This has been playing on Rush for weeks and weeks. TPM,
welcome to my world; radio, that is. They put a video together of Rush's latest racist
worsts, so I couldn't resist offering it up.
Wingnut radio and Fox “News” have been switching back and forth between
smearing and swiftboating Mr. Obama for weeks. Part of Rush's inspiration came
from LA Times.
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .
The rest came from the basic racist vein in the Republican Party.
But with due respect to Greg Sargent, it's really not about what Republican
goes on Rush Limbaugh. It's also not about targeting advertisers, with due respect
to the commenters over at TPM. Rush is one of the untouchable Republicans who
is too powerful to attack with any real outcome unless he burns a flag or something
and even then I'm not so sure it would matter. The only offense is to give Rush
the coverage he deserves, which is to mock his political impotence. Nobody in
the Republican Party pays any attention whatsoever to Rush's philosophies or
suggestions. They use Rush, his show and his audience, period, and
he lets them do it because he has to. It's the most toxic codependent relationship
in politics. Rush's reward is money. That's the only god he worships. Oh, and
maybe Titleist, too.
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