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Rush Limbaugh Steps Into 'Negro' Fray

Says, 'It was negroes that brought Ted Kennedy his booze'

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 12, 2010 7:33 AM CST | Updated Jan 12, 2010 7:55 AM CST
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(Newser) – The word negro hasn't seen this much action in years, but Rush Limbaugh last night joined Harry Reid in resuscitating the term—with a little speaking ill of the dead thrown in for good measure. Discussing the 2008 presidential campaign on his radio show last night, Limbaugh jumped into the fray by saying, rather gratuitously, "It was negroes that brought Ted Kennedy his booze," the Huffington Post reports.

Limbaugh was referring to the claim in recent book Game Change that Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama after Bill Clinton, who was hitting him up to back Hillary, had said that just a few years earlier, Obama would have been serving Clinton and Kennedy coffee. The writers missed the point, Limbaugh said: "What made Teddy Kennedy mad was it's women get him coffee. It was negroes that brought Ted Kennedy his booze. And that's why he was all offended."

In this Jan. 18, 2009 file photo talk show host Rush Limbaugh is interviewed on the sidelines before the start of the NFL AFC championship football game in Pittsburgh.
In this Jan. 18, 2009 file photo talk show host Rush Limbaugh is interviewed on the sidelines before the start of the NFL AFC championship football game in Pittsburgh.   (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)
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Shannonals
Jan 14, 2010 3:46 AM CST
You and I will have to agree to disagree paul123. As you stated, you will never understand because you aren't Black, and you very comment about, " I don't expect you to understand because as a black man, you have likely been told all your life that the white men care nothing for black men and want nothing more than to keep them down, and that may be clouding your obvious good sense.", reflect this. Been on this great planet quite awhile, and I expect nothing from any man, other than what I have worked for, same as any man of any color. I personally care little for both parties, as Republicans/Democrats are corrupt.
shusss
Jan 13, 2010 12:34 PM CST
What was it that brought Rush to gluttony and drugs?
flightofphoenix1973
Jan 13, 2010 12:06 PM CST
Yes he can, astoundingly every time he opens his mouth he becomes more ignorant.

 
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