How Rush added to the Katrina disaster....

[DubyaSux]

This is a portion of Rush Limbaugh's transcript the day of the hurricane. He obviously stuides the same playbook as Bush.

Limbaugh, 8/29/2005:

Again, I just- I just want to stress, uh, my point from the previous hour.

Despite how bad it was, I refuse to believe that it’s going to be as bad as all the doom and gloom reporting was yesterday afternoon and last night. For example, they said New Orleans was going to be uninhabitable for six months. Gonna be under water for six months, the levys and everything else are gonna crash, they don’t have a chance, Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain gonna flood the city and it’s over.

A million people could end up homeless! Tens of thousands could die! I mean it was a never ending stream of doom and gloom…. and I… … ….it’s bad, there’s no question it’s bad, it, I just was struck by the doom and gloom of the reporting. Uh, and this is America! These things happen all the time! Disasters constantly occurring in this country.

Kudos to www.overspun.com for providing this important info.

Rush's attack on the media has been met with nothing. He tried to undo what the media was trying to do at the expense of victims in New Orleans. I've emailed Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan with this, but got my typical ignore.

No wonder the response to Katrina was so bad. The entire right wing tried to ignore reality just to be "correct". And Rush's response exemplifies it perfectly while our rudderless democratic party leaders just take it on the chin.

Rush, you were wrong. Dead wrong.

[wakeme2008]

1. With his MIllions how many did

he donate is the real question... I would bet < 5,000 if any.

[tridim]

2. Rush has NEVER been right about ANYTHING

Remember his Hillary for Senate predictions. First she wasn't going to run, then she wasn't going to win the primary, then she wasn't going to win the election, then she'd fail in the Senate. Rush is wrong about everything.

[DubyaSux]

3. The problem here is...

...he could have gotten people killed in this case. Not saying he did. But he's a leader of the party - entertainer or not. Finally, he's a conduit for the Bush Administration, so he's as culpable as anybody.

[nickyt]

6. "These things happen all the time!"

Actually, Rush, Cat 5 hurricanes striking the USA are quite a rarity, you stupid son of a bitch.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. He is a despicable coward hiding behind a microphone.

When a hurricane nears his Florida mansion he is among the first to flee to safer ground.

I hope someday he knows what suffering is first hand.

[hobbit709]

5. Don't you remember

how he "suffered" from that anal cyst?

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. He is an anal cyst

A boil on the backside of humanity.

[Old and In the Way]

7. What's the downside to over-hyping the disaster potential?

zilch.

What's the downside of downplaying the diaster potential?

People die.