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May 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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And greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Tell Rush Ball, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And we're going to add a journalism school here to the Limbaugh Institute because one is sorely needed in this country.
And who better than me to tell journalists how to do their jobs?
Great to have you with us.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, those of you in my large and trusted uh audience, uh I want to beg your indulgence because there was a Chicago Tribune story yesterday on the Barack the Magic Negro parody, and it is created w this is this is uh uh May the what?
This is May the 7th.
We're over two months into this, and it's the drive-by's are just now learning about it, or at least they think they found a peg, Obama needing secret service protection.
All candidates are gonna get that uh eventually are trying to peg it to this tune, and and uh these people ought to pay for that.
I I'm telling you, I'm not gonna sit around that this is uh stuff has been going on my entire career.
Oklahoma City try to blame me for it now, all of this.
Uh we're but what about the reason why I want you to indulge me is because I'm gonna do something here that you already know, but I I'm I'm gonna conduct a little tutorial for journalists, and I might say some irrelevant rag tag radio talk show hosts in various markets who themselves are trying to make hay out of this is I want to try to help all of you for making total blithering idiots of yourselves before it's too late.
I am trying to save you for the sake of my own industry.
We're all in it together, and the more idiots there are in it, uh the less of an image broadcasting is gonna have.
So I'm I'm I'm what we're gonna do here is this.
We're gonna go back and we're gonna play this stupid moronic audio sound bite from uh Channel 13 Sacramento from this morning, their uh their morning show.
Then we are going to play Barack the Magic Negro and stop it line by line, and I'm going to translate it and I'm going to explain it for all of you.
So if you know a journalist, call them up.
Uh and if you qu if you and then we're gonna do a poll on Rush Limbaugh.com asking if the three journalists and the weather guy at KOVR 13 Sacramento, Chris Burroughs, Lisa Gonzalez, and Jeff James, are they morons who are threatening racial harmony?
You simply vote yes or no, because they're doing a poll on my song asking whether it's racist.
By the way, last time I checked, eighty-eight percent say it isn't, on their own poll.
Here, ladies and gentlemen from this morning, Channel 13, KOVR TV Sacramento, Chris Burroughs and Lisa Gonzalez, the two anchors and the weatherman Jeff James.
There is a controversy brewing here this morning, and likely will be uh hitting fever pitch as we go through the day.
Uh Rush Limbaugh's program for years and years, and when he was here in Sacramento, and since he's been national as well, has had parodies of people, song parodies, a lot of them pretty funny, but there's one out there that he's airing on his show about Barack Obama, some are calling racist.
There are groups this morning saying that not only is the song racist, but it's putting Barack Obama at increased danger.
You know, of course, last week we reported that he has uh gotten secret service protection the earliest for any presidential candidate.
Is Rush Limbaugh's Barack the Magic Negro song racist?
What do you think?
Vote online at CDS13.com.
He's had a lot of parody songs, Lisa and Jeff.
Some funnier and less sensitive than this one.
I want to hear from Rush.
I want to know why they made the song.
Kind of a timing post-IMUS here, uh a bit much summer thinking.
Wait for Rush.
Exactly.
We'll dial him up.
Uh Limbaugh doesn't make up the songs himself.
This guy named Paul Shankling, he pays him to to p play them and make them up.
Do you think these morons understand that the term magic negro has been around since Brown versus Board Board of Education?
Do you think these morons understand that it first appeared in the modern era uh uh in in all this in an LA Times op-ed piece by a black journalist.
Do you think these morons know that?
Do you think these morons know that Barack Obama has spoken about this?
He was on our affiliate in Detroit last week, WJR, Paul W. Smith, asked him the question.
I have to do this because Rush is on our station, and we'll see him tomorrow.
You heard the parody song Barack the Magic Negro?
I you know, I I have not heard it, but I've heard of it.
I I confess that I I don't listen to Rush on a daily basis.
