poll on my song asking whether it's racist.
By the way, last time I checked, 88% say it isn't on their own poll. Here, ladies and gentlemen, from this morning, Channel 13, KOVR Sacramento, Chris Burrous and Lisa Gonzales, the two anchors and the weatherman Jeff James.
BURROUS: There is a controversy brewing here this morning, will likely be hitting fever pitch as we go through the day. Rush Limbaugh's program for years and years, when he was here in Sacramento, and since he's been national as well has had parodies of people, song parodies, a lot of people pretty funny but there's one out there that he's airing on his show about Barack Obama, some are calling racist. There are groups this morning saying that not only is the song racist but it's putting Barack Obama at increased danger. Of course, you know, last week we reported that he has gotten Secret Service protection, the earliest for any presidential candidate. Is Rush Limbaugh's "Barack the Magic Negro" song racist? What do you think? Vote online at CBS13.com. He's had a lot of parody songs, Lisa and Jeff, some funnier and less sensitive that this one.
GONZALES: I want to hear from Rush. I want to know why they made the song.
JAMES: He ought to know better. Once he starts to even go near that line, you know, it's never a good idea.
BURROUS: And the timing, post-Imus here, a bit much some are thinking.
GONZALES: Can we call Rush?
BURROUS: Exactly. Dial him up. Limbaugh doesn't make up the songs himself. There's a guy named Paul Shanklin, he pays him to play them, and make them up.
RUSH: Do you think these morons understand that the term magic negro has been around since Brown versus Board of Education? Do you think these morons understand that it first appeared, in the modern era in all this, in an LA Times op-ed piece by a black journalist? Do you think these morons know that? Do you think these morons know that Barack Obama has spoken about this? He was on our affiliate in Detroit last week, WJR, Paul W. Smith asked him the question, "I have to do this because Rush is on our station and we'll see him tomorrow, have you heard the parody song, 'Barack the Magic Negro'?"
OBAMA: (Laughing.) You know, I have not heard it, but I've heard of it. I confess that I -- I don't listen to Rush on a daily basis. On the other hand, I'm not one of these people who -- who take myself so seriously that I get offended by -- by every -- every comment made about me. You know, the -- you know, what Rush does is -- is entertainment, and although it's probably not something that, you know, I listen to much, I don't --
SMITH: But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then, and why wouldn't you?
OBAMA: I don't mind. I don't mind -- I don't mind folks poking fun at me. That's part of the job.
RUSH: All right. So I wonder if these people in Sacramento know that Barack Obama was asked about it and his office was asked about it, too, and, ah, they're laughing it off. So there's no controversy with them. All right, now, ladies and gentlemen, here is the song itself, and I'm asking the indulgence of those of you in the audience who have been listening to this for two months, but apparently there's some blithering idiots who have only recently learned about this and have not as journalists availed themselves of the opportunity to discuss and learn the context of this. So setting it up, back in February, Joe Biden, a Democrat, claims that Barack Obama, it's good to have him on the presidential roster because finally there's somebody clean and articulate, black, clean and articulate, makes him very proud as a Democrat. What's Biden saying? This is a Democrat saying this. It's my contention that the racism in this country is on the left. It's people on the left who look at people and see their skin color, see their gender, trying to find their sexual orientation, it is they who put them into groups, it's the left that victimizes people by making them members of groups and then tries to stir up all this controversy.
People in my audience, if any of them ever decide to vote for Barack Obama, it's going to be because they like his ideas. It will be for that reason. This audience is not sitting around looking at these people on the basis of skin color. It's the left that's doing that. So after Biden makes his comment about Barack being clean and articulate, Al Sharpton is reported in the New York Post to be very offended by this and very upset and will not endorse Obama. He's upset about it, and he should be, because he ran for president 2004, and Biden didn't say he was clean or articulate. They know when a white person says a black person sounds articulate, you know what they're saying, he doesn't sound black. It's a Democrat that did this. Okay, so I make note of all these things. Then the LA Times runs a couple pieces on, "Is Barack Obama black enough?" Meaning, is he down for the struggle? He doesn't have roots to the civil rights movement in this country. All of these other things, they start wondering, is he black enough to win, they go out interviewing black voters. The civil rights community doesn't think he's black enough. It's all in the LA Times, two different articles, and then comes the magic negro piece. So I call up Shanklin, need this Barack magic negro song, I want it sung to the tune of puff the magic dragon. Now, for those of you who don't listen to this program but really ought to start, we do Sharpton parodies frequently, and we always have him singing through the bullhorn because that's how he's known, leading protest marches from Tawana Brawley on through the boroughs of New York. So that's what we do here. We make fun of Democrats, and that's I guess something that's not kosher.
