Letters to the Editor
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"Elephantdung" is still hard of reading....
To clear it all up for you: No, Rush Limbaugh didn't invent the term "Magic Negro" and no, he wasn't the first to apply it to Obama. Rush was responding, in a highly clever and memorable way (such that it is continually talked about, on forums as far-removed as Salon), to an article about Obama's charisma in which SOMEBODY ELSE applied the term "magic negro" to Obama. In that regard, "magic negro" was not being used as an epithet; rather, it was an attention-getter in a newspaper column. The intent of Rush Limbaugh was to ridicule Obama's growing legend for charisma, and to also lampoon a press corps that appears to be fawning over Obama.
Huh?!?!? Playing "Barack, the Magic Negro" over and over and over is "lampoon[ing] a press corps" that isn't even using those two words? See my comment three paragraphs below.
Here's what I said (and to which you offer the non sequitur 'defence' above):
[Arne]: No, nothing disparaging in His Emanence Rush's song. He was complimenting Barack....
Do you agree?
All you've done, Arne, is to prove that you are too dumb to understand the Rush Limbaugh Program, which is not that high of a bar to begin with.
You're quite right, "Elephantdung". You are perceptive. How could I totally have missed the fact that Rush playing "Barack the Magic Negro" (with the context you were so kind to provide) -- over and over and over again pretty much every time His Emanence was going on a harangue about Obama -- was in fact an abstruse and arcane dig at the "press corps"? Why, I'd better rush right out, so to speak, and sign up for a course in RushLogic™!!! With that, Hooked on Phonics courses, prophylactic breathing strips for mouth-breathers, and advice on how to pay my delinquent back taxes (all as advertised continuously on the El Blobbo show; they know their audience!), I will be as smart as a Republican!!!!
As for accusing me of being a racist, I can say to you, with all sincerity, fuck you.
Where did I accuse you of "being a racist"? Hard of reading again? But I'd say your defence of El Buttboil here in his sliming of Barack certainly doesn't speak too well of you....
Cheers,