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Limbaugh: Haiti earthquake "made to order" for Obama

January 14, 2010 8:53 am ET by Eric Boehlert

If you haven't already listened to this clip from Limbaugh's program yesterday, you ought to. Media Matters highlighted it because Limbaugh stressed to listeners that the Obama administration would use the Haitian relief effort to "burnish" its credibility with the "light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country."

But I was also struck by Limbaugh's comment near the end of the clip, as the clearly annoyed host was bemoaning the Western Hemisphere catastrophe, simply because it might somehow help Obama politically. Or as the exasperated Limbaugh put it, the epic Haiti earthquake was "made to order" for Obama.

Wow.

Talk about taking Obama Derangement Syndrome to previously unknown depths. But of course, the GOP Noise Machine won't say boo about this because being a conservative pundit in America today means having to pretend Rush Limbaugh doesn't shovel hate for a living.

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    • Author by Bad News (January 14, 2010 9:04 am ET)
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      Rush Limbaugh, "Racist Extraordinaire"


      Mr. News
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    • Author by bintx (January 14, 2010 9:05 am ET)
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      The racism was just dripping in this man's venom yesterday. He is revolting.
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    • Author by goesto11 (January 14, 2010 9:28 am ET)
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      He's shoveling something else in addition to hate.
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    • Author by What Happened to Gannon (January 14, 2010 9:58 am ET)
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      Rush considers the Haiti earthquake a disaster for the GOP. Period. End of story.
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      • Author by DellDolly (January 14, 2010 12:17 pm ET)
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        You nailed it. It's not about how it's 'good for Obama' at all.

        It's that it will show how to react appropriately to a huge national disaster, and it will not favorably compare (favorably for Rush, that is) to the way that Bush responded to huge humanitarian diasters.

        Bush bragged about sending $35 million to the tsunami area several days after the event. Obama has already promised that we will send more than the $100 million that we're already going to send.

        It's about how bad it is for those on the right.
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    • Author by CrashGordon (January 14, 2010 10:31 am ET)
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      I think Rush's comment was "made to order" for those of us who've known all along that he's a racist idiot. Something tells me he won't lose any credibility with his mindless followers, though.
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    • Author by phredicles (January 14, 2010 11:37 am ET)
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      Wait, by the "made to order" comment is Lardbutt implying that the president somehow caused the earthquake. Obama derangement syndrome indeed.
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    • Author by jjaylad (January 14, 2010 11:40 am ET)
         
      Funny he uses the word "burnish." You'll hear unorthodox language a lot when people Like Limbaugh are reeeally being illogical as *^&%. When fuming w/ sweaty ignorance, their lexicons beam w/ inventiveness.
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    • Author by biketime (January 14, 2010 12:36 pm ET)
         
      His perpetual bigotry aside, wonder how much the 400,000,000 "man" has donated to the Haitian relief effort.

      Meantime, Limbaugh's Top Ten:

      http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/

      So much for Harry Reid's comparatively mild stumble.

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    • Author by marjorum (January 14, 2010 2:52 pm ET)
         
      As tens of thousands of people are dead or dying, what kind of a worthless human being would say what he did? I'm not sure the "human" designation is appropriate
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    • Author by reddogs (January 14, 2010 3:47 pm ET)
         
      hes the only man who has balls not to offend and speaks the truth...he is one sided, but isnt that exactly what every other left whore media is. olberman??? its a taste of your own medicine...enjoy
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