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Rush Limpnoodle 'Obama reacted to fast to Haiti'
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The only evidence I see here is that of your prejudice.
RUSH: I'm gonna respond to this absolute BS that I said don't donate. But, you know, I do not make this program about me. I try very hard not to make this program about me. So if I have time to deal with that, I will. I'm confident everybody in this audience knows what I said and what I didn't say. Even the Washington Post says without the context, "What Limbaugh said is horrible." All I said was, if you paid your income taxes, that's how you donate to government for aid, and sure enough, here comes Obama announcing $100 million from the government for aid to Haiti, fine and dandy. But, you paid for it, it's your taxes. All I said was if you're going to donate do it outside the government, pure and simple. I was attacked, folks, because I am the leading voice of mainstream conservative views, not for any other reason. And this outrage is totally feigned, just as Tony Blankley said, all this outrage at me is totally faked up. They know exactly what I said, and they know for a fact that I would never tell people not to donate to any charitable cause like this, so it is what it is.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: David Brooks today in the New York Times is basically saying what I said yesterday and was attacked for, that giving aid money to countries does not help them grow. Here it is right here in the New York Times, and nobody's mad at them. Do I need to read it? Yeah, let me. "On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, also measuring a magnitude of 7.0, struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Red Cross estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died. This is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story. It's a story about poorly constructed buildings, bad infrastructure and terrible public services. On Thursday, President Obama told the people of Haiti: 'You will not be forsaken; you will not be forgotten.'
If he is going to remain faithful to that vow then he is going to have to use this tragedy as an occasion to rethink our approach to global poverty. He's going to have to acknowledge a few difficult truths. The first of those truths is that we don't know how to use aid to reduce poverty. Over the past few decades, the world has spent trillions of dollars to generate growth in the developing world. The countries that have not received much aid, like China, have seen tremendous growth and tremendous poverty reductions. The countries that have received aid, like Haiti, have not." Oh, my gosh, this is deja vu, except I'm the one that said it. Using our own war on poverty, how much money have we given to the poor in this country, and we still have the same percentages of poor people -- and we're never supposed to examine the results, right? Only the good intentions of the givers!
And, of course, the givers are us. Our back pockets are looted by our own government, and the money is redistributed -- and as Mr. Brooks is saying here, there is no upside to this. "In the recent anthology 'What Works in Development?,' a group of economists try to sort out what we've learned. The picture is grim. There are no policy levers that consistently correlate to increased growth. There is nearly zero correlation between how a developing economy does one decade and how it does the next. There is no consistently proven way to reduce corruption. Even improving governing institutions doesn't seem to produce the expected results. ... . More than 10,000 organizations perform missions of this sort in Haiti. ...
"The second hard truth is that micro-aid is vital but insufficient. Given the failures of macrodevelopment, aid organizations often focus on microprojects. So we have "more than 10,000 organizations performing missions of this sort in Haiti." It's exactly what I said: We've got charities on the ground 24/7, 365 in Haiti. By some estimates, Haiti has more nongovernmental organizations per capita than any other place on earth. They are doing the Lord's work, especially these days, but even a blizzard of these efforts does not seem to add up to comprehensive change. Third, it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the center of efforts to tackle global poverty. Why is Haiti so poor? Well, it has a history of oppression, slavery and colonialism." Yeeeees, all the things we pointed out this week: Dictatorships! "But so does Barbados, and Barbados is doing pretty well.
"Haiti has endured ruthless dictators, corruption and foreign invasions. But so has the Dominican Republic, and the D.R. is in much better shape. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island and the same basic environment, yet the border between the two societies offers one of the starkest contrasts on earth -- with trees and progress on one side, and deforestation and poverty and early death on the other. "As Lawrence E. Harrison explained in his book 'The Central Liberal Truth,' Haiti, like most of the world's poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences. There is the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that life is capricious and planning futile. There are high levels of social mistrust. Responsibility is often not internalized."
"Child-rearing practices often involve neglect in the early years and harsh retribution when kids hit 9 or 10. ... In this country, we first tried to tackle poverty by throwing money at it, just as we did abroad. Then we tried microcommunity efforts, just as we did abroad. But the programs that really work involve intrusive paternalism. These programs, like the Harlem Children's Zone and the No Excuses schools, are led by people who figure they don't understand all the factors that have contributed to poverty, but they don't care. They are going to replace parts of the local culture with a highly demanding, highly intensive culture of achievement -- involving everything from new child-rearing practices to stricter schools to better job performance," and none of these programs are sponsored by government and certainly not by liberal government.
So the things that end poverty are cultural, and they start bottom-up, and they're done by citizens and real people who can't take it anymore. Throwing money at it accomplishes nothing! It's been demonstrated all across the world, but most near to us it's been demonstrated in Haiti. I mention all this as a rebuttal to all of the feigned outrage at me, the lying note that I urged people not to give to charity for Haiti. Nobody in their right mind would ever believe that about me or anybody else, for that matter. However, I did say find some way to do it other than giving it to Obama, 'cause I know he's going to eliminate the charitable deduction. He wants to wipe out individual charitable giving. He wants the government to be the go-to person for all charities. That's the only reason you wipe out the deduction for charitable contributions.
Of Course, I Never Told Anyone Not to Donate to a Charitable Cause
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: David Brooks today in the New York Times is basically saying what I said yesterday and was attacked for, that giving aid money to countries does not help them grow. Here it is right here in the New York Times, and nobody's mad at them. Do I need to read it? Yeah, let me. "On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, also measuring a magnitude of 7.0, struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Red Cross estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died. This is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story. It's a story about poorly constructed buildings, bad infrastructure and terrible public services. On Thursday, President Obama told the people of Haiti: 'You will not be forsaken; you will not be forgotten.'
If he is going to remain faithful to that vow then he is going to have to use this tragedy as an occasion to rethink our approach to global poverty. He's going to have to acknowledge a few difficult truths. The first of those truths is that we don't know how to use aid to reduce poverty. Over the past few decades, the world has spent trillions of dollars to generate growth in the developing world. The countries that have not received much aid, like China, have seen tremendous growth and tremendous poverty reductions. The countries that have received aid, like Haiti, have not." Oh, my gosh, this is deja vu, except I'm the one that said it. Using our own war on poverty, how much money have we given to the poor in this country, and we still have the same percentages of poor people -- and we're never supposed to examine the results, right? Only the good intentions of the givers!
And, of course, the givers are us. Our back pockets are looted by our own government, and the money is redistributed -- and as Mr. Brooks is saying here, there is no upside to this. "In the recent anthology 'What Works in Development?,' a group of economists try to sort out what we've learned. The picture is grim. There are no policy levers that consistently correlate to increased growth. There is nearly zero correlation between how a developing economy does one decade and how it does the next. There is no consistently proven way to reduce corruption. Even improving governing institutions doesn't seem to produce the expected results. ... . More than 10,000 organizations perform missions of this sort in Haiti. ...
"The second hard truth is that micro-aid is vital but insufficient. Given the failures of macrodevelopment, aid organizations often focus on microprojects. So we have "more than 10,000 organizations performing missions of this sort in Haiti." It's exactly what I said: We've got charities on the ground 24/7, 365 in Haiti. By some estimates, Haiti has more nongovernmental organizations per capita than any other place on earth. They are doing the Lord's work, especially these days, but even a blizzard of these efforts does not seem to add up to comprehensive change. Third, it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the center of efforts to tackle global poverty. Why is Haiti so poor? Well, it has a history of oppression, slavery and colonialism." Yeeeees, all the things we pointed out this week: Dictatorships! "But so does Barbados, and Barbados is doing pretty well.
"Haiti has endured ruthless dictators, corruption and foreign invasions. But so has the Dominican Republic, and the D.R. is in much better shape. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island and the same basic environment, yet the border between the two societies offers one of the starkest contrasts on earth -- with trees and progress on one side, and deforestation and poverty and early death on the other. "As Lawrence E. Harrison explained in his book 'The Central Liberal Truth,' Haiti, like most of the world's poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences. There is the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that life is capricious and planning futile. There are high levels of social mistrust. Responsibility is often not internalized."
"Child-rearing practices often involve neglect in the early years and harsh retribution when kids hit 9 or 10. ... In this country, we first tried to tackle poverty by throwing money at it, just as we did abroad. Then we tried microcommunity efforts, just as we did abroad. But the programs that really work involve intrusive paternalism. These programs, like the Harlem Children's Zone and the No Excuses schools, are led by people who figure they don't understand all the factors that have contributed to poverty, but they don't care. They are going to replace parts of the local culture with a highly demanding, highly intensive culture of achievement -- involving everything from new child-rearing practices to stricter schools to better job performance," and none of these programs are sponsored by government and certainly not by liberal government.
So the things that end poverty are cultural, and they start bottom-up, and they're done by citizens and real people who can't take it anymore. Throwing money at it accomplishes nothing! It's been demonstrated all across the world, but most near to us it's been demonstrated in Haiti. I mention all this as a rebuttal to all of the feigned outrage at me, the lying note that I urged people not to give to charity for Haiti. Nobody in their right mind would ever believe that about me or anybody else, for that matter. However, I did say find some way to do it other than giving it to Obama, 'cause I know he's going to eliminate the charitable deduction. He wants to wipe out individual charitable giving. He wants the government to be the go-to person for all charities. That's the only reason you wipe out the deduction for charitable contributions.
Of Course, I Never Told Anyone Not to Donate to a Charitable Cause
edthecynic
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RUSH: I'm gonna respond to this absolute BS that I said don't donate. But, you know, I do not make this program about me. I try very hard not to make this program about me.
Credibility lost immediately!
NYcarbineer
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RUSH: I'm gonna respond to this absolute BS that I said don't donate. But, you know, I do not make this program about me. I try very hard not to make this program about me.
Credibility lost immediately!
Holy crap.
