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(February 21, 2006)
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      *Rush Limbaugh made an embarrassing boo-boo recently when he mistakenly assumed that Sherrod Brown, a congressman from Ohio running for U.S. Senate, is a black man.

       A flurry of e-mails to his nationally syndicated radio show hipped him to the fact that the seven-term congressman and former Ohio secretary of state is indeed Caucasian.      

        "Uh, Sherrod Brown's a white guy? Then I'm confusing him with somebody. OK, I'm sorry," Limbaugh said on the air this week.      

       Despite his acknowledgment of the mistake, the e-mails kept coming throughout his airshift. He addressed the misstep again later in the show.      

       "We have corrected this, and I, you know, I'm not gonna apologize because I don't think it's an insult to be black," said Limbaugh, who in 2003 was ousted from ESPN’s NFL preview show after stating quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.      

       Brown, who is running for Senate against GOP Sen. Mike DeWine, told the Chronicle-Telegram of Elyria, Ohio: "Rush Limbaugh obviously knows as much about me as the Republicans know about balancing the budget.”

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