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Rush Limbaugh: ‘How Many People Really Think Of Obama As Black?’

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Barack Obama has a “chip on his shoulder,” according to Rush Limbaugh, and it’s something that affects every policy decision he makes. That chip is his race. However, Limbaugh explained, Obama’s probably the only person who’s thinking about it.

What caught Limbaugh’s attention was a passage in Kenneth T. Walsh’s book, Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House, which details a meeting Obama had shortly after his election. In the meeting he alluded to a racial undercurrent in the resistance to his presidency. One thing that annoyed Limbaugh is that Obama would only discuss the issue behind closed doors, something that made him the “leader of the coward parade,” in reference to Eric Holder’s famous “nation of cowards” quote. Also, Limbaugh denied this undercurrent since, as he explained, no one really even sees Obama as black.

“Let me ask you a question. How many people really think of Obama as black? I mean, apart from Chris Matthews who’s obsessed with that. One of Obama’s parents is black. Undeniable. But he was raised by a white mother, by white grandparents. He went to a highly exclusive private school in Hawaii with rich, white students and white teachers. He went to exclusive colleges that were practically lily-white. Barry Obama is from a very white, albeit radically Left, cultural background. He’s not from the ‘hood. He’s not from the Movement.”

Limbaugh summarized by pointing out that, while Obama refuses to really discuss this issue that he thinks about so much, Limbaugh gets blamed for bringing up race even when he doesn’t. Ahem.

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  • Liberal Tormentor

    Way to focus on Rush and gloss over BO calling those in the Tea Party racists, Jon Boy. Great piece of JournOlism!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Since Jon can’t bring himself to post what BO said, I’ll help him out:

    But Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent “Tea Party” movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn’t helping them nearly enough, he said.

    A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to “take back” their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn’t dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a “subterranean agenda” in the anti-Obama movement — a racially biased one — that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.

    BO DOES have a chip on his shoulder, though admittedely, it doesn’t seem as large as the one that sits on his wife’s shoulder.

  • screwauger

    The Magic Negro debate again?

  • huntingtonboy

    Rush truly is the Grand Wizard of the KKK.

  • redleaf

    Wait, wait, let me wrap my head around this: Rush is saying something controversial? I always considered Rush the quiet sort who would never say anything to court media attention and controversy.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    well rushbo huckabee is gonna take issue with you on Obamas upbringing as well as most of your wingnut racist listeners….i was just starting to believe that Obama was raised in Kenya by a kenyon father and grandfather that hated the brits…..what a downer…..rush im getting sick of you changing your tune daily….IS OBAMA A USURPER OR NOT?????….keep it up tho fatboy….youre leading the conservative movement to the promised land………THE SEWER

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    No, Rush isn’t a racist. He just likes to bring race up and say racist shit all the time.

  • greg454

    I’ve heard blacks questioned Obama’s blackness, so why are you liberals bitching? As far as I’m concerned, I don’t care about Obama being black or white, is his Marxist redness that concerns me.

    Rush is right about Obama’s terrible upbringing, I mean, white hippie mother, black revolutionary fathers, Marxists grandparents, Marxist role model, Marxist friends in college. Seriously, Obama is Che Guevara with a tan.

    Trump Las Vegas offers massages for dogs, for $150.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/03/woof-trump-vegas-offers-150-massages.html

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    greg454 said:

    Rush is right about Obama’s terrible upbringing, I mean, white hippie mother, black revolutionary fathers, Marxists grandparents, Marxist role model, Marxist friends in college. Seriously, Obama is Che Guevara with a tan.

    All of that and he managed to become President of the United States of America.

    Are you teabaggeds THAT stupid?

  • Hawk11

    “Let me ask you a question. How many people really think of Obama as black?”

    How many people really believe that Rush Limbaugh is really Jabba the Hutt?

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Cow Pie says:

    All of that and he managed to become President of the United States of America.

    Are you teabaggeds THAT stupid?

    No, he just lies about who is is and the liberal media helps him get away with it.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    How would you like to work for this charming Obama supporter ?

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/02/congressional-bosses-from-hell-sheila-jackson-lee/

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Cow Pie says:

    All of that and he managed to become President of the United States of America.

    Are you teabaggeds THAT stupid?

    No, he just lies about who is is and the liberal media helps him get away with it.

    Proof.

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Cow Pie says:

    All of that and he managed to become President of the United States of America.

    Are you teabaggeds THAT stupid?

    No, he just lies about who is is and the liberal media helps him get away with it.

    So not only are you a birfher.

    You also love to eat Big Macs.

    That explains it all. You are certifiable stupid.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Cow Pie says:

    So not only are you a birfher. – no

    You also love to eat Big Macs. – they are quite yummy!

