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Drive By Media Award for Shooting at the
Competition
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Matt Lauer: “He [Rush Limbaugh] makes a living poking fun at
Democrats, but now some think he has gone a little too far in taking on
Senator Barack Obama....”
Reporter Michael Okwu: “Weeks before the Imus controversy, Rush
Limbaugh started airing this ditty about Senator Barack Obama:”
Song parody: “Barack the Magic Negro lives in D.C.”
Okwu: “Which lead some to wonder, has Limbaugh been getting a
free pass?...”
Paul Waldman, Media Matters for America: “This is basically the radio
equivalent of a black-faced, minstrel show. You’re going back to Amos
and Andy and all of those, kind of, racist shows in the past.”
Okwu: “For his part, Obama says he doesn’t listen to Limbaugh but
says being targeted is part of being a politician....Legitimate
political satire or something darker?”
— NBC’s Today, May 21. Limbaugh’s parody was inspired by a
black writer who used the term in a March 19 Los Angeles Times
op-ed, “Obama the Magic Negro.” [79 points]
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“A top Democrat is coming out guns blazing against conservative radio
talk show host Rush Limbaugh. It’s an angry new shot in the dispute over
the war in Iraq and Limbaugh’s charge that some veterans who are
criticizing the war are, in his words, quote, ‘phony soldiers.’”
— CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room, October 1. In
fact, Limbaugh was talking about leftist anti-war groups touting tales
of U.S. atrocities from Jesse Macbeth, a soldier who flunked out of
basic training and who is going to prison for making it all up. [61]
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“Why don’t you just brush off these comments by Limbaugh, like an
annoying gnat, instead of legitimizing them and bringing more attention
to them?”
— Co-host Meredith Vieira to former Democratic presidential candidate
Wesley Clark, who is pushing to get Limbaugh removed from Armed Forces
Radio, on NBC’s Today, October 3. [54]
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Host Keith Olbermann: "I’ll ask you the ten million dollar
question: How does Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage get away with worse
than what Don Imus said?"
Air America host Sam Seder: "...Corporations have said we’re not
going to tolerate this any more, and the next time Limbaugh slips up,
which I think is inevitable, I think you’re going to see this sort of
same type of reaction."
Olbermann: "It’s the best thing I’ve heard in a couple of
days....From your lips to God’s ears!"
— MSNBC’s Countdown, April 12. [49]
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