I'll tell you what, let me take a break here so I don't get myself short-circuited on the next segment. When we come back, I'm going to play "Barack the Magic Negro" on this very program and we're going to stop it line by line. Every time I think it needs to be stopped to explain it to moronic journalists and others so that you finally will have context -- and I'm going to destroy the whole concept of the parody. When it has to be explained like this, it kills it, but I'm willing to do this, in my first day as a professor of journalism at the new Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Journalism School because clearly there is one needed. Koko, is that poll ready to go up? I don't know if that poll is ready, but we're going to have the poll up there, by the way, and the poll question is this. "Are Chris Burrous, Lisa Gonzales, and Jeff James of KOVR Channel 13 Sacramento morons who are threatening racial harmony?" I'll let you know when that poll's up. We'll be back with the line by line explanation of "Barack the Magic Negro" after this. |
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RUSH: Now, before we play the "Barack the Magic Negro" song, for those of you out there for whom this is being done, I want to say one thing to you, and I'm assuming that we have some people who have been brought in by this upcoming demonstration. Something that you should know that you don't know if you don't listen to this program, and that is that there is no racism on this program, that me, my audience, everybody associated with this program wants the best country possible. We want people to live life to the fullest. We try to inspire that here, try to motivate it, try to tell people not to be affected by the constant negative doom and gloom that makes up mainstream news media reporting these days; everything is a crisis; everything is going to kill us; the economy is doing horrible; there's no future in America. All of these things are ridiculous.
This is the greatest country on earth, and it pains us and it breaks my heart to see people who are not educated, motivated, and inspired to access the opportunity that this country provides and has provided since its founding. It's a shame. It is a crime, and it is not this program that's holding anybody back, it's quieted contrary. We're doing our best to inspire and motivate people. There is no excuse to tell people that they have no future in this country. There is no excuse to tell people that they can't get where they want to get because of their skin color or because of their gender or because of their sexual orientation. We all have obstacles to overcome. That takes motivation and inspiration, takes desire. I believe that desire and passion are 80% of achievement. On this program we try to inspire that on a daily basis. One of the ways we do it is make fun of the people, I think, who are holding other people back, and that's the American left. I think the American left in this country looks at average Americans with contempt. They don't see people with rosy futures and great opportunities. They see people with too many obstacles to overcome. They see people with limited intelligence and limited abilities and thus, as liberals, they set themselves up in power, in government, to come up with programs to help these people, which are nothing more than disguised attempts to buy votes.
I think it's a crying shame to see anybody in this country so looked at and so treated. This is the United States of America. We want everybody and I want everybody in this country to achieve and to reach their potential, using whatever desire or ambition they have. If you listen to this program regularly, you would understand that. I mention all this only because what gets missed in all this so-called controversy that happens on this program is the context under which everything happens here. So the final part -- well, actually there's two parts because there's another Washington Post story today, "How Big a Stretch?" -- they've decided to ditch the action line, "Is Obama black enough?" Now the question is, "Will racist whites vote for him?" That's the question, "How Big a Stretch? For Barack Obama, Winning the White House Would Mean Bridging The Biggest Gap Of All." So the Washington Post has a story today, he may be great, he may be articulate, but, I'll tell you what, there's so many white racists in this country, can he bridge the gap?
