Earlier, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok said that “yesterday, Rush Limbaugh was on the air talking about an incident in which black kids attacked a white kid on a school bus, an incident the police said was not racially motivated, and saying that what we need are segregated buses, that this is the only way, I suppose, that white people can be protected from black people. I think when we have characters like Limbaugh saying that on the air to millions of Americans, many of whom actually revere the man, you know, it's not surprising that people feel that, you know, the race war is around the corner and that we're allowed to say these kinds of things.”

Previously:

Limbaugh: "[I]n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering"

Beck: Obama has “exposed himself as a guy” with “a deep seated hatred for white people”

CNN's Martin says Limbaugh, Beck “playing into others' racial fears”