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Jesse Taylor at Pandagon find this bit of swill from Rush Hindenberg:

These polls on how one-third of blue-collar white Democrats won't vote for Obama because he's black, and--but he's not black. Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood? He doesn't have any African--that's why when they asked whether he was authentic, whether he’s down for the struggle. He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa. He's not--his father was--he's not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American. I guess that's splitting hairs, I don't—it's just all these little things, everything seems upside-down today in this country.

As Jesse says,

Let's account for all the many, many types of racism at work here:
1.) Obama's a different, worse type of minority than the already bad type of minority he was before! He’s like a super-nigger!
2.) Obama's hiding his Arab heritage because it’s something shameful! Even worse than being a welfare-loving, crack-addicted homeboy from Chitown!
3.) Let's manufacture the entire ethnic makeup of a country based on no fact or verifiable claim whatsoever in order to smear someone for having said background. Kenyans also eat white babies, in case you hadn't heard.

In the comments, I added:

I love how, somehow in Limbaugh logic, "Arab" isn’t "African", even though a sizable portion of the population of Africa is Arab. This whole thing goes several steps beyond absurd. He’s not just a nigger; he’s not just a SUPER-nigger; he’s a sand-nigger jungle bunny from beyond time and space, so it's okay to hate him. That’s not racism, that’s just good common sense.

I'll quote myself:

A couple of months back, when the New York Times Magazine ran the cover headline "Rush Limbaugh Is Just Getting Warmed Up", I thought, "He means, 'I'm going to niggerbait like no one has ever niggerbaited before.'"

Sometimes one derives no satisfaction from being right.