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Originally Posted by scaeagles
I believe Limbaugh encouraged donations through the Red Cross rather than donations through the US government. What is being publicized is that he did say not to donate through the government.
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I don't see how anyone with a straight face and clear conscience could interpret his comments as anything but extreme politicizing and utter douche-baggery. Ebert points out that Limbaugh has basically said that clicking the white house link will mean that your donation is actually being stolen by Obama for his own uses. That's demonstrably untrue, (they just have a link to the official Red Cross site) and a very heavy accusation. That, if true, would get any President tossed right out of office. Indeed, it would be a scandal to make Watergate seem like a hiccup.
Limbaugh also said that we citizens have already given to a Haiti fund, the US tax system. (Har har) This seems, on the face of it, to be discouraging anyone from donating. If anywhere he indicated that this was just a cheap political joke, and that his listeners should actually help out, that's fine. Has he done that?
I do see that Rush's home page now has a link to Haiti assistance efforts - according to liberal sources, he didn't have such a link up yesterday, though every other conservative pundit did. At the time I looked, there were no clarifying comments from Rush making him seem human. I hope i'm wrong about him. But really, his public face so far seems unapologetic, indifferent and proud of it.
I think conservative is a perfectly wonderful thing to be, and I don't demonize my conservative friends and family members. (I try my hardest to own up when liberals fall into d'baggery - though I don't consider myself to be staunchly liberal. I'm very middle-of-the-road in my own mind.) But really, is this guy (Rush) worth defending anymore? Isn't there a limit? As of my current understanding, I rate him Worse Than Pat.