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Do you only get that one radio station?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/201...politico/31539
Rush Limbaugh is not backing down from his claim that President Barack Obama is trying to score political points off the earthquake in Haiti.
Challenged by a caller during his show Thursday, Limbaugh said: “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,” Limbaugh said in comments flagged by the liberal blog Think Progress.
Limbaugh has come under fire from both the right and the left for saying that the earthquake played directly into Obama’s hands, allowing him to look “compassionate.” The host claimed the White House’s response would bolster Obama’s standing in the “light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.”
He also appeared to discourage help for the island nation, saying, “We've already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”
Critics have characterized Limbaugh’s comments as insensitive and tone-deaf at a time when heartbreaking images of the devastation dominate news coverage.
Confronted with some of that criticism, Limbaugh slammed a caller as “close-minded.”
“What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a blockhead,” Limbaugh shot back. “What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a close-minded bigot who is ill-informed.”
“If you had listened to this program for a modi of time, you would know it,” he said. “But instead, you’re a blockhead. Your mind is totally closed. You have tampons in your ears. Nothing is getting through other than the biased crap that you read.”
this guy is a such a piece of . the world will a better place once he and cheney kick the bucket..
Do you only get that one radio station?
meh, there will be others waiting to replace them.
it's a free country, I don't understand why ppl get so outraged at what ppl say. the brainless ppl that follow them and make them powerful will eventually become extinct
Not Republicans, Rush.
Just you.
And Pat Robertson.
Rush never misses an opportunity to be an ignorant asshole.
What he said is stupid, but I think he says stuff like this because he has to say something on his show--I mean, he has to fill two hours with his words. If I had to do it, I'd be saying some stupid as well.
he's still not as horrible at his job as peter burns and andy everett. those two morons can hardly speak for 2 minutes without sounding like complete asshats.
I'm surprised Rush didn't backpedal immediately on this. There's no way to be anything but on the defensive from here on out. Disaster aid is the rare kind of thing upon which most Americans can actually easily agree, and he's keeping himself on the wrong side with no one but Pat Robertson and overt racists to keep him company.
“We've already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”
This is really the worst thing he said. Saying Obama doesn't like to sqander a crisis to earn political points is like saying the sky is blue.
I'm still surprised at the number of individuals, left and right, who hang on his every word.
Frl
especially considering how he much he would rave about Bush sending disaster aid to Iraq.
so the president is only helping to score political points. is that what you're saying?
Why would you expect people to not pay attention to the ignorant ramblings of someone who basically controls a political party right now?
That's way oversold. Both Limbaugh and his critics like to perpetuate that notion.
I would expect people to have something better to do.
He was saying today that it's their fault for not having better built buildings, and that their national religion- voodoo tells them not to plan for anything and to abuse their children
critics from the right will change their tune when Rush's listeners start calling those congressional offices.
"Stupid" and "outspoken" don't go well together.
Im just referring and agreeing with this sentence, not the rest.Rush Limbaugh is not backing down from his claim that President Barack Obama is trying to score political points off the earthquake in Haiti.
Of course Obama also uses this to score political points. Every president does that.
Im not saying that their whole goal in such situations are to score political points, it isnt, but when there is such a situation, they sure might as well use it.
That's politics
Last edited by Bukefal; 01-15-2010 at 05:50 PM.
No, voters like you need to kick the bucket.
Talking about George, right?
Just the really really stupid ones.
If boutons only had a radio show.....
I don't care if he's a less neocon because some people are liberal!
Now that would be entertainment.
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