Hey, Washington Post, did you forget that he's gotta win the primary first, and that's only Democrat voters. So are you maybe thinking that you got a bunch of white racists in the Democrat Party that are not going to be able to bridge the gap and vote for Obama? Would you people in the press make up your mind about this poor man? You think he's more upset about "Barack the Magic Negro" or having to read all these stories about is he black enough? Anyway, here's the song. I'm going to stop it periodically to explain it. I've already done the overall explanation, Sharpton through the bullhorn. Remember, Sharpton is jealous, he's upset. At the time we recorded this he was upset because everybody is going gaga over Obama and saying he's unique and a first in the Democrat presidential race, and he's holding his endorsement because he doesn't like this. So here's the song. This is the intro to the song, by the way, and this is music. This is to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon," which everybody knows was about marijuana, but none of that in this song. |
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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: Stop the tape. LA Times' David Ehrenstein, column, "Barack the Magic Negro." The LA Times called him that. Our lyrics explain the genesis. The LA Times called him that because he's not authentic like Sharpton. He's not authentic. That means he's not down for the struggle. We're just taking what the left says and putting it in a parody here, and the great thing about parodies, if they're good, they're funny because there's an element of truth in all of it, and truth is the theme of this parody. Remember, now, Sharpton's singing through the bullhorn here. A lot of people think that we're trying to make it sound like Amos and Andy. Amos and Andy, my rear end, he sings through a bullhorn on this program because that's how he's known. Here's the next line.
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.
 RUSH: Stop. All right, now, the New York Post story, this is where Obama's getting all this praise, but he's been written about as the magic negro and he's not authentic in the LA Times. Sharpton is authentic. That is a word that they have asked about him in the LA Times and other liberal papers, is he authentic or not? So we just use their words in the parody. All of these words came from Drive-By Media reports. And, of course, the hood, I mean that's the way you determine authenticity. Obama not from the hood, he's not down for the struggle. Now here's the chorus line.
SHANKLIN: 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!
RUSH: Stop the tape. So Sharpton's upset Barack Obama is getting all this praise. He's getting all this love and adoration, but my God we've had Snoop Dog, we've had Farrakhan, we've had Sharpton, all these people doing all the groundwork, laying all this groundwork, and here comes this guy who is not authentic and he's getting all the credit and Al Sharpton is mad about it, which is all true. Found it first in the New York Post. Anyway, here we go to more of it.
SHANKLIN: (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.
RUSH: Stop the tape. Now, how in the world, if you are a moron -- I guess it's because you're a moron -- when you're playing the song this morning on Channel 13 in Sacramento, how do you miss the lyric going right by you? "The LA Times, they called him that 'cause he's not authentic like me." All this is rooted in the truth, the truth as reported by left-wing media types.
SHANKLIN: Some say Barack’s "articulate"
And bright and new and "clean"
RUSH: Joe Biden said it!
SHANKLIN: The media sure loves this guy,
A white interloper’s dream!
RUSH: Wait a second. Interloper, interloper, Sharpton called a bunch of interloper's in Harlem Freddie's Fashion Mart, right? The place burned to the ground. Later was said that the people who owned Freddie's Fashion Mart were called interlopers. So Sharpton used the world. I would love to take credit for the brilliant creativity here, but all we had to do is piece together what a bunch of liberals have been saying, and we got our lyrics.
SHANKLIN: But, when you vote for president,
Watch out, and don’t be fooled!
Don’t vote the Magic Negro in
RUSH: Stop it. Stop it. Now, this is crucial. In every one of our Sharpton parodies, he can't get through the whole song without starting a protest because that's what he's known for, protesting through the bullhorn. So the chorus will keep singing, the music will keep playing, but Sharpton leaves the lyric line to start protesting, which is what he's known for, and the things he says in his protest, which you'll hear coming up, are simply representative of what has been said about Barack Obama by Sharpton and so forth early on in this. This, to me, is the funniest part of the song.
SHANKLIN: 'Cause -- 'cause I won't have nothing after all these years of sacrifice. I won't get justice. This is about justice. This isn't about me, this is about justice and about buffet, haven't had no buffet, and there ain't going to be any church contribution, ain't going to be no cash in the collection plate, there ain't going to be no cash, no walking-around money, no phoning money, now Barack going to come in here and say --
RUSH: Stop the tape. So the chorus, the producers are trying to override Sharpton's protest by turning up the volume here on the chorus because they're getting a little worried he's off the lyric line. This is hilarious. This is so brilliantly done -- and, by the way, I've heard people say this doesn't sound like Sharpton. It sounds exactly like Al Sharpton, one of Paul Shanklin's Bess impressions is Sharpton. I'm thinking of firing Shanklin just so he can show up on Oprah and get even more publicity. I'll hire him back after all that happens. |
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RUSH: Now, going to play the whole song uninterrupted, ladies and gentlemen, since the explanation's done. This is part of the first lesson, the first lecture, complete with exhibits and displays and so forth, we're helping train new journalists here today at the Limbaugh Institute. So we've gone line by line to explain why it is what it is, and now for your enjoyment, uninterrupted, here is the entire song. We'd like to thank Joe Biden and David Ehrenstein of the Los Angeles Times, these three morons from KOVR 13 Sacramento, and any of the rest of you who have helped make this the most popular parody in EIB history. Let's all sway to the music.
