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The Low Post and All Things Cruel

Written by Link of the Day on April 27th, 2007 | Trackback URI |

After reading Matt Taibbi’s amazing dissection of all things Boris Yeltsin, I decided to do some follow-up and see what else he had written. And I think I may have found the greatest piece of criticism for my Thomas Friedman hating existence — a scorching review of Friedman’s The World is Flat:

Rush the Magic Racist

Written by government_employee on April 26th, 2007 | Trackback URI |

As we come off the heels of Don Imus’ infamous public plunge, Rush Limbaugh served up a similarly distasteful nugget on his syndicated radio show yesterday exposing a side he seemed all too eager to share with his audience. Limbaugh “played a song parody in which an Al Sharpton impersonator (played with stereotypical gusto) sings a song filled with idiotic assumptions about black people called Barack the Magic Negro,” (view the video and read about the routine). Like Imus’ show, Rush’s performance are reliant on sometimes latent and sometimes unconcealed racism that masquerades as cultural or social critique, typically centered on the criminality or simian comparisons of minorities and African-Americans in particular.