Limbaugh blames liberals for Katrina disaster

[NewJeffCT]

From Media Matters...

LIMBAUGH: Now, here's what we're seeing, folks. One of the things -- and I know this is going to irritate some of you in New Orleans, and I'm sorry, but it's the truth -- when -- when -- after Hurricane Katrina, and there was such misery, and there was such suffering, we were all stunned because New Orleans has been run by Democrats. Louisiana had been run by Democrats for decades; liberal Democrats to loot -- to boot. New Orleans should have been a -- a utopia. There should not have been any racism because liberals don't believe in it, should not have been any unemployment because liberals don't like that. Everybody should have been earning lots of money because liberals support paying people more than the minimum wage. There shouldn't have been any discrimination because liberals are not racists. There shouldn't have been any poverty because liberals won't tolerate it. They have a war on poverty -- and yet, what did we find? We found out it was the exact opposite! We had a microcosm -- a model of exactly what unchecked liberalism does.

It creates destitution. It creates hopelessness. It creates a mess! Such a mess they couldn't even save some of the people who were there to get them out of town, even though they had the mechanism and the advance warning to do it. So, this is what happens when you take a government-dependent, crime-ridden neighborhood and relocate it to another city. Shazzam! You get the same thing! You can take people out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the people, and the way they've been raised, the way that they have been coddled by government and so forth. So, now, Houston has -- has a problem here. And if -- if something like this happens in the future, will any other city be as eager to offer assistance if the -- if the likelihood is that a similar group of people are going to be your new inhabitants?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605090005

I had a LTTE published on this very subject last year... somebody had said that the problems of New Orleans were due to 50 years of liberalism. My response in 2 parts was that (1) while Democrats were in charge in New Orleans, many of them could hardly be called liberal, as evidenced by Ray Nagin, a lifelong Republican who became a Democrat to run for mayor and (2) sure, Democrats have run New Orleans for 50 years, but that was proceeded by 150 years of slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, separate-but-equal, the KKK, etc before that. So, we still have another 100 years to go to overcome.

[MadMaddie]

1. Umm....I love the way he slips in the racism

Does he mean blacks moving into neighborhoods? Not all of the blacks that moved are criminals. And if you have a whole population that moves white or black....you are moving the criminals among them...What a fuckhead he is....fat bastard...

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if the likelihood is that a similar group of people are going to be your new inhabitants?
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[Catherine Vincent]

2. This deranged man needs his meds.

:eyes:

[rfranklin]

3. FEMA was and is in the hands of the Bush administration...

which was the agency that totally botched the response. So what do the people of New Orleans have to do with that. This is racist scapegoating pure and simple.

[maveric]

4. Rush must be using "The Original Wizzinator" to pass his drug screen.

What a line of shit.
What exactly is "unchecked liberalism"?

[Ksec]

5. Who cares what a racist drug addicted pervert says?

Id give my dog more credibilty.

[BiggJawn]

10. Mega-Dittoes to THAT!

Make your kids listen to 1/2 an hour of Gush Pfleghmball and say "See? This is what happens if you do drugs, kids..."

[ShortnFiery]

21. Would SOMEBODY please give him a drug test ...

so that The World can be liberated from his HATE SPEECH?!?

Oh yeah, he's using and using big. Recovery from oxycotin, even beyond detox is gut wrenchingly painful. He shows NO signs of even "going through the motions"

TEST HIM!!!

[Bluebear]

6. Talent On Loan From Oxycontin. nt

[BuyingThyme]

7. Oops! He admitted to being a poverty-loving racist. Stupid.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

8. Republican Governors

1980-1984
David C. Treen - Republican

1988-1992
Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III - Republican

1996-2004
Murphy J. "Mike" Foster - Republican

Looks like Republicans were in charge of the Governorship for 16 years of the last 26 years.

Those evil liberal Republicans:evilgrin:

[NewJeffCT]

14. To some of Rush's crowd...

anybody to the right of Ann Coulter is a liberal.

[baby_mouse]

9. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

... whuh?

Oh, *him*.

[jsamuel]

11. Yeah, everyone knows how flaming liberal southern Democrats are...

:eyes:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Right. And liberals caused him to get addicted to drugs, too.

[ComerPerro]

13. The biggest thing he is overlooking

is that it doesn't matter how liberal the city is, if the country or even the state around it won't support it.

Moreover, the city existed quite well for those fifty years as a liberal city.


It wasn't until they needed to ask a heartless conservative government for help (which was delayed, at best, I'd even say it was refused) that the shit really hit the fan and things went bad.

[catmandu57]

15. I hope he has a black female

probation officer he needs to be handed a cup.

[pointblank]

16. Hush Bimbo

What a piece of garbage.

All of this coming from a man who was just arrested for drug abuse.

How ironic.

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. More warped neo-con logic

I'm surprised he didn't blame the Clenis.

[KingFlorez]

18. You can't blame a ideology for this

It's economics and class issues at fault. New Orleans suffered from the same plight as other urban areas, massive economic isolation of the lower income community. They we're all packed into areas that got no jobs or economic activity. Rush is too stupid to know that.

[NightOwwl]

19. So what else is new?

Limpballs blames everything on liberals.

[yppahemnkm]

20. Why do you even listen to him?

I just don't need that kind of frustration.

[NewJeffCT]

26. I don't listen to them

Was just re-printing the email I got from the fantastic debunking website of www.mediamatters.org

[Synnical]

22. So, he's saying that Conservatives think

there should be racism because conservatives believe in it, should be unemployment because conservatives like that. No body should have been earning lots of money because conservatives support paying people only the the minimum wage. There should be discrimination because conservatives are racists. There should be poverty because conservatives tolerate it. We have a war on poverty -- and yet, what did we find? We found out it was the exact opposite! We had a macrocosm -- a model of exactly what unchecked conservatism does.

[jbonkowski]

23. Did you hear about that house fire?

There was a house that burned down the other day. The stupid family that owned it couldn't put out the fire themselves. Surely their politics determined how well they dealt with the fire. Surely a family with conservative politics would have been fully trained firefighters with their own equipment.

Same argument.

jim

[NewJeffCT]

27. Libertarian reluctantlly calls fire department

Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department

April 21, 2004 | Issue 40•16

CHEYENNE, WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. "Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist," Jacobs said. "Also, my house was burning down." Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32825

[savemefromdumbya]

24. thought he was arrested can't they shut him up?

[Initech]

25. This coming from the party of accountability

Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn *jaw breaks* nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[spanone]

28. Don't care what he says.

no offense. :toast:

[Ksec]

29. How did he get out of buying thousands of illegal drugs from a pusher?

How the fk did he get that dropped? Anyone else would be doing hard federal time.

And why didnt they prosecute him like they would have if it were just a normal guy?