(Playing of "Barack the Magic Negro" parody.)
RUSH: Everyone's a Winner. A little Hot Chocolate on the EIB Network. Now, for those of you in the Drive-By Media who are taking the first lesson today from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies School of Journalism, here's what Obama again said about the song last week in Detroit on WJR.
OBAMA: (Laughing.) You know, I have not heard it, but I've heard of it. I confess that I -- I don't listen to Rush on a daily basis. On the other hand, I'm not one of these people who -- who take myself so seriously that I get offended by -- by every -- every comment made about me. You know, the -- you know, what Rush does is -- is entertainment, and although it's probably not something that, you know, I listen to much, I don't --
SMITH: But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then, and why wouldn't you?
OBAMA: I don't mind. I don't mind -- I don't mind folks poking fun at me. That's part of the job.
RUSH: Now, I want to help out further. He's laughing about it at the beginning of the bite. I want to help out further. There's something else that you in the Drive-By Media have missed, and that is the precursors to the parody. Because when the New York Post story came out, February, early March, about Reverend Sharpton being jealous of the attention that Obama is getting, we ran other parodies, not songs, but we put together some other parodies, ladies and gentlemen, of Sharpton, and you haven't put these out. You may not know about these, so I want you to know about these so you can put these on your CBS morning shows and Media Matters for America and really light this up. We have five of them. I don't want to play all five, we'll go in order, we'll see how it feels.
(Playing first Obama-Sharpton Spoof #1.)
RUSH: Now, again, for those of you in the Drive-By Media -- and, yeah, that's right, you ain't seen nothing yet. Remember what started all of this, Sharpton expressing a little anger, reservation at all this gaga treatment Obama was getting, and we simply parody that and we parody what Democrats say and do on this program. It contains truth, that's what makes it funny.
(Playing of Obama-Sharpton Spoof #2)
NIGEL: Yeah, we're generating some heat here at the EIB Network. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, our favorite Motown groups here, by the way. All right. Yeah, let's keep going. Here's the third installment, for those of you in the Drive-By Media.
(Playing of Obama-Sharpton Spoof #3)
RUSH: Okay, that's enough. Now, you get the idea. So this preceded the magic negro parody tune, all based on the news. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the real reason the Drive-Bys are after me on the magic negro song. The real reason the Drive-Bys are after me is because I am parodying them. I am exposing their racism. They disguise their racism by treating these stories, "Is Barack black enough?" as some sort of legitimate question or issue deserving discussion. They're the ones asking these questions. They're the ones calling him the magic negro, not me. We never talk about Barack's race here until we react to it when we see it in the Drive-By Media. For the Drive-By Media to call what we're doing here racism is obscene. And I am owed an apology. If there is racism in the mix here, they have introduced it. Here's another example of it today in the Washington Post. "How Big a Stretch? For Barack Obama, Winning the White House Would Mean Bridging The Biggest Gap Of All." So they've decided to punt the whole action line of is Barack Obama black enough. The question in this story now is, "Will racist whites vote for him?"
