Rush Limbaugh Transcript: He Did NOT Say to Not Donate to Haiti… Left-wing Media & White House Maligning Him Again
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 15, 2010
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh's remarks about making donations to Haiti have been deliberately truncated by left-wing media
Liars. Bold-faced liars on the left.
Just like when left-wing media and news sources deliberately chopped off the telling sentence that proved that conservative talk show host Glenn Beck did NOT kill a frog on the air, the left-wing extremists at Huffington Post are deliberately truncating what talk show host Rush Limbaugh said about not sending donations to Haiti’s earthquake victims. The White House is condemning him for it.
Geez. He didn’t say that.
What Limbaugh said has maliciously, deliberately been taken out of context… again. He said that we are already giving to Haiti through income taxes, so people should make donations through the Red Cross and other organizations, NOT through our government or Haiti’s government. Avoid giving the money to Haiti through the government. This is not to be confused by accessing the government’s website and using a link that’s there to the Red Cross. It only applies to donations made straight to the government. Donations made directly to the government are to be avoided. If our government’s bureaucracies get their hands on the money, one dollar will be reduced to 30 cents. At the top of his website’s home page, Limbaugh has a huge link to donation sites for Haiti and earthquake information updates. Limbaugh is well known for his generosity and big heart among conservatives… something that sheeple left-wing haters fail to understand, or they deliberately, ignorantly choose to not understand.
I’ve explored many news sources on this, the outraged left-wing sheep did not listen to the show, but are accepting as fact what they’re being told Limbaugh said. And what they’re being told is a lie.
Limbaugh also did his spoofy “Media Tweak of the Day,” using Sen. Harry Reid’s own regrettable words about light- and dark-skinned people, which is also going to get flak from left-wingers who don’t listen to his show, but will stupidly parrot whatever MSNBC, Media Matters, or HuffPo tells them to believe.
Below is the full transcript from his summary on January 14 of the infamous January 13 radio show. UPDATE: The January 13 transcript in question is available now down below in the comments section of this post, or you can go to Limbaugh’s website. Be sure to read the comments/transcript update for more up-to-date information. If you’re a member of Limbaugh’s 24/7 Club, you can listen to the recording of the show yourself. And not be one of the left’s sheeple who are embracing a lie.
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UPDATE, January 22, 2010: Why can’t statists read? As I wrote above and below, and Limbaugh later investigated and corrected himself on the air and in the transcript, which I also included, the dot-gov site is OK to go to this time to access links for Haiti donations — it only has links to service organizations. That is not always the case. As is ALWAYS the case, donating money for a charity directly TO the government is unwise (as explained below). Going to the dot-gov site to then access the Red Cross link is OK, but why would anyone do that when you can go straight to the Red Cross? I know, I’m restating information found elsewhere in this post, but I’m placing this near the top to hopefully cut down on those silly liberals’ attack comments on information already provided. Grouchy knuckleheads… Learn to read, OK?
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Media Tweaked: “Light-Skinned” Remark Pinned on Rush, Not Reid
January 14, 2010BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: To Paducah, Kentucky. This is April. That is one of my all-time, top ten favorite female names. April, thank you for calling. Nice to have you with us. Hello.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I’m glad that you chose to have me on today.
RUSH: Yes?
CALLER: This is kind of belated, but I just have a question for you.
RUSH: Yes, ma’am? Yes, ma’am?
CALLER: Where in your right mind do you get the cojones to just completely — I don’t know, I guess — dismiss a tragedy of possibly a hundred thousand people dead in Haiti? You’re — you’re going around discouraging people to send donations because we already donated to Haiti and it’s called the US income tax; and Obama, the president of our United States — your president as well, whether you like it or not.
RUSH: Where did you…?
CALLER: — you’re saying –RUSH: Where did you hear that I discouraged donations to Haiti?
CALLER: Uh, I read it in, uh, a news thing called the Huffington Post, but that’s not the point. I was going to finish my sentence if that’s okay with you.
RUSH: Well, but what you just said is a lie. They reported a lie. I did not discourage donations to Haiti.
