Limbaugh: “Sotomayor was following her basic instinct; she is racist” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 06/29/09 1:29 PM EDT From the June 29 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Video file Previously: Conservatives react to historic Supreme Court nominee by smearing Sotomayor as “racist,” “bigot” Limbaugh calls Sotomayor “a reverse racist,” appointed by “the greatest living example of a reverse racist” Rush reacts to Newt's backtracking on Sotomayor “racist” charge: “I'm not retracting it.”