    You are certifiable stupid. – Now you’re just projecting.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    UNreasonable lib,
    As my proof, I will use the journOlist scandal. That taught us that the media conspired to claim racism if anyone dared challenge The One.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Jan.7,2011. This site: “Rush, ‘If Obama had not been African-American, he would not have been elected President.’ ”
    There’s your answer, Lushboy. You think of Obama as black. Unless, of course, you don’t believe yourself.

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Cow Pie says:

    No, he just lies about who is is and the liberal media helps him get away with it.

    Post the list of lies.

    Unless of course you can’t because you are Big Mac eating certifiable stupid Fox gNOpig Propaganda defender.

    Post the list of lies and your proof.

  • justanotherconservative

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    THE SEWER

    if thats the case, you guys need to move over and make room.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    UNreasonable lib,
    As my proof, I will use the journOlist scandal. That taught us that the media conspired to claim racism if anyone dared challenge The One.

    Do you have any proof of the president being a liar and the media overlooking it? That doesn’t prove your assertion, you’re deflecting.

  • justanotherconservative

    Hawk11 said:
    “Let me ask you a question. How many people really think of Obama as black?” How many people really believe that Rush Limbaugh is really Jabba the Hutt?

    how many people think youre an asshole?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    UNreasonable lib,
    As my proof, I will use the journOlist scandal. That taught us that the media conspired to claim racism if anyone dared challenge The One.

    I also find it curious that NOW you use proof. Normally you’re “sick of doing [my] homework for [me]“. Or is it that in those other cases you had no proof and you were just talking out of your ass?

  • OxyCon

    It’s obvious to anyone but the willfully ignorant that Obama and Queen MO have huge chips on their shoulders. That’s probably the glue of their marriage.

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    OxyCon said:
    It’s obvious to anyone but the willfully ignorant that Obama and Queen MO have huge chips on their shoulders. That’s probably the glue of their marriage.

    Proof. You ignorant drug addict.

  • OxyCon

    GlennBovineKoldys said:
    Proof. You ignorant drug addict.

    Lol, whatever you say Garth/SarahP/

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    OxyCon said:
    Lol, whatever you say Garth/SarahP/

    Proof. You dumb sht.

    Prove I have posted under those account names, or that I know those people.

  • Yoda002

    Rush is throwing some garbage out there while people get distracted the Republicans start moving into presidential campaign mode. This email came down a month ago. He is going to run up deflection shield. It is all in the playbook.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Meh, Rush Limbaugh is getting kind of boring, does he ever talk about things that are actually important?

  • Garth

    The Anal Cyst makes racist comments like these because they appeal to his base; white trash.

  • Stratdude

    I’m sure Obama is black enough for the uneducated, junkie bigot limbaugh and the people who swim in his radio sewer.

  • Hawk11

    justanotherconservative said:
    how many people think youre an asshole?

    Umm, ouch. Is Rush your dad or something?

  • Dysanthrope

    Of course he’s black rush, or he wouldnt have been elected. you said that last week.

  • skyfet

    One day he is a magic Negro, next day he is not black enough. When are you guys going to make up your mind.

    This is why kids should stay away from drugs.

  • OxyCon

    GlennBovineKoldys said:
    Proof. You dumb sht.

    Prove I have posted under those account names, or that I know those people.

    If you aren’t the same person posting under various sock puppet names, then there must be some kind of brain wasting disease spreading amongst the Leftists that reduces the infected to only being able to type short, vulgar, one sentence personal insults…kinda like a Leftist Tourettes.

    Oh…and how’s things under your bridge these days?

  • Garth

    OxyCon said:
    If you aren’t the same person posting under various sock puppet names, then there must be some kind of brain wasting disease spreading amongst the Leftists that reduces the infected to only being able to type short, vulgar, one sentence personal insults…kinda like a Leftist Tourettes.

    Oh…and how’s things under your bridge these days?

    No one is a bigger sock puppet than your sorry ass. This type of sentence is all you morons understand; I’m trying to be polite here.

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    OxyCon said:
    If you aren’t the same person posting under various sock puppet names, then there must be some kind of brain wasting disease spreading amongst the Leftists that reduces the infected to only being able to type short, vulgar, one sentence personal insults…kinda like a Leftist Tourettes.

    Oh…and how’s things under your bridge these days?

    Making up more BS is your proof to your idiotic claim that I, or other commenters, post under multiple accounts.

    Then, in the same post, you use multiple personal insults trying to rescue your idiocy.

    Oh, the irony!

  • OxyCon

    GlennBovineKoldys said:
    Making up more BS is your proof to your idiotic claim that I, or other commenters, post under multiple accounts.

    Then, in the same post, you use multiple personal insults trying to rescue your idiocy.

    Oh, the irony!

    Uh huh…that’s why “Garth” responded to my response to “GlennBovineKoldys” first, lol.

