Establishing the Rush Limbaugh Relief Fund

[civildisoBDence]

Who's into a DU donation drive? "The Rush Limbaugh Relief Fund" would be a fine name for it.

Rush Limbaugh Discourages Donations to Haiti

On his radio program Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh not only chosen to politicize the earthquake, but he actually http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130022">discouraging listeners from donating to relief efforts!(audio)

Limbaugh’s reasoning is chilling: First, he claims that “we” have already donated via income taxes…in other words, since our government is helping Haiti, we need do no more (other than complain about it.) Second, Limbaugh insists that such donations would be wasted anyhow:

There are people that have been trying to save Haiti just as we’re trying to save Africa. You just can’t keep throwing money at it because the dictatorships there just take it all…(and) you’re not creating a permanent system where people can provide for themselves.

Aside from conflating Africa and Haiti (a rather racist rhetorical move), Limbaugh ignores the fact that the charities involved are or will be working on the ground directly with the victims in a country whose government has been all but wiped out; no dictator will be able to pilfer significantly from donated funds. He also ignores the fact that relief is needed immediately without regard to the long-term systemic issues he brings up.

Just as unconscionable is Limbaugh’s suggestion that President Obama is using whitehouse.gov to solicit donations for earthquake relief in order to 1.) skim cash from some of those donations and 2.) develop a list of potential contributors from whom to solicit donations.

But all that whitehouse.gov does is link directly to charities providing relief! It would be all but impossible for the president to steal from these charities—as if he’d even consider that—though the accusation, in addition to its racist overtones, surely gives us a glimpse into Limbaugh’s mentality.

This is not conservatism. It’s the most vile of partisan politics mixed with a disgraceful lack of human compassion.

[Zoeisright]

1. Rush Limbaugh is a waste of oxygen and water.

And the perfect example of the need for muzzles on humans.

[old mark]

2. He has been like that for years. I'd love to get relief from Rush! nt

[Frustratedlady]

3. My thoughts, exactly.

Why don't they fire him?

Oh, yeah. Then, he could laze around on his millions/year. What a despicable example of a human.

[old mark]

5. I had a great time the other week, hoping he was going to die...

Life is full of disappointments, I guess.

mark

[lunatica]

4. Rush is proving he's a psychopath this week

When people are ill, like Michael J. Fox or in need or hurt or vulnerable he goes in for the kill. Anyone who thinks that's in any way a normal human reaction is not paying attention. Rush is mentally ill. He's sick in the head and in the soul. He's in the same league with Cheney. And he's a hateful coward who hates humanity just like Pat Robertson does. He hates himself so much that he doesn't realize the blackness of his own inner being and confuses his self loathing with some sort of automatic insufferable superiority because he has power over blithering idiots who he hates more than he hates himself. He's the one who nicknamed them 'dittoheads'. And the fact they continue to do his silly bidding only makes him hate them more but he's addicted to the power rush it gives him. He'd suck on a tailpipe if he thought it would give him power.