Rush will once again prove that the left owns racism
Purple Hawk
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I give it four days, this thread falls to the bottom and on Thursday, some drone who gets all their news from the huffington post will say that Rush is calling Osama Obama (Kennedy 2006) a "magic negro."
it's things like this, is why "we" listen.
Liberal Calls Obama "Magic Negro"
March 19, 2007
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: There's a fascinating story in the LA Times today. Get this headline. Who wrote this? David Ehrenstein is his name. He's LA-based, and "writes about Hollywood and politics." The headline of his column: "Obama, the 'Magic Negro.'"
I kid you not!
"As every carbon-based life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters -- musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House. But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the 'Magic Negro.' The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. 'He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,' reads the description on Wikipedia. … He's there to assuage white 'guilt' (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest."
The problem, Ehrenstein says, is he's not real. Al Sharpton's real, Snoop Dogg is real, but Barack Obama is not real. He's just there to assuage white guilt. In other words, the only reason Obama is anywhere is because whites are willing to support him because they feel so guilty over slavery. Now, before you reject this, Shelby Steele has written a great book about the whole concept of "White Guilt" and how it is allowing our society to become more and more passive about any number of transgressions that the country has made from its inception. Here's the close: "Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."
So, those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein is making. You're attempting to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama, is worthless, because you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a "real black." As Biden said, he's "clean," and "articulate." What else did he say? Good-looking, articulate, one of the first. But he's not real. This is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the Drive-By Media. In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton or you've gotta be a Snoop Dogg. You gotta be a Ludacris or something like that. Obama can't possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him and we don't want to know anything about him. The only thing that matters is he's black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. There is white racism out there, much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.
"Now, let me ask you a question. The term "magic negro" has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008, and the term magic negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein. Do you think, if I keep referring to Obama as "the magic negro" from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and/or heat for this? Magic negro. It is a term, and it's exactly as described here. Its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support. But in Barack's case, it's only because he isn't a "real black." The LA Times, by the way, is not first with these types of columns. The LA Times has two or three columns like this: "Is Barack Obama Black Enough?" And so forth. So there's a racist component out there on the editorial page of the LA Times that's obsessed with the race of Barack Obama -- and as with all leftists, while they are obsessed with race, they're accusing everybody else of being racists.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
So, those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein is making. You're attempting to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama, is worthless, because you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a "real black." As Biden said, he's "clean," and "articulate." What else did he say? Good-looking, articulate, one of the first. But he's not real. This is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the Drive-By Media. In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton or you've gotta be a Snoop Dogg. You gotta be a Ludacris or something like that. Obama can't possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him and we don't want to know anything about him. The only thing that matters is he's black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. There is white racism out there, much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.
Now, let me ask you a question. The term "magic negro" has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008, and the term magic negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein. Do you think, if I keep referring to Obama as "the magic negro" from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and/or heat for this? Magic negro. It is a term, and it's exactly as described here. Its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support. But in Barack's case, it's only because he isn't a "real black." The LA Times, by the way, is not first with these types of columns. The LA Times has two or three columns like this: "Is Barack Obama Black Enough?" And so forth. So there's a racist component out there on the editorial page of the LA Times that's obsessed with the race of Barack Obama -- and as with all leftists, while they are obsessed with race, they're accusing everybody else of being racists.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: This piece by David Ehrenstein in the LA Times today, "Obama the 'Magic Negro,'" it's just infuriating. It is the left that continues to besmirch these people. It's the left that continues to question their so-called authenticity. These people are all human beings. I don't care if it's Sharpton or if it's Reverend Jackson, these people are all human beings. Some of them are in the race business, I understand that. But look at who it is that keeps focusing on whether they're authentic enough, authenticity based on skin color. Who is it doing this? It's the left. I got a suggestion for of those at the LA Times. Let's cut to the chase. Go get an old-fashioned auction block and put it in the town square, put it somewhere where it looks like it's real, and just bring all these black people up there and auction them off and find out who it is that sells for the highest price.
That's essentially what you're doing with all of these nonsensical categorizations: Obama is not black enough. Obama is not down for the struggle. Obama doesn't have a legitimate civil rights background. Obama's ears don't look like a black person's ears. They're too big. Obama doesn't sound like a black person. He's clean and articulate. It's the left saying all these things. Now he's the "magic negro," which is just a convenient trick for the LA Times to blame a bunch of white people for being racists. Okay, just get an auction block and grab as many blacks as you want to put 'em up there and let's start the sales, LA Times, and let's see who it is that fetches the highest price. Isn't that essentially the way they're approaching this? These human beings are simply commodities, and they are there for some purpose other than their own human existence. If you doubt the racism and the groupthink and the superiority of the leftists in this country, you'd be making a grave error.
