Limbaugh Claims Obama Is An Arab
This via Think Progress, by way of the Daily Howler:
Yesterday on his radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is “Arab.” “He’s Arab. You know, he’s from Africa. He’s from Arab parts of Africa,” Limbaugh claimed.
Limbaugh said it again today, Think Progress reports, while reading an article by Dave Davies of the Philadelphia Daily News. Limbaugh inaccurately quoted Davies’s article, inserting the word “Arab” into a description of Obama’s ethnicity.
According to Limbaugh, the article reads: “Obama’s name and his Arab-African heritage are obstacles to the party’s chances of capturing the White House, party activists are finding.”
In fact, the article reads, “Obama’s name and his African heritage are obstacles to the party’s chances of capturing the White House, party activists are finding.”
Roll the tape:
