The parody song heard on Rush Limbaugh

Unlike most people who are writing articles on this topic, I've actually bothered to go out and find the song and listen to it. While I do find it off color, distasteful and certainly not the image Republicans want to present, I don't find it to be offensive to Barack Obama. If anyone should take offense, it would be Al Sharpton. I'm actually surprised he hasn't rang in on the subject yet, this is just up his alley. Nonetheless, if you want to hear the song, you can find it on YouTube. Since I'm a strong supporter of freedom of speech, I'd argue that this kind of thing is and should be allowed. After all, people have a right to be stupid, sexist, bigoted, whatever. If we take away that right, then you achieve nothing other than a loss of our free speech rights, plain and simple. That doesn't mean we don't stand up and criticize it. In fact, we should. That is the essence of free speech, to be able to listen to what would horribly offend you and then stand up and argue that which would horribly offend the other person. If we can't do this in America, then we aren't a country worth saving. That said, I also would like to know where the outrage was when the L.A. Times OpEd that precipitated the parody was written back in March of 2007? After all, it is equally offensive in it's assumptions about whites and blacks as this parody is, yet I didn't even know about it until the parody came out. So, apparently, if the L.A. Times criticizes whites using the "magic black" myth, then it is ok, but if Rush Limbaugh airs a rather silly song in reality parodying said articles assumptions using a made up voice of Al Sharpton, it is racist, deplorable, unacceptable, etc. Don't blame Republicans here for this. The truth is that if it hadn't gotten through the L.A. Times without comment, no person, Republican or otherwise, would have thought to parody it. The truth here is, I suspect, that someone read the Times article, found it as awful as I do, then realized that nobody said anything about it. Upon that realization, they then went off to parody the stupid Times article. Does this make the parody right? Nope. Does it make the Times article right that nobody said anything about it even though it was blatantly offensive to whites and blacks alike? Nope. So, should we blame the right for being racist or the left for failing to criticize their own racism? The popular opinion here will be to blame the right. After all, they are the racists in America, are they not? *lol* Democrats and the left are just as racist or maybe even moreso than the right. Don't believe me? Well, that's a post for another day, stay tuned for it because I'll get around to it. Nonetheless, we should be blaming the left for failing to criticize themselves more than the right for then taking something the left did and parodying it. In the end, we are all better off for the whole thing, if treated properly (which it won't be) because we all get a better understanding of how far we've come. Do you know when you are healed of a traumatic event in you life? Many people think it is when they can look back on it and laugh. Sometimes they never get to that point. We as a nation have obviously not gotten to that point in regards to our past, but as long as political correctness exists as it does today and as long as one side tries to blame the other as will happen in this case, we will never reach that point. So, what needs to be done here? Realize the reality of the left trying to blame the right for something they themselves instigated but are unwilling to admit rather than accept the media's outrage as genuine would be a good start. If you find it offensive, feel free to speak out against it, but I'd submit that you criticize both the parody and the leftist article that precipitated it. Thanks.