END TRANSCRIPT
it's things like this, is why "we" listen.
Liberal Calls Obama "Magic Negro"
March 19, 2007
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: There's a fascinating story in the LA Times today. Get this headline. Who wrote this? David Ehrenstein is his name. He's LA-based, and "writes about Hollywood and politics." The headline of his column: "Obama, the 'Magic Negro.'"
I kid you not!
"As every carbon-based life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters -- musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House. But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the 'Magic Negro.' The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. 'He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,' reads the description on Wikipedia. … He's there to assuage white 'guilt' (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest."
The problem, Ehrenstein says, is he's not real. Al Sharpton's real, Snoop Dogg is real, but Barack Obama is not real. He's just there to assuage white guilt. In other words, the only reason Obama is anywhere is because whites are willing to support him because they feel so guilty over slavery. Now, before you reject this, Shelby Steele has written a great book about the whole concept of "White Guilt" and how it is allowing our society to become more and more passive about any number of transgressions that the country has made from its inception. Here's the close: "Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."
So, those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein is making. You're attempting to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama, is worthless, because you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a "real black." As Biden said, he's "clean," and "articulate." What else did he say? Good-looking, articulate, one of the first. But he's not real. This is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the Drive-By Media. In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton or you've gotta be a Snoop Dogg. You gotta be a Ludacris or something like that. Obama can't possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him and we don't want to know anything about him. The only thing that matters is he's black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. There is white racism out there, much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.
"Now, let me ask you a question. The term "magic negro" has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008, and the term magic negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein. Do you think, if I keep referring to Obama as "the magic negro" from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and/or heat for this? Magic negro. It is a term, and it's exactly as described here. Its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support. But in Barack's case, it's only because he isn't a "real black." The LA Times, by the way, is not first with these types of columns. The LA Times has two or three columns like this: "Is Barack Obama Black Enough?" And so forth. So there's a racist component out there on the editorial page of the LA Times that's obsessed with the race of Barack Obama -- and as with all leftists, while they are obsessed with race, they're accusing everybody else of being racists.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
So, those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein is making. You're attempting to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama, is worthless, because you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a "real black." As Biden said, he's "clean," and "articulate." What else did he say? Good-looking, articulate, one of the first. But he's not real. This is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the Drive-By Media. In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton or you've gotta be a Snoop Dogg. You gotta be a Ludacris or something like that. Obama can't possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him and we don't want to know anything about him. The only thing that matters is he's black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. There is white racism out there, much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.
Now, let me ask you a question. The term "magic negro" has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008, and the term magic negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein. Do you think, if I keep referring to Obama as "the magic negro" from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and/or heat for this? Magic negro. It is a term, and it's exactly as described here. Its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support. But in Barack's case, it's only because he isn't a "real black." The LA Times, by the way, is not first with these types of columns. The LA Times has two or three columns like this: "Is Barack Obama Black Enough?" And so forth. So there's a racist component out there on the editorial page of the LA Times that's obsessed with the race of Barack Obama -- and as with all leftists, while they are obsessed with race, they're accusing everybody else of being racists.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: This piece by David Ehrenstein in the LA Times today, "Obama the 'Magic Negro,'" it's just infuriating. It is the left that continues to besmirch these people. It's the left that continues to question their so-called authenticity. These people are all human beings. I don't care if it's Sharpton or if it's Reverend Jackson, these people are all human beings. Some of them are in the race business, I understand that. But look at who it is that keeps focusing on whether they're authentic enough, authenticity based on skin color. Who is it doing this? It's the left. I got a suggestion for of those at the LA Times. Let's cut to the chase. Go get an old-fashioned auction block and put it in the town square, put it somewhere where it looks like it's real, and just bring all these black people up there and auction them off and find out who it is that sells for the highest price.
That's essentially what you're doing with all of these nonsensical categorizations: Obama is not black enough. Obama is not down for the struggle. Obama doesn't have a legitimate civil rights background. Obama's ears don't look like a black person's ears. They're too big. Obama doesn't sound like a black person. He's clean and articulate. It's the left saying all these things. Now he's the "magic negro," which is just a convenient trick for the LA Times to blame a bunch of white people for being racists. Okay, just get an auction block and grab as many blacks as you want to put 'em up there and let's start the sales, LA Times, and let's see who it is that fetches the highest price. Isn't that essentially the way they're approaching this? These human beings are simply commodities, and they are there for some purpose other than their own human existence. If you doubt the racism and the groupthink and the superiority of the leftists in this country, you'd be making a grave error.