CALLER: Okay. Well, um, actually the point I was getting to, whether or not you said that — which actually I believe you did. But…
RUSH: No, it’s not “whether or not.” That matters. I mean you call here and ask, “Where do I get off suggesting that we don’t donate to Haiti because we do in the income tax?” and I tell you I said that, but I also said private donations are going to be much better than a government donation. They’re all going, go to the Red Cross, do other things, don’t go through the government. It’s just going to go through hands and bureaucracies and a dollar is going to end up being 30 cents by the time they get through with it. I did not say, “Don’t make donations.” That’s not a “whether or not” thing. That’s why you called.
CALLER: Calm down.
RUSH: Finish your sentence.
CALLER: Calm down. I planned on it, but actually I… Keep denying that, but what is this you were saying about our president of the United States trying to just basically establish credibility in the black community among white (sic) and dark-skinned African-Americans? And why do you, like… After saying that, why would you call yourself a patriot?
RUSH: All right. Now, this is funny. This was our “Media Tweak of the Day” yesterday, April. You know, what we do here on this program is, purposely, play the media like violin, like a Stradivarius. And I love tweaking them. I love irritating them, and I love upsetting them and all you do is take words uttered by liberals and apply them to current events. It was Harry Reid who looked at Obama and said he’s a “light-skinned” guy that “doesn’t speak in a Negro dialect.”CALLER: I’m not talking about Harry Reid.
RUSH: Well, I was.
CALLER: I’m talking about you.
RUSH: I was. You see, this is the point. You didn’t listen to the program. You’re reading people who take what I say out of context precisely to create this sense of outrage that you have.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: In fact, I want you to listen to something with me. Before I said all of this I made a prediction, because this was my Media Tweak of the Day — and it’s getting too easy. I mean, you’re illustrating how easy it is to outrage these people. I enjoy it. This is a great success. When people start squealing like pigs is when I know I’ve hit a home run. This is what I said yesterday.
RUSH ARCHIVE: (tape of previous show being played): Before this week is out, I will be the one who uttered the words “light-skinned” and “doesn’t speak the Negro dialect when he doesn’t want to.” I’ll be the one that said it. Before the week is out, I’ll be the one that said it, not Harry Reid, and they’ll be asking, “Why have you not condemned Rush Limbaugh for what he said (in repeating what Harry Reid said)?” and Harry Reid will condemn me from the Senate floor! (end tape)
RUSH: And then I proceeded to suggest that Obama is going to be giving aid to both light-skinned and dark-skinned Negroes in Haiti, just designed to get the reaction I got — and it worked. The people that listen to this program laugh and chuckle every day at this stuff, because we’re just needling the media. They talk about me all the time and I can create it any time I want. It’s made you mad, and you believe things they take out of context that don’t completely say what I fully said, and you get mad.
CALLER: Okay, so you’re basically evading the second part of my question. You’re not going to tell me why you decided to go around saying something, like, a tragedy that’s happened to hundreds of thousands of people, who are suffering.
RUSH: No, I’m not evading it at all. If I said it I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president. Everything this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he will use it to burnish his credentials with minorities in this country and around the world, and to accuse Republicans of having no compassion. I went further than that even. I’ll have to tell you what else I said after the break if you want to hold on.
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RUSH: We go back now to April in Paducah. I had to interrupt you because we had a hard break and I couldn’t miss it. What is it you were going to say?
CALLER: Well, if I remember correctly I was about to go say, like, I’ve been trying to get you to explain to me, at least — if not the entire country listening to your show right now — what…? Like what… Why…? It doesn’t sound like the president is making this Haiti donation business a political thing. It sounds like you are. You’re just… Uh, you brought up a completely inane, baseless point about establishing credibility in the light- and dark-skinned black communities, and, like, there’s no reason for that. There’s, like –
RUSH: Now, April, I must ask a serious question: Do you ever listen to my program or do you hear about it in places like the Huffington Post?
CALLER: Um… I… When I’m upstairs in the bedroom I’ll have the radio on and I like to listen to some local stations. So, yes, I have heard your show.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: And I’ve heard dozens and clips and quotes that you’ve said and most of the time I’m absolutely disgusted with you. I’ll be perfectly honest with you.
RUSH: I see. Okay, now that we’ve established that you listen sometimes and you’re absolutely disgusted. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever heard of the Democrat Party and President Obama politicizing a natural disaster?
CALLER: Have I ever heard of them politicizing…?
