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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Rush is over the top...again
After Imus' recent firing, Rush Limbaugh is playing a song called, "Barak the magic negro" and no one seems to mind. Absurd
Far be it from me to support Rush, but this song sounds like it might be politically motivated and based on a defined literary archetype (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro). Definitely not something you could say about Imus's comment. That said, I haven't heard the song and Rush may be the world's worst racist for all I know. I'm just saying that there *might* be a legit reason that he wasn't kicked off the air for that one.
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Far be it from me to support Rush, but this song sounds like it might be politically motivated and based on a defined literary archetype (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro). Definitely not something you could say about Imus's comment. That said, I haven't heard the song and Rush may be the world's worst racist for all I know. I'm just saying that there *might* be a legit reason that he wasn't kicked off the air for that one.
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