END TRANSCRIPT
And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
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that's my opinion.
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now you're sounding like those ignoramouses who mock the 911 conspiracies!
indeed, i am addicted to hate-mongering
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
hawk, you're a smart guy, why do you need to shield your ideas with the likes of limbaugh or anyone else?
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i'm not shielding them...i admire him and other "fringe right wing neo cons" for their approach...I guarantee you that if this thread falls, someone who didn't read it will, in a couple days, say that rush is calling obama a "magic negro"
it's not that i'm shielding my ideas...i'm using his tactics to highlight my point of view. the hypocrisy of the media, and more than anything, the lazyness of people to pursue the truth.
I called coulter out last week for her stupid joke...i think it's embarrassing that left wing people aren't calling this idiot from the LA tims out for his racist comments. it's even more embarrassing that rush will eventually be assigned the blame for those comments...
i appreciate you calling me smart
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
You're missing the boat, I think. Your own sight should allow you to see the crap that is Rush Limbaugh. It isn't PC that is the deciding factor here, it is the clown shows that go on for we the public to determine what is PC. And that doesn't just entail being polite.
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That's where we disagree....i thought the same thoughts when getting the pj newsletter that told me I was an idiot, and that I should read howard zinn, chomsky, roy, and similar vacant heads, even though i had already read them. the feelings you have towards my sources i can guarantee you, pale in comparison to my views towards the aforementioned sources.
the world you live in treats absolute whack jobs like chomsky as brilliant and limbaugh as extreme...i have a different point of view. i'm a right wing whacko, so what, i believe what i belive. i'm just offering a respectful opposition.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
This is where we disagree. I wouldn't call you a right-wing whacko, but if that's the game you wanna play, go with it. I think you would be more effective just being yourself. It's tough in this forum sometimes to get an original idea across, lord knows, I know, but I bet you're filled with them.
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To me, Obama is a man who makes sense. I'm not going to vote for him because he's a "magic negro", I'm going to vote for him because, to me, he makes sense.
I have no feelings of guilt over slavery, thank you very much.
What a silly fukin argument, in this day and age.
I post in this forum b/c i'm interested in the other side, and i'm interested in people who are passionate about their beliefs...politics is my passion, and I hate it when people capitulate for the sake of being liked, and you don't find that here...which is why i love it. I'm not really interested in posting on boards that espouse my opinions...i already know what I think.
I AM being myself here. I cite Rush and Glenn Beck b/c I agree with what they say, and i think they are mischaracterized by huffington, et al....and I'm saying they aren't the hate mongers any people believe them to be. I'm just getting the discussion rolling
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
did you even read my original post?
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
You're being a follower. You can do better.
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....but I have had 9 beers, and it's almost 11 pm here in Bu York.
How 'bout I just hide away for a day or two and then come back in here and have a good laugh over what I shouldn't have said, hm?
*goes back and reads the final paragraphs of what Rush has to say*
Oh. Okay, I get it now. But I don't think it's just the left that discredits Obama (or Jackson, et.al). The right seems to be doing a nice (albeit not as loud) job too.
what does that have to do with the content of the post?
Not that I was EVER in that place
9 beers? no whiskey?
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
there is no content to the post.
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mega dittos
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
like i said, get back to me in 4 days when some brain-washed idiot quotes the huffington post saying that Rush coined the term "magic negro."
seriously.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
No whiskey, just beer....I've learned MY lesson, heh heh.
Whiskey makes me fight silly arguments that I can't understand in the morning. Wink, wink.
I'm not seeing it, unless you post under another username.
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Funny, whiskey makes me articulate my arguments that brew within my head that I can't understand throughout the regular day. wink wink
i do admit, i prefer vodka
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
yeah...well, it's not thursday. wait until then. i guarantee someone on the left will say that rush coined the phrase magic negro.
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
who gives a rats ass anyway?
stop being a dumbass or i'll bomb your country.
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that was actually pretty funny
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Oh, and that reminds me: How dare Rush Limbaugh "coin the phrase" magic negro?
See? I was reading.
again, that is a funny post
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Bill Clinton gets a call from Hillary on Air Force One while flying over Russia with Boris Yeltsin. Boris answers the phone, he doesn't know what to do. They've got call girls on the plane. Bill tells Boris to tell Hillary he's busy at the bar slamming a Black Russian.
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We're quite the comedians tonight! Must be we're all looking for our 15 minutes, eh gue?
uh, its a helluva lot funnier with the voices...i heard it on a morning show radio program way back when. The "wild Bill" series. he was constantly toking weed.
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