PITTSBURGH , Pennsylvania ( CNN ) -- Former President Bill Clinton denied Tuesday he had accused Sen. Barack Obama 's campaign of `` playing the race card '' during an interview Monday . Bill Clinton is facing tough questions Tuesday over an interview with a Delaware radio station . A recording of the former president making the comment is posted on the WHYY Web site . It says he made the comment in a telephone interview with the Philadelphia public radio station Monday night . Clinton was asked whether his remarks comparing Obama 's strong showing in South Carolina to that of Jesse Jackson in 1988 had been a mistake given their impact on his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton 's campaign . `` No , I think that they played the race card on me , '' said Clinton , `` and we now know from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along . '' Listen to the full interview . `` We were talking about South Carolina political history and this was used out of context and twisted for political purposes by the Obama campaign to try to breed resentment elsewhere . And you know , do I regret saying it ? No . Do I regret that it was used that way ? I certainly do . But you really got to go some to try to portray me as a racist . '' After the phone interview , a stray comment of his on the issue was also recorded before he hung up : `` I do n't think I should take any s*** from anybody on that , do you ? '' Watch Bill Clinton respond to controversy » . But outside a Pittsburgh campaign event Tuesday , a reporter asked Clinton what he had meant `` when you said the Obama campaign was playing the race card on you ? '' Clinton responded : `` When did I say that and to whom did I say that ? '' Watch more of the Clintons on the trail in Pennsylvania » . `` You have mischaracterized it to get another cheap story to divert the American people from the real urgent issues before us , and I choose not to play your games today , '' Clinton added . `` I said what I said -- you can go back and look at the interview , and if you will be real honest you will also report what the question was and what the answer was . But I 'm not helping you . '' Clinton did not respond when asked what he meant when he charged that the Obama campaign had a memo in which they said they had planned to play the race card . Meanwhile , at a Pittsburgh press availability on Tuesday , Obama was asked about Clinton 's charge that his campaign had drawn up plans to use `` the race card . '' `` Hold on a second , '' he said . `` So former President Clinton dismissed my victory in South Carolina as being similar to Jesse Jackson and he is suggesting that somehow I had something to do with it ? '' Watch Obama 's full comments » . `` You better ask him what he meant by that . I have no idea what he meant . These were words that came out of his mouth . Not words that came out of mine . '' Clinton commented just before the South Carolina primary that `` Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88 . Jackson ran a good campaign . And Obama ran a good campaign here . '' E-mail to a friend . CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand , CNN political producers Alexander Marquardt , Ed Hornick and Chris Welch contributed to this report .
Bill Clinton in interview Monday : Obama camp `` played the race card on me '' On Tuesday he denied he had accused Obama 's campaign of it . Clinton : `` When did I say that and to whom did I say that ? '' A recording of former president 's comment is posted on WHYY Web site .