RUSH: Yeah, has that ever happened? Has Barack Obama and the Democrat Party ever politicized a natural disaster?CALLER: Umm, well, this is the — at least if you’re speaking specifically about President Obama, this is the first natural disaster that we’ve had on, uh — on his term. So…
RUSH: We had a natural disaster when he was Senator. It doesn’t matter whether he was president or not. I said the Democrat Party and President Obama, as a Senator, certainly politicized Hurricane Katrina. You see, the difference, April, is that I know these people. I know who they are and I love to tweak them. I love to tweak the media. I predicted yesterday… How come there’s no outrage, by the way, at Bill Clinton suggesting that Obama’s nothing more than a slave when he was trying to get Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillary and he says (doing impression), “Come on! Come on, Ted. You know, a few years ago this guy would be fetching us our coffee.” You’re not outraged about that because the Huffington Post isn’t outraged about it. They probably don’t write about it, but I talk about all of it.
CALLER: Actually… Uh, are you implying that the Huffington Post as the one and only resource that I watch (sic–read)? I even watch Fox News once in a while.
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. I’m not implying that.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a blockhead. What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a closed-minded bigot who is ill-informed. I am being patient and tolerant and I’m trying to explain this to you, and you’re totally closed to it. I’m hitting you with piercing, penetrating logic, and it escapes you — and it is irritating people like you that I revel in. I absolutely revel in it. I’ve got 19 sound bites here today, April, of media people going bat manure yesterday over what they think I said. They didn’t hear me say it, either. They got it from the Huffington Post or they got it from Media Matters or they got it from someplace else. I did not say don’t donate. I did say Obama will use this to help burnish his credentials, ’cause there’s no question he will. I’ll tell you something else I said, April: It took him three days to go out and talk about the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber. It took him less than 18 hours to get out there and start rallying people about this earthquake.
I’ll tell you something else, April. I’m going to make prediction to you, and I’m gonna be right about this. Before the week is out we’re going to have to be stories in the Huffington Post and other places that you read pointing out how fast Obama moved into action versus Bush during Hurricane Katrina. To accuse me of politicizing everything is to be ignorant about what I do on this program. I simply react to the left. They’re the ones that politicize virtually everything that’s happening from health care to terrorism, and I love illustrating absurdity by being absurd. And if you had listened to this program for a modicum of time you would know it. But instead, you’re a blockhead. Your mind is totally closed…
To make a donation to help Haiti, please go to either Rush Limbaugh’s website, the Red Cross website, or Pan American Relief. Also, I just discovered that the Jewish United Fund is actively helping, and 100% of all donations will go to aid the Haitian victims; no money will be taken out for administrative costs.
A tremendous amount of aid/relief information is provided at The Anchoress, Relief Efforts for Haiti – UPDATED.
Related writings with photos, aid information, and earthquake reports:
GayPatriot: Haiti Earthquake: How to Help
Temple of Mut: Science News: 7.0 Earthquake Hits Haiti; Destruction and Deaths reported.
Vets On The Watch: Haiti – A BAD Proposal
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Inflatable Hospital For Haiti and Haiti Earthquake Relief – Our Response and Many Casualties Expected in Haiti…Pictures Updated
Val Prieto, Babalú, an island on the net without a bearded dictator: HAITI DISASTER RELIEF
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Earthquake Relief: ‘Hollywood Unites For Haiti’
Eric Haymes, Big Hollywood: Urgent Appeal — Please Help Us to Help the People of Haiti!
First Thoughts: How to Help Haiti
Nice Deb: Earthquake Damage In Haiti: “Shattered”, “Horrifying”, “Biblical”, “Utter Devastation”
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Earthquake Aftermath: In Florida’s Little Haiti, Poor Communication & Lack of News of Loved Ones in Haiti Brings Anguish & Fears and Haiti’s Horrific Earthquake: Video Photo Essay, Aid Efforts, Obama Press Conference, and How to Donate Via the Red Cross (video)
Gateway Pundit: Vatican: Archbishop of Port-au-Prince Killed in Quake …Update: 500,000 Feared Dead …Update: Dog Bolts From Building Before Quake Stikes (Video)
Tarpon’s Swamp: Hatians Need Our Help
Michelle Malkin: Haiti: How to help
America’s North Shore Journal: Haiti earthquake aid
The Divine Lamp: Prayers, Donations for Haiti
Le Combat: Essential Info on How to Help in Haiti
Inside Catholic: Archbishop of Port-au-Prince among dead in earthquake
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I thiink Rush was way off base this time.
