CLIPS: Olbermann named Limbaugh "Worst Person" for claiming Dems are interested in Darfur for electoral reasons

Published: August 27, 2007, 3:31 pm

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During the August 26 special Sunday edition of Countdown on NBC, host Keith Olbermann named syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh the "winner" of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment for claiming that Democratic opponents of the Iraq war have focused on the genocide in Darfur in order to secure a percentage of the black "voting bloc," as Media Matters for America documented. Olbermann stated: "[O]ur winner, in an upset, comedian Rush Limbaugh, explaining that Americans who want to see their sons and daughters, and friends and neighbors, brought home from Iraq alive are actually racists." Olbermann quoted Limbaugh's comments from the August 21 broadcast of the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show on the purported "reasons" why Democrats "want to get us out of Iraq but can't wait to get us into Darfur." Limbaugh said on that program, "What color is the skin of the people in Darfur? It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to

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