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AP - Limbaugh makes error about Brown's race
AP ^ | 2/17/06

Posted on 02/17/2006 4:54:57 PM PST by iPod Shuffle

Posted on Fri, Feb. 17, 2006

Limbaugh makes error about Brown's race

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Brown is black in the eyes of Rush Limbaugh. When Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett was forced out of the Democratic primary in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio, the conservative commentator criticized The New York Times for not saying that the Democrats' preferred candidate is black.

Limbaugh later found out from e-mails to his nationally syndicated radio show that the candidate, Rep. Sherrod Brown, is, in fact, white.

"Uh, Sherrod Brown's a white guy? Then I'm confusing him with somebody. OK, I'm sorry," Limbaugh said this week.

Brown is a seven-term congressman and former Ohio secretary of state who is running against GOP Sen. Mike DeWine.

"Rush Limbaugh obviously knows as much about me as the Republicans know about balancing the budget," Brown told the Chronicle-Telegram of Elyria, Ohio, for an article published Friday.

Later in his show, Limbaugh said he kept getting e-mails. "We have corrected this, and I, you know, I'm not gonna apologize because I don't think it's an insult to be black," he said.

In 2003, Limbaugh was pushed off ESPN's NFL preview show after he said quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: agitprop; apbias; buggywhipmedia; demprimary; dnctalkingpoints; doublestandard; hackett; hypocrites; limbaugh; limbaughbashing; lyingliars; mediabias; nationalguardmemos; ratherbiased; rathergate; rattricks; rush; rushbashing; rushlimbaugh; sherrodbrown; smearcampaign; talkradio; zogbyism
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1 posted on 02/17/2006 4:54:59 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
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MSM running interference for Dem establishment.


2 posted on 02/17/2006 4:55:41 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
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To: iPod Shuffle

It's so rare that Rush is wrong, it's news when he is.


3 posted on 02/17/2006 4:56:18 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: iPod Shuffle

At least he'll apologize when he finds himself in error, which is more than what can be said about Democrats!


4 posted on 02/17/2006 4:57:29 PM PST by Sister_T (Kenneth Blackwell for Governor of Ohio!)
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To: iPod Shuffle

So can we assume that every single time a D or R makes a mistake, they're going to write an article about it?


5 posted on 02/17/2006 4:57:39 PM PST by Howlin ("Quick, he's bleeding! Is there a <strike>doctor</strike> reporter in the house?")
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AND he admitted it and corrected his error right away, YET this is news?

ROTFLMAO!


6 posted on 02/17/2006 4:57:45 PM PST by onyx (IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Hey AP, how is this news?


7 posted on 02/17/2006 4:58:21 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Cheney's gun has still killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car - thanks Old Scratch)
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To: My2Cents

Have you ever seen such childish, unmittigated GLEE? They've practically gone orgasmic!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!


8 posted on 02/17/2006 4:58:51 PM PST by SierraWasp (GovernMental EnvironMentalism... America's establishment of it's unconstitutional State Religion!!!)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Rush makes an error retracts his error and it's newsworthy.

The big story here is how Brown and Sen. Harry Reid had Paul Hackett blackmailed out of the race with pictures of "War Crimes" Hackett was in.


9 posted on 02/17/2006 4:59:44 PM PST by usmcobra (I'm a Marine on currently on inactive status awaiting an eternal change of duty station)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Must have come from the 2 percent of his brain not tied behind his back.


10 posted on 02/17/2006 4:59:51 PM PST by Mr. Brightside (I know what I like.)
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To: iPod Shuffle
This is an AP story?

Just wow.

11 posted on 02/17/2006 5:00:30 PM PST by AmishDude
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Note the obvious insinuation that he's a racist with the last line in the "report"... Pathetic.


12 posted on 02/17/2006 5:00:37 PM PST by Optimill
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Must be a slow news day for the AP?

On a Fox News show this week (maybe Fox & Friends) they kept on to referring to Sherrod as "she". Finally a Producer put a pic of him and they all laughed about it.

So let's just go with Sherrod Brown is an African American female.


13 posted on 02/17/2006 5:01:34 PM PST by frankjr
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The AP finds the speck in Rush's eye but ignores the log in theirs.


14 posted on 02/17/2006 5:01:56 PM PST by caisson71
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Uh, Sherrod Brown's a white guy?

Sherrod is a star-bellied Sneech. No star? What difference does it make?

15 posted on 02/17/2006 5:02:06 PM PST by nonsporting
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OK, so if I get this right, the Dems shunted aside an Iraq war vet, not for a black guy but for an old, white machine politician. And Rush is the one who is supposed to be embarassed?


16 posted on 02/17/2006 5:02:21 PM PST by AmishDude
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"Rush Limbaugh obviously knows as much about me as the Republicans know about balancing the budget,"

Har-dy-har-har.
17 posted on 02/17/2006 5:02:24 PM PST by HostileTerritory
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I think Rush assumed the guy was black from the name. So what, he corrected it about 3 seconds later. yes he got emails but they did not cause the correction, he caught it within a few sentences.

It isn't even remotely worthy of a national news story.

18 posted on 02/17/2006 5:02:29 PM PST by Williams
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Apparently AP feels this is a big deal.That's what i call hard-up for news.


19 posted on 02/17/2006 5:03:47 PM PST by Thombo2
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"In 2003, Limbaugh was pushed off ESPN's NFL preview show after he said quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed..."

And yet, Bryant Gum Ball gets to get his knock in with a major media outlet and not a word is said.

The bias is so obvious that it is sickening....

20 posted on 02/17/2006 5:04:47 PM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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