The conversation you are referring to was made a day AFTER his comments about not needing to donate to the Haitian earthquake was relief.
Look, Rush has alot of good things to say. But this isn’t one of them and Conservatives don’t have an obligation to defend him.
Neither would I defend Pat Robertson’s off handed comment about the earthquake being some kind of punishment from God for some past Haitian sins.
We lost 1000 people in Katrina and I don’t think Rush or anyone would consider aid from the government a way to pander to one race or another.
This earthquake may be 50 times worse in terms of lives lost.
We have an obligation to do whatever we can to help.
Had McCain won the election,I know his response would have been exactly the same as Obama’s. It’s not a political opportunity. It a very human reaction to one of the all time worst human disasters.
Rush’s comments were off base and unfortunate.
I’m sure he regrets having made them.
Let’s move on.
Norris, with all due respect, you’re incorrect.
What I’ve posted in the article was Limbaugh’s summary remarks about the left-wing media and the White House maligning him and truncating his words from his previous day’s broadcast. Here is the transcript from THAT broadcast, which is available in its entirety for about three weeks on his website, unless you’re a member of his 24/7 Club, which then the transcript and video of the broadcast would be available indefinitely. The url for this transcript entry is currently located at: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011310/content/01125106.guest.html. I saw that I wasn’t very clear on that timeframe difference, so I’ve revised and updated the post so that it is clearer to readers. My bad.
No where in the following or the previous transcript does Limbaugh say “do not donate money to Haiti”… he and the caller discuss ways to donate to Haiti that do not involve the US or Haiti government or going to the US government’s website. Nothing to regret. And concerning Bush and Hurricane Katrina… the decisions made in that disaster were the responsibility of the STATE government to take care of, not the federal government. The state government has jurisdiction. Pres. Bush dispatched help within 3 days… then, the LA government just bombed out. Remember all the buses that were suppose to help move people out? The ones that sat idle for ages? The ones that the mayor and governor did nothing about? Bush is always getting blamed for what the local government failed to do or did poorly. Apples to oranges, though, with comparing a hurricane (with several days’ notice to all people in LA) to the Haiti earthquake tragedy. And as far as “moving on,” does that include the White House and the leftist fringe media making false accusations and disparaging remarks about him on this just today? I agree with you that we should help the Haiti people in all ways possible (I’ve written several articles with many links on this subject)… Rush Limbaugh never said not to help, only to not give money donations to our government or the Haitian government to be frittered by them down to the nubs. Charities are much better stewards of donations.
If you can locate legitimate, non-doctored transcripts or audio or video that shows that I’m wrong, I’m very willing to concede.
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RUSH: We’re going to start in Raleigh, North Carolina. Justin you’re first today. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: Mega Rush Baby dittos. My question is, why did Obama in the sound bite you played earlier, when he’s talking about if you wanted to donate some money, you can go to WhiteHouse.gov –
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: — to direct you how to do so. If I want to donate money to the Red Cross, why do I need to go to the WhiteHouse.gov page and –
RUSH: Exactly. Would you trust that the money is going to go to Haiti?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Would you trust that your name is going to end up on a mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you for campaign donations for him and other causes.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Absolutely right.
CALLER: That’s the point.
RUSH: Besides, we’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the US income tax.
CALLER: Rush, my mother was going to be on a missionary trip. She was going to leave at 4:30 this morning to go to Haiti with our church.
RUSH: That’s another point, too. Churches –
CALLER: No government money, Rush.
RUSH: Exactly right. Look, there are people that do charitable work every day in Haiti. It’s not as though — like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, it’s our fault. Reverend Wright, it’s our fault, there’s no excuse for such poverty when there’s a nation as rich as we are so close. There are people that have been trying to save Haiti just as we’re trying to save Africa. You just can’t keep throwing money at it because the dictatorships there just take it all. They don’t spread it around, and even if they did they’re not creating a permanent system where people can provide for themselves. It’s a simple matter of self-reliance. Nobody takes that approach down there because this has always been a country run by dictators and incompetent ones at that.
