Rush Limbaugh Attacks Black Katrina victims and praises Whites as the Floods hit.
By John Amato Monday Jun 16, 2008 6:30pm
Limbaugh: I want to know. I look at Iowa, I look at Illinois---I want to see the murders. I want to see the looting. I want to see all the stuff that happened in New Orleans. I see devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans. I see people working together. I see people trying to save their property...I don't see a bunch of people running around waving guns at helicopters, I don't see a bunch of people running shooting cops. I don't see a bunch of people raping people on the street. I don't see a bunch of people doing everything they can...whining and moaning---where's FEMA, where's BUSH. I see the heartland of America. When I look at Iowa and when I look at Illinois, I see the backbone of America.
Thanks to a C&Ler that emailed me much of this post. Limbaugh is an arrogant ideologue that loves Howard Kurtz and hates the black victims of NOLA. Don't you understand, it was all their fault for not escaping Hurricane Katrina! Wake, up! You drive by media fools. They were lazy, lazy people that deserved their fate. If only they were white and responsible. Just listen to this horrific rant as Limbaugh is all 'agush' with admiration over the way in which Iowa and the Midwest has responded to the flood disaster that befell the area last week. But to just congratulate the residents in their determination and courage in fighting the disaster isn't enough for the AM talk blow hard. Limbaugh could not pass up the opportunity to once again trot out his old, well known disdain for poor blacks in the south who were victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To hear Limbaugh describe it, Iowa is more American, more honorable ... you know ... more white than Louisiana.
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It would seem that the images of floating bodies, and documented stories of elderly New Orleans residents drowning in their attics is cold hard facts surrounding humans that Rush Limbaugh thinks could have benefited by just pulling themselves up by their bootstraps a little more. Nevermind that more than 1700 human beings lost their lives on live television as America watched in horror. You don't hear progressives saying that Iowa is any less devastating because the death toll in those floods was a total of 5. It is still a tragedy. And progressives understand that full well.
But according to Rush the story of Iowa under water isn't a story about humans over coming adversity. It's a story about how much more patriotic the white bread basket is than the lazy south.
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This man is ill.
The man is a pathetic, racist buffoon. Let's just leave it at that.
Rush only likes one color. White. His pasty, hate-filled body will be the purest white possible when his Saviour comes to take him away.
Not one thing said was inaccurate. And if he is wrong, it isn't being widely reported.
This situation really is being responded to by the citizens 100% better than NOLA.
He's right. That is until he starts tailing off on Al Gore, he loses me at that point.
Yutz.
Truth & Beauty
I'm sure he is just being taken out of context. (Barf)
The fat junkie is on top of his game. His racist dialog is sophistry. He needs to be locked in a room with Donovan McNabb to explain his views on black inferiority.
urban blacks and rural whites are very different. in this he is correct. i have lived in both places. if a big earthquake hit st. louis, the city i live in, i would have to defend my house or what was left of it like people had to do in new orleans. if a disaster hit farmington missouri, 60 miles south, it would be a totally different story. i wouldn't have to walk around with my tricked out tactical M4 in farmington, i would in st. louis.
it's not racism it's reality.
Will someone not rid me of this priest?
marko @ 9:
Bingo. Well said.
It is what it is.
rush has had just too much buffet from the honeypot.
He says that the people of New Orleans didn't do anything to help themselves, and then says that they would have done less if a Democrat would have been in office. How can one do less than nothing? If Rush was in a hurricane he would just grab his stash of Oxy and Viagra, charter a plane and be out of there. No rebuilding for Rush. No Applebee's salad bar for David Brooks.
If that asshat ever crosses my path I will step on his fucking throat and piss in his face
Dickens' Marley and his heavy chain of links forged in life have nothing on Limbaugh. Can you say karmic debt? Big. Huge.
