{"id":3550,"date":"2012-03-01T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:19:18","slug":"richard-cebull-montana-federal-judge-admits-forwarding-racist-obama-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/richard-cebull-montana-federal-judge-admits-forwarding-racist-obama-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Cebull, Montana Federal Judge, Admits Forwarding Racist Obama Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. federal judge Richard Cebull. Source:\u00a0U.S. government.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Montana’s chief federal judge admitted on Wednesday that he forwarded an email comparing African-Americans to dogs and implying that President Barack Obama’s mother had sex with animals.<\/p>\n

Richard Cebull’s email, obtained by theGreat Falls Tribune<\/em><\/a>, reads: “Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.”<\/p>\n

A joke then follows: “A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’ His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!'”<\/p>\n

Cebull forwarded the offensive email from his official court account to six “old buddies,” who then forwarded to others.<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0interview with the\u00a0Tribune<\/em><\/a>, Cebull maintained he did not send the email because it was racist, but because it was ‘anti-Obama.’<\/p>\n

“The only reason I can explain it to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan,” Cebull said. He agreed the email was racist, but said he personally was not.<\/p>\n

“This is a private thing that was, to say the least, very poor judgment on my part,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Cebull was\u00a0nominated to his current position by George W. Bush<\/a>. He has served since 2008.<\/p>\n

This is not the first instance of an official coming under fire for sending a racist Obama email.<\/p>\n

In April 2011, an Orange County GOP official sent out an email with a photo of Obama’s face superimposed on the body of a baby chimpanzee. She made a\u00a0public apology<\/a>, saying she was an “an imperfect Christian” and she hadn’t thought about the cultural implications of the email before sending.<\/p>\n

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