"Who was first person to bring up Obama was "black"..."
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June 20, 2008
Obama at Florida fund-raiser says GOP will go after him because he is black. Pool report.
March 21, 2008
"Obama has disowned his white half ... he's decided he's got to go all in on the black side." WHICH GOP LEADER SAID THAT BUBS?
Limbaugh
Latching onto (ONE) LA Times op-ed, Limbaugh sings "Barack, The Magic Negro." On
March 19, 2007, Limbaugh highlighted a Los Angeles Times op-ed that described Obama as "running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the 'Magic Negro' " -- a term used by critics of pop culture to describe certain benevolent African-American characters.
Limbaugh stated: "The term 'Magic Negro' has been thrown into the political presidential race in the mix for 2008. And the term 'Magic Negro,' as applied to Barack Obama has been done by an
LA Times columnist, David Ehrenstein." Limbaugh later asserted: "I'm going to keep referring to him as that, because I want to make a bet that by the end of this week I will own that term," adding, "If I refer to Obama the rest of the day as the 'Magic Negro,' there will be a number of people in the drive-by media and on left-wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it and ignore the
LA Times did it, simply because they can't be critical of the
LA Times, but they can, obviously, be critical of talk radio."
Limbaugh continued to refer to Obama as the "Magic Negro" throughout the broadcast -- 27 times, to be exact -- and at one point sang "Barack, the Magic Negro" to the tune of "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Limbaugh defended his use of the song, stating, "Well, that's what we always do here. We do parodies and satires on the idiocy and phoniness of the left."
Limbaugh's "colorblind" history of racially charged comments