Rush Limbaugh On Fox News Sunday: Obama Got His Agenda Passed In His First Year Because He Is Black

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From the February 19 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday:

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CHRIS WALLACE (HOST): I’m just saying at least he passed his program and President Trump hasn’t passed any of his programs yet.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Well, it makes my point. Here you had -- I tiptoe again. You had the historic first African-American --

WALLACE: You’re not very good at tiptoeing.

LIMBAUGH: Well it’s television, and it’s Fox News. I have deep respect. But no seriously, you have the first African-American president. You have everybody falling all over themselves to acknowledge that, to reward that. Obama was going to get everything he wanted in the first year because if anybody opposed it, they were going to be accused of being a racist, or a bigot, or who knows what.

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