Our friend Rush Limbaugh is at it again. His recent comments sound like a curse to
destroy black Democrats in New Orleans. Here’s what he said during a recent
radio broadcast.
Thinking about what we can do to the Republican
convention! I’m getting chills thinking about it! Now, if you missed the first
hour, I, of course, Mr. Solution, El Rushbo, suggested that the Republicans
head off some of this criticism that they know is coming their way by doing two
things. First thing is send 500 bus drivers to New Orleans right now. Because,
remember, it was Mayor Nagin of New Orleans who didn’t mobilize the buses to
help evacuate the poor citizens.
Bush got blamed for it, of
course, but it was the mayor who didn’t activate the buses. So we send 500 bus
drivers in. The second thing we do: Instead of sending sandbags to shore up
these levees, which have ostensibly been repaired since Katrina, we send in
bags of money! We send in bags of money delivered by Mitt Romney’s sons. And we
take those bags of money down to those levees.
We maybe even set one bag
on fire just to show ‘em we’re Republicans. This will accomplish a couple
things. A, it’ll show we care. “We have sent money directly to New Orleans, in
bags at the levees.” The second thing that will happen is that citizens in New
Orleans, when they find out there’s money in those bags, will head down there
and try to steal the bags, steal the money, at which time the levees will fail
because the bags are being taken away.
And more destruction,
damage, and injury. In the process, the Republicans succeed in having fewer
Democrat voters in Louisiana again. Just like they did with Hurricane Katrina.
And everybody knows that was the point. Steer Katrina in there; wipe out New
Orleans. Have the people that survive go to Texas and take Democrats away from
Louisiana and make it not a Democrat state. That’s what the media told us
Republicans did with Katrina. So relive it.
Those are my ideas
I don’t expect them to be acted upon.
But using bags of money
would be cheaper than giving taxpayer dollars to the local Democrats who have
been in charge of the levees, because that money has just ended up in the back
pockets of the Democrats and didn’t go to levee repair. They used the money to
buy votes, or in the case of William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) he just put
the money in his freezer.
Come on Rush! Using Katrina is a low blow. I could write that Hurricane Isaac disrupting
the Republican Convention is proof of God’s judgment against the Republican Party. Isn’t that what many claimed after Hurricane Katrina
ripped through New Orleans on this date (August 29) in 2005? Hurricane Isaac offered an opportunity to
give conservative minded Christians a piece of their own medication.
On September 18, 2006, Pastor John Hagee, who
endorsed Senator John McCain for President, said he was glad to have told NPR’s
Terry Gross that “Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against
the city of New Orleans.”
“New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive
to God,” Hagee went on to say. “There
was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came.”
Rushbo’s comments come after a series of offensive
statements regarding how God uses natural disasters to expose sin. Pat Robertson used his bully pulpit to attack
the victims of Katrina.
"I was reading, yesterday, a book that was
very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who
shed innocent blood…But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves
against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or
now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?" Robertson
said in a September 12, 2005 broadcast of "The 700 Club," soon after
Hurricane Katrina.
Robertson used the tragic earthquake in Haiti to
make another point about God’s judgment. "They were under
the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got
together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you'll
get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a
deal [...] ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the
other."
Couldn’t we claim that God is angry with the greed and deception
among Republicans? If God used natural
disaster to make a point in New Orleans and Haiti, can’t the same apply to
Republicans in Florida to nominate Romney?
Limbaugh seems obsessed with Hurricane Isaac. Earlier in the
week he blamed Democrats for altering the forecast to force a cancellation of
the first day of the convention. He then
asserted Democrats want Hurricane Isaac to hit New Orleans. Now, he rekindles reminders
of Katrina with a dream of killing poor black folks to reduce the number of
Democrats in New Orleans. If I didn’t know any better, I would say ole Rushbo
is doing his best to stay away from talk about God opening eyes to Republican
sin. I don’t think he’s smart enough to
recognize the contradiction.
He shifts the blame for what happened after Katrina away from
President Bush to Mayor Nagin knowing the blame for what happened has many layers. Katrina is too painful a memory to use to
make a silly point. What would people
think if Rushbo suggested boxes of fried chicken be placed on top of a building
in New York city to trick black Democrats to go on top on the anniversary of
911. It is no laughing matter.
So, if we’re going to use natural disasters to make a point, try
this.
God is using Hurricane Isaac to kill the top leaders in the
Republican Party. It’s God’s judgment
for years of racism, sexism and greed.
I don’t believe that’s true, but it’s the type of crap those
Republicans use to manipulate their base.
God help us!
When will each party stop using the comments of the fringe members of the opposition party as representative of the whole.
ReplyDeleteRush Limbaugh is an entertainer, not the mouthpiece of the Republican party. His opinions don't really matter, as exemplified by his inability to alter the Republican primaries. Yes, he's a blowhard and insensitive. And, yes, his comments are obviously sarcastic hyperbole, not to be taken verbatim.
Contrast or compare him with the comments of David Chalian of Yahoo News http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/08/29/Shock-ABC-News-Romneys-Party-As-Black-People-Die OR Ellen Barkin's tweet "“C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC.” OR those of Samuel Jackson, “GOP spared by Issac ! NOLA prolly F*%kedAgain! Not understanding God's plan!”
Or one could ask why did the major news networks fail to report or even acknowledge the many ethnic minority speakers at the Republican convention Tuesday?
Carl, I share your outrage at the idiotic comments made by some "conservatives", but don't think these comments are shared by even the majority of members of the Republican party. No more than I think that Barney Frank or Keith Olberman speak for the entire Democratic party.
Both parties use "crap" to manipulate their base. And I agree, God Help Us, if any of us give it credence.