Is Limbaugh getting a free pass?

The Houston Comical (NY Times of the South) ^ | May 18, 2007, 2:04PM | ANDREW GUY JR.

[TexasCajun]

Award Winning Journalism from Houston's only daily!

[al baby]

Did you listen to Rush today?

[Cowboy Bob]

Ehrenstein, who is black...

Is he from one of the lost tribes of Israel? :0)

[icwhatudo]

I can’t believe this paper referred to Obamma as “Obama, the Magic Negro”. They are obviously racist and in light of what happened to Imus the writer of this article should be fired. I am discusted such racism is allowed to exist in a major newspaper in this day and age.

[Jake The Goose]

Keep this is mind - Rush owns his show.

No one can fire Rush - except Rush.

[TexasCajun]

See Readers Comments at the link.

[icwhatudo]

If he can miss the context, i can too.

[raybbr]

One has to wonder where the outrage is. Why haven't there been any protests or prepared statements, press conferences or staged apologies?

Outrage over what? The fact that a black man called Obama the "magic negro"?

[SierraWasp]

"Limbaugh, who has also made a career of making controversial statements."

All in good fun, you dumbassinine liberal author with no funnybone!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!

[NavVet]

This guy’s coming late to the party. There was “outrage” for about three hours until it was pointrf out that Rush was basically doing a paradoy of The LA Times, which had written an editorial calling Hussein Obama the “magic negro”

Of course, you can’t criticize the Left Wing Media, so the story died quickly.

[kittymyrib]

Why anyone would pay a nickle for the Houston Chronic-Lib is beyond me. It is a disgrace that conservative Texas cities have nothing but the socialist-loving Austin UnAmerican Stateman, the Dallas Morning Enema, and this Houston rag to read. When they all go broke, it will be a great day for Texas.

[dforest]

Rush has been attacked and has paid. They never give him a free pass.

He just now knows how they will attack.

[TexasCajun]

I missed the part about The Today Show and this story on the 2-month old parody.

Just listened to it on the 24/7 side.

[DakotaRed]

Getting a pass? Rush? They’ve been after him for years.

If the “Barack the Magic Negro” parody really disturbs them, perhaps they need to first get the Black Journalist from the L.A. Times that coined the phrase fired.

[Dilbert San Diego]

But..... couldn’t individual stations drop Rush if they wanted to, if he got too outrageous for them?

Then again, Rush is on about 600 stations. Even if a bunch bailed on him, he would still have good coverage.

Also, isn’t his show broadcast on the internet?

The internet and satellite radio may be the things that stop the nonsense of firing someone because they said something that somebody got offended by.

[Drango]

"It's an interesting question," said David Ehrenstein, a freelance writer who wrote an essay about the "Magic Negro" for the Los Angles Times.

Talk about old news....Nowhere does this so called journalist say that the Limbaugh song is a PARODY of what the LASlimes and Ehrenstein wrote.

[kcvl]

David Ehrenstein (born February 18, 1947, in New York City) is an American critic who focuses primarily on issues of homosexuality in cinema.

His writing career started in 1965 with an interview with Andy Warhol which was published in Film Culture magazine in 1966. Ehrenstein wrote for Film Culture until 1983. During the 1960s he also wrote for December and the Village Voice. In 1976 he moved to Los Angeles with his partner Bill Reed and began work as a film critic and entertainment journalist for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

[scratcher]

LOL!!!

[RatsDawg]

Rush actually did the Magic Negro story like a week before the song came out, then when he did the song, he talked about the LA piece before he aired it.

[Argus]

Calling college women whores and crafting rape scenarios for the first lady and secretary of state are equivalent to making fun of a presidential candidate? Ain’t equality wonderful.