So I guess if whites don't vote for Obama, they are racists, and if women don't vote for Hillary, they're sexists. Is that right? This is what the Drive-Bys tell us what we're about. This is how they tell us who we are. The Washington Post -- predictable, by the way -- they asked the same questions when Jesse Jackson ran back in 1984. The thing that this reporter -- this is Lynne Duke at the Washington Post -- this reporter needs to understand that if Obama is going to get the presidential nomination, he's gotta get the votes of Democrats first because only Democrats can vote in these primaries. So the real question is, will white Democrat racists vote for Obama? But they don't go there, oh, no, they overlook that. They want to make it look like something else is going on. Now, let me jump to page five here, because this is good, too. Mike Suarez, chairman of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee, "pointed out what Obama did not say during his Tampa rally." Now, listen to this. This is the chairman of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee. "If he were the quote-unquote traditional black candidate, he would have said something about Don Imus. He would have said something about the Duke lacrosse decision and he would have said something about Jackie Robinson."
So you have another Democrat here questioning the authenticity of the blackness of Barack Obama. Not me. I'm just repeating it, and that's why they're after me on this parody song, because I am parodying them. I am supposing their racism. Here's the author of the story. "If Obama were to talk more sharply on issues of race and speak more like Jackson or Sharpton, 'it would bother me as far as my support,' Fueyo says. 'It would bother me as far as I'm thinking, you're not smart. You've got to be able to have everyone hear what they want to hear.' Suarez, who also identifies himself as a white Latino, says he suspects that some whites are projecting onto Obama their perception of what a black man should be -- less black." This, again, is Mike Suarez, the chairman of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee, and he says, this Democrat says that he suspects whites are projecting onto Obama their perception of what a black man should be, less black. They want to take race out of it because they like him so much, they want him not to be black. It is a Democrat executive committee chairman who is saying these things in the Washington Post, as a Democrat or a Drive-By Media person has been the source for all of the information that we've put in the lyrics of any of these Sharpton parodies and the song, "Barack the Magic Negro."
Brief time-out and when they call me racist, it's time to demand an apology. By the way, folks, I'm not going to sit here and just take it any longer and stay silent when a bunch of morons who don't even listen to this program start criticizing and ripping me and thinking all sorts of unkind things ought to happen to me, and blaming me for things that I am not responsible for. If they want to do that after listening to the program, feel free. But I'm not going to sit here with a bunch of morons who don't listen, who have only one purpose, and that is to take out the next Imus. They're going to have to look somewhere else because it isn't going to be me and it isn't going to be you. |
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RUSH: And once again, I want to thank all of you in my trusted large and loyal audience for indulging me in this full hour, first-ever lecture in the new Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies School of Journalism. This has been long overdue, and I know many of you have heard all of these things, and you understand the context, but understand that our learned journalist community is moronic and they're ignorant and we're doing our best here to bring them up to speed on this. I'll tell you, if I were Barack Obama, who I must tell you, I admire, Obama is carrying himself well in this race. He's doing this far better than anybody thought he was going to do, raising money, he's giving Mrs. Bill Clinton a real challenge, he's got a great temperament on this sort of thing. He's showing other people how to deal with this. But if I were him, if I were his people, do you know what I would do? I really would tell the left, "Hey, it's about time you guys stopped with this stuff. It's you guys who are bringing race into this."
If I were Obama, I'd call the LA Times in, I'd call David Ehrenstein in, I'd call this Washington Post reporter, Lynne Duke, "You guys have got to stop writing about this. You're just fomenting all this racial stuff, when I'm not even talking about it," because the racial component in this race is being introduced by the left and the Drive-By Media. This is a template. Harold Ford: Will whites vote for him? Those hayseed hicks in Tennessee. Every time a black Democrat runs, will whites vote? Of course, when Michael Steele or Lynn Swann, black Republicans run, nobody ever, in the Drive-By Media, asks that question. You may have missed this one. It goes back to 2004, Al Sharpton, presidential candidate, 2004, mama told him, don't go there. Said don't run, Al.
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March 19, 2007: Liberal Calls Obama "Magic Negro"
March 19. 2007: Racism Abounds on the Left
March 23, 2007: Barack the Magic Negro, Explained
March 29, 2007: Obama and Sharpton Have "Little Dispute"
April 23, 2007: Mrs. Clinton, Obama Pander In Front of Black Audience -- Again
April 26, 2007: Drive-By Media Misreporting of "Barack the Magic Negro" Song
April 27, 2007: Yet Another Liberal Asks if Barack Obama is Black Enough
May 2, 2007: Obama Displays Maturity, Laughs Off "Barack the 'Magic Negro'" Song |
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