Is Limbaugh getting a free pass?

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

[Uncle Hal]

Rush did not coin the phrase “Magic Negro”. The author in the LA Times article used that expression first. This is a non issue.

[xcamel]

Rush has the panties of these black/white elitists is such a wad at the moment. I think he is truly enjoying watching them squirm, although today he sounded a bit annoyed over the whole bit, including the alleged ABC hit piece that is supposed to run on monday...I hope he continues to make them twist and squirm. It is also absolutely clear that the author has never even once listened to Rush’s show.

[Jake The Goose]

Rush has created an incredibly complicated financial profile for both him, his affiliates, his advertisers, and his promoters.

So complicated that it is guarded like Fort Knox.

I once saw an article that posted Rush’s corporate financial profile at $1.5b per year - all inclusive.

He is a stand along model - no one matches his business model.

[buccaneer81]

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.

Tell that to Opie and Anthony.

[Coldwater Creek]

I know Paul Shanklin, and he is NO racist! His best friend is Michael Ramirez, the political carnoonist.

The reason that Paul can speak with a perfect ‘ebonic’ dialect, is that he lives in Memphis, Tennessee,home of the Magic Negro language. A person has to speak ebonics if you are to ever get a hamburger in this town.

[newconhere]

At the end of the day who is more powerful? Sometimes I question this. Us, the people, or hmmm the media and/or the government. Scary days we live in??????

[NavVet]

True, but when Rush frist brought up the “Magic Negro” issue it was in response to the LA times article.

[RasterMaster]

Outrage over that Spike Lee coined the term....???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro

[skimask]

Two things I see here.

#1 There is NO way Sharpton wants to debate Rush.

#2 If Sharpton were stupid enough to engage Rush, he would have his lunch handed to him.

[bmwcyle]

Have you heard Rush’s show and where the words of his parody came from?

[albee]

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

If they drop Rush, they will lose 20,000,000 listeners and their advertising rates would fall below what it takes to tune up their transmitters.

Follow the money...they won't drop Rush!

[Jake The Goose]

Keep thinking that way - it’s healthy.

[kcvl]

Making fun of Christians:

"our Big Invisible Bi-Polar Daddy-in-the-Sky is treated with the utmost seriousness"

Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Sep 19, 2005 12:19:58 PM

[marron]

Actually, the parody nails Sharpton pretty accurately, because it reflects his real complaints about Obama. And it nails Ehrenstein and people like him who are the ones who came up with the whole notion.

The concept of the Magic Negro has been around for decades.

Oh, really? Among whom, exactly? My awareness of it comes from writers who analyze Hollywood race obsession, and use that as a cudgel against normal Americans. Rather like Ehrenstein has done with Obama.

Rather than reveal much about Americans in general, such writers reveal rather more about their own rather shallow obsessions.

How about paying Mr. Obama the respect of actually listening to his arguments, and anaylzing his positions on their own merit? How about that? They seem unable to do that. Here is a guy who is arguably the best of a rather listless field of Democratic candidates, and all the Dems can do is fixate on his relative skin color. How many articles have appeared in the mainstream press wondering if Obama was black enough to be black?

While we're dissecting his positions on Iraq and taxation and immigration and abortion, they are agonizing over his racial credentials.

In case anyone has failed to notice, the writers churning out this kind of dreck are invariably Democrats; the mainstream newspapers with maybe a couple of exceptions nation-wide being a Democrat party monopoly.

Limbaugh has just called them on it. He's got their number.

[BurbankKarl]

Raoul’s Next Victim no doubt.

[billhilly]

The schools of journalism are peeing their collective pants over their successes.

[gusopol3]

Imus’ advertisers were the Fortune 500 companies that had cut out on Limbaugh from day 1. Limbaugh’s advertisers don’t have to worry about that because the only people that have ever heard of them are the people that listen to Limbaugh.Same with Savage. If Imus wants to come back after he’s counted the $100 million that CBS will have to pay him, all he’ll have to do is hawk gold bullion and herbal hair restorers instead of Proctor and Gamble products, etc.

[don-o]

At the beginning of the third hour, Rush reported that the Today show was calling in and asking him to appear on Monday over this.He refused of course. Said he was sending over the skinny so they get the syory straight. (As if..)

Interesting - two drive bys on the same stale story.

[billhilly]

Discust is a powerful emotion.

[Michael.SF.]

Shanklin sings in a dialect that, we're guessing,is supposed to be ebonics, saying "dat" instead of "that"

ROFLMAO

Is this guy oh so PC or what? What an ass clown.