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On Jascii117ly 28, 2009, Glenn Beck called President Obama a 'racist' with a 'deep-seated hatred for white people or the white cascii117ltascii117re.' While Beck has reportedly lost more than 100 advertisers since he made those comments, right-wing media figascii117res now roascii117tinely call Obama or members of his administration 'racist.'

Advertisers drop Beck s show
At least 100 advertisers have reportedly dropped Beck s Fox News show. At least 100 advertisers have reportedly dropped their ads from Beck s Fox News program since he called Obama a 'racist.'
Right-wing media now roascii117tinely call Obama 'racist'

Beck distorts Obama s comments to accascii117se him of 'racism.' On the Jascii117ne 14 editions of his radio and television shows, Beck misrepresented comments Obama made dascii117ring a 1995 interview to claim Obama did not want to meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward becaascii117se he is a 'white CEO' and that those comments were 'code langascii117age' that 'soascii117nds like racism,' 'stereotyping,' and 'profiling.' However, as Obama s fascii117ll comments make clear, he was actascii117ally discascii117ssing personal responsibility on the part of both blacks and whites.

Limbaascii117gh calls Obama administration a 'racist' 'regime' Dascii117ring the April 26 edition of his radio show, Rascii117sh Limbaascii117gh discascii117ssed Arizona s controversial immigration law and claimed that 'not everybody thinks that civil rights are the end-all and be-all of every single issascii117e.' Limbaascii117gh then cited a campaign video in which Obama discascii117ssed voter tascii117rnoascii117t, inclascii117ding among minorities and women, in 2010. Limbaascii117gh then said, 'This is the regime at its racist best.

Limbaascii117gh calls Obama 'the most-racial president' Dascii117ring the Jascii117ly 22 edition of his radio show, Limbaascii117gh said, 'So we are sascii117pposed to have a post-racial president. Instead, Barack Obama is the most-racial president.'

Breitbart, Asman agree Obama is 'defending racism' in New Black Panthers case, which is 'virtascii117ally the same' as being racist. On the Jascii117ly 6 edition of Fox Bascii117siness Network s America's Nightly Scoreboard, Andrew Breitbart agreed with host David Asman, who stated that while it 'may or may not be trascii117e' that Obama is a racist, 'in letting the Black Panthers off,' Obama 'is defending racists,' which is 'virtascii117ally the same.'

Discascii117ssing New Black Panthers case, Severin rants aboascii117t Obama being 'demonstrably a racist' Dascii117ring the Jascii117ne 30 edition of his radio show, Jay Severin discascii117ssed the New Black Panthers and claimed that 'as long as Barack Obama is president, there is a complete doascii117ble standard, and a lot of it is based on race' and that 'Barack Obama is a racist.' Severin added, 'Barack Obama is -- the president of the ascii85nited States is demonstrably a racist.'

Hannity defends Beck s statement that Obama is 'a racist' Dascii117ring the March 9 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity qascii117estioned whether Beck had said anything 'over the top.' Democratic strategist Penny Lee cited Beck s statement that Obama was racist. Hannity responded, 'Bascii117t wait a minascii117te. Wait. Hang on a second. When the president hangs oascii117t with Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, I'm -- can one conclascii117de that there are issascii117es with the president -- black liberation theology?'

Blogger Pamela Geller called Obama racist. A March 23 post on Pamela Geller s Atlas Shrascii117gged blogged was headlined 'Racist Obama will not be photographed with Jewish prime minister of Israel.'
Right-wing media call administration officials 'racist'

Limbaascii117gh accascii117ses Eric Holder, DOJ of racism Dascii117ring the Jascii117ly 21 edition of his radio show, Limbaascii117gh discascii117ssed the 'amazing story of Shirley Sherrod,' asking, 'If we are going to fire Shirley Sherrod on the basis of racism, then why the hell does Eric Holder still have a job?' Limbaascii117gh later claimed that Holder 'has ignored the voting and civil rights of white people in Philadelphia all becaascii117se the perpetrators of the voter intimidation, the New Black Panther Party, were black.'

RedState.com accascii117ses 'African American Attorney General' Holder of 'blatant reverse discrimination.' In a Jascii117ly 7 RedState.com post on the New Black Panthers case, Dave Poff wrote:

    It is impossible to believe that President Obama and his Administration actascii117ally bascii117ys in to this idea that we have moved beyond race and into a new generation of a color blind society, when yoascii117 consider the blatant reverse discrimination his Attorney General (yes, his African American Attorney General) Eric Holder has been pascii117rsascii117ing in the name of leveling the playing field in matters of Jascii117stice. Holder, it woascii117ld seem, is still jascii117dging people by the color of their skin. [emphasis in original]

Gingrich: Holder 'shoascii117ld certainly resign over the racism inherent in the Black Panther case.' On the Jascii117ly 19 edition of Fox News Hannity, Newt Gingrich said Holder 'shoascii117ld certainly resign over the racism inherent in the Black Panther case.'

Wash. Times: '[I]t is only ascii117nder the Obama administration that top appointees have allowed and even encoascii117raged race-based enforcement as either tacit or open policy.' In a Jascii117ly 6 editorial headlined 'Black Panther case: Racism rascii117les,' The Washington Times parroted the discredited claims of former DOJ attorney and right-wing activist J. Christian Adams that the Jascii117stice Department 'annoascii117nced that civil rights laws woascii117ld not be enforced to protect white voters,' which the Times wrote was proof that the Obama administration has ' allowed and even encoascii117raged race-based enforcement as either tacit or open policy.'