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This next portion was later in the broadcast:
RUSH: I had somebody go to WhiteHouse.gov to see what the donation process is. And this is all the guidance you get on donating to Haiti at the White House site. What I’m going to read to you is buried in a very long blog post about what Obama said about the earthquake. You get that first, you gotta read what Obama said, the maximum leader, you gotta read what he says and then you get to the bottom and here’s what it says. “You can also help, immediately, by donating to the Red Cross to assist the relief effort. Contribute online here, or donate $10 to be charged to your cell phone bill by texting Haiti. Find more ways to help through the Center for International Disaster Information.” So that’s all the guidance you get. Now, that’s pretty easy, text Haiti and you’re gonna get billed for ten bucks and that money ostensibly is going to go to Haiti.
You should be a bit embarressed to be defending Rush here. First he admits he was engaging in race-baiting, throwing around racial terms just to evoke a reaction and anger, that’s not funny at all. Then he clearly says American’s have already donated and that its a matter of self-determination… I’m amazed you think that’s not him recommending against donating. And his partisanship is just awful, to suggest that the White House would take a piece of these donations is just disgraceful, particularly since the whitehouse.gov page clearly is just a compilation of links to independant charities. A crisis like this is not the time for partisanship, it’s embarressing.
Statistics on government waste and Team Obama’s horrific track record with being grossly negligent with taxpayers’ stimulus money (losing it, misappropriating it, giving it to pet projects rather than what it was intended for, sending it to non-existent zip codes, having it scammed away) are common knowledge. You obviously aren’t keeping up with the news, which even left-wing media are begrudgingly admitting that Team Obama is screwing up big-time on government funds.
Therefore, you defending this administration’s ability to properly and responsibly handle charitable funds for Haiti or any other nation is naive. The private sector has been cited for years as being far better able to handle getting donations, at the least possible cost, to the intended nation or recipient. Even Republican administrations spend too much on their bloated bureaucracy to process and distribute funds for charity… did you know that? Self-determination means I can CHOOSE to donate, but not be forced by our government to do so. I’ve written about this before… when charity or volunteerism is mandated by the government, it is a form of slavery. No one should be forced to donate to any cause, but in a land of freedoms, you can choose to give or NOT to give. And based on annual records, conservatives give nearly double the amount freely to charities than do liberals. America gives more, when you combine the government and the private sector, to charities worldwide than any other nation.
As far as “race baiting,” you’re being disingenuous. Point out where he admitted that he was race baiting – he is pointing out double standards between political parties when it comes to race by making satirical commentary. That is NOT race baiting. No outcry from you on Sen. Harry Reid’s legitimate racist comments. When Rush does one of his frequent “point out the absurdity of something by being absurd”, his “media tweak” this week of Reid’s own racist words so as to lend itself to discussion and to give proof (yep, you helped prove it, LOL) that left-wingers will go nuts to protect, defend, ignore, and/or forgive someone else on the left for racist comments, but someone on the right doing a comedic spoof of that same racism is horrible. Quite the double standard here – if we’re suppose to discuss racial issues, this is a perfect topic to start the discussion rolling. I’m not embarrassed to defend Limbaugh – I’ve read his books (have you?), and listened to him for a long time, so I understand his motivations. There is not a racist bone in his body, but he also doesn’t believe in giving anyone a free pass or entitlements because of their heritage, religion, or race. And while part of it is noble on Limbaugh’s to get uncomfortable, touchy issues “out there,” he does enjoy having some fun and torquing off the left-wingers. Like he did with you…
Left-wing mentality: OK for Senator Reid (who meant what he said about it being a good thing that Obama was a light-skinned rather than dark-skinned “Negro” (that’s what the senator said); he got caught, but he’s a Democrat, so no problem if he gives a quick apology) but not OK for Limbaugh (who is exposing the hypocrisy in a satirical spoof/media tweak, but he’s not a Democrat, so that’s not allowed), or Republican Sen. Trent Lott (who apologized profusely for his racially tinged comment at a private party, but was forced to resign from the Senate by the Democrats). Got it loud and clear.
BTW, just for the record – Limbaugh isn’t a Republican nor is he an elected politician like Reid is. He’s a conservative entertainer. Reid can influence policy and directly affect the lives of Americans. Limbaugh isn’t in that position of government power, so fearing Reid’s ideology should be more on your mind than that of a radio host.
