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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 2697968" data-attributes="member: 43825"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/24/limbaugh-on-obama-halfrican-american/137833" target="_blank">Limbaugh on Obama: &quot;Halfrican American&quot;</a>On the January 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/rushlimbaugh" target="_blank">Rush Limbaugh</a> referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and actress Halle Berry as &quot;Halfrican American<s>,&quot; stating that &quot;Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry.&quot; Limbaugh then said: &quot; &#039;As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry&#039;s support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,&#039; Obama said.&quot; Limbaugh then conceded that Obama &quot;didn&#039;t say it.&quot;</s><s></s><s><a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/washington/24obama.html/rssnyt?ex=1169787600&amp;en=e0ed0aa82ecf8e63&amp;ei=5070" target="_blank">Obama</a> &quot;is the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya.&quot; As Media Matters for America has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/12/07/melanie-morgan-co-host-on-halfrican-obama/137478" target="_blank">noted</a>, conservative talk radio host Brian Sussman has also characterized Obama as a &quot;Halfrican.&quot; Sussman later issued an apology on his <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.briansussman.com/wordofthanks.html" target="_blank">website</a>, describing his comments about Obama as &quot;insensitive</s></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 2697968, member: 43825"] [URL="http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/24/limbaugh-on-obama-halfrican-american/137833"]Limbaugh on Obama: "Halfrican American"[/URL] On the January 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host [URL='http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/rushlimbaugh']Rush Limbaugh[/URL] referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and actress Halle Berry as "Halfrican American[s]," stating that "Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry." Limbaugh then said: " 'As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,' Obama said." Limbaugh then conceded that Obama "didn't say it." [URL='http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/washington/24obama.html/rssnyt?ex=1169787600&en=e0ed0aa82ecf8e63&ei=5070']Obama[/URL] "is the son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya." As [I]Media Matters for America[/I] has [URL='http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/12/07/melanie-morgan-co-host-on-halfrican-obama/137478']noted[/URL], conservative talk radio host Brian Sussman has also characterized Obama as a "Halfrican." Sussman later issued an apology on his [URL='http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.briansussman.com/wordofthanks.html']website[/URL], describing his comments about Obama as "insensitive[/s] [/QUOTE]

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