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Limbaugh's 'reparations' crowing hits a new, racist low
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From AlterNet:
LIMBAUGH, HEALTH CARE, AND 'REPARATIONS'.... Once in a while, the dog-whistle messages from the far-right are enough to make one's ears bleed. Take Rush Limbaugh, for example, one of the most powerful and influential figures in modern Republican politics.
On his radio show yesterday, the right-wing host condemned health care reform as "a civil rights bill" and "reparations." Seriously.
Limbaugh has spent plenty of time talking about President Obama and "reparations," and has also had plenty to say about health care reform, but as far as I can tell, yesterday was one of those rare instances in which the host combined the two
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