If there is a satan, he is a fat, white man, that smokes cigars, and sits in front of microphone high on pharmaceuticals.
bush's worst fucking nightmare @ 14:
your an asshole for threatening another human being with violence. fuck you. even if it is rush.
you sound like a redneck republican not a progressive peace loving dem.
marko @ 9:
you are a total racist. if you don't think whites won't kill you
where you stand when there is major destruction and shortages
of food/water/gas then
YOU ARE A FOOL.
TimTexas @ 11:
Rush Limbaugh is a Flanner O'Connor short story.
marko @ 17:
Rush is not a human being...haven't you read above, he is satan. I wish someone did that to that piece of shit that is Rush.
dadams @ 18:
i am not a fool
i am not a racist
i survived the reagan wars in central america
whites are just as greedy and evil as anyone else but.....
you obviously don't know farm folks
This jackoff lost his hearing and ability to move his bowels without the assistance of a doctor's enema because he was high on happy pills for like 10 years. Why anyone still listens to him is beyond me
How can anyone with a brain listen to that shit? I know better than to try, because when I do it makes me want to go out and hurt some of the republican idiots who live near me.
not a good comparison by this over paid hater/propagandist...different cultures,demographics,public services.......i don't see blackwater in iowa
SickupandFed @ 19:
While I'm sorry that I lived in Houston during Katrina and not in New Orleans, it does not excuse the lack of civility in NOLA after the tragedy that apparently exists all across the midwest. Call me whatever you want, but until you show me how what Limbaugh said is wrong, you're just venting to whoever will listen.
marko @ 22:
i will give you what you think you are but........
catastrophes and threat of survival changes EVERYONE.
Rush didn't seem to mind black folks that much when was sex-touring the DomRep with a suitcase filled with Viagra. I guess it's all pink on the inside, right Rush, you moral icon?
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What? TimTexas? Not inaccurate? He's right? But... Oh, nevermind, gotta remember that the trolls can feed themselves without any help from me. But, you know, I could certainly find justification for shoving a stick in Rush's spokes, despite my long-held belief in peaceful solutions to the world's problems. And you know, Marko, Rush usually has to pay twelve year-old girls in Guatemala five bucks to step on his throat and piss in his face. Hell, this doesn't even rise to being half as bad as the fraternity pranks he plays on the little Vietnamese boys he keeps in his basement. So, you know, just lighten up a little?
kakaya zanuda @ 29:
I'll go at this each part at a time...
1. What? TimTexas? Not inaccurate? He's right? But... Oh, nevermind, gotta remember that the trolls can feed themselves without any help from me. --- Yeah, I must be a troll because I don't close my eyes and agree with everything I'm told here.
2. But, you know, I could certainly find justification for shoving a stick in Rush's spokes, despite my long-held belief in peaceful solutions to the world's problems. And you know, Marko, Rush usually has to pay twelve year-old girls in Guatemala five bucks to step on his throat and piss in his face. Hell, this doesn't even rise to being half as bad as the fraternity pranks he plays on the little Vietnamese boys he keeps in his basement. --- I think Rush is a HUGE douchebag, but right is right, even if it comes from an asshole. Hell, even Bush is right on HIV relief to Africa.
3. So, you know, just lighten up a little? --- Sure.
The two areas and the respective disasters are not even remotely comparable, on many levels. Rush, nevertheless, wants to pretend they're apples and apples. Typical sweeping generalizations, where politically convenient, to score political points. Big surprise.
That said, sounds like the Oxymoron is back on the Oxy. Doesn't sound like himself.
they want us to hate rush......i would rather ignore this pompous ass.....he is a professional divider of the country
he feeds the responses from the dems/liberals to his audience 'see they're not like you...they think they are better than you'........i'm fxxxxxg sick of it...it's why nothing gets done
Limbaugh is a total creep, but he didn't use the words "black" or "white" in this piece.
It could have just as easily been a poor/middle class contrast. Clearly though
one could conjecture that he was talking about race. Frankly he seemed to be
making this a "Democrat"/Republican contrast.