So I guess he's simply misspoken when he's said, repeatedly,
'The purpose of a caller is to make me look good.'
edthecynic
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There is no denying he's the #1 LIAR in all media.I guess that is why Rush remains number 1 in His field, and there is Nobody on the Left that can touch Him.
You did make it through the first sentence, that makes me proud.
It only took his second sentence for me to catch him lying.
Stuttering LimpBoy has a habit of denying everything he says and does because he knows his followers are liars just like him.
July 30, 2008
RUSH: Many things happened over the course of these years, one of the things, the Animal Rights Update. We were told by whoever wrote the song Born Free that we were denied permission to use it in that fashion. Andy Williams who portrayed the song vocally, said he was cool with it, he would love it, he loved the airplay, but they didn't like us putting bombs and explosions and gunfire in the Animal Rights Update, so we had to stop it. That was one of the sad things that happened as this program became more and more successful and got larger and larger and larger, is that a number of people who were not politically sympathetic to this program decided to assert their rights and deny us the ability to use certain musical things. Others didn't, but that's why the Animal Rights Update, as you heard it there, we sneak one in now and then, and then we deny it if anybody says we did it.
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He has become a rich man by lying and preaching hate. It is the people that listen to him who have made the crass, pit mouth, rich. I think it is funny! He is vulgar, self absorbed, a liar, speaks often of prostitution, and is a racist. All the while, many on the Christian right listen to him faithfully. It is the irony of all ironies.
Zona
A guy in ariZONA
He has become a rich man by lying and preaching hate. It is the people that listen to him who have made the crass, pit mouth, rich. I think it is funny! He is vulgar, self absorbed, a liar, speaks often of prostitution, and is a racist. All the while, many on the Christian right listen to him faithfully. It is the irony of all ironies.
Don't forget he is a drug addict who denounces drug addicts.
He has become a rich man by lying and preaching hate. It is the people that listen to him who have made the crass, pit mouth, rich. I think it is funny! He is vulgar, self absorbed, a liar, speaks often of prostitution, and is a racist. All the while, many on the Christian right listen to him faithfully. It is the irony of all ironies.
Don't forget he is a drug addict who denounces drug addicts.
I think He is more tolerant of addicts than you.
NYcarbineer
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I guess that is why Rush remains number 1 in His field, and there is Nobody on the Left that can touch Him.
You did make it through the first sentence, that makes me proud.
Being an asshole on the radio isn't really a field someone should aspire to be number 1 in.
I guess that is why Rush remains number 1 in His field, and there is Nobody on the Left that can touch Him.
You did make it through the first sentence, that makes me proud.
Being an asshole on the radio isn't really a field someone should aspire to be number 1 in.
That's why Assholes like you don't have Radio Shows of Their own, at least not for long.
Honestly, I have spent far too much energy trying to illustrate Limblaugh is an idiot and a media whore. I am not so concerned about him and his words of hate as I am about those of you who listen daily to his rants. That is a major concern.
The Man Made Global Warming Scheme is the major concern. Gore needs to give the money back to those he defrauded.
NPR is a concern. They need to start paying their own way. Time to take the training wheels off.
You are a concern in relation to censorship.
NPR is a concern. They need to start paying their own way. Time to take the training wheels off.
You are a concern in relation to censorship.
txlonghorn
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To all you conservative ASSHOLES out there...SHAME ON YOU...inconsiderate pricks....not everything is about politics especially this...50 thousand dead or dying and you make this about politics and Obama, FUCK ALL you low life pond scum cynical fucktards....GET A LIFE AND GROW THE FUCK UP! you all are an embarassment to human life and this country!
Seriously???
Apparently you weren't on this board 3 days ago when the liberal hacks on here were politicizing the SHIT out of it. These morons on here beat the media to the punch and began comparing the response time to katrina even then.
You should probably police your own team before you start f-bombing the opposing position. However, it doesn't really surprise me in the least.
P.S. - the embarrassment here is a president who can't get anything passed. This country is still in the shitter and going south...banks will soon raise interest rates to battle the Obamacide of any possible financial growth with this bullshit he's pulling to save face with the shelling out of billions to banks with NO means of controlling it.
THERE'S your embarrassment
txlonghorn
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Honestly, I have spent far too much energy trying to illustrate Limblaugh is an idiot and a media whore. I am not so concerned about him and his words of hate as I am about those of you who listen daily to his rants. That is a major concern.
who the hell are you to decide what someone should or shouldn't listen to? That's like someone taking issue with what clothes you wear or foods you eat. How is it any of your business? Mind your own and that's REALLY all you have to worry about.
Stephanie
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Honestly, I have spent far too much energy trying to illustrate Limblaugh is an idiot and a media whore. I am not so concerned about him and his words of hate as I am about those of you who listen daily to his rants. That is a major concern.
LOL, nice to know you care so much for us..
txlonghorn
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I guess that is why Rush remains number 1 in His field, and there is Nobody on the Left that can touch Him.
You did make it through the first sentence, that makes me proud.
Being an asshole on the radio isn't really a field someone should aspire to be number 1 in.
takes one to know one...but I guess you'd still be number 2 behind Rush huh...LOLOLOLOL
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