Uh on the other hand, I'm not one of these people who uh who takes myself so seriously that uh I get offended by uh every every comment made about me.
You know the uh you know what rush does is is uh uh entertainment.
And uh although it's it's probably not something that uh you know I listen to much.
Uh I don't know.
But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then.
I you know, and why wouldn't you?
I don't mind I don't mind folks uh poking fun at me.
Uh that's part of the job.
All right, so I wonder if these people in Sacramento know that Barack Obama was asked about it, and uh his office was asked about it too, and they're eh they're la laughing it off.
So there's no controversy with them.
All right, now uh ladies and gentlemen, here is the song itself, and uh this is I'm asking the indulgence of those of you in the audience who've been listening to this for two months.
Uh but apparently there's some uh some blithering idiots who have only recently learned about this and have not, as journalists avail themselves of the opportunity to discuss and learn the context of this.
So setting it up.
Back in February, Joe Biden, a Democrat, claims that Barack Obama is good to have him on the presidential roster because finally there's somebody clean and articulate, black is clean and articulate, makes him very proud as a Democrat.
What's Biden saying?
This is a Democrat saying this.
It's my contention that the racism in this country is on the left.
It's people on the left who look at people and see their skin color, see their gender, try to find their sexual orientation.
It is they who put them into groups.
It's the left that victimizes people by making them members of groups, and then tries to stir up all this controversy or they're the ones talking about if people in my audience, if any of them ever decide to vote for Barack Obama, it's gonna be because they like his ideas.
It'll be for that reason.
This audience is not sitting around looking at these people on basis of skin color.
It's the left that's doing that.
So after Biden makes his comment about Barack being clean and articulate, Al Sharpton is reported in the New York Post to be very offended by this and very upset, and will not endorse Obama.
And he's upset about it, and he should be, because he ran for president in 2004, and Biden didn't say he was clean or articulate.
And you know what what a white person says that a black person sounds articulate, you know what they're saying?
It doesn't sound black.
It's a Democrat that did this.
Okay, so I make note of all these things.
Then the LA Times runs a couple pieces on.
Is Barack Obama black enough?
Meaning, is he down for the struggle?
He doesn't have roots to the civil rights movement in this country.
Uh all of these other things, they start wondering, is he black enough to win?
They go out interviewing black voters.
Is he black enough?
Civil rights community doesn't think he's black enough.
It's all in the LA Times, two different articles, and then comes the magic negro piece.
So call up Shanklin.
Need need this uh Barack Magic Negro song.
I want it sung to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon.
Now, for those of you who don't listen to this program, but really ought to start.
Uh we do Sharp Sharpton parodies frequently, and we always have him singing through the bullhorn because that's how he's known, leading protest marches from Tawana Brawley on through the boroughs of New York.
So that's what we do here.
We make fun of Democrats, and that's I guess something that's not uh kosher.
Uh let me take a break here so I don't get myself short-circuited on the next segment.
We come back.
I'm gonna play Barack the Magic Negro on this very program.
And we're gonna stop it line by line.
Every time I think it needs to be topped, stop to explain it to moronic journalists and others, so that you finally will have and I'm gonna destroy the whole concept of the parody.
When it has to be explained like this, it kills it.
But I'm willing to do this.
In my first day as a professor of journalism at the new Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Journalism School, because clearly there is one needed.
Coco is at poll ready to go up.
I don't know what polls ready, but we're gonna have the poll up there, by the way.
And the poll question is this are Chris Burris, Lisa Gonzalez, and Jeff James of KV K O V R Channel 13 Sacramento morons who are threatening racial harmony.
I'll let you know when it polls up.
We'll be back with the line by line explanation of Barack the Magic Negro after this.
Okay, our poll is up.
Um uh Ladies and gentlemen at WWRush Limbaugh.com.
The question are Chris Burris, Lisa Gonzalez, and Jeff James of KOVR Channel 13 Sacramento morons who are threatening racial harmony.