Ya know, Limbaugh is such a destructive polarizing figure and totally so last week I am truly surprised he still has an audience let alone a radio station that will let him sputter his shit into the public domain... I hate to be all violent but I'm kinda with bush's worst fucking nightmare@ 14 as far as what I'd be inclined to do should I ever run into that fat fuck.... As far as the shit he's putting out there that somehow being white and therefore somehow more deserving or cosmically more lucky has anything to do with the scope of the tragedy in Iowa or the lessor numbers of individuals lost verses the tragedy in New Orleans??..
Jesus, what can a sane person say to that shit.... As far as only five known dead as a direct result of these floods, I am totally grateful for that and wish the survivors all the best in cleaning up and putting their lives back together again... As far as the rest of his sickass pablum? That is all totally bullshit ... I'd say we all had better wait six months or so and see what the mesquitoes have to say about the total mortality involved in this flooding desaster before anyone chimes in on any aspect of it let alone the racist garbage this fatass is trying to infer.....JD
The difference is population density and poverty density. It's easier to evacuate less dense areas that do not rely on bridges for access to an area. Also, the vast majority of people in Iowa do not depend on public transit and have family on dry ground. The speed of the flooding may have also been a factor due to the levees giving way. Of course, Mr. Pill-popping-and-above-identity-politics-except-when-calling-Obama-a-magic-negro-and-pointing-out-white-superiority can't see any of these realities.
Go at what he said bit by bit (until he trails off on Gore)... give me one example of anywhere this has occured:
1. Who has been murdered as a result of the flooding?
2. Where is looting occuring at?
3. Does the affected area/population in the midwest dwarf those affected in NOLA?
4. Has anyone waived a gun at a helicopter?
5. Has there been any reported police shootings?
6. Have there been any rapes associated with the flooding or resultant evacuation?
7. Has any public official complained about FEMA or the President needing to do more?
Tell me if he's wrong, but until then - please - continue to complain about who he is rather than what he said. Maybe there's something to be gained from the comparison of the two tragedys.
Marko: I am NOT a peace loving dem. I am a gay American citizen who is way beyond tired of seeing black people slandered, gays demonized, and republiKKKans ruin our country. If you read Ghandhi's thoughts on non-violence, you will quickly discover that he did NOT recommend it for all situations. He recommended it for dealing with a civilized adversary. What about the neocons makes you think that they are civilized? Is there some line they have yet to cross to make you believe what they are truly capable of?
If you think I am going to passively sit back and wait for them to put me in a camp to die, you have it all wrong. It is YOUR DUTY as an American citizen, an inheritor of the great experiment in freedom to rise up and save your country. IT IS OUR DUTY. As for me, if they come with violence, I shall not go quietly, they will get sprayed with lead, courtesy of Glock and Ruger. Get a clue. Maybe you haven't been PHYSICALLY attacked by these types as I have, for you would then understand why I hate them with such violence in my heart. Save your nonviolence for those who understand what a fair fight is.
Live Free or Die
Rush is vile.
I'll bet that Pastor Hagee is looking to see if Iowa has scheduled a gay pride parade or something.
Surely this is their punishment for having the Audacity of Hope to allow a person of color to win the Iowa state Democratic delegates.
karl @ 25:
i don't want to give rush what he wants food for his ego
"... devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans."
Remember when Limbaugh got fired from the football commentary job? Well, he got fired for exactly the same sort of ignorant statement. In the football case, he said Donovan McNabb was getting attention because white liberals wanted to see a successful star black QB -- a comment that displayed a stunning lack of knowledge (I guess he never heard of, say, Warren Moon). The present case is worse, for obvious reasons.
Limbaugh should be fired for his appalling racism *and* his appalling incompetence. 'Nuff said.
Let me say first that I in no way agree with Limbaugh. I will say that a certain percentage of people displaced by Katrina came to my city and perhaps the worst of the bunch made our worst of the bunch look like stellar citizens. How do I know this? Because I had an employee at the time that was in touch with the drug dealing thugs that hang out on street corners and he told me that some real bad washout had made it up here to Seattle from New Orleans. So, what it looks like is that Limbaugh has taken this bad part of the Katrina victims and painted all the victims with this same brush. New Orleans was, I believe, the murder capital of the country at the time Katrina hit.
