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Beck: Obama Is a 'Racist'

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 28, 2009 3:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – Glenn Beck today called President Obama “a racist,” Politico reports. The Fox News commentator accused the president of having a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” during a discussion of the Skip Gates scandal on a Fox show. When... Read full story »

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