Amazing how unsophisticated liberals are. They are so pathetic that they don't even grasp that it is a dead-on impersonation of Al Sharpton. They also apparently didn't know that Joe Biden called Obama "new and clean" or that the WHOLE song is a parody of what a LIBERAL BLACK GAY guy wrote about Barack. Don't reporters have the internet? It would take about 2 minutes of research to get this information before writing a completely baseless, useless easily refuted article.
I think you are 180 degrees off the mark on that one, and are not giving them the credit of their coniving abilities. They know exactly what it is in reality (as you describe). But they also believe that maybe they can make an issue of it and get Rush PC'd out like Imus. No, they see this as an opportunity, nothing more.
e-mail the writer here: andrew.guy@chron.com
They get the internet. The story was essentially emailed to them by David Brock.