He may as well have said, "Fuck New Orleans". These folks have been completely abandoned by the Bush Administration, FEMA and the mainstream media. Of course, if there's little progress made, it's their fault, not the govt. If they need help and say it, they're complaining. That is some cold, heartless shit.
Iowa - leaning blue.
Louisiana - leaning red.
Who would have thought that red states are filled with sociopaths, huh Rush?
Why is that specious logic not mouthed by the blowhard, I wonder.
I wouldn't wish a New Orleans type government failure on anyone but if a similar top to bottem screwup does happen again could Rush,Timtexan, and Marko will be to show us how different white people are in those circumstances?
The only thing that's missing is his love for Hitler.
He should be fired for this garbage, but he's Teflon Rush.. nothign sticks to him.
Please bite my urban black asset @ 44:
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Please bite my urban black asset @ 44:
All I'm saying is that it is what it is. Reality is just that. Maybe this will show us how much developmental work we still have to do with an entire portion of our society.
Once again, Limbaugh relies on myth rather than facts. The stories out of New Orleans about people shooting at helicopters and rapes in the streets were spread by the "lib-ral" media and there are several sites setting the record straight.
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/004789.html
Why does anyone even listen to this airbag anymore?
I suprised no one has yet whooped his white ass. He really is a small-minded racist; (as I pick my chin off of my shoe)
Limpballs is one putrid, corpulent, sack of shit. There is no one worse than this guy. I loathe him with a passion. Today I accidentally heard him on the radio when he came on shortly after the CBS hourly news. Shortly after noon CST, he came on, saying something to the effect of "good morning to those of you who might have just gotten out of bed....to those of you who might be on welfare." I rarely, rarely hear the guy, but this is the 2nd time I've heard him make this welfare remark in the past year.
Limbaugh is a god-damned racist; he needs to be taken off the air. I sent an email to the local radio station, KMOX, and copied Limpballs, expressing my disgust at this idiot. Fat chance that will do any good, but I just needed to get something off my chest. God, this guy is one hateful SOB.
Thank heaven that the KKK is here to help Rush educate me about the evil darkies.....and the RAPES they just wanna git are wimmin an' are cattles...hide yer cattles...
DMS @ 40:
good point he won't be fired.. you and i both know he is important with the task of giving out the red meat for the NEOCONS.......otherwise he serves no purpose he hides behind money he is told to donate for his bullshit persona
I see the ignorant racist trolls are out to play tonight. You've yet to prove ONE thing Rush has said as being correct, by the way.
As another poster said - city and country. Apple and orange. Two entirely different situations.
Maybe the citizens aren't whining about FEMA because they responded to the flooding right away. How long did the citizens of NOLA have to wait?
The only black people that Rush will put up with are the little Dominican boys.
I see devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans
Talk about being seriously messed up on drugs!
#1) As John pointed out he deaths from DROWNING and FLOODING is no where near what it was in New Orleans. #2) The citizens of the towns next to Cedar Rapids aren't shooting over the heads of the people TRYING to flee the flooding and threatening to kill them. #3) The authorities in Iowa aren't rounding the people up and packing them into an overcrowded building without food or water and locking them in.
Limpballs and his defenders are some seriously sick individuals with no morals on conscience. They make me sick! They are the ones that make it "tough to be proud of America"!!! ( to quote Sen. McCain)
I saw a PBS doc. on Eleanor Roosevelt. What an amazing woman. Here we are 46 years later and there are people like Rush still contaminating the air waves with this vile crap. She broke down barriers and Rush and his ilk are steadfastly building them back up.
Rush is a failure of a human being if there ever were one. He has to project his inadequacies, bigotries, and biases onto other people and their sufferings, and in doing so he feeds his overloaded ego and non-thinking listeners. Tim Russert shouldn't have been the headline of a news person having died suddenly, Rush should've been the wretch that met his demise...and the news wouldn't be talking about him. not in a good way like Tim. he is a waste.
