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(CNN) -- Montana's chief federal judge has offered his apologies for forwarding a racist e-mail aimed at President Barack Obama. The judge also initiated a judicial misconduct investigation against himself.

Liberal advocacy groups demanded that U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull resign.

Cebull, in an interview Wednesday with the Billings Gazette newspaper, offered his regrets for forwarding the e-mail, saying it was "a hard lesson to learn."

"To say it's inappropriate and stupid is an extreme understatement," Cebull said in courthouse chambers on Wednesday, according to the newspaper. "There is no doubt it's racist. It wasn't forwarded for that purpose. If anything, it was political."

The Billings-based judge was named to the bench by President George W. Bush in 2001. He has been chief judge since 2008, overseeing two other full-time district judges, three senior or part-time judges and five magistrates. His chambers did not return a call from CNN for comment.

Cebull did not write the offensive material, but admitted forwarding the February 20 message to a few friends after it was sent to him by his brother. The Great Falls Tribune newspaper was given a copy and reported the message went:

"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.

"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!'"

Goober McTuber wrote:
"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!'"

Mikey wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:
"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!'"

Thanks for forwarding that. I think I'll post it on my Facebook wall.

smackaholic wrote:

Mikey wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:
"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!'"

Thanks for forwarding that. I think I'll post it on my Facebook wall.

How exactly is that joke racist? It is a decent joke, btw.

Van wrote:smackie, she's saying blacks are only slightly better than dogs.

R-Jack wrote:Suckaholic has had a lifetime of being told he's only slightly smarter than dogs, so you can see how he would struggle to register it as offensive.

Van wrote:smackie, she's saying anybody who would fuck a mvscal would also fuck a dog.

Goober McTuber wrote:Shit-eating retard fumbling around with his smack rolodex. Nothing to see here.

Mikey wrote:Think about it for a while. Maybe it'll come to you.

mvscal wrote:

Mikey wrote:Think about it for a while. Maybe it'll come to you.

You can fucking "think" about it till the end of time and it isn't going to make this a racist joke. It's a 'yo momma a ho' joke and such jokes have been part of American politics at least as far back as the Jackson Administration.

Wipe your nose and hitch up your big boy pants, crybabies.

R-Jack wrote:Suckaholic has had a lifetime of being told he's only slightly smarter than dogs, so you can see how he would struggle to register it as offensive.

Van wrote:smackie, she's saying blacks are only slightly better than dogs.

mvscal wrote:

Mikey wrote:Think about it for a while. Maybe it'll come to you.

You can fucking "think" about it till the end of time and it isn't going to make this a racist joke. It's a 'yo momma a ho' joke and such jokes have been part of American politics at least as far back as the Jackson Administration.

Wipe your nose and hitch up your big boy pants, crybabies.

mvscal wrote:

Mikey wrote:Think about it for a while. Maybe it'll come to you.

You can fucking "think" about it till the end of time and it isn't going to make this a racist joke. It's a 'yo momma a ho' joke and such jokes have been part of American politics at least as far back as the Jackson Administration.

Wipe your nose and hitch up your big boy pants, crybabies.

Mikey wrote:

mvscal wrote:

Mikey wrote:Think about it for a while. Maybe it'll come to you.

You can fucking "think" about it till the end of time and it isn't going to make this a racist joke. It's a 'yo momma a ho' joke and such jokes have been part of American politics at least as far back as the Jackson Administration.

Wipe your nose and hitch up your big boy pants, crybabies.

To you lard is healthy and "yo mamma fucked a mvscal and a dog" isn't racist.

Martyred wrote:...that the party was so wild, she may have well had sex with a dog. Dogs being slightly lower on the evolutionary scale than Negroes.

It's racist.

Martyred wrote:...that the party was so wild, she may have well had sex with everybody and the dog.

It's misogynist.

smackaholic wrote:If you want to believe it's racist, then I 'spose it is racist to you.

I read it exactly the same way mvscal did.

smackaholic wrote:I read it exactly the same way mvscal did.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote: You had to ask who "she" was referring to from a joke in which only one female was mentioned.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

smackaholic wrote:I read it exactly the same way mvscal did.

Who cares how YOU read it? You had to ask who "she" was from a joke in which only one female was mentioned.

smackaholic wrote:

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

smackaholic wrote:I read it exactly the same way mvscal did.

Who cares how YOU read it? You had to ask who "she" was from a joke in which only one female was mentioned.

The fukking joke was told by a man to another man. "she" had absolutely nothing to do with this alleged racism.