I guess calling him a halfrican american wasn't enough. Rush is a scumbag in general anyway.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/rad...390471131.html
THE US radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh is taunting the liberal media by repeatedly airing a derogatory and racially charged song about the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Limbaugh, whose right-wing talk show is one of the most listened to in the US, has been playing a song called
Barack the Magic Negro, to the tune of
Puff the Magic Dragon.
On his show Limbaugh says he is an entertainer and the song is a parody. He justifies it by saying the first linkage of the term "magic negro" to Senator Obama was by a black commentator, David Ehrenstein, in the liberal
Los Angeles Times.
Limbaugh said liberals upset about the term should know that "magic negro" is a historical cultural term, a reference to benevolent blacks portrayed in old films.
Another shock jock, Don Imus, was sacked last month after making racially and sexually demeaning remarks about a university women's basketball team.
Senator Obama's campaign team described the song as dumb. Senator Obama, who could become America's first black president, said he had not heard the song but had heard about it. He played down the row, saying that he did not take himself so seriously that he became offended by every comment made about him.
Karl Frisch, a spokesman for Media Matters, a US monitoring group, said he did not see a difference between Limbaugh and Imus, and accused Limbaugh of inflaming his audience. Mr Frisch described the song as being consistent with previous comments by Limbaugh, such as referring to Mr Obama as "Halfrican American".
The song was first aired in March, and there had been a lot of internet traffic, Mr Frisch said. The mainstream US media had been slow to respond but were now taking notice.
Senator Obama was last week given Secret Service protection after threats appeared on white supremacist websites.
The CBS News website this week blocked all readers' comments about Senator Obama.
