# Rush Limbaugh calling Obama a "Halfrican American." WTF?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 26, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-calling-obama-a-halfrican-american-wtf/389513 "2007-01-26T02:20:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-calling-obama-a-halfrican-american-wtf/389513/141 "2007-02-01T23:20:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley]  
Because that means that Obama’s uppity dad slept with a white woman!!!one~! Oh, the horror!!! Dittoheads hate very little quite so much as that.  
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Now why didn’t I think of that?!

You absolutely right; I didn’t take everything in front of me to its logical conclusion.

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**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-calling-obama-a-halfrican-american-wtf/389513/142 "2007-02-02T13:58:52Z")

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[http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070201/pl\_usnw/landmark\_legal\_foundation\_nominates\_rush\_limbaugh\_for2007\_nobel\_peace\_prize](http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070201/pl_usnw/landmark_legal_foundation_nominates_rush_limbaugh_for2007_nobel_peace_prize)

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-calling-obama-a-halfrican-american-wtf/389513/143 "2007-02-02T14:03:02Z")

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[QUOTE=RTA]  
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070201/pl\_usnw/landmark\_legal\_foundation\_nominates\_rush\_limbaugh\_for2007\_nobel\_peace\_prize](http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20070201/pl_usnw/landmark_legal_foundation_nominates_rush_limbaugh_for2007_nobel_peace_prize)  
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Someone please tell me I’m on Candid Camera.

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**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-calling-obama-a-halfrican-american-wtf/389513/144 "2007-02-02T14:18:49Z")

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You’ll wish you were on Candid Camera the first time someone says that Gore and the Peace Prize, or Carter and the Peace Prize is “no big deal, after all, Rush Limbaugh was up for it too.”

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**Author:** ![Homo\_Ergaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Homo\_Ergaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homo_Ergaster)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-calling-obama-a-halfrican-american-wtf/389513/145 "2007-02-03T04:31:58Z")

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well, apparently, as I tried unsuccessfully to say, black voters (and not only right-wing white-suppremacists) don’t find him black enough

[NYTimes](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/politics/02obama.html?_r=1&ei=5124&en=82e9aac80cec2551&ex=157680000&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin)

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