    And then you logged out and signed back on so you could call me a “moron” and an “idiot” under two different screen names.

    Whatever happened to SarahP anyway? Did Mediaite take one of your names away for bad behavior?

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    OxyCon said:
    Uh huh…that’s why “Garth” responded to my response to “GlennBovineKoldys” first, lol.

    And then you logged out and signed back on so you could call me a “moron” and an “idiot” under two different screen names.

    Whatever happened to SarahP anyway? Did Mediaite take one of your names away for bad behavior?

    No.

    You are still a moron and an idiot regardless of who says it.

    And Mediaite has not taken away any of my multiple accounts.

    Go hallucinate a bit more over there, at the Koldys Klown Klub.

  • TerryDo

    How Many People Really Think Of Obama As Black?

    I don’t really think of Obama as black; I really think of him as WEAK!

  • OxyCon

    GlennBovineKoldys said:
    No.

    You are still a moron and an idiot regardless of who says it.

    And Mediaite has not taken away any of my multiple accounts.

    Go hallucinate a bit more over there, at the Koldys Klown Klub.

    lol, wherever that is…

  • Nationman

    the real question is how many people think of rush as skinny. You think you’d see him on the cover of men’s health?

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Go hallucinate a bit more over there, at the Koldys Klown Klub

    I know of only one person who uses that term constantly and it’s Royal Dimwit. Man, that guy gets around!

  • You’re Fuggin Dead

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Go hallucinate a bit more over there, at the Koldys Klown Klub

    I know of only one person who uses that term constantly and it’s Royal Dimwit. Man, that guy gets around!

    What kind of psycho sits on political/media blogs posting under various names, congratulating itself? That’s beyond sick. More than likely on the gov’t welfare judging by how many hrs it spends here. Obama can’t find you a job?

  • GlennBovineKoldys

    You're Fuggin Dead said:
    What kind of psycho sits on political/media blogs posting under various names, congratulating itself? That’s beyond sick. More than likely on the gov’t welfare judging by how many hrs it spends here. Obama can’t find you a job?

    Seeing Big Macs from my window could not keep her job at McDonald’s.

    Not after she got stuck at the drive-thru during her morning break.

  • The Tea Weasel®

    I wanna know how many people think of Rush Limbaugh as “smart”….

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Cow Pie says:

    Seeing Big Macs from my window could not keep her job at McDonald’s.

    Not after she got stuck at the drive-thru during her morning break.

    I believe he was referring to you Royal Dimwit.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    well rushbo huckabee is gonna take issue with you on Obamas upbringing as well as most of your wingnut racist listeners….i was just starting to believe that Obama was raised in Kenya by a kenyon father and grandfather that hated the brits…..what a downer…..rush im getting sick of you changing your tune daily….IS OBAMA A USURPER OR NOT?????….keep it up tho fatboy….youre leading the conservative movement to the promised land………THE SEWER

    Has Obama sent you a check for shilling for him here? Oh maybe he can’t because he doesn’t know who you are hiding behind that phony name.

  • Gasket

    Nothing like getting a “race” lecture from a pompous racist slob. Rush, do you think he should take that bone out of his nose fatso?

  • Tedderman

    Limpbaugh sure talks alot about a topic he claims only the President talks about. And just where did Limpbaugh get this idea that Obama was educated in an exclusive white school in Hawaii, I heard on Fox that he was educated in a radical madrassa in Indonesia. And they taught the virulent form of Islam, Wahabism(sic) from Saudi Arbia, at least tnats what Steve Doofy on Good Morning Retarded Fox Viewers TodAY of whatever it’s called.

  • Tedderman

    Hey Gordon Blowhole, why do you object so strongly to facts?

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Tedderman said:
    Hey Gordon Blowhole, why do you object so strongly to facts?

    It’s not his fault, he has a brain disease, it re-routes his emotions to anger when he hears contrary evidence, truth or not, his brain refuses to believe it’s true. I wonder why people are so wound up like him, all of his post are usually liberal-bashing nonsense. Not that you can’t bash a liberal in a clever way… but it’s usually just crap from him. Kinda feel bad wondering what kind of life he leads offline, I wonder if he’s some lonely dude. : I

  • right-is-wrong

    Pretty sur Rush thinks he is Black

  • Contessa

    How Many People Really Think Of Obama As Black?

    How Many People Really Think of Limbaugh as Human?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    I thought Bill Clinton was America’s First Black President!

    Isn’t that what the DEMOCRATIC MEDIA drummed into our brains over & over again for 8 years?

    WHAT HAPPENED?

    Next thing, we looked up, and those SAME MEDIA PEOPLE were telling us that the First Black President was actually A RACIST!

