Everyone quoted in the media condemns the song. You know it: “Barack the Magic Negro.”

It’s the one that a former Tennessee GOP state chairman, John “Chip” Saltsman, sent to his Christmas list and the one Rush Limbaugh played on his show to the great amusement of listeners. It satirizes a 2007 Los Angeles Times column by David Ehrenstein that called Obama a “Magic Negro” because he’s unthreatening to whites and plays to their guilt.