Limbaugh: Obama “wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 07/06/10 1:14 PM EDT From the July 6 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Video file Previously: Limbaugh: Why was Michelle Obama not at Byrd's funeral? Because of her “authentic slave blood”? “We can only speculate” Limbaugh suggests that “race relations” are “more strained than ever now” because of Obama's election