omfg - this is hilarious.
Rush has a link to the latest song parody by Paul Shanklin if it doesn't play via link above.
The magical negro is typically "in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint," often a janitor or prisoner. He has no past; he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist. He is the black stereotype, "prone to criminality and laziness." To counterbalance this, he has some sort of magical power, "rather vaguely defined but not the sort of thing one typically encounters." They are patient and wise, often dispensing various words of wisdom, and are "closer to the earth."
Did Rush jump the shark? Will Detroit burn as if they won an NBA title? Stay tuned. I suspect we haven't heard the last of this.
Today from the WSJ. Maybe not so magic after all? Or just not a soft touch?
Sen. Barack Obama had just come off the Senate floor last Thursday, rushing to get to New Hampshire for a weekend of campaigning for president, when his office patched through a call to his cellphone. On the other end was a long-lost high-school friend, Keith Kakugawa, calling from a pay phone in a rundown part of Los Angeles. Mr. Kakugawa was homeless and fresh from a California state prison facility after a third drug-related conviction.
The unexpected phone call marked the surprising re-emergence of a friend from Mr. Obama's past, one of the most compelling characters in Mr. Obama's best-selling memoir of his struggle with his racial identity. In "Dreams From My Father," Mr. Obama described Mr. Kakugawa -- half-black and half-Japanese and native Hawaiian -- as an older-brother figure to Mr. Obama at their exclusive, mostly white Honolulu high school. The two bonded, Mr. Obama wrote, "due in no small part to the fact that together we made up almost half of Punahou's black high school population," in a student body of about 1,700. Mr. Obama called Mr. Kakugawa "Ray" in the book to protect his privacy.
...Mr. Kakugawa said he was struggling and needed help. Later, he summarized the exchange as "short, sweet and to the point. He really acted like he didn't have a lot of time to spend with me." Mr. Obama said he had to get to New Hampshire for a weekend of campaigning, according to Mr. Kakugawa, and cautioned him against talking to reporters.
Mr. Obama declined to be interviewed about the conversation but said in an earlier interview that he recently became aware that Mr. Kakugawa had "serious issues."
A campaign spokesman confirms the two men talked, adding, "It was a nice conversation between folks that knew each other a long time ago."
At Mr. Obama's suggestion, Mr. Kakugawa says, he called Devorah Adler, a campaign researcher who maintains contacts with Obama family and friends who might get press inquiries, to advise them and act as a go-between. Tensions rose when Mr. Kakugawa asked for some money to be wired to him via Western Union, according to both him and Ms. Adler. Ms. Adler brought in senior adviser Robert Gibbs, and together they phoned Mr. Kakugawa last Saturday.
That really isn't very funny. Sorry. This, however, IS pretty funny.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03232007/news/regionalnews/rudy_judis_bombshell_regionalnews_andrea_peyser_and_maggie_haberman.htm
Posted by: Telly | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 01:17 PM
Who cares about his wife or marriages? Geesh, only the libs it seems.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 01:29 PM
Uh huh. You guys are running out of choices. I think Newt (the non-hypocrite) is your most entertaining choice. Too funny.
Posted by: Telly | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 01:51 PM
I didn't get the Rudy Giuliani story either... its not even about Rudy Giuliani
Ohh I just figured it out, the Democrat Party is used to having the wife being the co-President... sorry Democrat Party members, it doesn't work that way.
The "big story" doesn't matter. Giuliani is a straight shooter and it seems like his life is an open book, he is frank, and I like him more and more every day. Yes Conservatives can walk and chew gum at the time. I don't agree with all his views, but he will be a great President (He is at least 4 points ahead of anyone in the Democrat Party, who is running for President.)
The link is hilarious, I love Paul Shanklin, I love his song "Our whole World is burning ball of fire" Limbaugh is the man too! Thanks for the link I have always wanted to find these songs.
Posted by: Jeff | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 02:21 PM
"Who cares about his wife or marriages? Geesh, only the libs it seems."
hahaha! Don't give up that moral values card so fast, Dan. That's one of the few cards in the conservative deck.
Posted by: Zifnab | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 02:56 PM
FYI, the LA Times called Obama the Magic Negro before Rush ever did. That's where he got the reference from.
Posted by: Hard Right | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 03:19 PM
That's where he got the reference from.
Yes, I heard the bit - thanks. But the LA Times didn't put it to music. ; ) It should be mentioned in the wiki article though.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 03:49 PM
..."But the LA Times didn't put it to music....
I thought it was a nice touch myself. :)
Posted by: Hard Right | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 03:55 PM
Bet Hillary is loving it, probably humming it all day long. I know I am.
Posted by: Buzzy | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 04:16 PM
"Bet Hillary is loving it, probably humming it all day long. I know I am."
I don't have the balls to sing out loud. :D
Posted by: Jeff | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 04:22 PM
I think all it takes to hum is numb nuts. :\
(I can't even hum, so I'm not making fun... :) Wait. I don't even have nuts. d'oh.
As far as this topic goes, the only Magic Negro I know of is the one in "Blazing Saddles".
Posted by: Phoenix | Friday, March 23, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Hey, where the white women at?
Posted by: Hard Right | Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 12:50 AM
Barrack can date white women, black women, Irish women. He has them all.
Barrack Obama even has names for each race he uses.
Black - Barrack Obama
White- Barry Obama
Irish - Bareck O'bama
(And Barrack has claimed to be each of those races) When will we find out his Mexican or Asian name?
Posted by: Jeff | Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 09:38 AM
Republicans, every time you think about Rudy's marriages, think "New York in the Red Column." Every time you think of gun control, think "Republican sweep in the Northeast." Dems stand no chance in the red states with all their unwanted baggage on the radical left, but Rudy can win in the blue states.
So many times in democratic NYC did I here this:
"That did it! I'm voting for Giuliani."
You may only know him from 911. Find out what New Yorkers mean when they say: "It's Giuliani time!"
Posted by: Peter | Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 07:30 PM
Wow. Racist redneck drivel, with an extra helping of Anal Cop Rape. Most New Yorkers think Giuliani time = Saying cheese in front of a steaming pile of rubble and human remains with your thumb up Bush's bum, while behind your backs, my pals and I pave your streets with the corpses of these same murdered terrorism victims."
Posted by: Free Loader | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 01:36 AM
Anyone out there have America's a Pariah?
Posted by: Maria D. Dicino | Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 10:41 PM