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		<title>Rush, the Racist Bigot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a song I wrote in 2007, all about the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s use of the &#8220;parody&#8221; song, &#8220;Barack, the Magic Negro,&#8221; set to the tune of Peter, Paul &#38; Mary&#8217;s iconic &#8220;Puff, the Magic Dragon.&#8221; Rush Limbaugh has a way of insinuating that he isn&#8217;t a racist because he didn&#8217;t &#8220;come up with&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a song I wrote in 2007, all about the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s use of the &#8220;parody&#8221; song, &#8220;<a href="http://milkriver.blogspot.com/2010/01/com-when-will-these-people-evaporate.html" target="_blank">Barack, the Magic Negro</a>,&#8221; set to the tune of Peter, Paul &amp; Mary&#8217;s iconic &#8220;Puff, the Magic Dragon.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Rush Limbaugh has a way of insinuating that he isn&#8217;t a racist because he didn&#8217;t &#8220;come up with&#8221; the term &#8220;<a href="http://theblacksentinel.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/isnt-that-the-magic-negro-calling-the-negro-dialect-offensive/" target="_blank">magic negro</a>,&#8221; or that he&#8217;s protected by satire laws. But this is too simple an argument, the modern equivalent of  &#8221;Well, I can tell racist jokes because I have black friends.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since Obama&#8217;s election as President, Rush&#8217;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 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/search/index?qstring=Rush+LImbaugh&amp;x=0&amp;y=0" target="_blank">Media Matters</a> to see what he&#8217;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&#8217;d like to have it for your very own, you can download by right-clicking (or control-clicking on a mac) <a href="http://www.michaelfaulkner.us/Media/Audio/rush.mp3">here</a> and selecting &#8220;download linked file&#8221; or something similar depending on your browser (I use <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html" target="_blank">Firefox</a>).</p>
<p>LYRICS:</p>
<p>Oh Rush, the racist bigot</p>
<p>Spews hatred with glee</p>
<p>In direct relation to</p>
<p>His growing irrelevancy</p>
<p>Rush the racist bigot</p>
<p>Has lost his market share</p>
<p>His last book tanked, TV show stank</p>
<p>Yet he’s still on the air</p>
<p>Little Donnie Imus went <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/12/national/main2675273.shtml">out on a limb</a></p>
<p>Calling b-ball players hos got his butt handed to him</p>
<p>Limbaugh took a lesson from this fateful play</p>
<p>Thinking he could cause his own scandal and bring ratings his way, oh…</p>
<p>Oh Rush, the racist bigot</p>
<p>Spews hatred with glee</p>
<p>In direct relation to</p>
<p>His growing irrelevancy</p>
<p>Rush the racist bigot</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh/" target="_blank">oxycontin</a> haze</p>
<p>Trying to outdo himself</p>
<p>In more outrageous ways</p>
<p>So Rush found a new target in candidate Barack</p>
<p>And started playing a silly song to distract you from Iraq</p>
<p>But no one really listened, causing poor Limbaugh to whine</p>
<p>And play it over and over again some thirty million times</p>
<p>Then some fancy bloggers made a tape and posted it</p>
<p>Rush he had to smile now someone finally gave a shit</p>
<p>Ask yourself why Donnie Imus said one thing and lost his job</p>
<p>Rush has done worse ten thousand times and folks just wink and nod</p>
<p>Oh Rush, the racist bigot</p>
<p>Has to hate so he can earn</p>
<p>The big bucks &#8211; still, he’ll never match</p>
<p>The audience of Stern</p>
<p>Me I’m a nobody</p>
<p>On a website few do know</p>
<p>But if Rush ever responds to this</p>
<p>You’ll know it’s truth I tell, Oh….</p>
<p>Rush, the racist bigot</p>
<p>Spews hatred with glee</p>
<p>In direct relation to</p>
<p>His growing irrelevancy</p>
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