TimTexas @ 47:
You've yet to back up your "reality" with facts. I'm waiting.....
Sarah @ 53:
You're right, man. I'm sorry. Apples and Oranges. As long as you live in an urban area and the government is slow to respond to a tragedy it is A... O... K to Loot, Rape, and Murder.
TimTexas @ 59:
blackwater in ........local police force goes awol
Sarah @ 58:
Really... where has the looting, raping and murdering occured as a result of the flooding in the midwest. I can't show you something that isn't reported. The lack of any stories about it, at least for now, show he is right.
TimTexas @ 47:
Right its society that needs developmental work. Not you, Right. And I guess those people I lived next too in NYC who helped out during the past few blackouts and other natural or man-made disasters all came from a white rural background.
TimTexas and marko :
My family lives in Iowa, near one of the early towns to flood.
I see several important differences between Katrina and Iowa,
other than the urban-black / white-farmer cultural differences
to which you guys seem to be attributing the bad outcome in Katrina
1. In Iowa, no sizeable city had anywhere near as much of its area flooded as did New Orleans.
In Cedar Rapids, the worst hit, less than a quarter of the residents had to evacuate.
Many of those people could stay with friends relatively nearby.
In New Orleans, an entire major city had to be evacuated:
far more people on the move, far fewer places for them to go.
2. In Iowa, people seeking to evacuate were not met on the highway bridges
by armed civilians and cops that refused to let them pass to safety.
In New Orleans, armed racists prevented evacuation to an adjoining parish.
3. In Iowa, the government had learned from the earlier hundred-year floods,
and competently-prepared emergency plans were followed.
The government of Louisiana has been notable for lo these many years
both for its corruption and for its incompetence, and its reaction to the
looming threat of Katrina was both corrupt and incompetent.
Whoa there, Silver. Points one through seven, TimTexas, are moot when you consider that NOLA had a heap of time to disintegrate before people got the help that is actually being freely allowed into Iowa. Guns waved at helicopters? A myth widely debunked. Looting? Or food gathering? What, someone stole a tee vee? Get out! I'm telling you, there's no comparison. No one blew the levees in Iowa. No one has been left to rot in the sun because of a disgusting lack of guardsmen. I guess there's nothing I can say to convince you that sending soldiers of fortune to guard the residents of the lower 9th, lest they leave for lighter soil, ranked high on the list of the worst crimes of the Bush era. But thanks for playing.
Rush, you ignorant slut...
Someday there will be a bonanza of psychological evaluaton on this sociopath. It will stretch into the stratosphere. McCarthy has nothing on this nutcase.
It's just that this nutcase gets more money than God to spew.
I wonder how many people are aware of his status as THE radio man for the armed forces.
The only thing worse than Rush are the complete and utter morons that listen to this fool.
Where was the raping and murdering in New Orleans?
Myth-Making in New Orleans
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3998
"The impressive media coverage of Hurricane Katrina was marred by the widespread reporting—sometimes attributed to public officials—of murders and rapes that apparently never took place. What can news outlets learn from this episode to prevent similar problems in the future?"
Please bite my urban black asset @ 62:
I'm not saying that what happened in NOLA is the way that all black areas will react or have reacted to a crisis. It happened there, and it should not be excused or ignored. The people acted like animals, there's no way around that - and something needs to be done to ensure that the same lack of civility doesn't occur the next time a disaster hits that city and that it is reacted to in the same grown-up, civilized, and human way that midwesterners have shown in their reaction to their crisis.
I wonder what kind of affect he has on our military. It must be positively immense.
TimTexas @ 36:
The difference is population density and poverty density. It’s easier to evacuate less dense areas that do not rely on bridges for access to an area. Also, the vast majority of people in Iowa do not depend on public transit and have family on dry ground. The speed of the flooding may have also been a factor due to the levees giving way. Of course, Mr. Pill-popping-and-above-identity-politics-except-when-calling-Obama-a-magic-negro-and-pointing-out-white-superiority can’t see any of these realities.
