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'Today’ Show to Report on Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro’’ Parody
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Posted on 05/19/2007 5:29:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: ReignOfError

Thanks, much.

Don’t give up on the talk radio format. Not all are Us vs. Them all the time. Many are cultural and thought-inspiring, rather than the daily grind of politics.

Dennis Prager
Dennis Miller
Neal Boortz


21 posted on 05/19/2007 6:46:54 PM PDT by IslandJeff
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To: Sub-Driver
wiki---->>> The magical negro (sometimes called the mystical negro, magic negro, or our Magical African-American Friend) is a stock character who appears in fiction of a variety of media. The word "negro", now considered archaic and offensive, is used intentionally to emphasize the belief that the archetype is a racist throwback, an update of the "Sambo" stereotype.[1] The term was popularized by Spike Lee, who dismissed the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro"[2] in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University[3] and at Yale University.[4]
22 posted on 05/19/2007 6:59:50 PM PDT by dennisw ("Libertarianism is applied autism" - Steve Sailer)
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To: Balding_Eagle

It’s one of those phrases where it is perfectly OK for a minority member to use the term, but if a white person uses it, they are considered racist.


23 posted on 05/19/2007 7:13:14 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Sub-Driver

another NBC hit job on a conservative.


24 posted on 05/19/2007 7:15:39 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: Sub-Driver

All-out warfare aginst the right.

Rush better be careful- he might get washed out to sea if the hurricane hits him next.


25 posted on 05/19/2007 7:28:56 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
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To: finnman69

WHAT? Are you crazy? I LOVED Magic Johnson almost as much as I loved Larry Bird!!
Now that Magic is an old fart, as am I ..
I can finally admit it!
Those 80’s Celtics/Lakers games were the Best Rivalry in history.


26 posted on 05/19/2007 7:30:51 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: Kirkwood
if a white person uses it, they are considered racist.

That's why we're itching for a fight from someone who can win. I imagine you are too. This could be sweet.

27 posted on 05/19/2007 7:31:37 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: IslandJeff

He used it as well, it came from the LA Times article from a black columnist re: Obama, that’s why the parody was done (along with other articles in media asking if he was black enough and Al dissing him for claiming Selma/Obama not really being down for the struggle).

A while back I was on a Chicago blog and checking out a post re: Black Commentary Mag or some black mag, where they accused him of lying three times in each book and the reprint of the old one changed after the Dem Conv. Speech. Two people were on that lived in the area where Obama started out his ‘neighborhood’ work and one complained he had not one black person there (I don’t know for sure), after getting harassed about it, he moved his office to a ‘different neighborhood’, where the wrong people wouldn’t harass him.


28 posted on 05/19/2007 7:34:21 PM PDT by AliVeritas (I see the men and women on the battlefield... where are the men and women here?)
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To: NonValueAdded

Exactly. It was about Rev. Al. I bet all those who’re whining didn’t listen or check their own news from that period. They don’t care, even though they know the slamming Al constantly gave him after Selma.


29 posted on 05/19/2007 7:36:20 PM PDT by AliVeritas (I see the men and women on the battlefield... where are the men and women here?)
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To: acapesket

P.S. the “Magic Negro” term came out of the Supreme Court Decision Brown Vs. The Board of Education. 1954 I learned that in Public School in 1966.
I don’t know how to excerpt so “Wiki” me That!
see rushlimbaugh.com there’s a whole side of that Informative website that is free.
Have good one! I am off to beddy bye...
oh no! that may be construed as rascist too.. should I include bugs or something?
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30 posted on 05/19/2007 7:39:11 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: IslandJeff

Hugh Hewitt is my current favorite, because he keeps a sense of humor, veers from politics into art and culture every now and then, and as two law professors on every week to debate legal issues — something few talk hosts do. Most of the time, the news doesn’t notice the judicial branch unless there’s a SCOTUS vacancy.

Prager is more reasonable than most. Boortz ... well, I’m from Atlanta, his home base, so I grew up listening to him. I have to give him props for being his own man, in no one’s pocket. But after so many years, the odds aren’t great that I’ll turn on his show and hear him say anything I haven’t heard before.

Dennis Miller isn’t carried in Atlanta, as far as I’ve managed to find. Miller is a smart, funny guy, and he has about enough material for a really sharp hour-long stand-up show every six months — but his talk-show outings, from Fox to HBO to MSNBC, have been pretty weak. Especially on MSNBC, when he decided to have a chimp sidekick and not to have a studio audience, but encourage the floor crew to laugh loudly, like Tom Snyder. You kinda have to wonder what he was smoking.

I haven’t caught his radio show, but with the right co-host and good guests and callers, it might work.


31 posted on 05/19/2007 7:43:20 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: acapesket
P.S. the “Magic Negro” term came out of the Supreme Court Decision Brown Vs. The Board of Education. 1954 I learned that in Public School in 1966.

I don’t know how to excerpt so “Wiki” me That!

I also don't know how to excerpt something that isn't there. The word "magic" does not appear in the Brown opinion. Where you got the idea that the Supreme Court coined the term, I have no earthly idea.

32 posted on 05/19/2007 7:53:34 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError

Hewitt is one of my favorites, too, but suffers from being in the bag for Romney far too early in the cycle.

He does, indeed, have the best regular guests, from the sublime Steyn and Gaffney to the insufferable Campbell and Chemerinsky.

American politics isn’t martinis at Harvard.


33 posted on 05/19/2007 7:56:54 PM PDT by IslandJeff
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To: ReignOfError

As I said, I don’t know how to excerpt.
I have a life that does not allow me time to learn new things.. yet.
Since you refuse to go to the Rush source that I quoted, figure it out for yourself.


34 posted on 05/19/2007 8:02:40 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: acapesket

I went to the per curiam (unanimous) opinion in Brown v. Board of Education. The phrase does not appear therein.

I’ve figured it out. I’ve figured out that you’re making stuff up.


35 posted on 05/19/2007 8:09:35 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: acapesket
Obama the Magic Negro

Everybody seems to miss the editorial in the LA times that started this.
36 posted on 05/19/2007 8:09:42 PM PDT by Sundog (envision whirled peas.)
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To: IslandJeff
Hewitt is one of my favorites, too, but suffers from being in the bag for Romney far too early in the cycle.

Well, he's got a book to sell. I'm not sure if he's in the bag for Romney because he wrote the book, or vise versa, but it's definitely irksome. Hewitt is at his best when there's not an active election campaign, and he can focus on the stuff that other folks don't.

37 posted on 05/19/2007 8:12:17 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError

He’s still great, and runs a great show, regardless.

I could do without “movie hour” on Fridays, but that’s his thing.

Have a great weekend. I think I might be about to be banned.


38 posted on 05/19/2007 8:16:53 PM PDT by IslandJeff
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To: Sub-Driver

Even Al Step-n-fetch said it was no big deal.

Pray for W and Our Troops


39 posted on 05/19/2007 8:19:36 PM PDT by bray (The co-clintons freed more terrorists than they killed)
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To: Sub-Driver

The liberals are searching for anyway they can to “imus-cize” Rush.


40 posted on 05/19/2007 8:23:29 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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