You can you can uh just go to the website, you don't have to log in and you don't have to be a member, you can just show up and uh and vote.
Now, before we play the Barack the Magic Negro song, uh to those of you out there for whom this is being done, I want to say one thing to you.
And I'm assuming that we have some people uh who have been brought in by this upcoming demonstration is something that you should know that you don't know if you don't listen to this program.
And that is that there is no racism on this program.
That the me and my audience, everybody associated with this program wants the best country possible.
We want people to live life to the fullest.
And we try to inspire that here.
Try to motivate it.
Try to tell people not to be affected by the constant negative doom and gloom that makes up mainstream news media reporting these days.
Everything's a crisis, everything is going to kill us.
The economy's doing horrible, there's no future in America.
All of these things uh are ridiculous.
This is the greatest country on earth, and it pains us, and it breaks my heart to see people who are not educated, motivated, inspired to access the the opportunity that this country provides and has provided since its uh founding.
It's a shame.
It is a crime.
And it is not this program that's holding anybody back.
It's quite the contrary.
We're doing our best to inspire and motivate people.
There is no excuse to tell people that they have no future in this country.
There's no excuse to tell people that they can't get where they want to get because of their skin color or because of their gender, or because of their sexual orientation.
We all have obstacles to overcome.
That takes motivation and inspiration, takes desire.
I believe that desire and passion are 80% of achievement.
And on this program, we try to inspire that uh on a daily basis.
One of the ways we do it is make fun of the people I think who are holding other people back, and that's the American left.
I think the American left in this country looks at average Americans with contempt.
Uh they don't see people with rosy futures and great opportunities.
They see people with too many obstacles to overcome.
They see people with limited intelligence and limited abilities, and thus, as liberals, they set themselves up in power in government to come up with programs to help these people, which are nothing more than disguised attempts to buy votes.
I think it's a crying shame to see anybody in this country so looked at and so treated.
This is the United States of America.
We want everybody, and I want everybody in this country to achieve and to reach their potential using whatever desire or ambition they have.
And if you listen to this program regularly, you you you would understand that.
And I mention all this only because what gets missed in all this so-called controversy that happens on this program is the context under which everything happens here.
So the final part, well, actually, there's two parts, because there's another Washington Post story today.
How big is stretch?
They've they've decided to ditch the the action line, is Obama black enough.
Now the question is, will racist whites vote for him?
That's the question.
How big is stretch?
For Barack Obama, winning the White House would mean bridging the biggest gap of all.
So the Washington Post has a story today.
He may be great, he may be articulate, but I'll tell you what, there's so many white racists in this country, can he bridge the gap?
Well, hey, Washington Post, did you forget that he's got to win the primary first, and that's only Democrat voters.
So are you maybe thinking that you got a bunch of white racists in the Democrat Party that are not going to be able to bridge the gap and vote for Obama?
Will you people in the press make up your mind about this poor man?
You think he's more upset about Barack the Magic Negro or having to read all these stories about is he black enough?
Anyway, here's the song.
I'm going to stop it periodically to explain it.
I've already done the the overall explanation, Sharpton through the bullhorn.
Remember, Sharpton's jealous.
He's upset at the time we recorded this.
He's upset because everybody's going gaga over Obama and saying there's a unique and a first in the Democratic presidential race, and he's holding his endorsement because he doesn't like this.
So here's the song.
This is the intro to the song, by the way, and this is music.
Uh and this, this is to the tune of uh Puff the Magic Dragon, which everybody knows was about marijuana, but none of that in this song.
Stop the tape.
The LA Times, David Erenstein column, Barack the Magic Negro.
The LA Times called him that.
Our lyrics explain the Genesis.
The LA Times called it because he's not authentic like Sharpton.
He's not authentic.
That means he's not down for the struggle.
We're just taking what the left says and putting it in a parody here.
And a great thing about parodies, if they're good, they're funny because there's an element of truth in all of it.