The administration isn’t handling any donation funds… don’t you do the slightest amount of research before you post? All Obama does on the website is list ways to donate to a number of well known charities. There’s no opportunity for government to mishandle funds- since they don’t go thru him, so get a grip. By the way, one traditionally doesn’t refer to charities as “the private sector”- this typically only refers to for-profit firms. – the US already has a great infrastructure for helping in these horrible situations- should our government not use its resources. I am very proud of America’s record for giving… but I don’t understand how someone can say we already give enough after a disaster has occurred.
I am not being disingenous regarding race baiting. He explicitly said he was trying to upset people by using racial words. That’s the definition of race-baiting. Harry Reid on the other hand was actively backing a black man for president, and that he used an outdated term in the political consideration of whether it was feasible is somehow racist. Heck, read Ward Connerly’s ( a prominent black conservative’s) opinion in the WSJ if you’re worried about whether Reid’s comment was racist. As a general statement, I do agree that many folks are too sensitive about race and many times Rush gets improperly criticized, but that doesn’t change the fact that he said he was race-baiting- trying to upset people by using racial terms.
Goodness, you’re quite testy – I’d say you’re even getting hostile. And yet, it’s because you’re not reading very carefully what I’ve written.
I did address that the government won’t be handling the donations much earlier today, Adam, and updated my information in the comments section, with a reference in the piece. You obviously didn’t bother to read the entire update nor the Jan 13 transcript Iin the Comments section.
The original point Limbaugh had made two days ago and again yesterday (and I have made as well) is about government’s ineptness and often corruption in handling money intended for causes or charities; that hasn’t changed. However, once the information on the earthquake situation was made available as to what Pres. Obama’s WhiteHouse.gov site is doing for the American public to make Haitian donations, I updated it immediately, which was hours ago. The dot-gov site provides a link to Red Cross & other charities – Rush Limbaugh updated his information on his radio show and covered that in the Jan 13 transcript as well, which I provided. So what you’re telling me is that I am providing the correct information.
Links on the dot-gov is not the same as giving charitable donations directly to the government to distribute, which WAS the earlier concern and assumption that it would be yesterday. So, no problem there now that we know. Unlike liberals, once conservatives learn more and see that information is incorrect, misunderstood, or has some gaps, we make efforts to correct or update our information. Which Limbaugh did. Which I did. And I marked it as such.
So, I’m not sure why you’re being so grumpy, since I have provided the updated info about the dot-gov (and if more up-to-date info is made available, I’ll update that as well). This does not alter the fact that our government, and likely all governments, totally SUCK when it comes to distributing money for charities. Fortunately, the Haiti victims won’t have 70 percent of their donations taken by this administration before seeing a penny. THIS TIME.
Upsetting people on the left by using an elected government official’s own racist words for social/political commentary is NOT the same as race baiting, Adam. It’s to expose the hypocrisy and to jerk Democrats’ chain to face up to their blatant double standard. Rush is mocking the left, not attacking blacks. He does this on other issues as well… but for some reason, this is a real thorn of contention for Democrats. As columnist Ann Coulter wrote this week, “Democrats regularly say things that would end the career of any conservative who said them. And still, blacks give 90 percent of their votes to the Democrats.” Is that race baiting? I’m sure that it will upset a number of people and it is about race issues. But it is not race baiting. It’s making an observation about race and how our government treats those unequally, depending on their political affiliation.
Yeah, like the fair upstanding non-partisanship way the Democrat party has shown for years on Bush and Hurricane Katrina… NOT
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Bush was not responsible for overseeing the operation in Lousiana, it was the state govt not the federal govt there that screwed up. But lefties always blame Bush because blaming Bush is more conveinient even if it is wrong. Even this week on other blogs i’ve read them still blaming Bush for Katrina problems. the Lousiana governor messed up but Bush is still the whipping boy.
Adam, you wrote ‘A crisis like this is not the time for partisanship, it’s embarressing.’
What the heck is that suppose to mean? Are you embarrassed when Democrats do it? Dems constantly use any crisis to push through their socialist agenda, their justification to spend-spend-spend, and to use it to blame and attack conservatives, tea partiers, people who know global warming is a hoax they blame Christians, blame Cheney, blame Sarah Palin, blame Bush some more. Why all of a sudden are leftists acting like an earthquake in Haiti must be treated with kid gloves ? Seriously, i want to knwo why you feel like that. becuase if you can explain it so it is logical and makes sense, i might agree with you.
