Rush, the Racist Bigot
Written by TheFaulkner on September 5, 2009 – 7:19 pm -[podcast]http://michaelfaulkner.us/Media/Audio/rush.mp3[/podcast]
Here’s a song I wrote in 2007, all about the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s use of the “parody” song, “Barack, the Magic Negro,” set to the tune of Peter, Paul & Mary’s iconic “Puff, the Magic Dragon.”
Rush Limbaugh has a way of insinuating that he isn’t a racist because he didn’t “come up with” the term “magic negro,” or that he’s protected by satire laws. But this is too simple an argument, the modern equivalent of “Well, I can tell racist jokes because I have black friends.”
Since Obama’s election as President, Rush’s racism and hatred have been on even greater display. All of the clips of Rush actually using racist language in the song are from broadcasts prior to the Presidential campaign of 2008 entering full swing. One only has to visit Media Matters to see what he’s been up to lately, including advocating a re-do of the civil war. Is there really any question left? Enjoy the song. If you’d like to have it for your very own, you can download by right-clicking (or control-clicking on a mac) here and selecting “download linked file” or something similar depending on your browser (I use Firefox).
LYRICS:
Oh Rush, the racist bigot
Spews hatred with glee
In direct relation to
His growing irrelevancy
Rush the racist bigot
Has lost his market share
His last book tanked, TV show stank
Yet he’s still on the air
Little Donnie Imus went out on a limb
Calling b-ball players hos got his butt handed to him
Limbaugh took a lesson from this fateful play
Thinking he could cause his own scandal and bring ratings his way, oh…
Oh Rush, the racist bigot
Spews hatred with glee
In direct relation to
His growing irrelevancy
Rush the racist bigot
In an oxycontin haze
Trying to outdo himself
In more outrageous ways
So Rush found a new target in candidate Barack
And started playing a silly song to distract you from Iraq
But no one really listened, causing poor Limbaugh to whine
And play it over and over again some thirty million times
Then some fancy bloggers made a tape and posted it
Rush he had to smile now someone finally gave a shit
Ask yourself why Donnie Imus said one thing and lost his job
Rush has done worse ten thousand times and folks just wink and nod
Oh Rush, the racist bigot
Has to hate so he can earn
The big bucks – still, he’ll never match
The audience of Stern
Me I’m a nobody
On a website few do know
But if Rush ever responds to this
You’ll know it’s truth I tell, Oh….
Rush, the racist bigot
Spews hatred with glee
In direct relation to
His growing irrelevancy
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