Limbaugh: Obama will use Haiti to boost credibility with "light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country"
January 13, 2010 1:01 pm ET
From the January 13 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Let me get this straight we gave over 1buillion in aid to this country and its still this primative and delapidated.
When will we come up with an actual plan that helps the people to be self sufficient and not just leave them in tin shacks holding out thier hand for U.N. aid scraps. When will we say to a country that steals/wastes most of the money given- "NO MORE MONEY UNTILL YOU GET RID OF THE CORRUPT GOVERNMENT. PERIOD, NO MONEY." We just give money, say "dont steal" then give them more. WE NEVER STOP GIVING, and the people NEVER STOP SUFFERING.
Rush was an idiot for saying the truth (yes it is the truth: Anyone telling me 'a politician wont use this to garner good will' is not in touch with reality. If McCain was the president he would use it in future situations.) Rush was an idiot for making political points during a tragedy.
VERY FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY PERSON,
P.S. RUSH LIMBAUGH, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU STILL HAVE A RADIO SHOW, YOU SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE AIR. YOU ARE A SELF CENTERED AND RUDE!!!!!
"Yes, I think in the Haiti earthquake, ladies and gentlemen -- in the words of Rahm Emanuel -- we have another crisis simply too good to waste. This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, "credibility" with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It's made-to-order for them. That's why he couldn't wait to get out there, could not wait to get out there."
You can't read that and tell me it was serious comment. Earlier in the show he talks about this being the "Media Tweak of the Day."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011310/content/01125106.member.html
You people are brain-dead idiots who blindly play along with Rush because you simply do not have a clue!
Oink oink.
While I agree with you that Limbaugh is a clown, and I wish everyone would react to his statements as one would to a clown's slapstick, it is disingenuous of you to point this out as a reason for not taking him seriously, precisely bacause it is people like you that take such buffoonery seriously when it comes to political debate.
The Cubans were there with 300 doctors immediately afterward un announced, Brazil also, China responded as well as France and even Iceland. Perhaps they are trying to influence the light skin and dark skinned blacks in their communities.
This is a world unifying event, especially in these economic times.
An even more unstable Haiti hurts the SE USA as well as Haiti's neighbors.
So he was making a joke out of the situation in Haiti to take cheap shots at the President.
THAT MAKES IT SO MUCH BETTER.
If it's satire, then where is the hook? Where's the funny? Nowhere.
Also, considering the source's habit of raciallizing everything, the comment cannot be reasonably construed as mere exaggeration, since this is precisely the kind of garbage Rush hold to be true.
Randy
Rush Limbaugh is the embodiment of all that is evil and wrong in human nature. You sealed this argument yourself when you argued that Rush was useing this profound epic tragedy to create a "media tweeking moment" (a sort of large scale practical joke).
My ditto headed freind it's time to re-examine your alliances.
a big joke you say?
you mean just like you and those you support?
yeah that would be a pretty big joke i guess
and it is truly sad to think you can try and pass this off as rush telling a bad joke.
its a lie, its bullcrap and you damn well know it
be careful of who you are calling a pig here because the only one that is squealing about anything is you and your pal rush
Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she’s a ‘bigot’ with ‘tampons in her ears.’
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/14/limbaugh-haiti-tampons/#comments
Really?? I guess Rush thinks helping people struck by tragedy will only please "the black community." Does he think "white" people won't like it? Where is this all-powerful black community he keeps saying Obama is trying to please?? Most communities I know about have all the shades of the human rainbow in them. What the h-ll is Rush talking about?
Too bad Dumbya couldn't do the same with Katrina, eh, Limpy? . . .
Perhaps, he would wait a few days, then pledge $15M - $25M less than he spent on his inauguration - in support? Yeah, that would likely dissuade anyone suggesting he was boosting his credibility. But I guess that's just the strategy of a truly genius statesman.
Good call, Rush. You caught him!
The criticism here seems to be that Obama, by caring too much to not consider the political advantages of manipulating his response in order to manipulate a potentially manipulative public opinion deserves to have public opinion manipulated against him in the direction of what, if he were politically competent, he could have avoided.
It's like thugs waiting in alleys declaring that anyone who walk the streets deserves to be knocked over the head because 'that's what they deserve for being stupid enough' to walk down the streets...
There's a time and place for examining the political motivations of our elected officials. But today wasn't that day. Rush could have waited until the suffering had subsided a bit. Instead, per usual, he's utterly lacking in empathy toward those less fortunate than he is.
