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stevo · 09-09-2005, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by pan6467

It's like when I listened to Springer this AM on my way home from work and he played some of Limbaugh, where Limbaugh had a caller saying (and I paraphrase) "These people hit the jackpot, we're giving those blacks and poor people designer clothes and money so they can trade it all in for crack?" and Limbaugh not only agreed but added more to it by saying "this will really make your day, we're even giving them credit cards." (Red Cross cards so that they can buy food and find shelter when they get relocated..... but I guess Limbaugh and his audience are right they'll all buy crack with it.)

Now hold on. I actually heard that segment on Rush's show wednesday, I happened to be in my car at the time (usually I'm working). I heard the lady call in. Rush did NOT agree with her. He told her she was wrong and that these people didn't hit the jackpot. When she said they'll trade clothes for crack he asked her why she was so angry.

You really don't know what you are talking about here and are straight up lying. I'm working on finding a transcript from that segment and when I do I'll post it up here so everyone can see how you are lying.

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ok found it

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/dai...ain.guest.html

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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Here's Cynthia in St. Louis as I promised we'd get to the phones. Glad you waited Cynthia. Welcome to the program.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I heard on Fox News this morning that the mayor of New Orleans produced a DVD that was to be sent to all the residents so that they would know what to do in case of an emergency. First of all, how poor are these people if they all have DVD players? Number two, I dare say that I think my sympathy from now on is going to go to the communities like mine who are absorbing most of this welfare riffraff, not the working people, because now the gangs, uniformed and non that were busted up in New Orleans are going to be in our communities. That's just great, I love that. And what are they talking about rebuilding this open septic tank called New Orleans? I would think that all the greenies and the EPA would be dead set against that, after all, it's a natural wetland. The whole thing is preposterous, it clearly demonstrates the hypocrisy, and not only the hypocrisy of the left, but the idiocy of the right to fall into the trap and play along with it and give everything away to people who don't deserve it.

RUSH: Hey, Cynthia, let me ask you a couple questions, then.

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH: What do you think about the $2,000 debit card to the victims of the hurricane (story)?

CALLER: Well, I'll tell you what, Rush, I just lost my job that I had for years because I speak out against Democrats and I work in courthouses, and --

RUSH: A-ha, so it's Bush's fault --

CALLER: No, no, no. No, the Democrats fabricated charges against me, and while I'm doing fine because I've saved and prepared for such a day, I would love to have a $2,000 debit card right now. These people have hit the jackpot. This is more than they've ever had.

RUSH: You can't say that they've hit the jackpot. Now, Cynthia, they have not -- they have not hit the jackpot.

CALLER: Rush, right now they're sitting in limbo, but when it's all said and done, they're going to have new trailers, new apartments, new communities. They don't want to -- the thugs – they don't want to go back to New Orleans, everything they did there, they're going to do that to us now.

RUSH: That's who we are. That's the American people. We're not going to sit here and tolerate that kind of suffering. That's who we are. This is nothing unique. I don't want to ruin your day here, but try this. "Three truckloads of fashion clothing seized by government agents for violating import quotas arrived at Houston's Astrodome on Wednesday so Hurricane Katrina refugees there can put it to use. U.S. Customs and Border Protection delivered about 100,000 items of summer clothing, with an estimated value of $2.3 million, and said much more is on the way to evacuees elsewhere."

CALLER: How much do you think will get traded for crack?

RUSH: Cynthia, why are you so bitter?

CALLER: I'm bitter, Rush, because I grew up a Democrat being sold a bill of goods on how the Democrat Party was for the little guy, and it was all a lie. They're socialists. All they want to do is take from working people, the people they propose they want to protect, and give it all to nonworking people. And I'm absolutely sick of it. I mean, not to mention the rest of their crazy foreign policy philosophies and their views on abortion and homosexual marriage. They're all liars, they're all hypocrites, and I'm really getting upset. Republicans aren't standing up to them and saying, "No, this is not rational. This is crazy." Sure, we don't want them down there drowning. Let's left them up, put them in a shelter, not in fancy hotels, find shelters for them --

RUSH: We're not putting them up in fancy hotels. The Superdome is not a fancy hotel. You wouldn't want to live in the Superdome.

CALLER: No, you're right, I wouldn't want to live in the Superdome but I wouldn't mind having some of the new housing that they're talking about spending money on.

RUSH: Well, what is that, Habitat for Humanity, Jimmy Carter is going to go pound some nails or something?

CALLER: Houses in boxes they're calling them.

RUSH: Cynthia, this is what we do. The families of those who lost their lives on 9/11 got an average payout of, what was it, $1.9 million. Some families got as much as ten or $12 million. The average payout was 1.9 million. What if the Katrina victims start demanding that? We've set a precedent here with 9/11. Hold on to your back pocket.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: This is Renee in Charlotte, North Carolina. Hi, Renee. I'm glad you called.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I am completely beyond anger at your caller, Cynthia.

RUSH: I thought there'd be some people angry at that, yeah.

CALLER: Oh, my gosh. They hit the jackpot? I mean, they've seen their babies die, their mothers die, their fathers die. For a week I cried at the television, I can't imagine being there. Can she put herself in their situation for one minute?

RUSH: I agree with you, I thought her statement was a little excessive, a little over the top, not very useful.

CALLER: Not at all.

RUSH: Not at all. But, but, but liberals tell us we need to understand people who make extreme statements like Bush is Hitler, Bush wanted to kill blacks, Bush should be assassinated. There have been books written. We've been told we should examine this kind of thinking and not be so quick to reject it, not be so knee-jerk, as it were. So maybe we should examine what Cynthia had to say and try to find out maybe there's some lesson to be learned there.

CALLER: Maybe a lesson, but all you have to know is humanity. That's it.

RUSH: Well, she's angry, would you agree?

CALLER: I am angry.

RUSH: Well, I know, but we need to understand her rage. That's what we're told about Cindy Sheehan: we must understand, we must have empathy, we must understand why she's so upset and mad; we must understand why Cynthia is so raging mad. And, by the way, this story from the LA Times indicates that many people in New Orleans think their lives have been, you know, those that survived, they don't want to go back, I mean they're looking at brighter days by not returning there. That's not hitting the jackpot. Don't confuse that.

But, you know, if I may be serious for a moment, I want to take you back to the first day of this, before the levees even broke, and I just want to remind you what I said. This is going to be horrible and it's going to be a mess for a long time, but this place is going to get rebuilt, economic activity will focus down there, and things will happen. I don't know how long it's going to take, but the city is going to be rebuilt, and it will have its population. The question is who's going to live there? I mean, why would the wards of the state that were treated the way they were, why would they go back there?

END TRANSCRIPT

Now that lady cynthia that called in, she's a disgrace, she doesn't speak for me, rush, or any other conservative. But after you read this transcrip tell me again that rush agreed that these people hit the jackpot and can't wait to buy crack with it.

You wear your partisanship on your sleeve, pan. Whether you want to admit it or not. and your spreading of misinformation and lies doesn't help your credibility one bit.