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Carol Platt Liebau: Will the MSM Cry Foul?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — It seems that Barack Obama has clearly quoted Rush Limbaugh out of context at least once in a Spanish language ad obviously designed to stoke racial anger among Mexican immigrants in Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. If anyone in the GOP did something like this, it would be called "race baiting." Hm. Anyone want to bet me that the MSM will denounce this distortion with the same zeal that they've condemned McCain's ...

Lame Obama Two-fer: Plays Race Card, Drags Limbaugh Into It
JammieWearingFool — ... by the McCain campaign that suggest Obama is responsible for the collapse of last year's bipartisan immigration reform efforts. "They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," the television ad's announcer says in Spanish as a picture of Rush Limbaugh appears onscreen with quotes of him saying, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" and "Shut your mouth or get out." Of course, if Obama had half a clue, he'd know the material attributed to Limbaugh is from a parody of Mexican immigration laws. As for the quotes, Limbaugh said they were taken out of ...

Is Rush Limbaugh Going To Lose Another Race For The GOP?
Oliver Willis — ... Sen. Obama is now using the words of Republican booster Rush Limbaugh in an ad targeted at hispanic voters. It’s hard for the GOP to distance themselves from Limbaugh - this is a show the president, vice president, and president’s brother go on consistently. He keeps the hardest of the hard core base mainlined on conservative bull and misinterpretation of the facts for 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. For many, he is the GOP. ...

Race-Baiting
Jules Crittenden — ... . Spanish campaign ads twist Rush Limbaugh’s words to P.O. Hispanics :  The commercial, to air in Limbaugh’s home state of Florida as well as Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, features a picture of the conservative talk show host and shows his words on the screen: “Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out.”  It was first reported by the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe.   “Obama is now stoking racism in the country,” Limbaugh wrote in an email.  “Obama is a disgrace - he wants the public to think he is Mr. Nice Guy while his thugs are in Alaska looking ...

Old Media Helps Obama Push False Rush Limbaugh Immigration Quotes
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... ads use against him. But, it also turns out he did not say them about Mexicans! Rush was not telling Mexicans to "get out" nor did he say that Mexican immigrants are "stupid and unqualified." O'Keefe, however, does not explain this in his Washington Post story. This lack of context was the same in other papers relating the story. The Chicago Tribune, for instance, didn't fully report the truth and neither did the Wall Street Journal. However, both Jonathan Martin of Politico and our friend Jake Tapper of ABC did report the true context ...

Old Media Helps Obama Push False Rush Limbaugh Immigration Quotes
Stop The ACLU — ... words that the ads use against him. But, it also turns out he did not say them about Mexicans! Rush was not telling Mexicans to “get out” nor did he say that Mexican immigrants are “stupid and unqualified.” O’Keefe, however, does not explain this in his Washington Post story. This lack of context was the same in other papers relating the story. The Chicago Tribune , for instance, didn’t fully report the truth and neither did the Wall Street Journal . However, both Jonathan Martin of Politico and our friend Jake Tapper of ABC did report the true ...

Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online — ... [image] Amid Turmoil, Turns to Regulation The Boston Globe [image] Can't Seem to Find His Economic Footing Los Angeles Times [image] Hackers Access Palin's Personal E-Mail, Post Some Online The Washington Post [image] Accuses Barack Obama of Scuttling Immigration Overhaul Los Angeles Times [image] [image] Obama Recent Ads More Negative Than Rival's, Study Says The Washington Post [image] Calls out McCain on Abortion Real Clear Politics [image] "Stoking Racism," Limbaugh Says Politico [image] [image] State of the Race Analysis: ...

Rush Derangement Syndrome
Michelle Malkin — ... 2) Unlike 99 percent of the humorless suits in Washington, Rush possesses an enormously disarming ability to laugh at his unhinged enemies — and at himself. Like Reagan, he knows and uses the power of humor to expose and persuade. He used it in hitting back at Obama’s demagogic smear ad during the presidential campaign. He’s using it in responding to the ...