What has Limbaugh upset right now is the Obama campaign misquoteing him so badly that it makes him seem racist.
Seem to be?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.aspAnd from Wiki
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
Response to a black caller he was having a hard time understanding in the 1970s when he worked under the name "Jeff Christie" on a top-40 music program in Pittsburgh, as quoted in Newsday (8 October 1990) where he expresses some remorse at having said it; also in The Way Things Aren't : Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error (1995) by Steve Rendall, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen [ISBN 156584260X] , "Limbaugh : A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?" by Jeff Cohen and Steve Rendall in FAIR and The Los Angeles Times (6 July 2000), and "Bone Voyage" at Snopes.com (4 September 2007)
"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."
As quoted in Flush Rush Quarterly (January 1993) and in "Limbaugh : A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?" by Jeff Cohen and Steve Rendall in FAIR and The Los Angeles Times (6 July 2000), and in "Off Sides" by Michael Tomasky in The American Prospect (16 July 2003)
"They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
Of African-Americans, as quoted in "Limbaugh Brings Baggage with his ESPN Blabber" by Derrick Z. Jackson inThe Boston Globe (16 July 2003), and "Colorblind football fans know Rush is wrong" by Richard Roeper in Chicago Sun-Times (1 October 2003)
"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"
As quoted in "Limbaugh : A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?" by Jeff Cohen and Steve Rendall in FAIR and The Los Angeles Times (6 July 2000), and at "Bone Voyage" at Snopes.com (4 September 2007)
"The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."
As quoted in "Dittohead Blues" in the LA Weekly (9 October 2003)
"I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
As quoted in 101 People who are REALLY Screwing Up America (2006) by Jack Huberman
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"You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed."
As quoted in 101 People who are REALLY Screwing Up America (2006) by Jack Huberman
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