And truth is the theme of this parody.
Remember now, Sharpton singing through the through the uh bullhorn here.
A lot of people think that we're trying to make it sound like Amos and Andy.
Amos and Andy, my rear, he sings through a bullhorn on this program because that's how he's known.
Here's the next line.
Stop.
All right.
Now, this is this is so far we're at the New York Post story.
This is where uh Obama's getting all this praise, but he's been written about as a magic Negro, and he's not authentic in the LA Times.
Sharpton is authentic.
That is a word that they have asked about him in the LA Times and other liberal papers.
Is he authentic or not?
So we just use their words in the parody.
All of these words came from drive-by media reports.
And of course, the hood, I mean, that's that's just that's just uh that's the way you determine authenticity.
Obama not from the hood.
He's not down for the struggle.
Now here's the chorus line.
Stop the tape.
So Sharpton's upset.
Barack Obama getting all this praise.
He's getting all this love and adoration, but my God, we've had Snoop Daw, we've had Farrakhan, we've had Sharpton.
We've inject all these people been doing all this groundwork, laying all this groundwork.
And here comes this guy who's not authentic, and he's getting all the credit, and Al Sharpton's mad about, which is all true.
If you just find your first New York Post.
Anyway, here we go to more of it.
Hey, stop the tape.
Now, how in the world, if you are a moron, well, I guess it's because you're a moron.
When you're playing the song this morning on Channel 13 in Sacramento, how do you miss the lyric going right by you?
The LA Times, they called him that he's not authentic like me.
All of this is rooted in the truth.
The truth is reported by left-wing media types.
Joe Biden said it.
Wait a second.
Wait a interlopers, interlopers.
Sharpton called a bunch of interlopers in Harlem, Freddie's Fashion Mart, right?
The place burned to the ground.
And uh later was said that the people who own Freddy's Fashion Mart are called interlopers.
So Sharptons used the word.
We're, you know, I would love to take credit for the brilliant creativity here, but all we had to do is piece together what a bunch of liberals have been saying, and we got our lyrics.
Stop it, stop it.
Now, stop.
Now, this is a this is crucial.
In every one of our Sharpton parodies, he can't get through the whole song without starting to protest, because that's what he's known for.
Protesting through the bullhorn.
So the chorus will keep singing.
The music will keep playing, but Sharpton leaves the lyric line to start protesting, which is what he's known for.
And the things he says in his uh protest will hear coming up are simply representative of what has been said about Barack Obama by Sharpton and uh so forth early on in this.
Here, and this to me is the funniest part of song.
Now, stop the tape.
So the chorus, the producers are trying to override Sharpton's protest by turning up the volume here on the chorus because they're getting a little worried he's off the lyric line.
This is hilarious.
This is so brilliantly done.
And by the way, I've heard people say this doesn't sound like Sharpton.
It sounds exactly like Al Sharpton.
One of Paul Shanklin's best impressions is uh is Sharp.
I'm thinking of firing Shanklin just so he can show up on Oprah and uh and get even more publicity.
Hiring back after all that happens.
And we're back serving humanity, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network as usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, and it play the whole song uninterrupted, uh, ladies and gentlemen, since the explanation has gone as is part of the first lesson, the first lecture, complete with uh uh exhibits and uh displays and so forth.
We're helping with her training new journalists here today at the Limbaugh Institute.
So we now we've gone, we got a line by line to explain why it is what it is, and now for your enjoyment.
Uninterrupted, here is the entire song.
We'd like to thank Joe Biden and David Erenstein of Los Angeles Times, these three morons from KOVR 13 Sacramento, and any of The rest of you who have uh helped make this the most popular parody in EIB history.
Let's all sway to the museum.
Everyone's a winner.
Little hot chocolate on the EIB network.
Now, for those of you in the drive-by media who are taking the first lesson today for the Limbo Institute School of Journalism, here's what Obama again said about the song last week in Detroit on WJR.