    Like every closed-minded Democrat, when losing the argument, Play the RACE CARD! – but it’s not working too well without that Democrat monopoly on the media, now, is it?
    LOL!!!

  • Sean68

    I think of Obama as black because Obama himself insists on it. Indeed, he even selected “blacK” on his census form despite the option of the scientifically more accurate “bi-racial.” He went with the psychologically (and politically) more useful answer.

  • Yukon Jack

    TerryDo said:
    How Many People Really Think Of Obama As Black?

    I don’t really think of Obama as black; I really think of him as WEAK!

    Obama is every bit a white as he is black. He chose to be black, because he knew fully well anyone who dares to criticize him will be immediately labeled racist.

    Calling him WEAK will not earn you any brownie points among the hopelessly misguided Obama worshippers.

  • J Baustian

    He was Barry Soetoro, then became Barack Obama when he realized that name would be most useful politically.

    It is possible that after adoption by his step-father, his name may have been legally changed to Soetoro, and that is why a birth certificate for Barack Obama is hard to find. The Hawaiian-born Obama may be slightly embarrassed because his legal name is still Soetoro — and there are certain legal documents like a license to practice law that ask, “have you ever been known by any other name(s)?”

    In Hawaii, practically everyone is mixed-race and it is no big deal. But when Barry/Barack left Hawaii for Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard, he joined a political movement which celebrated racial division — affirmative action, reparations for slavery, quotas, solidarity with anti-colonial liberation movements, etc. Barry/Barack had to downplay the white half of his parentage, build up the black half, and ignore those elements of his upbringing that did not fit with the image he was trying to establish, such as the Indonesian step-father whose name appears on his amended birth certificate.

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    He may not be from the ‘hood but he can sure intone his ‘hood voice when he wants to convince themhe is one of them.

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    He is ” green” and his performance for the past two years confirms it.

  • X-3

    I don’t think of Mr. 0bama as “black.” I think of him as a statist.

  • eingriff

    There is no publicly available scientific or unambiguous documentary evidence that Barry was sired by Obama the Luo tribesman. The names in the COLB could have come from the original birth certificate naming birth parents or from the amended birth certificate naming adoptive parents. Obama the Luo was an adoptive father. “Dreams from my Father” was a colossal hoax. Dr. Fukino’s statement that Hawai’i's “vital records” prove Barry was a natural born U.S. citizen at the time of his birth, necessarily excludes Obama the Luo as the birth father, for the Luo was an alien.

    I’m assuming that Dr. Fukino drew her conclusion from two U.S. birth parents, the better view of the definition of “natural born Citizen”, but only the original birth certificate (and information about the birth parents, which Dr. Fukino presumably obtained) can verify her finding.

    It is sometimes frivolously argued that being born in the U.S. makes one a natural born U.S. citizen, but the words “natural born” must mean something, else they would not be there. The frivolous argument is made in a bad faith effort to avoid disclosing the original birth certificate. But if the original birth certificate shows two U.S. citizen parents, the legal issue doesn’t arise. How much simpler things are when you know the facts.

    More likely than not, Barry’s father was Caucasian and his mother Polynesian. Knick his hanky, after he’s touched it, put it in an exhibit bag, have the lab do a genetic analysis of the epithelials, and it will be seen that his father is of a haplogroup inconsistent with the Luo tribesman, his mother’s inconsistent with Stanley Ann Dunham’s.

    A native Hawai’ian mother would still make Barry a person of color, but “black” ordinarily connotes one of recent African origin.

    Not that it should matter, but Obama built his whole career on being black, to make a blatantly racial appeal for votes, and to denigrate opponents as racists. Looks like election fraud. Small reason he doesn’t want his original birth certificate exposed to the view of the People.

    Also, hiding the original birth certificate diverts public view from the real issue: his loss of U.S. citizenship when he became a citizen of Indonesia as a young lad. Can’t be a citizen of both Indonesia and the U.S. Can’t be a natural born U.S. citizen if not a U.S. citizen at all, even if natural born at birth.

  • X-3

    skyfet said:
    One day he is a magic Negro, next day he is not black enough. When are you guys going to make up your mind. This is why kids should stay away from drugs.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story

    You should probably check your sources skyfetid. Mr. Limbaugh simply cashed in big time on an article written by a Hillary Cliton supporter. Hillary Cliton, by the way, was the original “birther.”

  • X-3

    The Tea Weasel® said:
    I wanna know how many people think of Rush Limbaugh as “smart”….

    About 20,000,000 more than think you are not. If you think you’re smarter than Mr. Limbaugh, why don’t you have the most listend to talk radio program in the history of the universe?

  • X-3

    Contessa said:
    How Many People Really Think Of Obama As Black? How Many People Really Think of Limbaugh as Human?

    You’re very clever for a 12 year old.

  • chicgoods10

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