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RUSH: Paul W. Smith, frequent guest host on this program, had on his program Barack Obama — and he had to ask Barack Obama about ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” He did. He did! We have the audio coming. He set it up. It\u2019s not on the little bite that we have, but he told Obama the roots of this, the LA Times article by David Ehrenstein, a black man, wrote the piece on the ‘magic negro\u2019 and so forth, and then he said to Obama after setting it up that way. He said, ‘I have to do this because Rush is on our radio station. We\u2019re going to see him tomorrow. You\u2019ve heard the parody song ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro”?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: (Laughing.) You know, I have not heard it but I\u2019ve heard of it. I confess that I don\u2019t listen to Rush on a daily basis. On the other hand, I\u2019m not one of these people who — who takes myself so seriously that I get offended by — by every — every comment made about me. You know, the — you know, what Rush does is entertainment, and although it\u2019s probably not something that I listen to much, I don\u2019t —<\/p>\n

PAUL W. SMITH: But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then, and why wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I don\u2019t mind. I don\u2019t mind — I don\u2019t mind folks poking fun at me. That\u2019s part of the job.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barack Obama. That\u2019s right, Barack Obama laughed it off. He laughed it off. He said I\u2019m an entertainer, and he doesn\u2019t mind being made fun of, poking fun at him. That\u2019s part of the job. Snerdley\u2019s looking at me with mouth wide open and agape. What do you not believe about this? (interruption) Yeah, look, we don\u2019t need to belabor this. But there\u2019s a reason he\u2019s laughing it off. A, it\u2019s funny. B, the roots of it is the Los Angeles Times. C, there\u2019s nothing to accomplish by doing something other than this. I don\u2019t want to go into it any further, but this is a classy way to deal with it. This is the way he should have dealt with it if anyone asked. It\u2019s the first time he\u2019s, probably, been asked about it, but this is the way for these guys to deal with it. Blow it off. Laugh it off. ‘No big deal.\u2019 Now, he didn\u2019t react that way when Maureen Dowd wrote about his ears. We have that bite, just to show you how he\u2019s maturing in the campaign. He is inexperienced in this foxhole, but let\u2019s go to sound bite number four. This is back in December, December 10th last year in New Hampshire, and he held a press conference and he made a beeline right after the press conference straight to Maureen Dowd, MoDo, of the New York Times, and had this exchange with her.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (off mic): You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice: I\u2019m very sensitive about — What I told them was, ”I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.”<\/p>\n

DOWD (purring): We\u2019re trying to toughen you up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know, could you hear that very well? What Obama said was, ‘I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears,\u2019 and Maureen said, ‘We\u2019re just trying to toughen you up.\u2019 Now, it sounded like Helen Thomas, but it was Maureen Dowd. The voices of those two are distinct. So he\u2019s matured quite a bit. I want to thank Paul W. Smith for sending this along and asking Obama the question.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One other thing, for some of you Nervous Nellies out there. We\u2019ve been talking about this Barack Obama sound bite with Paul W. Smith, and as I told you, Paul W. Smith told him before he asked the question, what he thinks of the parody ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” He gave him the source of it, this LA Times piece. What I think that Barack Obama knows is that the parody, for people who listen to this program in a continuous fashion, do it in a contextual way — and Obama knows this — I have railed against the liberals out there who are trying to say he\u2019s not black enough. The LA Times has run three such pieces, two of them devoted expressly to that topic: Is Obama black enough? The UK Times did one late last week. There have been three of those, and then, of course, you had the ‘magic negro\u2019 story. That parody doesn\u2019t make fun of Obama at all. The parody, all it does is make fun of the left, and that\u2019s what all of these parodies do. That\u2019s what everything that we do on this program does. It has an element of truth in it which makes it funny but it\u2019s also oriented toward making a point.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve always called it ‘illustrating absurdity by being absurd.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing more absurd than a bunch of Democrats out there wringing their hands, liberal media types over whether or not some candidate is black enough, while they\u2019re shouting, ‘Racist, racist, racist!\u2019 at every conservative they know — and it\u2019s not conservatives talking about Barack\u2019s skin color until they do, and then we parody it, and then they call us racists. Well, it doesn\u2019t wash, and Obama knows it. You have these knee-jerk liberals out there, these Nervous Nellies, that are just waiting for anything to pounce, and they do, and they get it wrong each and every time they do. So there\u2019s nothing of substance here to criticize. You can only be critical of it if you\u2019re panicked or if you are reactionary and don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about, which describes much of the left.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tim in Tucson, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Uh, yeah, I was just going to say, about your Barack Obama, the magic dragon piece, I think that\u2019s really dangerous, and the reason why is, uh, —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you heard it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah, I\u2019ve heard it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you know the roots of it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are they?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s basically, due to white guilt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. I mean, who was the first to originally use the phrase “Obama the ‘Magic Negro'”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dave Ehrenstein, a non-white male, a black male.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Way to go. Way to go. Way to go. Way to go. And do you know why I have Reverend Sharpton singing it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uhhhh, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because after Joe Biden, another Democrat, said after Obama was in the race, it\u2019s great, we finally have a black candidate that\u2019s ‘clean and articulate\u2019 running for president. The New York Post ran a story about Sharpton being a little jealous because he takes a bath every day and he was a presidential candidate and here\u2019s Biden and these other Democrats talking about how clean and articulate Obama is, and the New York Post story said that there might be a little jealousy here. So, there\u2019s a timeline. Everything in that parody is indeed a parody of what liberals and leftists are saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, let me tell you why I think it\u2019s dangerous. All right? You being a white male and being a, you know, collectively the smartest, most powerful people on the planet, you\u2019re very influential, and I\u2019m afraid that that piece, it plays to your — some of our — your racists in your audience that need a measuring stick. So I think it\u2019s really — it\u2019s really dangerous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s dangerous is you characterizing members of an audience that you don\u2019t know as ‘racists,\u2019 and you\u2019re doing this, again, from a standpoint of ignorance. I\u2019m glad you called, because I actually am glad to have the opportunity to tell you this. As I have said repeatedly, it breaks my heart to see how minorities in this country are treated by the people who claim to be their champions, because those people who claim to be their champions are the exact opposite. It is not I nor is it this audience who are racists. I didn\u2019t come up with this whole concept of Barack and this ‘magic negro\u2019 thing. It is leftists in this country who are obsessed with skin color and gender and sexual orientation and grouping people into those categories and then seeing them as victims, and when you see them as victims, you don\u2019t see their full potential. You deny it. You see people who are incompetent, and it breaks my heart. We are conservatives. We want the best for everybody. We believe that we\u2019re human beings. I don\u2019t look at Barack Obama and say, ‘Is he black enough?\u2019 Liberals write pieces about Barack Obama and ask, ‘Is he black enough?\u2019 on the basis of does he have roots to the civil rights protests and movement in this country.<\/p>\n

