Limbaugh: 'How many people really think of Obama as black?'

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On his Thursday show, Rush Limbaugh wondered “how many people really think” of President Obama as a black man.

Limbaugh’s comments came as he leafed through a new book by U.S. News and World Report writer Kenneth Walsh about African Americans and the presidency. The book recounted a meeting in the White House, where Obama said he was concerned that “race was probably a key component” in some of the opposition to his presidency.

Limbaugh, not surprisingly, objected strongly to this idea, calling it “classless” and baseless of Obama to think that race was involved in peoples’ animus towards him. Then, he said that Obama was not even thought of as black by most people:

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