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Limbaugh: “Barry Obama” Comes From A “Very White” Background -- “He's Not From Da 'Hood”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 03/03/11 1:36 PM EST

From the March 3 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

On FOX, Limbaugh says of Obama's Gates answer: “President Obama is black. And I think he's got a chip on his shoulder”

Limbaugh: “History will show that the election of Obama, this period, will be a giant step backwards in race relations”

Limbaugh calls Obama a “hack” and a “race-baiter”

One Part French Revolution, One Part Race Baiting = Rush Limbaugh

Race-baiting headline of the day

Rush on “arrogan[t]” Obama: He's like “some” African-Americans who say “Fourth of July ain't no big deal to me, yo”

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