It ought to be irrelevant. What kind of racism is that? To disqualify a Democrat presidential candidate who happens to be black because he doesn\u2019t have ties to the civil rights movement! I\u2019m not the one doing it. It\u2019s liberal Democrats that are writing these pieces and making these claims. I\u2019m not the one that said, ‘Hey, we\u2019ve got an articulate black guy on our side now!\u2019 Joe Biden, a Democrat, said this. I am not holding Obama up as an object of abuse. They are. They are disrespecting Obama and who he is as a human being by judging him strictly and solely on his genetic makeup and his skin color and to a certain extent, whether or not he has direct ties to protests in Selma, Alabama, and wherever in the 1950s and sixties, Brown vs. Board of Education. My audience doesn\u2019t look at him that way. If my audience has a choice of voting for Barack Obama for president, if he ends up being the nominee, people in this audience, Tim, are going to make up their minds on the basis that they agree with his policies.<\/p>\n

The people in this audience are interested in the future of the country for themselves and their kids, and we care about ideas here. I am a conservative. I think liberals are wrong and I think they pose a threat to the things I believe in. I like to parody them and make fun of it by illustrating absurdity by being absurd. This is what I do. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve done for 18 and a half years. There would never have been a ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro” had Sharpton not gotten all bent out of shape over Biden\u2019s comment and had all these columns not been written in the newspapers about is Barack black enough. I\u2019m not making fun of Obama. I\u2019m making fun — and he knows this, by the way. I\u2019m making fun of the people who are disrespecting him as a human being, and that ain\u2019t me! We in the conservative movement, sir, we want prosperity, excellence, achievement for as many people who desire it. Liberals in this country look at people and don\u2019t see that that\u2019s possible in many cases, and so they say, ‘They\u2019re victims! We need government programs here, government programs there,\u2019 and they have no confidence in people to succeed.<\/p>\n

We want a great country. That means as much achievement and as much accomplishment and as solid a moral code as we can have. Not that everybody\u2019s going to follow it, but we need the line. We need the guardrails. It\u2019s all about kids. It\u2019s all about the future, kids and grandkids, and that\u2019s what we want. This is why Obama, when given the chance to rail back at me didn\u2019t. He laughed it off, said eh, Rush is an entertainer. He\u2019s gotta be able to take being poked fun at here. The problem is, he wasn\u2019t the one being poked fun of. Al Sharpton is. David Ehrenstein is, and all the other authors of these pieces that ask: Is Barack Obama black enough? There are no racists in this audience, or not as a rule. There are racists everywhere. But I\u2019ll tell you what, this audience is not comprised of racists. It\u2019s not comprised of people who hate. The largest audience in radio talk show history could not maintain itself for this many years if it were based on hate, if it were based on lies, if it were based on untruths. The people in this audience are among the most informed, surveys have indicated. The people of this audience are among the most educated — and you people on the left who refuse to accept this are never going to understand what you\u2019re truly dealing with in a competitive sense when you try to take this show out.<\/p>\n

Your attacks are feeble. They\u2019re not based in any kind of truth, and to call here and to say that I am giving aid and comfort to the racists in this audience, is as insulting as anything you could say to me. Because it means that you think this audience is a bunch of mind-numbed robots who don\u2019t have anything but hatred, racism, or some other ism in their heart. When in fact, when I listen to Democrats today and Democrat supporters, I hear so much rage and hatred that I don\u2019t believe it. I\u2019ve been listening to it for three years. I hear so much racism. I hear so much sexism. The next story in the stack. I have two stories here on why women hate Hillary, by a woman. I have a story about this female candidate for the president of France, S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal. Women hate her. It\u2019s women writing this stuff. I\u2019m going to talk about it. People like you, Tim, are going to sit there and tell me that I\u2019m abusing Mrs. Clinton. I\u2019m taking your buddies in your media, and I\u2019m regurgitating what they say. One of these stories is in The Times, another one is in the Washington Post. You know, better to examine your own house for racism, sexism, bigotry and all these things, before you start throwing these accusations around, because you have no clue what you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

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