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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 Baugh, 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.
Telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address, Rush at EIBNet.com.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, those of you in my large and trusted audience, 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.
This is May the what?
This is May the 7th.
We'll be March.
We're over two months into this.
And the drive-bys are just now learning about it.
Or at least they think they found a peg, Obama needing secret service protection.
All candidates are going to get that eventually.
They're trying to peg it to this tune.
And these people ought to pay for that.
I'm telling you, I'm not going to sit around that this stuff has been going on my entire career.
Oklahoma City tried to blame me for it.
Now all of this.
The reason why I want you to indulge me is because I'm going to do something here that you already know.
But I'm going to conduct a little tutorial for journalists.
And I might say some irrelevant ragtag radio talk show hosts in various markets who themselves are trying to make hay out of this.
Because I want to try to help all of you from 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, the less of an image broadcasting is going to have.
So what we're going to do here is this.
They're going to go back and we're going to play this stupid, moronic audio soundbite from Channel 13 Sacramento from this morning, 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.
And then we're going to do a poll on rushlimbaugh.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, 88% 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.
Likely we'll be hitting fever pitch as we go through the day.
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's 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 in increased danger.
You know, of course, last week we reported that he has 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 CBS13.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.
You know better once you start to even go near that line, you know, it's never a good idea.
Kind of the timing, post-Imus here, a bit much, some are thinking.
Wait more rush?
Exactly.
We'll dial him up.
Limbaugh doesn't make up the songs himself.
This guy named Paul Shanklin.
Pays him to play them and make them up.
Do you think these morons understand that the term Magic Negro has been around since Browden versus Board of Education?
Do you think these morons understand that it first appeared in the modern era 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.
You know, I have not heard it, but I've heard of it.
I confess that I don't listen to Rush on a daily basis.
On the other hand, I'm not one of these people who takes myself so seriously that I get offended by every comment made about me.
What Rush does is entertainment.
And although it's probably not something that I listen to much, I don't listen to it.
But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then.
And why wouldn't you?
I don't mind folks poking fun at me.
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 that his office was asked about it too.
And they're laughing it off.
So there's no controversy with them.
All right, now, ladies and gentlemen, here is the song itself.
And this is, I'm asking the indulgence of those of you in the audience who have been listening to this for two months.
But apparently there's some blithering idiots who have only recently learned about this and have not, as journalists, availed 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, 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 going to be because they like his ideas.
It'll be for that reason.
This audience is not sitting around looking at these people and 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?
When 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 L.A. 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.
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 L.A. Times, two different articles.
And then comes the Magic Negro piece.
So call up Shanklin.
Need this 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, we do 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 kosher.
Let me take a break here so I don't get myself short-circuited on the next segment.
We come back.
I'm going to play Barack the Magic Negro on this very program, and we're going to stop it line by line.
Every time I think it needs to be stopped to explain it to moronic journalists and others so that you finally will have, and I'm going to 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 that poll ready to go up?
I don't know that poll's ready, but we're going to have the poll up there, by the way.
And the poll question is this.
Are Chris Burris, Lisa Gonzalez, and Jeff James of KOVR Channel 13 Sacramento morons who are threatening racial harmony?
I'll let you know when that poll's up.
We'll be back with the line-by-line explanation of Barack the Magic Negro after this.
Okay, our poll is up.
Ladies and gentlemen, at www.rushlimbaugh.com, the question are Chris Burris, Lisa Gonzalez, and Jeff James of KOVR Channel 13 Sacramento morons who are threatening racial harmony.
You can just go to the website.
You don't have to log in.
You don't have to be a member.
You can just show up and vote.
Now, before we play the Barack the Magic Negro song, 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 who have been brought in by this upcoming demonstration.
It's 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.
Me, 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 is doing horrible.
There's no future in America.
All of these things 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, and inspired to access the opportunity that this country provides and has provided since its 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 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.
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 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 of it, well, actually, there's two parts because there's another Washington Post story today.
How big a stretch?
They've decided to ditch the action line, is Obama black enough?
Now the question is, will racist whites vote for him?
That's the question.
How big a 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 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.
And this is to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon, which everybody knows was about marijuana, but none of that in this song.
Stop the tape.
L.A. Times David Ehrenstein column, Barack the Magic Negro.
The L.A. Times called him that.
Our lyrics explain the genesis.