I you know, I I have not heard it, but I've heard of it.
I I confess that I don't listen to Russia on a daily basis.
Uh on the other hand, I'm not one of these people who uh who takes myself so seriously that uh I get offended by uh every every comment made about me.
You know, the uh you know what Rush does is is uh uh entertainment.
And uh although it's it's probably not something that uh you know I listen to much.
Uh I don't know.
But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then.
Uh you know, why wouldn't you?
I don't mind I don't mind folks uh poking fun at me.
Uh that's part of the job.
Now, I want to help out further.
See, he's laughing about it at the beginning of the butt.
I want to help out further.
There's something else that you and the drive-by media have missed, and that is the the the precursors to the parody.
Because when the New York Post story came out, February, early March, about uh Reverend Sharpton being jealous uh of the attention that Obama is getting, we ran other parodies, not songs, but we put together some other parodies, uh, ladies and gentlemen, of Obama.
Uh well, of Sharpton, actually, and I uh you you haven't put these out.
Uh you may not know about these, so I want you to know about these so you can put these on your CBS morning shows and Media Matters for America and really light this up.
Here's we have three of them.
And we're gonna is that right, are the three of them?
We have five of them.
Well, I don't know what play all five, but here's here's we'll go in order, we'll see how it feels.
Now, again, for those of you in the drive-by media, and yeah, that's right, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Remember what started all of this?
Sharpton expressing a little anger reservation at all this gaga treatment Obama was getting.
And we simply parody that.
We parody what Democrats say and do on this program.
Contains truth.
That's what makes it funny.
Yeah, we're generating some heat here at the EIB network.
Martha Reeves and the Vandelas.
Our favorite Motown groups here, by the way.
All right.
Yeah, let's keep going.
Here's here's the third installment, ladies and for those of you in the drive-by media.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
We just heard this one.
We just that yeah, that okay, blame it on the computer, blame it on you.
Play the next one, play the next one.
We okay, that's enough.
Now you you get the idea.
So this all started, this preceded the Magic Negro parody tune, uh, all based on the news.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the real reason the drive-bys are after me on the magic negro song.
The real reason the drive-by's are after me is because I am parodying them.
I am exposing their racism.
They disguise their racism by treating uh the the stories as Barack black enough as some sort of legitimate questioner issue deserving discussion.
They're the ones asking these questions.
They're the ones calling him the magic Negro, not me.
We never talk about Barack's race here until we react to it when we see it in the drive-by media.
For the drive-by media to call what we're doing here racism, is obscene, and I am owed an apology.
If there is racism in the mix here, they have introduced it.
They are the ones who've entered in.
Here's another example of it today in the Washington Post.
How big is stretch for Barack Obama winning the White House would mean bridging the biggest gap of all.
And so they've decided to punt the whole action line of is Barack Obama black enough.
Uh the question in this story now is will racist whites vote for him.
So I guess if whites don't vote for Obama, they are racists.
And if women don't vote for Hillary, they're sexists.
Is that right?
Is that how we're supposed to this is what the drive-bys tell us that we are about.
This is how they tell us who we are.
The Washington Post, predictable, by the way.
They ask the same questions when Jesse Jackson ran back in 1984.
The thing that this reporter, this is Lynn Duke at the Washington Post, uh uh this reporter needs to understand that if Obama's gonna get the presidential nomination, he's gotta get the votes of Democrats first, because only Democrats can vote in these primaries.
So the real question is will white Democrat racists vote for Obama.
But they don't go there.
Oh no, they overlook that.
They want to make it look like something else is going on.
Now let me jump to page five here, because this is good too.
Mike Suarez, chairman of the Hillsborough County Democrat Executive Committee, uh, I guess Illinois pointed out what Obama did not say during his Tampa rally.
Now, listen to this.
This is the this is the chairman of the Hillsborough County Democrat Executive Committee.