There is also a difference between having people isolated in a Thunderdome like situation with scarce resources and having a flood in a low density area where the authorities are still present.
Could you please do us all a favor and kindly descend into your closet,tornado basement or some quiet ,safe and secure place where you can have a nice play room in which to entertain yourself for the rest of your days with enough toys to enact all your misconstrued ideas of Americana?
I have NEVER had an single ounce of patience for you and your bizarre misconstrued notions of politics or morality.
It may not be terribly credible, but my ancestors came here on the Mayflower and other vessels from the Mother Land and I can attest with no contest that in my knowledge of my family tree did any of them subscribe to or entertain any of the notions which you seem to deem patriotic in any way shape or form.
My ancestors ,which I have a very stringent drawn out history of which I know is rare, never seperated themselves so vastly from other human beings,regardless of race or religion.
They never had a lot of money either.
They came to this land to find a new life ,and used their intellectual resources to connect with the mainlanders and extend their abilities to read and write to others and to be resourceful.
Maybe they fell into the Yankee catagory, and some were jailed for being well read and upstanding in regard to human rights,what a crime!
You and your ilk are the antithesis of any kind of progress!
It is your very ilk which have enslaved your own people from growth and humanity.
You are the kind of people that my great grandparents warned myself and my parents generation about.
You are the hinderance of progress and consciousness,
You are the product of a self hating machine which projects it's own failures upon others who are weak and afraid.
Please just dissapear into a basement somewhere.
You are no true Christian and are absolutely no voice of reason.
You are a self echoing ice pick through the heads of vulnerable and desperate people and you need to shut your big fat mouth!
Do your fellow Americans a service kindly fade away!
On behalf of my ancestors who were believers in humanity ,just shut the hell up and go away!
http://www.reason.com/news/show/36327.html
I haven't found anything about the other crimes people are talking about the helicopter story is bullshit
kakaya zanuda @ 64:
You think it's justifiable to act the way they did, and I don't. We'll get over it I'm sure.
It ain't justifiable because they did not act the way you have been led to believe. And also, TimTexas, now that we have explained to you exactly how Rush is wrong, please do tell us what "to be gained from the comparison of the two tragedys." So far as I can tell, you're either looking for a way to vilify city folk, preferring a more pastoral existence, or you hate blacks. Which is it?
One of the problems is how assholes like Rush and other talking heads in MSM compare natural disasters like they're comparing brands of underwear. I live in San Diego and the media compared the wildfires to New Orleans. They made it a point to illustrate how San Diegans pulled together in the face of tragedy while the citizens of New Orleans descended into chaos. The disasters are different, the circumstances are different. How can they compare the two? More importantly, why do they compare the two?
San Diegans also didn't have to wait long for federal help to arrive. Bushy even showed up within hours.
Neo-classical secular humanist @ 4:
Not quite true, he was arrested coming back through US customs with illegal Viagra in his possession from the Dominican Republic.
What does anyone expect from this. What needs to happen is to capitalize on this as a referendum against the right-wing racist mentality that permeates much of the right. This should be an ad on national tv. This should be a major talking point for the Obama campaign, this should be thrown right back in the faced of the right wing puppet pundits.
We need to turn the hate they spew into votes!
kakaya zanuda @ 74:
I guess all of those gunshot wounds, looted electronics stores, and raped women are all part of those crazy things I've been "led to believe." Explain that to some of the evacuees that came to my city.
You mean I get to either pick that I vilify city folk (I live in Houston) or I hate blacks (I am one)????? Cool. I guess I'll go with both... grow up. Let's talk like adults sometime.
TimTexas @ 69:
i'll say it again you can think/want to ask for idealism of what these people should have done that's an easy statement to make. it happened for many reasons(their behavior) and next to none of those reasons occurred in iowa.........this was above and beyond what certain infrastructure/services could handle .....local police force were going awol they brought highly paid private industry Blackwater into NO area