The L.A. 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 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 so far we're at the New York Post story.
This is where Obama's getting all this praise, but he's been written about as a magic Negro and he's not authentic in the L.A. Times.
Sharpton is authentic.
That is a word that they have asked about him in the L.A. 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 just, that's a 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, all these people have 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 it, which is all true.
If you just find your first New York Post anyway, here we go.
There were 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 because 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.
Now, wait a second.
Wait, interlopers, interlopers.
Sharpton called a bunch of interlopers in Harlem, Freddy's Fashion Mart, right?
The place burned to the ground.
And later was said that the people who owned Freddy's Fashion Mart were called interlopers.
So Sharpton's use the word.
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 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 to 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 protest, which you hear coming up, are simply representative of what has been said about Barack Obama by Sharpton and so forth early on in this here.
And this, to me, is the funniest part of the 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 Sharp.
It sounds exactly like Al Sharpton.
One of Paul Shanklin's best impressions is Sharp.
I'm thinking of firing Shanklin just so he can show up on Oprah and get even more publicity.
I'll hire him 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 then play the whole song uninterrupted, ladies and gentlemen.
Since the explanation is gone, as part of the first lesson, the first lecture, complete with exhibits and displays and so forth, we're helping training new journalists here today at the Limbaugh Institute.
So we've gone 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 Ehrenstein of Los Angeles Times.
These three morons from KOVR 13 Sacramento and any of the rest of you who have 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 Limbaugh Institute School of Journalism, here's what Obama again said about the song last week in Detroit on WJR.
You know, I have not heard it, but I've heard of it.
I confess that I don't listen to Rush on a daily basis.
On the other hand, I'm not one of these people who takes myself so seriously that I get offended by every comment made about me.
What Rush does is entertainment.
And although it's probably not something that I listen to much, I don't listen to it.
But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then.
And why wouldn't you?
I don't mind folks poking fun at me.
That's part of the job.
Now, I want to help out further.
He's laughing about it at the beginning of the, but I want to help out further.
There's something else that you and the drive-by media have missed, and that is the precursors to the parody.
Because when the New York Post story came out February, early March about Reverend Sharpton being jealous of the attention that Obama is getting, we ran other parodies, not songs, but we put together some other parodies, ladies and gentlemen, of Obama, well, of Sharpton, actually.
And you haven't put these out.
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.
We have three of them.
Is that right?
Are there three of them?
We have five of them.
Well, I don't know what to play all five, but 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.
It 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 the third installment, ladies.
And for those of you in the drive-by media, wait a minute, wait a minute.
just heard this one we just that yeah that that okay blame it on the computer Blame it on.
Play the next one.
Play the next one.
Okay, that's enough.
Now, you get the idea.
So this all started, this preceded the Magic Negro parody tune, 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-bys are after me is because I am parodying them.
I am exposing their racism.
They disguise their racism by treating the stories of Barack Black Enough as some sort of legitimate question or 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 have entered.
Here's another example of it today in the Washington Post.
How big a 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?
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 asked the same questions when Jesse Jackson ran back in 1984.
The thing that this reporter, this is Lynn Duke at the Washington Post, this reporter needs to understand that if Obama is going to get the presidential nomination, he's got to 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, I think it's Illinois, pointed out what Obama did not say during his Tampa rally.
Now, listen to this.
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 Imos.
He would have said something about the Duke La Crosse 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'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, Fueo 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 timeout.
And when they call me racist, it's time to demand an apology.
And I'm not, by the way, folks, I'm not going to 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 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 going to sit here when a bunch of morons who don't listen, who have only one purpose, and that is to take out the next Imis.
They're going to have to look somewhere else because it isn't going to be me and it isn't going to be you.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
And once again, I want to thank all of you in my trusted, large, and loyal audience for indulging me in this full hour first ever lecture in the new Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies School of Journalism.
This has been long overdue, and I know that 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, you know, Obama is carrying himself well in this race.
He's doing these far better than anybody thought he was going to 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 Ehrenstein, and 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 racial component in this race is being introduced by the left and the drive-by media.
And this is a template.
You know, Harold Ford, well, whites vote for him.
Those Hayseed Hicks, Tennessee.
Every time a black Democrat runs, well, whites vote.
Of course, when Michael Steele or Lynn Swan, 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 out.
Favorite line coming up, by the way, here, folks.
All right.
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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