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RUSH: One more sound bite on this race war, the Uncivil War between the Democrats. By the way, am I the only one who is just marveling at Bill Clinton\u2019s central role in this campaign? Now, I understand he\u2019s the husband and Hillary had a similar role when Bill ran in 1992 and \u201996, but not quite as prominent. There is no question in my mind is that Bill is running for an unelected third term. He wants this as much for himself as he might want it for Hillary — and it\u2019s two against one. (interruption) Right. Yeah. They started hiding her when her negative numbers went up. The more she spoke, the more dislike or disapproval she had, and they hid her in that campaign, in the \u201992 campaign. They can\u2019t hide Bill because he\u2019s running this show and he\u2019s not going to hide himself. Now, last night on PMSNBC\u2019s Hardball with Chris Matthews, they spoke with Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and Roger Simon of Politico, about the Uncivil War between Hillary and Barack Obama. Matthews said, ‘Roger, it seems to me that it was manifestly true that he was alluding to the same thing other people in the Clinton world had been doing, trying to nail Obama as a youthful drug offender.\u2019<\/p>\n

SIMON: This is really uncomfortable stuff. Even at the best of times we don\u2019t like talking about race in this country, and in the super-heated atmosphere of a presidential campaign, it becomes even more uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

CAPEHART: And, you know, Chris, this is really unfortunate that here we are at the — we\u2019re really at a moment, a very historic moment in the country, but particularly for the Democratic Party where you could have — you poss… you had the first viable female candidate for president, the first viable African-American candidate for president, both seeking the nomination for the Democratic Party to run for president, and things seem to be running off the rails over this issue of race.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: This fight may require that they form a ticket, as the only way to seal this after this bloodletting. After this kind of talk, it seems to be the only way to satisfy those who lose this wait eventually is to put it together.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, isn\u2019t it interesting that they find all this uncomfortable? It makes them nervous. They\u2019re wringing their hands. ‘Why, we don\u2019t like all this race talk in our party.\u2019 Right, you keep it behind closed doors. You\u2019re obsessed with it. Now it\u2019s surfaced. It\u2019s out in public. They didn\u2019t find Macaca uncomfortable, did they? They loooooved Macaca! They loved it! They didn\u2019t find Trent Lott uncomfortable when he had a little passing comment about Strom Thurmond at a birthday party. They loooooved it! They loooooved destroying Trent Lott. They loooooved it — and, of course, they didn\u2019t find Donovan McNabb uncomfortable and they didn\u2019t find Terrell Owens dumping on McNabb uncomfortable. No, they loved all of that. What great news it made! But now, when it\u2019s an Uncivil War among the Democrats, ‘Why, really uncomfortable stuff. We don\u2019t like talking about race in this country.\u2019 Bull! You love talking about race in the Drive-By Media. You love it! You are obsessed with race. You\u2019re obsessed with sexism. You\u2019re obsessed with all of these isms! All right, now, it\u2019s time for our little test here, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

We have racism on full display. We have the Clinton campaign trying to destroy an upstart young black guy. Remember David Ehrenstein, a black columnist in the Los Angeles Times wrote a column referring to Barack Obama as a ‘Magic Negro,\u2019 because a lot of white people were supporting Obama but they didn\u2019t even know what he stood for, and the whole point was they were just assuaging their guilt by saying they were for Obama. It\u2019s sort of like the reverse Wilder Effect. It\u2019s like telling a pollster, ‘Oh, yeah! I\u2019m voting Obama. I\u2019m a good person. I\u2019m not a racist.\u2019 When you get to the polling place, you vote for the white guy when nobody can see what you\u2019re doing. So Ehrenstein was referring to whites who support Obama as basically being phonies. ‘They don\u2019t even know anything about the guy! He\u2019s just a ‘Magic Negro.\u2019 They can say they\u2019re supporting him and it makes them feel good about themselves,\u2019 and then, of course, we have Al Sharpton actually singing in the song, and Sharpton was upset because Joe Biden had gone out there and said of Obama, it\u2019s great to finally get a ‘clean, articulate black guy\u2019 in our party. <\/p>\n

You know, and Sharpton takes showers, and he\u2019s been a presidential candidate, and he didn\u2019t appreciate that, and he wouldn\u2019t endorse Obama. He was waiting around for all kinds of things and goodies and what have you. So we just took a series of statements and actions by liberals, and we wrote the parody tune ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” We have Al Sharpton singing it through his bullhorn. Let\u2019s just see how long it takes for the media to accuse me of injecting race into the campaign, shall we? <\/p>\n

(playing of ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.”) <\/p>\n

RUSH: From the archives, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, ‘Barack the ‘Magic Negro.” It\u2019 a little test here to see how long it takes the Drive-Bys to once again accuse me of injecting race into the Uncivil War going on in the Democratic presidential primary. In fact, they\u2019ll probably accuse me of trying to break the truce. (laughter) They\u2019ll accuse me of trying to stoke it back up. (interruption) Yeah, ‘the insurgent Rush Limbaugh refuses to accept the truce in the Uncivil War.\u2019 (laughing) That\u2019s what they\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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