No one grasped the full size and scope of the devastation from the Indonesian tsunami for some days. The biggest devastation, in populous but remote seaside villages of Indonesia itself, was unknown because they were completely wiped out.
In contrast, Haiti's earthquake hit near the capital where the embassies and the county's international transportation and communication hubs are located.
How about "Why can't it just be the response from a PERSON, a human being, with a humanitarian mindset!?"
And, wow, sounds like we don't have to donate to any disasters or causes anymore. Rush gives "I gave at the office" a whole new look..... Just imagine if everybody took him serious. What a wonderful world it would be - NOT!!!
Haitians are something less than human to Limbaugh.
You, however, will assert that Obama is doing it for racial reasons, because such an assertion plays very well to the white skinned base who's listeners pay your salary.
If it happens, I hope they form a little colony on the beach in front of his house.
Fortunately for him, none of his fans are bright enough to notice this. He has the easiest job in the world.
BTW, if you're going to trash Mormons, you'd better add Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck to your list.
Satan
Really really sad man.
Makes me feel less bad about the insults and low blows that are flung at him on MMfA.
Maybe after next week or so it'll be time to seriously petition those stations still carrying Rush's show.
Ha! Awesome.
The ignorance of the race baiting Rush Limpballs.
SMH!
It seems to me that Rushie was hoping that the president wouldn't respond to the crisis in Haiti. The president responded in a timely manner.
Rushie is not concerned about the devastation or the thousands of lives lost because they're mostly brown people, and he's going to tie them to the president and AAs in America because of that. I expect the same thing from President Obama that I expected from the other white presidents I've voted for since 1972, and that is for him to do his job to the best of his ability and keep the needs of the Americans as his first priority.
No matter what President Obama does, Rushie and the wingnuts will criticize him in an attempt to score political points. I'm glad that the president does his job and ignores them. He refuses to give them the attention they crave.
Randy
What else is new?
DISASTEROUS...
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I know, I know, looking up actual facts is a waste of time and energy for you, and I know you prefer Drudge Report press releases that have all the intellectual honesty of a plagiarized research paper, but it will be good for you.
As far as Rush and Robertson are concerned, 'He who is loud has nothing to say'.
John Goines
Great comment last night on O'Reilly last night as he asked Dennis Miller, "If everyone thinks Sarah Palin is so dumb, then why are our ratings so high?"
Hmmm I have to admit I too slow down on the highway when I pass an accident!
It's almost like he feeds off your outrage.
I hope the best for the people of Haiti.
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The Midnight Review
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/us-policy-helped-keep-haiti-chaos
I can hear the liberal pigs squealing: "But Rush did it first...waaaaaahhh!"
This is another example of the right wing creating a false equivalency, like comparing Reid's stupid comments to Trent Lott's wish that the USA had elected a segregationist president in 1948.
Plus, if you actually read the damn article, you'd see that the author, James Ridgeway, in part blames Clinton for inaction as well. But of course, all you did was read the title of the article and post the link.
Randy
:)
and funny thing is that the destabilized governemtn in place in Hati was fostered by......gosh.....your namesake.
so what is your point here? other than to just try and get a chance to call everyone but you pigs.
Lastly Conservatives can win seats back, but long term mark my word its a certified dying party, with nit wits like this openly dismissing the importance of the lives of people that are not white. .A time will come when Republicans will struggle to win in areas like Texas that is fast becoming cosmopolitan.
I am black and I know I am not wanted in the Republican party, I am conservative but I'd rather hang than be in a party with such hate of anything that isn't white.
USAF Ret. new6312
Exposed Rush for his distain of the Haitians people in their time of need ,and his HATE for President Obama!
Exposed Robertson for his Understaning of the Teaching of the Son of GOD to bring aid and comfort HAITI and her people !
Exposed Maddows who Politicies the disaster!
All three were WRONG!! WRONG!!
The sad thing is that all day on Fox NEWS 1/15/10, Fox will only use the Maddows part of the segment!
WATCH AND SEE, if I am wrong with this prediction!
After politizing the tragedy in Hati in racial terms, he denies accountability for it. He was only "tweaking" the media. Truthfully, that was probably part of it. He knew the media was going to pick up on it. So, he got his ego recharged while at the same time accusing the President of courting the black vote. It was a win, win situation for Limbaugh, and his ratings and paycheck are secured.
Limbaugh is really the worst kind of human being. What his own personal sentiment is on race is irrelevent even to himself. It is all about feeding the insatiable beast - himself.
I ask those of you with any soul at all to follow suit.
Making politics out of the suffering and deaths of these people is going too far.