Quote, if Obama were the quote unquote traditional black candidate, he would have said something about Don Imus.
He would have said something about the Duke LaCrosse decision.
He would have said something about Jackie Robinson.
So you have another Democrat here questioning the authenticity of the blackness of Barack Obama.
Not me.
I'm just repeating it.
And that's why they're after me on this parody song, because I am parodying them.
I am exposing their racism.
Here is uh here's here's the author of the story.
If Obama were to talk more sharply on issues of race and speak more like Jackson or Sharpton, it would bother me as far as my support, Fujo says.
It would bother me as far as I'm thinking you're not smart.
You got to be able to have everyone hear what they want to hear.
Suarez, who defines himself as a white Latino, says he expects that some whites are projecting onto Obama their perception of what a black man should be.
Less black.
This again is Mike Suarez, the chairman of the Hillsborough County Democrat Executive Committee.
And he says, this Democrat says, that he suspects whites are projecting onto Obama their perception of what a black man should be less black.
They want to take race out of it because they like him so much, they want him not to be black.
It is a Democrat executive committee chairman who is saying these things in the Washington Post.
As a Democrat or a drive-by media person has been the source for all of the information that we've put into the lyrics of any of these Sharpton parodies and the song Barack the Magic Negro, brief time out, and when they call me racist, I'm gonna I'm it's time to demand an apology,
and I'm not, by the way, folks, I'm not gonna sit here and just take it any longer and stay silent when a bunch of morons who don't even listen to this program start criticizing and ripping me and thinking all sorts of uh uh unkind things ought to happen to me, and blaming me for things that I am not responsible for.
If they want to do that after listening to the program, feel free.
But I'm not gonna sit here with a bunch of morons who don't listen, who have only one purpose, and that is to take out the next imus.
Uh they're gonna have to look somewhere else because it isn't gonna be me and it isn't gonna be you.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
And once again, I want to thank uh all of you in my trusted, large and loyal audience for indulging uh me in this full hour first ever lecture in the new Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies School of Journalism.
Uh, this has been long overdue, and I know that uh many of you, you've heard all of these things, and you understand the context, but understand that our learned journalist community is moronic and they are ignorant.
And we're doing our best here to bring them up to speed on this.
I'll tell you if I were Barack Obama, who I must tell you I admire, uh, you know, I I uh Obama is carrying himself well in this race.
He's doing he's far better than anybody thought he was gonna do raising money, he's giving Mrs. Bill Clinton a real challenge.
He's got a great temperament on this sort of thing.
He's showing mother people how to deal with this.
But if I were him, if I were his people, you know what I would do?
I really would tell the left, hey, it's about time you guys stopped with this stuff.
It's you guys who are bringing race into this.
If I were Obama, I'd call the LA Times in.
I'd call David Ahrenstein, and I'd call um I'd call this Washington Post reporter, Lynn Duke, and I'd call, you know, you guys have got to stop writing about this.
You're just fomenting all this racial stuff when I'm not even talking about it.
Because the the the racial component in this race being introduced by the left and the drive-by media, and this is a template.
You know, Harold Ford will whites vote for in those Hayseed Hicks, Tennessee.
Every time a black Democrat runs.
Well, whites vote.
Of course, when Michael Steele or uh Lynn Swan, uh, black Republicans run, nobody ever in the drive-by media asks that question.
You may have missed this one.
This goes back to 2004.
Al Sharpton, presidential candidate, 2004, Mama told him, don't go there.
She said, Don't run, Al.
Favorite line coming up, by the way, here, folks.
All right, uh, you people at KOVR Channel 13 in Sacramento, you had better take that video down off your website.
Or you are going to be in serious trouble.
That video was produced by somebody on the internet.
We do not do videos here.
We do not put pictures with our songs.
There is a video that's running, it's out there on YouTube, purportedly produced by us here at the EIB network with racial characterizations and caricatures of these people.
It's not ours.
We didn't do it.
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