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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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To: sirchtruth

"Is the AP hiring Democrat stafferes now as reporters?"



The networks have been doing it for years; why not the print press:)


41 posted on 02/17/2006 5:19:44 PM PST by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
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To: My2Cents

Rush is right 95% of the time. When he is wrong, he admits the error right away as soon as he finds out he was wrong.


42 posted on 02/17/2006 5:20:32 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: iPod Shuffle

I guess AP figures they can't get Bush--even though they have tried with all they had, so they may as well bash Rush.
These people are panic stricken slimeballs!!!


43 posted on 02/17/2006 5:21:39 PM PST by taillightchaser
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To: iPod Shuffle

Not surprising from a party that assumes that Lynn Swann is white.


44 posted on 02/17/2006 5:23:26 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: iPod Shuffle

In related news, it has been discovered that there is actually a white guy named Sherrod.


45 posted on 02/17/2006 5:23:33 PM PST by Monti Cello
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To: RightWhale
Rush is right 95% of the time. When he is wrong, he admits the error right away as soon as he finds out he was wrong.

Unlike Howard Dean and Al Franken who are right much less and never admit error.

46 posted on 02/17/2006 5:25:05 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: iPod Shuffle
"...I'm not gonna apologize because I don't think it's an insult to be black," he said.

LOL! Have the libs already objected to this statement?

47 posted on 02/17/2006 5:25:16 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: cwb

Herr Brown is the SOCIALIST on the left.


48 posted on 02/17/2006 5:26:51 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Rome2000

I'm hoping the enhanced head was intentional...if not, that's the biggest noggin I've eve seen:)


49 posted on 02/17/2006 5:27:20 PM PST by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
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To: iPod Shuffle

The gAyP...


50 posted on 02/17/2006 5:27:31 PM PST by wolficatZ (The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep.." (camper trolls)
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To: My2Cents

they dont care about whether he was wrong, they're just trying to paint him as a racist (again).


51 posted on 02/17/2006 5:33:57 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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To: onyx
YET this is news?

You don't expect them to publich the Momo cartoons, or investigate Iran's nukes, Hamas's victory, Gore's sedition in Saudi Arabia, or the booming economy? No sir.

Thank god for the MSM. We get Cheney-gate 24-7 and amped up coverage of a rare and quickly corrected Rush mistatement. They are a living parody.

52 posted on 02/17/2006 5:34:41 PM PST by Maynerd
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To: iPod Shuffle
"Rush Limbaugh obviously knows as much about me as the Republicans know about balancing the budget," Brown told the Chronicle-Telegram

Actually, Brown should be devastated that he is such an inconsequential twit that after 7 terms in Congress no one knows who he is or anything about him. He is such a tool that he's a vacuum-tube in his own time.....
53 posted on 02/17/2006 5:37:20 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: Maynerd

:)


54 posted on 02/17/2006 5:38:06 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

He mentioned this on his show and said if he was wrong, well, he'd apol...., correct the error.


55 posted on 02/17/2006 5:40:25 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Within two minutes, Rush corrected his error.

BTW, Steve Ducey said Brown is a woman. LOL.


56 posted on 02/17/2006 5:45:22 PM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Enchante
He's been in Congress for 14 years and people that follow the beltway don't know if he is black or white?.


57 posted on 02/17/2006 5:45:59 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Let's see, how many errors has the AP had in the last month in it's stories..?


58 posted on 02/17/2006 5:47:47 PM PST by prairiebreeze (The Mainstream Media: today's carnival barkers.)
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To: iPod Shuffle

Rush did this on Wednesday or Thursday. Why did it take AP so long to let me know about it?


59 posted on 02/17/2006 5:49:12 PM PST by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: All

Google is showing 213 separate stories involving Limbaugh and Sherrod Brown.


60 posted on 02/17/2006 5:49:58 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
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