But all i see is a double standard. Libs can twist anything into a lie and use any crisis for themselves. Conservatives can’t. is that what your saying? Remember that shooting at the Holocaust museum? lefties jumped to the conclusion it must have been a conservative who did the shooting because it was a museum for Jews and that sent all sorts of lefties into a tizzy about conservatives being into hate crimes – how we now need more gun control. Then from the guy’s twisted website it was learned that he had been in the military. So the left attacked veterans and our military. But then they foudn out he was in the military like 50 yrs ago for just a few years, was a nutcase and a Nazi, and his website had profane hate comments against blacks and Jews and also against GWBush and Christians. And that was when the lefties clammed up. They screwed up by using the shooting to push liberal agenda.They didn’;t apologize or investigate their partisanship during that crisis and when they learned they were way off base, they probably nearly cr*apped in their pants. so they just zipped up on it. and then they foudn on his website that he was planning to go to Fox news to kill Glen beck. After that the lefties stopped bringing up the shooting because it didn’t help them blame anyone they wnted to blame. there are hundreds more examples. So tell me why the Haiti earthquake is different, and when liberals attacked Bush after the tsunami on Christmas Day in Thailand, why that was OK. Seroiously i want to know how you think on this.
I also think Rush is right about Obama using this earthquake for his own poltiical agenda & gain, which i don’t blame him. Every smart poltiician does that, and i listened to Obama’s speech and it wasn’t as ridiculous as I thought it would be. But you putting Obama on a pedastal who wouldn’t do anything to take advantage of a crisis is just plain wrong. HE’S FROM CHICAGO POLITICS-THEY ALL DO IT THERE.
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Rush rocks! He says things that tick off liberals or makes them uncomfortable. Sadly tho it doesn’t make them think. I can imagine little troll liberals hunched over their radios, trying to find something that Rush says that they can snip out a few words or twist to change its meaning. This article was so accurate. They are all liars.
What the media is trying to do to smear this man is disgusting. They did it when he was trying to buy an NFL team. The White House has been attacking him since just after The Messiah was inaugurated. They didn’t pay any attention when Rush was critical of things Pres. Bush did and said so.
Admin, stop wasting your time trying to explain to AdamJ what you clearly wrote and updated. You know that Obamabot liberals can’t read all that well… ha ha ha
I’ve read your post carefully and you never said that Obama is asking people to donate money through his website. You said that government wastes money and it does. Rush corrected his information once he found out what was on the Obama website. Liberals attack the stupidest things – Adam seems AOK with Sen. Harry Reid saying racist things, but freaks out if Rush Limbaugh uses those same words to make an astute point about the double standard in America concerning race issues. And Rush never says he’s trying to “race bait” as Adam is convinced he is. No, Rush is doing something much deeper than that, and liberals just can’t wrap their tiny minds around that. He’s exposing the hypocrisy.
Dem senator Grayson in Florida called a woman a whore. No problem. He called Republicans Nazis who want people to die. No problem. He called former VP Dick Cheney a vampire. No problem. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says anyone who doesn’t want Obamacare is un-American. These are government leaders. Does anyone NOT see the hypocrisy here? Adam and other liberals are acting like sheep attacking radio show hosts and not being forthright about the outrageous crap our government is saying about Americans.
Good post BTW – Rush is really driving the Dems crazy this week which always make me smile.
Grayson is an embarrassment to any political party – I’d be writing even more scathing things about him and his despicable, unprofessional statements if he were a Republican. He’s a showboat, an arrogant jerk. But, since Grayson is a Democrat clown, the unprofessional rhetoric is not surprising. So I only write about him a few times a month. I doubt any liberal bloggers write anything critical about him. Don’t know, don’t care.
[...] Rush Limbaugh did NOT say ‘don’t donate to Haiti causes’ and The Frugal Cafe Blog Zone has the transcript to prove that left-wing media and the White House are blatantly lying to the American public. [...]
I think people are being unfair to Mr. Limbaugh! He did not clearly say not to donate to the desperate starving people of Haiti and he has now clarified his statement.
[...] be as effective as contributing to more efficient private charities, as he said on his January 14 show: "Private donations are going to be much better than a government donation. They’re all [...]